ORLANDO, FL – ADJ will showcase 11 new products at this year’s InfoComm trade show in Orlando, FL at booth #7251, including a new IP-rated video panel, a new IP-rated UV Par, a new series of battery-powered up-lighters, two classic par cans powered by LED, and a new collection of professional effects generators.
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Production Club Uses Video Game Technology to Create DJ/Live Band Looks
Los Angeles-based Production Club is the production equivalent of a multi-instrumentalist — handling artist direction, design innovation and concert production. It was originally formed nine years ago by CEO Corey Johnson (CEO) and Vivek Srinivasan (COO/CFO) to produce and design the ongoing DANCEiSM party and other events in the downtown L.A. Area.
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Lighting and Projection are Critical for World Premiere
From the enthusiasm in his voice as he drove through Los Angeles, lighting designer Josh Epstein had an unmistakable dose of world premiere fever.
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U2’s 2017 Joshua Tree tour marks 30 years since the band released the classic album of the same name in 1987. The show highlights themes and imagery still current in today’s culture captured by longtime U2 photographer and film director Anton Corbijn. We spoke with creative director and lighting designer Willie Williams on the third date of this tour, which also features a set design by Ric Lipson of Stufish, staging by Tait, and lighting and video supplied by PRG/PRG Nocturne. New technologies include PRG’s Spaceframe and a 4K broadcast camera system integrated into the design.
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Christie’s Terra line of products aims to help customers leverage the benefits of the Software Defined Video over Ethernet (SDVoE) Alliance. SDVoE promises a standardized approach to maximize the scale, scope and user-experience of AV-over-IP system architecture and performance.
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WATERVILLE VALLEY, NH – For Granite United Church’s annual Warrior Conference, a three-day men’s retreat at the Waterville Valley ski resort June 1-3, Events United provided lighting and video gear from Chauvet Professional. The 2017 event used 20 Rogue R1 Wash fixtures, 10 Strike 4 fixtures, six Maverick MK1 Hybrids, four Maverick MK2 Spots, 12 Maverick MK2 Washes and four COLORado 2 Solo washes for lighting plus 85 PVP X6IP 6.9mm panels for video support.
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ORLANDO – At Barco’s InfoComm 2017 booth #3601 from June 14-16, the company will showcase new visual solutions including DLP laser phosphor projectors, LED displays, ultra-thin, flexible digital media canvases and more. The company’s UDX-4K32 projector is pictured here.
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ORLANDO – Christie has announced plans for InfoComm 2017, set to take place June 14-16 in Orlando. The Christie Center will showcase technologies including Christie Boxer and Pandoras Box Quad Server (screenshot pictured here); warped and blended visuals; 3D mapping using Christie Mystique; plus numerous LED walls and large-format LCD panels
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ORLANDO, FL – grandMA2 consoles and switches played a key role in networked lighting and video control for SAP’s Sapphire NOW/ASUG Annual Conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. Lighting Designer Paul Palazzo and Programmer Paul J. Sonnleitner have worked on the event since 1999 and have been using MA consoles for the last 12 years. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America.
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BALTIMORE, MD – For seven days in April, the night sky over the city that gave birth to “The Star-Spangled Banner” glowed in a rainbow of colors, as Baltimore celebrated its Light City Festival. Over 400,000 visitors crowded the city’s downtown streets to enjoy hundreds of illuminated sculptures, building projections and interactive exhibits. At the heart of it all was the “Light Up The Night,” stage, where artists from a variety of musical genres including hip-hop, rock, jazz and world dance performed each evening.
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TILBURG, The Netherlands – DTS Katana fixtures brought blades of light to the acts performing during the Aus Berlin festival at the Koepel Hal and Wagenmakerij in Tilburg, The Netherlands last winter.
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MIDDLETON, WI – ETC announced the promotions of two new global service managers. Durrell Ramer was recently promoted to the role of global customer service and systems manager while Mike Meskill is taking on the role of global technical service manager.
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