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Lara Wedding Venue in Israel Lit with 60 Robe Viva LED Spots

Lara Wedding Venue in Israel Lit with 60 Robe Viva LED Spots

[caption id="attachment_275330" align="alignnone" width="800"]LARA – the ultimate wedding experience uses Robe VIVA LED spots[/caption]

KANNOT JUNCTION, Israel — The wedding industry in Israel is a highly competitive sector with rivalry among the top venues to offer the best facilities, making good technical production in the main reception rooms an absolute key to ensuring each event is trending. So when Nesher Edri launched his new enterprise Lara, he specified 60 Robe VIVA LED spots. For this venture he has used his experience, knowledge and enthusiasm from running another leading wedding venue, Signal – where he originally started as the sound and light jockey –  to ensure LARA would be a premium choice for The Big Day.

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Super Bowl LI Halftime Show photo by David Levisohn

Super Bowl Halftime Show: One Year in 12 Minutes

LD Bob Barnhart on the Long Path to Lighting the Super Bowl Halftime Show

Super Bowl LI took place in Houston on Feb. 5, 2017, and while the world will never really know if the halftime show’s patriotic themes gave the team from New England the edge they needed for their come-from-behind second half victory, the general consensus was that the show itself was a marvel.

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Jim Runge, David '5-1' Norman and John Callahan

The Art of Tour Managing

Three Industry Pros Define their Role on the Road

Road manager. Tour manager. Sometimes the titles are interchangeable. Above all, it means this: Make your artist happy. And make the show happen. Whatever it takes.

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The production for the band's 2017 tour is the biggest yet. Tour photo by Steve Jennings

Twenty One Pilots ‘Emotional Roadshow’ Tour

PLSN caught a look at Twenty One Pilots’ ongoing “Emotional Roadshow” tour, the band’s biggest tour to date. With a design that started just two short years ago, playing in club/theater size venues, the band has grown to play to sold out arenas, and their design has grown with it. We spoke to production, lighting and set designer Daniel Slezinger and lighting director/co-designer Tyler “Shap” Shapard about the current trek.

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Each of Heart’s three floors has a DJ booth, dance floor and lighting rig to match. Pictured here, ADJ Vizi Beam RXONE units shoot sharp beams of fast-moving light onto the third floor terrace’s dance space from late night to sunrise. Photo by Mookie Offermann

Heart Nightclub in Miami

Lighting, Video Setup Helps Draw Top DJs, Friday Night Crowds for Marathon Sets

Miami is famous for its all-night clubbing scene, and since it opened in Sept. 2015, Heart has emerged as a top destination for revelers in the city’s downtown area on Friday nights (and some Thursdays and Saturdays too).

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Mantracourt’s BroadWeigh system components are pictured here.

Load Cells in the Workplace

The amount of weight any production can hang in a venue has long dictated the size of many productions. As touring productions get larger and use more rigging points, it’s become imperative that the weights on each point become precise to avoid overloading a hoist or the beam from which it is suspended. Over times, rigging weights have been measured from produce style looking scales to electronic devices with miles of thin wires. Today’s load cells are a strain gauge transducer that works like a digital scale. The business of figuring out rigging weights has gone wireless with the addition of BroadWeigh to the market. But let’s look at what led our industry to this achievement.

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Nook chats with the acclaimed show director about what the job of “Show Director” entails, and how he got there.

Show Director Barry Lather

A show director in the live events business is the person who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatrical production. This person unifies all the different production elements and departments through their own vision to achieve the end result. This individual commands an army of specialists in their fields, working with the lighting and set designers, costumes, video directors, content creators, audio engineers, musicians and choreographers. To name just a few.

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Lighting and Video for Drake’s Boy Meets World Tour by Guy Pavelo and Steve Kidd with Support from PRG Worldwide

[caption id="attachment_275260" align="alignnone" width="800"]Drake appeared at the O2 in London[/caption]

LONDON – Drake’s 2017 “Boy Meets World” tour, on the heels of his successful “Summer Sixteen” tour last year, has been impressing audiences in the U.K. and Europe this year. After a Jan. 28 show at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, Drake performed a series of shows at London’s O2 Arena and other big venues in the U.K. and Europe before returning to the Ziggo Dome later this month.

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