SAN DIEGO — For the 5th Annual Midway American Patriot Awards, a gala honoring senator John McCain, vice admiral James Stockdale and naval aviators, AV Concepts transformed the above-flight deck portion of the aircraft carrier USS Midway with large format projection.
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There’s a new live event production team in Tempe. And you’ll find their prices quite reasonable — likely even free. But you’ll have to be on the campus of Arizona State University to take advantage of it …
Students looking for experience, an opportunity to work with better gear, and a selfless desire to help their fellow students increase the production value of their events have formed Lighting Audio Video Arts (LAVA). It’s a student-led and student-crewed production group. Read More »
Brian MacDevitt Lights Three Distinct Worlds
Fresh from the minds of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q composer/lyricist Robert Lopez, Book of Mormon is the hottest ticket on Broadway right now, and with good reason. The profane-yet-profound send-up of religious faith is ripe with hilarious humor as a naive Mormon elder seeks to get sent on a mission to Orlando, FL but ends up in Uganda, Africa — with a socially awkward and annoying peer. Read More »
U.K. Designers Evoke the Past with Pastels
Pop culture’s love affair with nostalgia continues. Launched in 2009 at Henley-on-Thames, England, The Rewind Festival boasts what is perhaps the largest lineup of Reagan/Thatcher era artists this side of the US Festival.
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PLSN: Can you tell us the story of Goodbar briefly?
Alex Koch, video designer: Goodbar is based on the gruesome murder of Roseann Quinn, a young school teacher by day, club fiend by night who was murdered in NYC in 1973. Judith Rossner retells the story in her 1975 novel Looking for Mr Goodbar. The book’s 1977 film adaptation directed by Richard Brooks affirmed the story’s hold on the public conscious and it was something of a cultural touchstone. Read More »
When the votes for the 2011 Hometown Hero nominees were tallied, PLSN readers once again came up with a good mix. There are some new faces in this crowd along with some companies that have been around a while (one since 1948!). They have their differences, but they share a lot of festival and corporate work. One thing they all have in common can be summed up by what Paradigm Production Service’s Jorge Valdez said: “I can say I clearly love what I’m doing, and I don’t do it for the money, that’s for sure.”
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When comparing the latest LED wash lights from Robe, the Robin 600 LEDWash and the Robin 300 LEDWash, it is like comparing the same fixture. The main difference between the two fixtures is size. Throughout my testing of the two fixtures, everything was exactly the same except for the size, output and LED count. I’ll begin with features and functions that can be found on both fixtures.
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