MONROE, LA — Lyle Centola, 59, longtime production manager, site coordinator and rigger, died April 29. A key member of the Event Safety Alliance, Centola helped organize and stage major events ranging from Super Bowl halftime shows to a Veterans Day college basketball game held on the deck of an aircraft carrier. His career in live entertainment rigging and management began in the 1970s.
Read More »
LONDON – The recent Brit Awards continued their theme of increasingly spectacular production and performances, and once again High End Systems’ Hog 4 consoles were used to control lighting and video during the event. The 35th edition of the British annual pop music awards was held at the O2 arena in London, and featured live performances from Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Royal Blood, Ed Sheeran, Kanye West, Take That, George Ezra, Paloma Faith and Madonna.
Read More »
Chauvet Professional supplies LD Brandon Dunning of Visions Lighting with Nexus LED panels for Invasion Del Corrido concert.
Read More »
Renewed Vision supplied ProPresenter and ProVideoPlayer 2 for this year’s Passion Conference (Passion 2015).
Read More »NEW YORK – For the compact but flexible theatre within the new $422 million home of the Whitney Museum in Manhattan, which can seat between 99 and 171 people, Theatre Projects worked with building architects Renzo Piano and Cooper, Robertson & Partners.
Read More »
HIGH WYCOMBE, U.K. — As one of Prolyte’s distributors for the UK, AED Distribution UK provided a Prolyte Campus training event April 22-23, 2015. More than 20 attended. Responding to interest, another training event will take place in September.
Read More »
FRANKFURT, Germany – Philips has secured yet another successful year at Frankfurt’s Prolight + Sound trade show. The company teamed up with its European partners to launch a wide range of industry-anticipated new products from its entertainment lighting brands, including the Vari-Lite VL4000 BeamWash, Strand Lighting 500ML console and an array of innovative Showline luminaires.
Read More »
MILAN, Italy — Realtime Environment Systems Ltd (RES) has completed an 18-month project, working in collaboration with media agency Innovision and content creators Immersive, to design, install and pixel map 1000s of LEDs for two of four giant metal LED sculptures created for Expo Milano 2015.
Read More »BALTIMORE, MD — Along with its state of emergency due to civil unrest, the city of Baltimore instituted a mandatory curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. from April 26 to May 5, and that’s led to numerous canceled live entertainment events. Some theatrical productions are still being staged, albeit with earlier curtain times.
Read More »
LONDON – The new Al Jazeera broadcast studio in London features a special version of Robe’s Robin LEDWash 800 PureWhite SW fixtures.
Read More »