LAS VEGAS — Airing live on ABC shortly after the natural light show outside — a partial solar eclipse — the 2012 Billboard Music Awards, staged at the MGM Grand Arena May 20 and supported by PRG, featured design flourishes in lighting and video that animated the set and a visual circus of performances. There were also musical and silent tributes for Whitney Houston, Adam Yauch, Donna Summer and Robin Gibb.
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MASCOT, NSW, Australia – Never Did Me Any Harm is a new dance theatre work that explores the complexities of contemporary family life. Set designer/LD Geoff Cobham collaborated on the project with Chris Petridis, video designer and assistant LD. A PC running Jands Vista v2 software with a Vista M1 wingboard was used to operate the show.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Calvary Church’s chapel recently underwent a substantial upgrade with the installation of 70 CHAUVET fixtures. Brian Barker, project manager for Eye Dialogue Lighting and Sound, said the church invested in the new CHAUVET fixtures to save on power, be green and to change the traditional look of the chapel.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA — In preparation for the May 18 launch of their 2012 Living Things tour, Linkin Park hired Weather Decision Technologies (WDT), a Norman, OK-based storm forecasting service with a staff of 75, to provide a color-coded weather emergency plan along with on-site weather experts for outdoor shows. Jim Digby, Linkin Park tour manager, is also a founding member of the Event Safety Alliance, which counts WDT as a new corporate sponsor.
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LAS VEGAS – Morpheus Lights is supplying Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures to Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball World Tour. LD Jeff Ravitz selected 16 Sharpys after having seen them last fall.
Read More »Clay Paky’s Sharpy lighting fixtures emit an amazingly bright light beam. Due to some serious optical engineering, they have developed a way for a 200W… Read More »Watch Where You Point Those Things!
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SHENZEN, CHINA – Tait China has opened in Shenzen with two people at the helm. Alex Luthwaite joins Tait China as Technical Manager. He will work with General Manager Ysabel Vangrudenberg to oversee all production carried out in the region. Luthwaite most recently worked with Neg Earth in the UK, where he dealt with production design and development of large scale custom control systems. Vangrudenberg coordinates all Chinese based projects and plays a key business development role in the region.
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CANBERRA, Australia – Anolis ArcPad 48 LED fixtures are internally lighting artist Stuart Green’s ‘Droplet’ sculpture, a 6 meter tall by 3 meter wide stainless steel work which has been installed on the corner of Furzer and Worgon Streets in the Phillip Woden district of Canberra, Australia. The fixtures are installed in the base of Droplet, programmed to run a color changing sequence that morphs from blue to pink to white over a five-minute period.
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STUTTGART, Germany – A Jands Vista T2 is at the heart of the lighting control system at Friedrichsbau Varieté in Stuttgart, a venue featuring variety shows. Technical Director/LD Torsten Schulz specified the console to to run up to 156 dimmers, a number of automated lights and a media server. Friedrichsbau Varieté stages four of its own well known productions each year, featuring internationally acclaimed artists as well as new talents.
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