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Written by Frank Hammel
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Feb 12, 2010 at 12:41 PM |
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JS-ICON 2413 |
JS-ICON Series wall-mount dimmer racks feature "system-on-a-chip" and inductor technology to provide professional-grade SCR dimming while also complying with the International Energy Agency's "One Watt Initiative" for standby power consumption.
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Written by Frank Hammel
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Feb 12, 2010 at 10:56 AM |
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Photo by Jax Andersen |
Lighting Co.
East Coast Lighting & Production Services, (ECLPS)
Venue
Various (Tour)
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Written by Frank Hammel
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Feb 12, 2010 at 10:52 AM |
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MillerCoors Holiday Lights Show |
Lighting Co.
Festival Productions
Venue
MillerCoors Corporate Campus
Milwaukee, Wis.
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Written by Frank Hammel
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Feb 12, 2010 at 10:48 AM |
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Maroon 5/Debutant Ball |
Lighting Co.
Onstage Systems
Venue
Brookhollow Country Club
Dallas, Texas
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Written by Frank Hammel
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Feb 12, 2010 at 10:41 AM |
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A Highlands Christmas |
Lighting Co.
Theatrical Lighting Systems/Huntsville, Ala.
Venue
Church of the Highlands
Birmingham, Ala.
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Written by Frank Hammel
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Feb 12, 2010 at 10:39 AM |
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Video Games Live |
Lighting Co.
Theatrical Media Services, Inc.
Venue
Budweiser Events Center
Loveland, Colo.
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Written by Richard Cadena
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Feb 11, 2010 at 06:15 PM |
Every January, Tour Tech East in Halifax, Nova Scotia hosts a mini trade show and maxi charity event and party benefiting AIDS research. If you've never been then you owe it to yourself to make a point of going. It's a great way to get some quality time with different people in the industry and to help support a worthy cause at the same time.
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Written by PLSN Staff
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Feb 11, 2010 at 06:12 PM |
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The Black Eyed Peas perform at NYRE 2010. Photo by Design Partners. |
When LD Lee Rose of Design Partners first lit Dick Clark's New Years Rockin' Eve, Ronald Reagan was in the White House and Johnny Carson was the host of The Tonight Show. For 2010, the NYRE show featured The Black Eyed Peas, pictured above, plus Colbie Caillat, Robin Thicke, Keri Hilson, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber - and, once again, Lee Rose as LD.
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Written by PLSN Staff
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Feb 11, 2010 at 06:07 PM |
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LD Chad Peters used 28 GLP Impressions supplied by Bandit Lites. |
Paramore's popularity in the U.K. has grown since the film Twilight featured "Decode" on the soundtrack. That left LD Chad Peters with a dual challenge: find fixtures bright enough for arena-sized venues, yet still meet the band's strong "green" preference.
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Written by PLSN Staff
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Feb 11, 2010 at 06:02 PM |
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36 Robe ColorSpot 2500E ATs set the aluminum artwork aglow |
Blackpool's city council was looking to encourage people to linger in the downtown area and take advantage of the area's many restaurants, bars, cafes, clubs and performance venues. They commissioned £3.5 million for a public art projection, Brilliance, which consists of six aluminum-clad arches traversing Birley Street.
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Written by Bryan Reesman
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Feb 11, 2010 at 05:56 PM |
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Partitioned screens were used for scenic support. |
With so many Broadway shows becoming glossier and more high tech, it can be difficult for smaller shows to compete with bigger production values. The solution? Bring in people who work on those larger shows, which is what The Happy Embalmer director Kelly Devine did when she mounted her catchy, off-the-wall musical at the New York Musical Theater Festival last fall.
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Written by Steve Jennings (Photos & Text)
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Feb 11, 2010 at 05:31 PM |
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The U2 crew stationed in the elevated FOH hut |
U2 has never been afraid to explore new avenues in production technology. Their 1997-98 PopMart tour broke new technological ground by using an LED video display screen rather than video projectors. Their Vertigo tour in 2005-06 introduced the concept of spherical LED pixels in a beaded curtain look.
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Written by PLSN Staff
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Feb 11, 2010 at 04:04 PM |
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Technology is rapidly changing theatre. Just a few years ago it was almost unheard of to use automated lighting in the theatre, but now it's commonplace. Soon afterwards, projection started transforming scenic design. Now automation is spreading through the theatres around the world from middle schools to Broadway.
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Written by Nook Schoenfeld
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Feb 11, 2010 at 03:51 PM |
 It's not unusual for manufacturers to promote their products as "innovative." It is, however, unusual for the products to actually be innovative. But the new Lightlock, developed by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and manufactured by Total Structures, actually is a very innovative idea with a very practical purpose - it dampens the centrifugal force of rotation produced by moving lights as they pan on flown structures.
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Written by PLSN Staff
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Feb 11, 2010 at 03:35 PM |
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Gianna Nannini tour |
LD Mamo Pozzoli used Martin's LC Series panels in a cylindrical configuration for Gianna Nannini's 15-date GiannaDream tour. The LED structure is positioned at center stage and serves as the visual centerpiece of the set.
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Written by PLSN Staff
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Feb 11, 2010 at 03:32 PM |
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Pet Shop Boys tour |
Video control solutions specialist SNP Productions supplied video rental house Creative Technology with two Catalyst v4 PRO media servers with 250 Gb hard drives for the Pet Shop Boys' Pandemonium world tour, for which CT was the video contractor.
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Written by PLSN Staff
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Feb 11, 2010 at 03:29 PM |
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Trans Siberian Orchestra on tour |
LOS ANGELES - A few years ago, Paul O'Neil's Trans Siberian Orchestra (TSO) did shows in small theatres, two or three times a week. Now, the dual touring productions do two arena-sized shows a day on both the East and West coast, a challenge even to Chaos Visual Productions, which is used to handling video for large shows.
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Feb 11, 2010 at 03:24 PM |
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Projected text on Senate House, part of Blurring the Boundaries. |
Large-scale projections designed by Ross Ashton helped bring the year-long celebration for Cambridge University's 800th year to a close. Called Transforming Tomorrow, the light shows were projected onto Cambridge's Senate House and adjacent Old School, and also part of Kings College Chapel and the nearby Gibbs Building.
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Written by Paul Berliner
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Feb 11, 2010 at 03:11 PM |
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Three monitors, three color variations. |
For want of a better phrase, call it the sports-bar syndrome. Yep, every monitor on the wall looks a bit different, yet they're all showing the same game. The football gridiron's too yellow over there, and too red over here. And why is Terry Bradshaw so green?
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Product Spotlight
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Vari-Lite VLX
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Written by Richard Cadena
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Feb 11, 2010 at 03:06 PM |
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Vari-Lite VLX |
When the company that paved the road for the era of automated lighting and drove down the highway of that technology on cruise control for more than 25 years suddenly takes a left turn at the intersection of LED Boulevard and Automated Lighting Way, it's bound to turn some heads.
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Written by Brad Schiller
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Feb 11, 2010 at 02:51 PM |
Automated lighting consoles have several innovative functions to help the programmer, many of which have become commonplace. One of these is called "fan" or "align." In the simplest terms, this is a tool that mathematically spreads parameter values in even proportions.
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Written by Dan Daley
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Feb 11, 2010 at 02:37 PM |
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A projection on the George R. Brown Convention Center opened some eyes to the power of 3D mapping projections. |
"Nice house. Would you like to see it with Ionic instead of Doric columns? No problem. Click." That conversation is not uncommon when architects or real estate developers and clients are working with scale models or 3-D animation. But imagine what it would be like when the scale was 1:1, no matter how big the building.
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Focus on Fundamentals
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Core Crazy Technology
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Written by Richard Cadena
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Feb 11, 2010 at 02:31 PM |
Over the holidays I reread The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. The last chapter is entitled "Sharpening the Saw," which is a reference to a story about a woodsman who is busy sawing down a tree. He's been at it for hours, and he's exhausted. Someone happens upon him and asks why he doesn't stop and sharpen his saw. "I don't have time to sharpen the saw," he says, "I'm too busy sawing!"
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Written by Nook Schoenfeld
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Feb 11, 2010 at 02:28 PM |
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Illustration by Andy Au |
I think the majority of us in the lighting business are not too sorry to see 2009 end. We all seemed to work a bit less last year. I ran into my buddy, John Featherstone, at a convention center last month and we spoke about the workload last year. "The thing that was key for me was that our company is so diversified in the types of projects we obtain," he said.
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Written by PLSN Staff
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Feb 10, 2010 at 12:00 AM |
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PLSN, 10 years ago, left, and today |
PLSN marks its 10th Anniversary with the Feb. 2010 issue. In that time, production companies have morphed, but the crew lists and gear lists haven't changed as much. The most significant changes, in terms of technology, is the integration of video, LEDs, media services and networking in live event production. But one thing that hasn't changed, despite a half-dozen redesigns to its graphic look, is the magazine's commitment to service and innovation , personified by the founder and publisher, Terry Lowe.
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Written by Richard Cadena
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Feb 09, 2010 at 12:00 AM |
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PLSN, 10 years ago, left, and today |
How has the live event production industry changed over the last ten years?
For starters, it now has PLSN.
Ten years ago this month, PLSN launched its very first issue of its now familiar 11-inch-by-17-inch tabloid-formatted industry news magazine.
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Written by Frank Hammel
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Feb 08, 2010 at 02:04 PM |
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Elation Opti 30 UV |
Elation's new Opti 30 UV, a blacklight powered by 12 1-watt UV LEDs, runs on 20 watts from 100V to 240V, 47-63 Hz. It can be operated manually or with two channels of DMX. It has a 25-degree beam angle and features 0-100 percent dimming and a strobe effect.
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Written by Kevin M. Mitchell
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Feb 08, 2010 at 12:00 AM |
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Terry Lowe, publisher |
And now a word from Terry Lowe, the publisher of what you're reading - and how it did not exist 10 years and one month ago. "Many of our competitors tried to spin it that we were just a flash in the pan, but 10 years later we're still cranking out the magazine and continuing to be important to those in the lighting and staging industry."
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Written by Frank Hammel
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Feb 06, 2010 at 02:52 PM |
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Stage Research License Server |
Stage Research's License Server, new software that allocates licenses on demand for network users, runs on a central computer server to manage concurrent use of any Stage Research product.
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Written by Frank Hammel
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Feb 05, 2010 at 12:34 PM |
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Christie LX605 |
Christie's two new projectors, the Christie LX505 and Christie LX605, offer LCD technology enhancements and the company's 3D Keystone technology, a new four-corner geometry correction function designed for versatility in projector placement and display set-up.
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Written by Frank Hammel
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Feb 01, 2010 at 01:45 PM |
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Snowmasters Zig Oscillator |
SnowMasters Special Effects Studios' Zig Oscillator allows special effects equipment to be mounted and oscillated up to 90 degrees, including snow, bubbles, smoke, scent and more. The machine incorporates a motorized rotating mount that can attach to any SnowMasters standard hanging bracket.
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