JOHANNESBURG – Responsible for creating a one-night-only EDM spectacular, the Gearhouse Group supplied all the technical production for DJ Armin van Buuren’s Armin Only Intense World Tour stop in Johannesburg. A total of 460 DuoLED 18” panels were configured into a 21 meter wide screen backdrop, with LED accents on the side stages and front stage cladding.
SOMERSET, UK – Bristol-based lighting and visuals rental company, Fineline Lighting supplied lighting and rigging including ground support systems to five stages at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. This included the Acoustic, Cabaret, Circus, Astrolabe Stages and HMS WOW at the festival, staged here June 25-29.
Read More »SHANGHAI – The Shanghai International Lighting Fair debuts this fall from 3 – 5 September at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. Organised by Guangzhou Guangya Messe Frankfurt Co Ltd, the event is expected to host over 100 exhibitors. China’s central and eastern region is quickly becoming one of the fastest areas for the development of state-of-the-art properties and infrastructure projects as government planning focuses on reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
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During the course of our lives, we have ups and downs, twists and turns and moments of sheer terror and excitement — fairly similar to that of a roller coaster, only spread out over years, not minutes. The best thing to do is hold on tight and enjoy this ride we call life. We spend our entire lives planning, organizing, and preparing for the future, both in our personal and professional lives. We map out a carefully laid out plan of things that we want to do and accomplish. Then of course there is the day-to-day operation of business and life.
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Tour: North America/Europe
Tour Dates: Through end of 2014
Gig: Tour Lighting Director
The Design: “Martin Phillips’ set, lighting and video design was inspired by the band’s overall aesthetic, and designed with their custom performance MIDI interface called ‘The Blade’ in mind. While there are no ‘traditional’ instruments on stage, the band is playing their music live. Music goes from powerful anthemic sounds to beautiful string sounds and dark, moody melodies. The lighting and video complement both extremes.”
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Lighting Co
Majestic Productions, Inc.
Venue
Arena at Gwinnett Center
Duluth, GA (near Atlanta)
Lighting Co
Reach Communications
Venue
Mariucci Arena, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
The vibrant new musical If/Then, created by the Next to Normal team of composer Tom Kitt and lyricist/book writer Brian Yorkey, is an ambitious production that follows two parallel storylines. They are the two different paths that newly divorced urban planner named Elizabeth (Idina Menzel) could take in her life depending upon a key choice she makes. One storyline involves her dating a politically conscious college friend named Lucas (Anthony Rapp) and the other with a newly discharged Army doctor named Josh (James Snyder). As scenes unfold in different locales, they generally shift from one storyline to the next, exploring many of the same themes in different contexts.
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