DALLAS – MTV’s action-packed Bellator tournament features fighters in the ring. But an influential player is with them overhead: the lighting rig. Behind the scenes of the nationally-televised matches, lighting designer David Zeffren and assistant Amy Harper of Frank Gatto & Associates, have created a winning lighting design and while doing so have discovered a new competitor in the world of TV lighting: the VLX Wash from Philips Vari-Lite.
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CHICAGO – Lighting design company Lightswitch Architectural are lighting consultants for Chicago’s new 500-unit luxury apartment and retail store complex. Located at the former site of Kraft Foods, the 500 Lake Shore Drive location’s imperative is to incorporate sustainable features for increased energy efficiency. Completion is set for May 2013.
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NEW CASTLE, DE – Once again, Pete’s Big TVs has helped “Black Girls Rock!” The philanthropic organization’s awards show – which celebrates those who have culturally contributed to the Black Experience – airs on the BET network Nov. 6. The show was taped at the Bronx’s Paradise Theatre in New York City – an old, ornate former movie house not meant for the big production it would successfully pull off.
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MONTREAL — They was just a couple of shows, July 8-9 2011, in Montreal. But U2’s 360 tour was not just another band outing, and the epic scale of the production is still being discussed now, after the biggest concert tour of all time finally reached the end of its multi-year road. Trizart Alliance, a theatre and arena design and consulting firm with offices in the U.S. and Canada, recently provided a chronology of what that single tour stop entailed. (Hint: It may not have required moving mountains, but it did require the relocation of 16 mature trees.)
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KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites provided main stage illumination service for the second annual Moogfest, held Oct. 28-30 at the Asheville (NC) Civic Center. The event, featuring performances and appearances by Moby, The Flaming Lips, Tangerine Dream, Adrian Belew, Umphrey’s McGee and Brian Eno, was a tribute to the late Robert “Bob” Moog (1934-2005), inventor and namesake for the Moog Synthesizer.
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LONDON – White Light is lending its support to Omnibus Clapham, a charity established with the aim of turning the former library of Clapham in southwest London into a community performing arts hub. Events featuring famous local residents – lit by LD Rob Halliday – are in the spotlight for fundraising efforts.
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WALLINGFORD, CT – The Elm Shakespeare Company’s annual free summer Shakespeare production in New Haven’s Edgerton Park once again featured Robert Juliat followspots in a key role, this time for The Bard’s “Measure For Measure.”
Read More »LOS ANGELES – With a focus on the economic challenges of small businesses, Sew What? Inc. founder/president Megan Duckett joins a panel of Inc. 5000 small business owners Nov. 3 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. During the seminar, entitled “Recession Confessions: Stories of Growth & Survival,” Duckett will discuss the power of innovation, the significance of the web in small business development, and the business owner’s need to take a leap of faith.
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PUY DU FOU, France – French theme park Puy du Fou’s Cinescenie, in the heart of the Vendée region in Western France, decided to use Martin Professional lighting products to light up the Cinéscénie show and installed six MAC III Performance fixtures (complete with framing module) at the edge of the set. The fixtures were supplied by lighting services provider MES, based in Vertou.
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