To provide My Chemical Romance with immersive and stylized lighting for their highly-anticipated world tour, lighting production house Penlight designed a custom-built rig featuring Martin MAC Ultra Performance, MAC Quantum Wash, MAC Aura XB, and Atomic 3000 fixtures from Martin Professional.
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It is with great sadness that the Showlight Committee announced the postponement of Showlight 2023. The popular quadrennial networking event was due to take place May 20-23 in Fontainebleau, France.
In the following statement from Showlight, Chairman John Allen explains the reasons behind this decision.Read More »Showlight 2023 Postponed
The LDI Show returned to Las Vegas after a busy year of live event productions across North America. The aisles were busy with production pros seeking to gear up for another busy year ahead, with exhibitors unveiling as many new products as steadily improving supply chain conditions would permit.
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I think that the “all hands-on deck” mentality is something that’s really important. And never getting too big for your britches; always realizing that at the end of the day nothing would happen without everybody else in the room. It is all teamwork, so staying humble and respectful is a huge one. We’ve all seen people who get jaded by the industry, so I try, every day that I get to be on site, to take a minute to be grateful. I always think, ‘I can’t believe somebody pays me enough money for this to be my career.’
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ETC presented Behind the Scenes with a check during LDI for $26,493 representing proceeds from sales of the company’s iRFR and aRFR (Radio Focus Remote) applications. Since the launch of the iRFR in 2009, ETC’s mobile app sales have now generated over $465,000 in donations.
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BARCELONA, Spain – In response to the growing relevance of content production and distribution technologies across the pro-AV and systems integration market, ISE 2023, set… Read More »ISE 2023 to Highlight Pro AV Content Production and Distribution Technologies
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For Burna Boy’s supercharged performance at the Curaçao Festival Center in late October, Massive Productions’ Ramon Ramiz stepped in as LD for the artist, lighting the Grammy-winning singer and his fans with the power of 90 Chauvet Professional fixtures from Massive Productions and its partner, Aruba Elite Productions.
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Twenty One Pilots’ “Icy” tour hit the road this summer, offering LD Tyler “Shap” Shapard the chance to produce an elegant and imaginative lighting design. To atmospherically engineer the mood and vibes for each song, he relied on a Solotech-supplied rig that included 80 Robe MegaPointes.
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Despite a November chill that turned patches of green a frosty white in the predawn hours on Nov. 17, the sun quickly warmed Rhodes Ranch Golf Club in Las Vegas for the 2022 PLSN/FOH Parnelli Classic golf tournament. PLSN/FOH’s Terry Lowe and Greg Gallardo welcomed close to 100 players to the event.
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GLP has announced the worldwide availability of its new IP65 rated LED spot, designated the FUSION X-PAR 12 Z. Developed in close cooperation with PRG, the fixture has already started featuring at events across Europe, to wide acclaim.Read More »GLP’s FUSION X-PAR 12 Z IP65 Spot: Future- and Weather-Proofed for All Applications
Lighting Designer Marsha Stern started out lighting for discos in the 1970s before transitioning into architectural and architainment lighting projects in the 90s. She has a podcast, Heartbeat of the Dance Floor® that looks back fondly on the glory days of disco. In episode #12, Stern has assembled a lighting design panel to discuss lighting in those early days. Here is the video replay of A Lighting Panel with Special Guests Ken Billington, Jason Kantrowitz, (KB Associates / The Red Parrot), Anne Militello (Vortex Lighting / California Institute of the Arts), and Paul Gregory (Focus Lighting / Saturday Night Fever dance floor):
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The University of Houston recently took advantage of the University Outreach Program from Vari-Lite, the originators of the modern moving head and Signify entertainment lighting brand, which enables emerging lighting design students to elevate their production looks and facilitates hands-on professional fixture experience. The latest collaborative project saw Andrew Archer, who is undertaking a BFA in Technical Theatre Production, create an inspired design for the play The Learned Ladies using VL2600 SPOT luminaires.Read More »Vari-Lite University Outreach Program Delivers VL2600 Uplift for the University of Houston