Editors’ Notes for July 2022
July 8, 2022
PLSN Co-Editors Michael S. Eddy and Debi Moen each penned an Editor’s Note for the July issue.
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PLSN Co-Editors Michael S. Eddy and Debi Moen each penned an Editor’s Note for the July issue.
Here is PLSN’s Product News section for the July 2022 issue. A highlight this month: details on the Indispensable Technology Award winning products recognized June 3 at the 20th annual Parnelli Awards ceremony.
Jon Eddy, production designer and LD for some of the biggest metal bands around, has designed for Deftones since 2014. For the band’s 2022 tour, Eddy created a completely different theatrical look and feel with an overhead truss design creating an exploding diamond shape effect. While the design is a turn from his previous work, it still incorporates Eddy’s style.
Butch Allen’s production design for Tears for Fears’ 2022 tour takes a cue from the circular pattern on the band’s latest album, The Tipping Point, with a projection screen from Sew What? serving as the main visual focal point. PLSN also chats with Lighting Designer Joe Cabrera ][, Lighting Director Caleb Eckerman, Screens Producer and Video Designer Kerstin L. Hovland, and Video Designer / disguise Programmer Emery Martin.
After two summers of waiting, festivals are once again flourishing, bringing musicians, fans and production partners together. But while their sudden return is a welcome development for the live event production industry, the festival landscape in 2022 is not without its challenges. PLSN shares current perspectives from designers Chris Lisle and Patrick Dierson and vendors including 3G Productions, 4Wall Entertainment, Bandit Lites, Brown Note Productions and Music Matters Productions.
Planning for Fan Controlled Football’s recently completed Season Two, played at the historic Pullman Yards in Atlanta, GA from April to June 2022, required completely building out the field, the VIP suites and grandstands as well as all the support facilities. Production Designer / Production Manager Tom E. Marzullo worked with All-Access and the Magnum Companies as well as Elation Lighting to ensure the elaborate made-for-broadcast sports production went off without a hitch.
X-Laser’s Mercury is not a projector. Instead, it’s an integrated hardware solution that is installed into X-Laser projectors, allowing LDs to work with lasers as if they were simply another light fixture in the rig, seamlessly controlling X-Laser effects from their lighting consoles.
The 20th Annual Parnelli Awards, held Friday, June 3 during the 2022 NAMM show, were unique in more ways than one. It was the first to be held in June, and with so few live shows staged in 2021, the focus shifted to the three career achievement honorees, the Parnelli NextGen award and the four Indispensable Technology product awards. But despite all the challenges, the well-attended event proved to be a truly memorable evening.
Stand Atlantic, a rising pop/punk band from Sydney, Australia, has crossed the Pacific to tour the U.S. in support of their third album, F.E.A.R. Squeek Lights is supplying LD Jacklyn Ash with a rig that includes Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 BeamWash fixtures.
Lighting Designer/Director Ben Factor is living the dream, today crafting the looks for one of his favorite bands, whose concerts he started attending at age 16: Umphrey’s McGee. Factor is the second of our NextGen spotlights nominated for the 2023 Parnelli NextGen award.
When Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in early 1952, she probably never imagined that, 70 years later, her video likeness would be smiling and waving to her royal subjects from the same a gilded horse-drawn carriage. Technology helped bring her Platinum Jubilee full circle from her Coronation Day.
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