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Portugal’s “The Voice” Uses Nexus 4×4 Pixel Mapping for Extra Flash

Portugal’s “The Voice” Uses Nexus 4×4 Pixel Mapping for Extra Flash

LISBON, Portugal – Marco Silva, LD and programmer for A Voz de Portugal, the Portuguese version of The Voice, used 28 Chauvet Nexus 4 x 4 panels to create a front stage façade, which he had pixel mapped by João Canoso of FX – Road Lights. Working with an Mbox Studio media server, Canoso created a design that coordinated with the 6 mm LED upstage video wall. On the live segments of the show, Silva complements the 28 Nexus 4×4 panels with 48 COLORdash Batten-Hex 8 linear wash fixtures and 48 COLORado 1-Quad Tour RGBW LED par-style fixtures.

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Photo by Jeff Hurd

Bluman Associates Helps Pro-Palestinian Group Project Flag, Slogans on British Houses of Parliament

LONDON – Projection mapping and video content specialists Bluman Associates projected the Palestine flag onto the Houses of Parliament in the early hours of August 1, 2014 to raise awareness of The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). Bluman worked with the organization to implement the unauthorized projection, which calls for an end to the bloodshed in Gaza, and for sanctions against Israel.

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Robe MiniMe

Robe MiniMe

Have you ever been so excited about a lighting fixture that you cannot stop playing with it? I’ll be honest here, that is almost always the case when a new light hits my doorstep.  It is kind of like Christmas every time.  Though, this time, I had to travel across the Atlantic with this particular light. I picked it directly from the factory, hot off the production line.

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The Art of the Change

One of the greatest advancements in automated lighting programming over the last 10 years has been the ability to easily change fixture types from one to the other. As the market of available fixtures has increased, so too has the need to easily clone or change fixture libraries within a programmed show file. In the past this was accomplished through complicated copying routines and macros. However, even with the new tools built into consoles, it is important that programmers understand how to use these tools and how to prepare their show file for changes.

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Elation Lighting in Action at Phoenix Comicon

PHOENIX, AZ – Event production company Endless Entertainment used a bevy of Elation equipment to light Phoenix Comicon, a comic book convention. The general session room included a 50’ x 24’ stage and a rigged truss structure with an array of spots, beams, Pars, lekos with custom gobos, and more. “Here we used Elation Opti Tri Pars to up- and downlight a backdrop of off-white, two-foot wide square tiles that produced the Pow! that made it undeniably our stage look,” said Will Curran.

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Chauvet Lights Rebelution‘s Count Me In Tour

For Rebelution’s Count Me In Tour, LD Kenny Gribbon used Chauvet Legend 412 fixtures to tie together the lighting and backdrop. “The design of the backdrop and stage and lights was a collaborative effort with all crew and band’s ideas coming together,” said Gribbon. “As far our vision for the design went, we considered color mixing one of the most important aspects of the show.  We wanted colors to draw you in just like the music does. I was really impressed with the color mixing of the Legends.  Another feature that really stood out about the Legends for me was the quickness of the pan/tilt.”

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Robert Juliat Lancelot Lights Lanxess Arena, Cologne

COLOGNE, Germany – The Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany has acquired four Robert Juliat Lancelot followspots. “We chose the RJ Lancelot products because we were not completely satisfied with the American manufacturer we worked with before and therefore preferred to use a European product,” says Lanxess Arena’s technical manager, Martin Rebiszewski.

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Robe Lights Top Gear Live European Tour

LD Steve Sinclair used nearly 200 Robe moving lights to light the Europen tour of Top Gear Live. The Robe fixtures were 38 x LEDWash 600s, 12 x LEDWash 800s, 40 x LEDWash 1200s and 36 x MMX WashBeams all from Robe’s ROBIN series, together with 36 ColorSpot 1200E ATs and 16 x ColorWash 1200E ATs. The main aesthetic challenges include lighting lightning fast moving vehicles and illuminating a large – 27 metres wide by 53 metres deep – stage area keeping it edgy, exciting and theatrical – and also providing the drivers with enough light to perform safely!

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Joel Reiff with his short story collection

Joel Reiff: Paperback Writer; Ravitz at the Drive-In

In between tours, over the past few decades, LD Joel Reiff has been writing. He selected 14 of his favorite short stories for his first published paperback, 14 Shorts and Other Dirty Laundry. PLSN found Reiff on the road with Peter Frampton, soon to head out again with Jason Mraz in August, to answer a few questions about his literary aspirations and inspirations.

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Illustration by Andy Au

The SWAT Team

As the summer goes by, I find myself playing lots of festival shows. Concerts put on with multiple stages, spread across a gigantic fairground. While festivals like these are really nothing new, the sheer number of them showing up in different cities is staggering. They are all huge, they all have to provide an infrastructure of a small city for a few days. And they all need a lot of employees to put it all together. But most of all, they need the SWAT team.

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The Santa Fe Opera Adds Hippotizer Rackoon Media Servers

SANTA FE, NM – Barbizon Light of the Rockies has provided the Santa Fe Opera with five Hippotizer Rackoon media servers, four Panasonic 20K projectors, and a remote Zookeeper PC for networked Rackoon control.  The first show this season to use the new media server system was Carmen, followed by a double-bill, The Impressario and Le Rossignol.

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