Gateway Studios & Production Services (GSPS) continued its partnership with BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells, CA to elevate attendees’ viewing experience. At the two record-breaking weeks, attendance reached nearly 500,000. The work included installations that added on-court presentation to two of the stadiums. The company also implemented video screens for live coverage of all 29 of the facility’s tennis courts.
When leading design group Lightswitch debuted Illumination: Tree Lights at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL, in 2012, not only did they curate a series of never-before-seen attractions, they ushered in a whole new kind of experience. As one of the nation’s most beloved light displays, Lightswitch works with the Arboretum each year to develop new lighting elements for the wintertime walk in the woods and all-weather Elation luminaires continue to form the foundation of the magical lighting scheme. Lightswitch works closely with Intelligent Lighting Creations (ILC) on the Illumination project and again this year the Illinois-based design and rental house supplied the lighting fixtures.Read More »Lightswitch and Elation Transform Morton Arboretum
Brigada Tech is a new Spanish TV series presented by Luján Argüelles, directed by Eva Castillejo, and lit byManuel Ricoy, broadcast on prime timeLA1the first TVE (Spanish Television) channel of RTVE (Radio y Televisión Española, S.A.). The format sees ‘digital mentors’ and popular SoMe influencers assisting people with limited access to the information superhighway in tackling assorted digital challenges that can benefit their day-to-day living.Read More »Robe Selected for Brigada Tech TV Series
A variety of ADJ fixtures, including Focus Spot 6Z moving heads and 12PX HEX pars, have been installed as part of a complete renovation of the Diamondback Music Hall in Detroit, MI. The lighting rig, designed by Ryan Richards and supplied by Audio Rescue Team, provides a versatile solution for the venue, which hosts a mixture of live music performances and dance parties.
More than a few people sitting close to the stage during Beartooth’s recently concluded 40-city North American tour, felt they were in an arena once the band’s 75-minute show started, even though, in actuality, they were at one or two thousand capacity club. Caleb Shomo, the frontman and founder of the multi-award winning metal masters wouldn’t have had it any other way.
The U-Park Festival in Kyiv, Ukraine July 2016 at the OlimpiyskiyNational Sports Complex (NSC) as tensions with Russia erupted. The festival featured many artists, including Muse, Hurts, Poets of the Fall, My Vitriol, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
As Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine continues, Zinteco Productions, a cornerstone in Ukraine’s entertainment production community for over 25 years, needs our help. The ongoing conflict has brought the Ukrainian entertainment industry, like all normal life, to a standstill, and Zinteco’s operations have been severely impacted. TMB has collaborated with Main Light LLC to make some of Zinteco’s Solaris Flare Q+ fixtures available to cross-rent in the U.S. market. 100% of the rental revenue generated will pass on to Zinteco, whose principals, good friends of TMB for many years, still live in Kyiv and whose time is now 100% devoted to supporting Ukrainian refugees and defense efforts.Read More »TMB and Main Light Team UP to Help One of our Own
A beacon of positive energy and enthusiasm for life and lighting, appropriately named Cape Town based Rainbow Lighting was started by freelance Gaffer Desmond Gqitekaya in 2020. At the time, he was working mostly on major movies and feature films being shot in South Africa and was lucky enough to also start picking up commercials and music video work through his contacts, for which there was always a demand for thinking quickly and ‘out-of-the-box’ when it came to lighting. This soon led him to Astera.Read More »Rainbow Lighting Invests in Astera
All eyes were on the new Avolites Diamond 7 (D7) lighting console at the recent Prolight + Sound expo in Frankfurt – a powerful, flexible, and highly portable control solution for lighting at shows, concerts, and live events. The much-anticipated D7 was shown publicly for the first time with two variants on the stand – the D7-215 and the D7-330 – both running on Avolites latest Titan v17 software. This initial product launch has enabled the Avolites team to gauge reactions and glean valuable feedback ahead of the full launch, planned for later in the summer.Read More »Avolites D7 Lighting Console Makes an Impression
December’s rendition of the SoundStorm MDLBEAST festival in Riyadh continued to set standards for excellence in event design while also representing a groundbreaking cultural shift for Saudi Arabia. The entire festival spread out over a 5.5 km purpose-built site housing eight dynamic stages where more than 150 acts performed over three days for more than 450,000 visitors. The sheer scale of the event and the challenge of building in a desert epitomize the delicate interplay between creativity and logistics, necessitating a global team effort to orchestrate. At the heart of this symphony was Alex Reardon, the Creative Director and Lead Designer from Silent House, the design firm entrusted with shaping the festival’s visual identity. PRG played a pivotal role in supporting Reardon’s vision, providing rigging, video, lighting, audio, and automation for the festival’s centerpiece, the Big Beast stage.Read More »The Design of SoundStorm MDLBEAST Festival supported by PRG
Russell Crowe is known for his acting talents, but on Night 3 of The Sanremo Music Festival he took to the stage as a crooner and sang “Let Your Light Shine.” Another American, actor, John Travolta, also tried his hand at singing a couple of nights earlier. Such is the magical musical pull of this iconic five-day event, which began 74-years ago. Capturing the flavor of the festival up close was Radio Italia’s very popular “Fuori Sanremo,” a program that featured all of the artists from the festival with interviews and live performances recorded in a studio specially set up in this beautiful Mediterranean costal city’s Grand Hotel Londra. Lighting designer Ivan Lavezzoli created an elegantly engaging atmosphere for “Fuori Sanremo,” with a setup that featured CHAUVET Professional fixtures distributed by Zalight.
WWE®, part of TKO Group Holdings, recently launched The Studios at WWE, a 30,040-square-foot, state-of-the-art production facility equipped with five studios, highlighted by a cutting-edge virtual production stage built in collaboration with AbelCine and Meptik and featuring the latest generation technology from Sony Electronics and Disguise.Read More »WWE Launches State of the Art Production Facility
Those who stayed for the entire three-days of the event got to savor the breathtaking scenery of this resort, located at the base of Mont Blanc, the highest summit in the Alps. They also enjoyed a breathtaking bit of skiing history, at the beautiful La Verte des Houches slope, as Switzerland’s Daniel Yule became the first FIS Alpine skier ever to win a slalom race after staring out in 30th (last) position. Another thing that generated excitement and raised spirits at this famed resort (the first Winter Olympics took place here in 1924), was the vivid and colorful lighting design throughout the space by Valentin Pariat. Incorporating CHAUVET Professional Maverick and STRIKE fixtures supplied by A+ Events into his creation, Pariat added an extra dash of color, panache and style to the world-famous event.
