Video keeps playing a more prominent role in concerts and touring, corporate and sporting event production. PixelFlex, a relatively new player in the LED display market, has carved a niche for itself with a new style of LED screen in various pixel densities that is foldable. The ability to fold the screen makes for a small package for storage and transportation.
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Last year, Martin Professional unveiled the first in their series of new lighting fixtures, the Viper. It’s an extremely bright, hard-edged lighting fixture with a lot of functions. Since then, Martin has unveiled the Viper AirFX. It appears that somebody has finally stepped up and built a lighting fixture that’s designed for the rock ‘n’ roll lighting designer. By that, I mean a light that caters to how we can shape and color a light beam, as opposed to primarily caring about the subject the light would be illuminating or shining a texture on.
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NASHVILLE– Bandit Lites helped pull off Music City’s Fourth of July Celebration. Striking Matches, Keb’Mo’ and The Band Perry took the stage before more than 26,000 firework shells erupted over the Nashville skyline. LD Chris Lisle played off the look of the bridges directly behind and adjacent to the outdoor stage. The new GLP X4S fixtures lined the main arch upstage center and two half arches on either side, while the downstage portion of the rig included three more horizontal arches to create a cohesive design.
Read More »From what you read and see in the media, Nashville looks like it’s wall-to-wall music. Its music industry is still centered around Music Row, the Grand Ole Opry is located in the Music Valley area, and the commuter rail line is dubbed the Music City Star. But scratch the surface, and you’ll find a production community teeming with lighting designers and directors, video producers, staging specialists and projection poobahs. Music gets the headlines, but Nashville can push a major-league tour out the door or pull a television production in without putting up any help-wanted notices at IATSE Locals 306 or 728.
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WAKEFIELD, UK – Prolyte Group, manufacturer of trussing, staging and custom structures, has refreshed the brand identity of its LiteConsole product range with the launch of a dedicated website and a new logo. LiteConsole represents a selection of lightweight, innovative performance platforms that are popularly used as mobile DJ booths, but also impress as stands or podiums for corporate presentations, trade shows and retail environments.
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Destroid is using hundreds of custom LEDs — not in the rig or lining the stage, but clothed on their bodies. The EDM group is outfitted with specially-made $100,000 body armor — complete with smoke machines, CO2 and laser arm blasters, custom LED panels and animatronics and built-in video cameras feeding live visuals. That doesn’t even take into account the rest of the production. LDs Michael Smalley and Kyle Kegan worked together on the show for the group, which is performing at some summer festivals and is planning to embark on a major tour in the fall.
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CHICAGO – “The Package,” the current New Kids on the Block tour includes more than just the members of the band. It also includes two new pieces of gear that merge lighting and special effects from Strictly FX. Production Designer Butch Allen and New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, who is very involved in the production, wanted something fresh. “Butch and Donnie wanted a party atmosphere for the production, and we had something new that fit the bill perfectly,” notes Ted Maccabee, partner and visuals director at Strictly FX.
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CASTEL GOFFREDO, Italy – Luci Della Ribalta (LDR), based here, said its Canto followspots and related LDR products, including Xpress 21 color scrollers, would be distributed by Atlanta, GA-based Canto USA starting Aug. 1, 2013. The company’s products will no longer by distributed by Ballantyne-Strong, LDR added.
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