Rob Sinclair Production & Lighting Designer Rob Sinclair, who has been involved with System of a Down (SoaD) since 2017, admits he was a little… Read More »System of a Down 2021 Tour: Old School, New Look
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This month in the PLSN Buyer’s Guide we look at the latest developments in LED Ellipsoidals. In the past few years, luminaire manufacturers have… Read More »LED Ellipsoidals
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It’s that time of year, time to make the wish lists for what you want to get. When you’re a kid, it’s usually toys,… Read More »Wish List for Technical Directors and Production Managers
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Michael Bublé’s longtime show designer/LD Kurt Wagner and the crew followed a playbook of Covid precautions on tour and returned home safely. There were no… Read More »Bublé’s Safe Bubble, Dance Gavin Dance, TSO and Lighting Chicano Batman
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After almost six months away from home, I had just witnessed the first show in a live environment in almost two years. The crowd had… Read More »Sacrifice for Art
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AUSTRIA—For the two-million or so Austrians who tuned in every Monday to watch the country’s 2021 Ninja Warrior championships, keeping pace with the gifted young athletes as they raced across unstable bridges, swung along series of hanging rings, and hauled heavy weights up a “Salmon Ladder,” would have seemed like an impossible task. But, for Bernhard Endl, it was a matter of routine.Read More »Bernhard Endl Meets Ninja Warrior Austria Challenge with ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M
The latest Ghostbusters movie, released in the U.S. on Nov. 19, was filmed in the Calgary, Alberta area in 2019. Local production company Digital Media Integrations provided ADJ gear to brighten the opening weekend festivities in Calgary, which included a special screening of the movie for cast and crew just prior to the movie’s general release.
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DENMARK—Cirkusrevyen (Circus Review) is hugely popular and the longest-running review performance in Denmark, with a six-month season kicking off every year since 1935 except for 1945 (due to fire) and 2020 (due to COVID). Staged in a purpose-built big top tent in Klampenborg, Dyrehavsbakken north of Copenhagen, they’re known and loved for its incisive and hilarious style of political satire. The 2021 season was lit for the first-time using Robe ESPRITE moving lights.Read More »Cirkusrevyen Gets Laughing with Robe
USITT announced the 2022 Distinguished Achievement Award Winners who will be lauded at the 2022 USITT Conference, which is set to take place as an in-person event in Baltimore, MD from March 2-5, 2022. Honorees include Michael Hooker (Sound Design), Terri Purcell (Costume Design), Donyale Werle (Scenic Design), Dick Block (Education), and John McKernon (Lighting Design).
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USA–Production designer Niller Bjerregaard turned to a large inventory of GLP fixtures, dominated by the JDC1 hybrid strobe and impression X4 Bar 20 batten, when… Read More »GLP Lights Volbeat’s Aftershock Show
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NETHERLANDS—AV rental and production company Houben Souren has installed Elation Fuze Profile™ and Colour 5 Profile™ luminaires in two auditoriums in the recently refurbished Maastricht Exhibition and Convention Center (MECC) in the Netherlands. As the audiovisual partner for the biggest convention center in the southern part of the country, Houben Souren enjoys special insight into the audiovisual needs of the venue and drew upon its close relationship with Elation’s European office to realize a successful installation. Read More »Houben Souren and Elation Team Up on MECC Auditorium Renewals
