Ryan Adams described the look he was going for on his current tour as “a 1980’s dystopian Star Wars junkyard.” LD Heather Cossette has been out with Ryan Adams’ tour as designer/director since March, supporting his new album, Prisoners. The tour ends Oct. 17.
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Sometimes, it’s the things that you don’t do that make all the difference.
I recently attended a show that was painful to watch and more difficult to experience. I couldn’t see the artists for half the show because the upstage wall was built with a tractor-trailer’s worth of LED strobes that were aimed at my face. No matter where I went in the audience, they seemed to track my eyeballs and flash open white on every downbeat.
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LONDON -“The ethos at the heart of Specialz is the company’s completely open nature to a designer’s ideas and concepts. Backed up by a breadth of experience, skill and, what could be best described as industry savvy, Dave and his team offer a unique service to us as a client.” states Cate Carter , who needs little introduction as one of busiest and most successful LDs over the last decade; her portfolio is long and illustrious with the likes of Editors and Ellie Goulding currently out on tour. Carter’s company, Bryte Design is a design production house run in conjunction with her business partner, lighting designer Mike Smith and Visual Producer Pablo Beckett.
MOUNT MARION, N.Y. – Delvcam, a US based design and engineering firm specializing in professional LCD video production monitors, introduces the DELV-4KMP110 Media Player with ten 4Kx2K@60Hz HDMI outputs and an Android 6.0.1 operating system. Dan Coscarella, product manager at Delvcam, stated, “Our new media player delivers high resolution graphics feeding HDMI extenders, displays or projector 4K UHD ecosystems at a cost-effective price.”
LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional is pleased to announce that industry professionals Kraig Knight and Joe Adams have joined the company’s growing sales team as Regional Sales Representatives. Both Kraig and Joe come to Elation from manufacturers rep firm PSLP (Professional Sound and Lighting Products), where they represented Elation products for years. Kraig Knight serves as Elation’s new Regional Sales Representative for the Rocky Mountain region while Joe Adams covers Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
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SHANGHAI – Macroblock attended LED China 2017 at Shanghai New International Expo Center during September 20th -22nd. This is the most important trade show for the LED display industry in China, and all LED display manufacturers show off the best products. In this battlefield, manufacturers have recently competed smaller pitch products with superior image quality.., and so on. However, focusing on users’ need to differentiate products is the key to winning in the competition. Aiming at 24/7 operation applications, Macroblock develops LED driver IC, MBI5353 with a “smart power saving” function. The “smart power saving” function reduces power consumption in the black areas of displayed images and then decreases electricity consumption of LED displays.
FRANKFURT – Musikmesse (11 to 14 April 2018) and Prolight + Sound (10 to 13 April 2018) bring together companies with retailers, professionals from the musical-instrument, event and media-technologies sectors, as well as musicians from all over the world. In 2017, the two events attracted a total of around 100,000 visitors from 144 countries to Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre. For companies of all sizes there is a wide spectrum of options to showcase products, ranging from all-inclusive booth packages at an entry-level price and open air live-demonstrations to the integration of brands and endorsers in the event program of the two shows.
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RENO, NV –An impressive yacht with wheels that help it sail through the sand sits glimmering in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Not far away, half-buried on the quiet playa, is a massive 747 jet made of foam, lights twinkling in its fuselage. Sights like these make the annual Burning Man Festival the closest thing on earth to living out the fantasy of Lewis Carroll’s classic “Through The Looking Glass.”
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DUBLIN – Lighting controls expert, Artistic Licence, has been appointed official Technical Partner of The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin. The Lir Academy was established in 2011 to provide students with the highest standards of training for careers in the theatre, TV and film industries. The Lir’s Director of Technical Training, Barry Conway, identified networking in lighting as an area of focus for the Academy’s new Bachelor in Stage Management and Technical Theatre degree course.
KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE – More than 82,000 individuals and corporate donors gave to the University of Tennessee’s 1.1 billion dollar Join the Journey campaign, which focuses on making the overall cost of earning a degree more affordable, with funds going towards undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, faculty support, athletics and other university initiatives. Bandit Lites was honored to donate the lighting for the sophisticated soiree, which culminated with a private event at the Knoxville Convention Center.
KORTRIJK, BELGIUM – To complete its offer for the fixed installation market, Barco is extending its F-series platform with a flexible new projector, the F80. Billed as “the silent” F”, it brings three powerful assets to museums and venues that require under 10k lumen 24/7: superb 4K resolution; the efficiency and economy of laser; and silence, or the ability to host the projector in the same room as the audience.