In between tours, over the past few decades, LD Joel Reiff has been writing. He selected 14 of his favorite short stories for his first published paperback, 14 Shorts and Other Dirty Laundry. PLSN found Reiff on the road with Peter Frampton, soon to head out again with Jason Mraz in August, to answer a few questions about his literary aspirations and inspirations.
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SANTA FE, NM – Barbizon Light of the Rockies has provided the Santa Fe Opera with five Hippotizer Rackoon media servers, four Panasonic 20K projectors, and a remote Zookeeper PC for networked Rackoon control. The first show this season to use the new media server system was Carmen, followed by a double-bill, The Impressario and Le Rossignol.
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AARHUS , Denmark – The Danish NorthSide Festival, which drew 35,000 visitors, made use of four SGM G-Spot moving heads for beam effects atop 6-meter-high containers placed in the shape of a horseshoe between the festival’s Blue Stage and Green Stage.
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KNEBWORTH, UK – Seeking to create a spectacular end to the Sonisphere festival’s opening day, LD Andy Hurst reworked an earlier design for The Prodigy. “The design concept was based on an air hanger for a Harrier Jump Jet,” explains Hurst. “We took the idea from their 2013 New Year’s Eve show at the O2. It was a favorite for the band, so they asked me to adapt it to our festival run this summer.” The revised design rigged the 84 SL NITRO 510 and 72 510C strobes in mixed groups of 10. His design saw them blast white and colored light over the audience, generating an electric rave atmosphere.
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LAS VEGAS – As part of a recent upgrade, the showroom at the South Point Casino here installed Elation EPAR QA and Opti QA color-changing LED PAR lights along with Elation Flex LED Tape. Blue Planet Lighting’s Las Vegas division handled the installation.
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GRAHAMSTOWN, South Africa – The National Arts Festival is Africa’s biggest annual celebration of the arts. To celebrate it’s 40th birthday, Electrosonic used the Hippotizer to project images onto The Monument, the headquarters of the festival. TechRig supplied the Barco HDQ-2K40 projectors and crew to set it up and run it.
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LONDON – Universal Event Production supplied full technical production to the Nike Phenomenal House, a one week only pop-up experience to celebrate football, street culture and style, music and fashion. For video, UEP flew six 60 inch plasma screens as a seamless 3×3 LED wall in the main space and supplied a 2 x 3 meter 3.9 mm LED wall, both of which received live camera feeds. The main football field was lit with 16 Robe LEDWash 600 and 12 Robe ColorSpot 1200 E AT moving lights plus a number of conventional fixtures.
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Faced with the challenge of sharing the same rig for two iconic bands, LD Kevin Christopher chose 38 VL3500 Wash and 25 VL3000 Spot luminaires from Philips Vari-Lite to be the lighting backbone for the complete tour. “In the design for the Journey tour, we have a large video wall that we treat as a surface for I-MAG, so I knew we needed automated lighting that could punch through the intensity of the video wall,” began Christopher. “During the design process, we looked at several luminaires for the job, but at the end of the day, we found that the power, performance and reliability of the VL3500 Wash and VL3000 Spot luminaires were second to none.”
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The TNER Series of theatrical chain hoists offer the latest technology for handling audio, stage and theatrical equipment. Available in capacities of 1/2 to 2 tons, these high-quality 3-phase, low-headroom units provide reliable performance in theaters, concert halls, and arenas. TNER hoists have industry accepted speeds and conveniently fit in standard road cases. They meet CE Declaration and comply with German regulation BGV-D8. Other features include reliable braking (no brake disc to replace); upper/lower limit switches; and ease of changing between 208/230 and 460 volts.
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LONDON – The Imperial War Museum in London held a preview launch event unveiling its newly refurbished interior galleries to a select crowd. For the event, White Light provided full production solutions including staging, draping, lighting, haze, A/V screens and the event crew to make it all work.
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XL Video supplied a custom video solution and crew for Robbie Williams’ Swings Both Ways tour. The set included an impressive 22.8 metre wide by 10.8 metre high upstage scenic LED wall made up from XL’s Pixled F-12 product. There were also side screens for IMAG made from Radiant MC-7T. Three Barco 40K HD projectors were used to beam material onto a massive drape, and content was programmed and run via a Catalyst media server. The projection was fed via a d3 media server system.
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