MUNICH, Germany – LD Thomas Gerdon used Elation Professional lighting fixtures for the German television program “Verstehen Sie Spass,” this time for two fall season shows. Gerdon employed Elation’s Platinum FLX™ and Platinum HFX™ hybrid moving heads to light artist performances. He was also one of the first LDs anywhere to use Elation’s new Fuze Wash Z120™ LED wash light.
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Enttec’s line of LED tape related products includes the E.L.M, the Pixelator, the Pixie Driver and the Pixel Link (PLink) product families, which are engineered to help designers focus on their creativity, rather than the technical complexities of working with large numbers of pixels. The newest product in the Enttec LED driver line is the PLink CVC3.
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Yorkville Sound’s LP-LED4X is a new four pod all-in-one fixture designed to operate in standalone mode using its advanced onboard controls, as part of a small system with Yorkville’s proprietary LP-C4 footswitch controller or LP-C12 desk controller, or scaled up with multiple LP-LED4X as part of a large theatre or touring system operated via integrated DMX I/O.
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I believe we are all thinking the same thing as this year closes. Glad it’s over, and how the heck is the new guy gonna keep everyone insured, yet make it affordable? I question why I pay what amounts to a second mortgage to Aetna for my family of four, a company that has paid their CEO, in terms of overall compensation, more than $90K per day. Repeat: per day.
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THE DESIGN: “Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson are relatively hands-off in terms of day-to-day design. My mentor, LD Dale Doucette has been running this show for a decade, so his style and rapport with the band are well established. We are cautious about strobes and haze; my job is to provide the biggest looking show I can with contrast and movement carrying the visual interest— no matter the rig. We carried gear on the summer “Rock Hall Three for All” tour with Cheap Trick and Joan Jett; for this autumn leg we’re using house and local rigs. This has taught me how to build a show efficiently. In three days I may have three different consoles and rigs, so keeping a consistent feel makes each show feel like a Heart show.”
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The latest Broadway rendition of Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses is an invigorating, lively take on the period costume drama, which is ripe with robust games of seduction and is enhanced this time by sumptuous lighting from veteran, Tony Award-winning LD Mark Henderson.
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Bruce Reiter, Brandon Webster, Sooner Routhier and Carter Fulghum Discuss the 2016 Co-Headlining Tour
Five Finger Death Punch (5FDP) and Shinedown are on a co-headlining tour which also features Sixx: A.M. and As Lions, playing arenas across the nation. We spoke with some of the production crew — 5FDP production manager Bruce Reiter along with their lighting designer/director and tour manager Brandon Webster. Then, for Shinedown, we talked with production designer and lighting programmer Sooner Routhier of SRae Productions and lighting director Carter Fulghum.
The Pet Shop Boys’ Super tour has been wowing fans in the U.S. and Europe with visual splendor from the creative minds of Es Devlin, the tour’s creative director; and Rob Sinclair, the lighting designer. Both have been collaborators on past Pet Shop Boys tours with the band’s own Neil Tennant (vocals & guitar) and Chris Lowe (keyboards). We spoke at length with Devlin, Sinclair and Jack James, the video & projection creative director with Really Creative Media, and touched base with ER Productions’ Andrew Turner and Marc Webber on the laser looks for this tour (see sidebar, page 28) which will continue into 2017.
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TLS Productions Plays Key Role at Los Angeles Auto Show
Walking the floor at the Los Angeles Auto Show (LAAS) the morning of the inaugural press event is a strangely peaceful process. All around, credentialed professionals are silently setting up media capture equipment.
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Travis Shirley Electrifies Main Stage of Unique Event
The annual Electric Forest Festival features jam band/EDM music on five stages at the Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, MI. But more than that, Electric Forest Festival has, as part of its unique identity, the goal of enhancing the music with a multi-sensory fan experience with art installations throughout the (actual) forest in which the fest takes place.
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The Chicago Cubs Host Massive Celebration
When the Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series, defeating the American League’s Cleveland Indians 8-7 in Game 7’s 10 innings, including a late rain delay, it marked the end of an epic era. The Cubs had not won the World Series since 1908 and the City of Chicago was prepared to celebrate the historic win, they just may not have expected it to have truly historic attendance.
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LISLE, IL — For many in the Chicago area an annual trip to see Illumination: Tree Lights at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle has become a wintertime tradition. Now in its fourth year, the magical mile-long walk in the woods with its dramatic lighting and color-changing illumination is a whole new way to experience the Arboretum in winter. John Featherstone, principal at design group Lightswitch, is the lighting director and creative director for Illumination. This year he had the opportunity to be the first anywhere to use Elation’s new weatherproof Proteus Beam moving head fixture for the event.
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