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Roger Waters 2017 Us + Them Tour

Roger Waters 2017 tour photo by Steve Jennings

Roger Waters 2017 Us + Them Tour

Roger Waters, the co-founder of Pink Floyd, is out on his “Us + Them” tour in support of his new solo album, Is This the Life We Really Want? His live set included five cuts from the new album, with topics ranging from President Trump, climate change and racism. Those things are magnified with the tour’s production visuals — which includes a massive video wall and a truss that lowers down from the rafters in the center of the arena to reveal a replica of the Battersea Power Station from Pink Floyd’s Animals record cover (including smoke chimneys).

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Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Room, a rolling display, gets flown in the wings when not in use. Photo by Joan Marcus

Winching in the Wings

Mark Thompson Solved a Scenic Puzzle for Broadway’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Broadway’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been dazzling audiences with its fast pace, dazzling set pieces, and the buoyant energy of a nearly 40-person ensemble; notably, charismatic star Christian Borle as eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka, who offers an exclusive tour of his factory to five lucky children.

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LD Dave Herrman

LD Dave Herrman with the Gipsy Kings

Tour: April-December: U.K., Canada, U.S., Europe.

Design: “It is all ‘big picture’ stuff. Other than my console, we are not carrying gear, so every night is a different show — it may be all par cans one night, moving lights the next or a mix of the two. I take a theatrical approach, trying to keep a consistent look for the Gipsys, lighting the stage of 11 musicians and highlighting vocals or a guitar break as needed. It’s not flash and trash.”

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Nook Schoenfeld, Editor, PLSN

A Call Out For Color Rights

“Attention all lighting manufacturers: Concerning the continuous rise in color temperatures in your discharge lights. Some of us LD’s still like the color red.”

This was a recent post on social media. The time has come to call out the system, the trend, the fact that almost everyone is sacrificing the LD’s right for a full color palette for more lumen output, higher CRI in LEDs and a native color temperature of 7,000° Kelvin in discharge fixtures.

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The mapping challenge launched with a show in Cusco, Peru in June.

Dataton and Epson Team Up for Projection Mapping Competition

CUSCO, Peru – Epson Projectors and Dataton teamed up to back the Latin American Mapping Challenge, an event where mapping artists showcase their art on eight iconic buildings in Latin America. The challenge, open for entries from Latin America, the US and Canada, launched with a show in Cusco, Peru in June. Mapping enthusiasts have until July 29 to submit their designs. Judging takes place in early August with the winning contributions presented on the eight landmark buildings from August 2017 to March 2018.

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The ‘Black To The Future’ art exhibition is being organized by art collective Het Labo and staged at the C-MINE cultural center in Genk, Belgium.

Painting With Light Gets ‘Black To The Future’

GENK, Belgium – Lighting and visual innovators Painting with Light were approached to design a special feature for the current ‘Black To The Future’ art exhibition, which is being organized by art collective Het Labo and staged at the C-MINE cultural center in Genk, Belgium. The environment is a redeveloped coal mine once the pulse of local industry, now tastefully restored and again serving the community meaningfully as a cultural center and creative hub for media and tech-related companies and the LUCA School of Arts.

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