As the holiday season approaches, festive specials are a great way to be both merry and bright. One of NBC’s holiday specials, Holidays with the Houghs, was designed by James Pearse Connelly.Read More »JPConnelly Designs NBC’s Holidays with the Houghs
L8, producer of the L8 software package for visualization, announced that it now supports the MA Lighting grandMA3 viz-key. L8 visualizers render a variety of entertainment disciplines including lighting, lasers, pyrotechnics, automated DMX-controlled objects, and other effects in a photorealistic environment.
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Technical Arts Group (TAG), an event production and production equipment rental company, has invested in Ayrton Perseo Beam and Ayrton Domino fixtures, both IP65-rated, for its inventory. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton lighting in North America.Read More »TAG Enhances its Inventory with Ayrton Perseo Beam and Domino IP-Rated Fixtures
September’s seventh annual LUMA Projection Arts Festival in Binghamton, NY wowed tens of thousands of attendees with six original digital art pieces. As with prior festivals, the canvasses for the displays were facades of historic downtown buildings. Using digital projectors (provided by Panasonic), the image warping and blending capabilities of Dataton WATCHOUT® media display software, and purpose-built media servers and production workstations from Show Sage, this year’s artists turned static building surfaces into dynamic stories told in light and sound.Read More »LUMA Projection Arts Festival Shines Anew After One Year Hiatus
Smooth jazz multi-instrumentalist Brian Culbertson recently wrapped his 2021 tour with a budget-friendly yet distinctive lighting system provided by Bandit Lites. LD André Petrus specified Chauvet COLORado CuePix WW4 Blinders, Elation Smarty Hybrids, Showline Nitro 510C LED strobes and a grandMA2 light console for control.
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AUSTRIA—AV Stumpfl and automation specialist Beckhoff Automation recently announced their technology partnership. The aim of the collaboration is the integration of automation components from Beckhoff into the new show control system, PIXERA control.Read More »PIXERA Control Integrates PC-Based Automation and Control Technology from Beckhoff
NEW ORLEANS–Sometimes what is old can become new again. Such was the case with the red brick building at 3700 Canal Street in the historic Mid-City neighborhood. Recognized by the New Orleans Historic District Landmark Commission, the building had been a church for six decades, until it was closed in 2012 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.Read More »Bethany Church Lights New Campus in New Orleans with Chauvet
GERMANY– GLP provided technical support for the 17th Kinderlachen Gala (Laughter Gala), which took place recently along with presentation of the KIND Awards at Dortmund’s… Read More »GLP Supports Germany’s Kinderlachen Gala
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Elation Professional’s LightJockey is one of the longest available lighting control software solutions on the market. Now, after over two decades of service and with tens of thousands of systems in the market, the time has come for LightJockey to gracefully retire.Read More »LightJockey – The End of an Era
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 »A Covid Bubble Success Story
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CANADA—Pathway Connectivity Solutions announces the release of the latest version of the Pathscape™ configuration software. Pathscape v.4.3 includes the tools for the flexibility RDM has to offer.Read More »Pathway Connectivity Releases Pathscape v4.3