VAL D’ISERE, France – Airstar lighting solutions have been used at the Val d’Isère ski resort since 2011 for its Airstar Night Light. Every Thursday night in the city center from Dec. 31 to March 3, Val d’Isère Tourisme and an Airstar dedicated team deploy dozens of balloons that light up various animations, such as ice sculptures, concerts and musical performances.
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ADELAIDE Australia – The Adelaide Conventions Centre’s new West Building, part of an ongoing $400 million expansion of the facility in the state capital of South Australia, has had all of its rigging, trussing and flying needs designed, supplied and installed by Sydney engineering and distribution firm, HME Services.
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PRATT, KS — The First Southern Baptist Church in Pratt, Kansas, had the kind of problems that most churches wish they had: they were growing fast and had reached the point where they needed additional services each weekend to accommodate the nearly 800 people in the congregation. Its physical plant could not keep up. Enter Builders for Christ, a non-profit that gathers volunteers to construct church buildings for needy congregations at no cost. Last year, the organization constructed a new building for the First Southern Baptist Church, one that far better accommodates their growing flock.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Swedish lighting designer Palle Palmé provided a pre-Christmas lighting design for Stockholm’s Berns Salonger using GLP impression LED fixtures. The ‘Motown Featuring Afro-Dite’ revue is one of the Dröse & Norberg entertainment productions for whom Palmé has been working for the past four years.
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The 2016 version of connectCAD, the connectivity design add-on to Vectorworks, is now available. Used extensively by audiovisual designers worldwide, connectCAD’s tools and commands are engineered to speed up the design process from concept to implementation in various installation projects, from AV to electrical and IT.
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AMSTERDAM – The 17,000-capacity Ziggo Dome welcomed Dutch singer Marco Borsato for his Symphonica in Rosso concert series. d3 has been the media server of choice for Borsato’s lighting and video team for a number of years. For the latest Symphonica in Rosso concerts the team deployed four d3 4x4pros with close to 3TB of content.
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MANCHESTER, UK – Lighting designer Olly Suckling presented a novel solution and lighting effect using 28 of Robe’s CycFX 8 LED battens to create a giant illuminated M-A-X-I-M-O sign upstage on UK alt rockers Maximo Park’s most recent tour. This celebrated 10 years since the release of their seminal debut studio album, ‘A Certain Trigger’ in 2005, which was also nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.
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AV Stumpfl announced their next generation Wings Vioso RX software which was shown for the first time at Integrated Systems Europe 2016. Aimed at quick and easy adoption by existing users, the familiar user interface has been given an extensive facelift with several performance and feature optimizations. The new render engine is based on x64 architecture and includes several base level algorithms, replacing standard operating system and driver functions.
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LONDON – On Feb. 4, the Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) Showcase took place within the Tower of London. White Light supported the event’s lighting needs, supplying a variety of CORE Lighting fixtures including StripPoints, Point30s, Flood30s, ColourPoints and PinPoints. White Light also supported the event’s production needs with video and audio gear.
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In 1966, The Lovin’ Spoonful released their third album. On it was a track called “Nashville Cats,” a tune penned by John Sebastian. The song, written after a stop on their tour in Nashville, pays homage to the musicians in Music City. A local 19-year-old musician named Danny Gatton had opened for the band and pretty much blew Sebastian’s mind and his band off the stage. Fifty years later, the lyrics might well apply to the wealth of talented lighting designers based in the city today. On the pages that follow, PLSN profiles six lighting designers at the top of their form who hail from Nashville. Innovative and fully in command of the art of craft, they all knew early on, what their path would be. From country superstars to heavy metal legends, they can light it all. Please meet the 21st century’s new Nashville Cats.
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Stephen Gudis is one of those select people in Nashville that you can truly call a “Man about Town.” There’s nobody that’s been in the live event biz around Nashville for any length of time who hasn’t crossed paths with this guy. While the same can be said about most seasoned touring veterans on the music scene, one thing that sets “Gudis,” as he’s affectionately referred to, apart is that he’s worn just about all the hats…
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Often, you hear that the gear on stage is only as good as the crew who’s working with it. This is gospel in the live… Read More »Nashville-Based Production and Stage Managers
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