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Visual Design: The Chainsmokers 2017 ‘Memories: Do Not Open’ Tour

2017 Chainsmokers MDNO tour enlisted a band. Tour photo by Steve Jennings

Visual Design: The Chainsmokers 2017 ‘Memories: Do Not Open’ Tour

Production Club Uses Video Game Technology to Create DJ/Live Band Looks

Los Angeles-based Production Club is the production equivalent of a multi-instrumentalist — handling artist direction, design innovation and concert production. It was originally formed nine years ago by CEO Corey Johnson (CEO) and Vivek Srinivasan (COO/CFO) to produce and design the ongoing DANCEiSM party and other events in the downtown L.A. Area.

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U2 2017 'Joshua Tree' tour photo by Steven Jennings

U2 ‘Joshua Tree’ Tour 2017

U2’s 2017 Joshua Tree tour marks 30 years since the band released the classic album of the same name in 1987. The show highlights themes and imagery still current in today’s culture captured by longtime U2 photographer and film director Anton Corbijn. We spoke with creative director and lighting designer Willie Williams on the third date of this tour, which also features a set design by Ric Lipson of Stufish, staging by Tait, and lighting and video supplied by PRG/PRG Nocturne. New technologies include PRG’s Spaceframe and a 4K broadcast camera system integrated into the design.

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Video and lighting worked together for a dramatic, immersive effect for the church's three-day Warrior conference.

Granite United Church Turns to Events United, Chauvet Professional for Three-Day Conference

WATERVILLE VALLEY, NH – For Granite United Church’s annual Warrior Conference, a three-day men’s retreat at the Waterville Valley ski resort June 1-3, Events United provided lighting and video gear from Chauvet Professional. The 2017 event used 20 Rogue R1 Wash fixtures, 10 Strike 4 fixtures, six Maverick MK1 Hybrids, four Maverick MK2 Spots, 12 Maverick MK2 Washes and four COLORado 2 Solo washes for lighting plus 85 PVP X6IP 6.9mm panels for video support.

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Screenshot for Christie Pandoras Box

Christie Reveals Plans for InfoComm 2017

ORLANDO – Christie has announced plans for InfoComm 2017, set to take place June 14-16 in Orlando. The Christie Center will showcase technologies including Christie Boxer and Pandoras Box Quad Server (screenshot pictured here); warped and blended visuals; 3D mapping using Christie Mystique; plus numerous LED walls and large-format LCD panels

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The event required 82 universes of DMX for 2,970 focusable conventional fixtures and 927 automated fixtures.

SAP’s Sapphire NOW/ASUG Annual Conference Relies on grandMA2 Consoles for Networked Control

ORLANDO, FL – grandMA2 consoles and switches played a key role in networked lighting and video control for SAP’s Sapphire NOW/ASUG Annual Conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando.  Lighting Designer Paul Palazzo and Programmer Paul J. Sonnleitner have worked on the event since 1999 and have been using MA consoles for the last 12 years.  A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America.

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Brett Angstadt created a wall of Nexus 4x4 fixtures supplied by Showtime Sound.

Brett Angstadt Lights Up The Night In Baltimore with Chauvet Professional Nexus 4x4s

BALTIMORE, MD – For seven days in April, the night sky over the city that gave birth to “The Star-Spangled Banner” glowed in a rainbow of colors, as Baltimore celebrated its Light City Festival. Over 400,000 visitors crowded the city’s downtown streets to enjoy hundreds of illuminated sculptures, building projections and interactive exhibits. At the heart of it all was the “Light Up The Night,” stage, where artists from a variety of musical genres including hip-hop, rock, jazz and world dance performed each evening.

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