The mountains and ranges in Nevada (Lake Meade National Park) and Route I-15 on the way to Provo Utah are Spectacular to the eyes and heart:
Yummy: Our Tesla Trip Around America had a stop in Las Vegas. First, an amazing meal at a Chinese Restaurant with two yummy dishes:
Char Su - Roast BBQ Pork. (One of my favorite dishes for decades)
Jelly Fish - (First time - cautious to try and it was WOW)
A Concert Stage Set That Changed Me: Going to the Katy Perry concert in Vegas has blown my mind about what a stage set could be. I’ve produced and keynoted conference events over 40 years - with wonderful and engaging sets. And, produced Broadway Shows that had sets that were incredible.
But, Katy Perry’s design of a stage for a theater with 5,000 audience members on three floors changed my mind about the 3 dimensional nature of a performance. She used Video Segments throughout the show - that filled the theater with color, music and anticipation.
She designed sets that included huge furniture that allowed her to play with the scale of how you experienced the show - both live and with gigantic video image magnifacation:
Yes, she performed from a playful toilet on stage :)
And, that is a bathtub with her constantly re-costuming dancers.
And, here was her tribute to Whitney Houston in “Greatest Love of All”
The ability to blend set design, gaming video, animation, awesome sound and playing with scale has changed my mind about how a “Stage” could be created for a conference or event. Perhaps I might do a new event someday - so watch out.
Since most readers won’t be coming to Vegas soon, here is a way to feel the design and intensity in an interview that Katy Perry did on YouTube:
ChatBot Leader for Lunch with Ukraine Story: Arriving in Provo, Utah this morning, we called learning colleague Vince Han to see if he might be free for a spontaneous lunch:
I am a huge fan of responsive ChatBot’s - especially as our employees and customers want more control of their content and support experiences. Vince has been my mentor on the current and future role of ChatBots.
Over lunch, he shared that a large percentage of his staff are located in Ukraine. The story of how their lives, families and culture has been deeply impacted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine was heart breaking. Most are continuing to work remotely - with support from Vince’s company and fund raising. So sad and unacceptable to have a country invaded!
Salt Lake City for Open Source Learning Project: Tuesday, I will be working with my colleague, Dana Koch from Accenture in Salt Lake City on a new and exciting Open Source Learning Project - to create a no-fee set of resources to help new or future learning employees enter the field. Stay tuned for details.
Then, on to Moab and Denver!
Yours in Learning and Travel,
Elliott Masie
emasie@masie.com
www.masie.com