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Brompton Technology Helps Deliver Usher’s Supreme Las Vegas Residency Experience

Brompton Technology Helps Deliver Usher’s Supreme Las Vegas Residency Experience

Photo: ©Paul Tate DePoo III. All Rights Reserved.

The eight-time Grammy Award-winner and R&B superstar Usher Raymond IV recently headlined a Las Vegas residency, delivering his fans an extraordinary immersive performance and “an Usher experience like they’ve never seen or heard before”. Opened at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on July 16, 2021, Usher delivered 12 shows in total – eight in July, three in December, and a final event on January 1, 2022. BrainHub and LMG Touring & Entertainment, both part of Entertainment Technology Partners (ETP), worked closely together and with the production team, including Production Designer, Paul Tate DePoo III and Video Design firm FragmentNine’s Jackson Gallagher, to design a larger-than-life experience featuring more than 500 moving lights, creative LED, and video solutions. [PLSN covered the Usher Residency in the November, 2021 issue. You can read that story here.]Read More »Brompton Technology Helps Deliver Usher’s Supreme Las Vegas Residency Experience

Green Hippo and tvONE Launch the CONECT Control Competition

tvONE and Green Hippo are launching a competition to highlight excellence in control system design using their range of products. tvONE is looking for programmers, operators and designers who have mastered video manipulation using Green Hippo’s Hippotizer range of Media Servers, or harnessed the power of tvONE’s CORIOmaster family of video processors.Read More »Green Hippo and tvONE Launch the CONECT Control Competition

Chris Patton joins Christie Lites as VP of Rentals

Chris Patton joins Christie Lites as VP Rentals

Christie Lites, global provider of stage lighting services and technical expertise, has welcomed Chris Patton as its VP Rentals. Patton’s new role comes as part of a wider expansion of the Christie Lites management team, bringing increased focus to both client and rep support. To that end Patton will join Ken Alexander, Senior VP Rentals, to lead, develop, and support the Christie Lites Rental Rep Team.Read More »Chris Patton joins Christie Lites as VP of Rentals

Learning to Love the Nuances of Lighting for Television

“In early 2000, I moved to LA, and all I wanted to do was tour. I loved music and touring; big shows, bright lights and really dynamic stuff. But hanging out with [Allen] Branton, I began to appreciate the art of paying attention to those really, really micro details and making them right. The whole television lighting experience, that I thought would be limiting, was in fact the opposite.”
—David Hunkins, interviewed by Michael S. Eddy, for his column, 1,000 Words with… PLSN, April 2022, page 47

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Ayrton Diablo Impresses on Musical Theater Tour of ‘Ghost: Nachricht von Sam’

Ayrton was recently delighted to receive this message from lighting designer Phil Kong of Kong Design, Inc.: “We just used 20 Ayrton Diablo’s on Ghost: Nachricht von Sam [Ghost: Message from Sam] for ShowSlot GmbH and I wanted to let you know I was very happy with them for all of the things they were able to do, and how fast they were. The flat field, the gobos, the color rendering – a lot of good things going on with them – and the size and price point are great. I was so glad to have these Ayrton fixtures on the show.” Naturally, Ayrton just had to find out more.Read More »Ayrton Diablo Impresses on Musical Theater Tour of ‘Ghost: Nachricht von Sam’

PRG Supports Full Flood, Inc at Grammy Awards (Behind the Scenes Slideshow)

Sunday night, April 3rd brought another incredible Grammy Awards full of star-studded performances, amazing lighting looks, and even a rare crew shout out on the main stage from Billie Eilish’s production manager, Nicole Massey. PRG was there to bring the Full Flood Inc lighting design to life with an order of more than 1,100 fixtures, including proprietary Best Boys, Icon Edges, Icon Beams, the new 5L Wash, and GroundControl Followspots.

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Meet Samantha Weiser, The 2022 Howell Binkley Fellow

The Howell Binkley Fellowship Program, part of the Hemsley Lighting Programs, proudly announces its Fellow for the 2022-23 season, Samantha (Sam) Weiser (she/her). Weiser hails from Long Island, NY where she was exposed to theatre at a young age. Her passion for lighting design led her to the Long Island High School for the Arts and then to receive her BFA from the University of Michigan in 2020. Her favorite part of designing is turning “what if’s” into reality.Read More »Meet Samantha Weiser, The 2022 Howell Binkley Fellow

Allen Branton Lights iHeart Awards with Chauvet Professional Fixtures from 4Wall Entertainment

Collaboration’s wings take creativity to new heights. The wisdom of this adage was on full display at the 2022 iHeart Radio Music Awards when superstars John Legend and Charlie Puth sat down at dueling pianos to banter and play a five-minute mash up of one another’s hits, before announcing plans to record a song together.Read More »Allen Branton Lights iHeart Awards with Chauvet Professional Fixtures from 4Wall Entertainment

Epson PixAlign ELPEC01 Camera

PixAlign ELPEC01 Camera Enables Advanced Projection Installations to Automate Blending, Stacking, Tiling, and More

Projection technology provides maximum versatility that allows artists, designers, and integrators to break free from the set boundaries of today’s typical displays. Stunning, super-wide imagery, massive architectural illumination and fully immersive environments are becoming increasingly popular. As projection continues to grow as a powerful medium for sophisticated installations, Epson today announced the new PixAlign™ ELPEC01 camera that adds another layer of convenience and simplified installation for its line-up of interchangeable lens projectors.Read More »Epson PixAlign ELPEC01 Camera