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Jack Garratt Tours U.K. with Claypaky Scenius Spot Fixtures

Jack Garratt gets support from Claypaky Scenius

Jack Garratt Tours U.K. with Claypaky Scenius Spot Fixtures

BRIGHTON, U.K. – Production designers James Scott and Louis Oliver of Okulus used Claypaky’s Scenius Spot as part of their design for 2016 Brit award-winner Jack Garratt’s UK autumn tour, following the release of the multi-instrumentalist’s debut album ‘Phase’. Okulus, which has worked for the likes of Zac Brown Band, Chvrches and Bring Me The Horizon, specified 20 of the new moving head fixtures from UK rental operation Siyan Ltd.

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'“The Roland XS filled every need I had once I moved to LED,' said Glen Sanders.

Fresh Air Flicks Using Roland’s XS-82H Switcher to Support Mobile LED Setup

NEW YORK — Fresh Air Flicks founder/owner Glen Sanders spotted the trend of outdoor cinema early on as it gained traction in Brooklyn and other hip communities. Starting out in 2004, Sanders and Fresh Air Flicks were providing giant inflatable screens for events like “Movies with a View” that would bring as many as 8,000 people out for an evening to watch films in the park beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. As demand grew for that kind of recreation during the longer daylight hours of summer, Sanders upped his game.

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The FLX, HFX and Fuze lights were used on an Oct. 26 show (recorded for a Dec. 2 broadcast), as well as on a live show that took place on Oct. 29

LD Thomas Gerdon Uses Fuze Wash Z120, Other Elation Fixtures for Popular German TV Show

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 PLink CVC3

Enttec PLink CVC3

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 LP-LED4X

Yorkville Sound LP-LED4X

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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Nook Schoenfeld, Editor, PLSN

Number One Priority

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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Gabi Scheff. Photo by Debi Moen

LD Gabi Scheff with Heart

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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'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' photos by Joan Marcus

Liaisons by Candlelight

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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Shinedown photo by Steve Jennings

Five Finger Death Punch and Shinedown

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.

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Lasers and Martin MAC Vipers break up the beams. Pet Shop Boys 'Super' tour photo by Steve Jennings.

Pet Shop Boys ‘Super’ Tour

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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The Lexus booth

The Business of Lighting Auto Shows

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 brightened the Ranch Arena after sunset.

Electric Forest Festival

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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