LAS VEGAS — Earlier this month, PLSN’s newsletter called for nominations for regional lighting production companies worthy of receiving the Parnelli Award for Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year. PLSN readers responded almost instantly, with a steady influx of names including a variety of well-known companies along with some others who are being nominated for the Hometown Hero award for the first time.
Read More »PR Lighting and Temple Media teamed up to provide all staging and technical infrastructure for the SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta Constanta 2014. The lighting design incorporated PR Lighting’s XR 200 Beam and XLED 1037 wash lights. “The artists’ production teams were delighted by our choice of lights — particularly the XR 200 Beams,” said Dan Chiorcioiu. “In fact they told us these beams were so bright and powerful that they could be seen way out at sea, like a light from a lighthouse.”
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LOS ANGELES – Team Imagination paired with 4Wall Los Angeles to provide lighting for ABC’s Bet on Your Baby. “One thing we wanted to focus on with a show like this was creating an environment that was both kid-friendly and safe,” said LD Michael Veerkamp. “That led to us using a large amount of LED fixtures to keep everyone cool and comfortable.”
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LD Petter Nilssen used 12 Clay Paky B-EYE K20s on his vibrant lighting design for Norwegian pop-stars Postgirobygget.
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MECHELEN, Belgium – Painting With Light provided the lighting for Spektakel Musical, which commemorates the death and destruction of the First World War which started a century ago in 1914. Virtual wing space with light curtains were created to conceal mobile scenery trucks offstage. The same concept is used to mask off different depths along the performance space as the location of the action shifts up and down the hall. There is a left and right vertical light curtain and four horizontal ones made up from a total of 465 Vari*Lite V*L5s and 28 bars of four ACLs.
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HOUSTON, TX –Daktronics designed, manufactured and installed two new LED video displays for Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. The new displays supplant the previously existing Daktronics displays and use the existing structure to support the more than 12-foot high by 22-foot wide displays.
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PHOENIX, AZ – Clearwing Productions has hired Jeff Steele as a member of the Pro Shop in their Phoenix office. Steele has been a fixture… Read More »Jeff Steele Joins Clearwing Productions’ Phoenix Pro Shop Staff
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STEVENAGE, U.K. – Lighting rental company HSL supplied an extensive lighting package – including 140 new Philips Nitro LED strobes along with 60 Robe LEDBeam 100s – for the Prodigy at Sonisphere 2014, which was held in Knebworth Park here this year. The lighting rig, which includes complements the “aircraft hangar” look created by show designer Andy Hurst. He also deployed that look for the band’s New Years Eve show at London’s O2 Arena earlier this year.
Read More »GUANGZHOU – The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition increased its attendance by 11% compared to last year with the final count being 129,885 from 132 countries and regions. Energy efficiency and the application of intelligent lighting were the show’s core theme.
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As Third Eye Blind hits the road across America, Clay Paky’s A.leda B-EYE K20 lights and a grandMA2 light console are hitting the road with them. LD Mitchell Schellenger created a look that echoes the sunset set times of some of their gigs. “The B-EYEs have a nice big head so their look is perfect for our sunset theme,” Schellenger says. “The show color scheme starts more bright CTO Amber and works its way toward a deeper orange. The B-EYEs’ awesome effects give the show the ability to progress visually through that minimal color scheme.”
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For Tim McGraw’s Sundown Heaven Town 2014 tour, production designer Baz Halpin created a set “moving away from the traditional imagery of country music and into something more modern looking.” To implement this, lighting director Pat Brannon selected 134 of GLP’s impression X4 LED moving heads to create a highly imaginative lighting dynamic.
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