I’m a firm believer that people who have spent time in the shop have a better understanding of the lighting business than those who have not. I am lucky enough to have spent four knuckle-busting years in the shops of Vari*Lite, Morpheus and Cinelease. I was there to receive hand written shop orders, assemble gear, tech lights and repair rain-drenched VL6s and Mac 2Ks that came back from multiple Olympics from around the globe.
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LOS ANGELES — Desert Trip, the two-weekend classic rock festival that was self-mockingly referred to as “old-chella” by some of the performers onstage, will not be a regularly scheduled annual event, according to Goldenvoice CEO Paul Tollett, in an interview with Billboard magazine.
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NEW YORK – Theatre Communications Group (TCG) noted that its 28th annual TCG National Conference will take place in St. Louis, MO from June 14 to 16, 2018.
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ABU DHABI, UAE – The annual Mother of the Nation (MOTN) festival, the UAE’s largest cultural celebration, took place in late March and early April over a period of 10 days. The crew from Protec appreciated the ability of the fixtures they were using – 100 Nuri*Lites Hurricane LED fixtures – to stand up to a fierce storm.
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TALLINN, Estonia – Robe’s DL4S Profiles and DL4F Fresnels – 52 in total – have been specified and installed at the new Nuku (Puppet) Theatre in Tallinn. This world famous theatre has just opened a completely new space – formally an outside courtyard – at its theatre complex in the heart of the picturesque and vibrant Estonian capital. The project is one of the latest in a number of high profile theatre installations of Robe DL series LED moving lights around the world.
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GRONINGEN, The Netherlands – Dutch cultural center De Oosterpoort in Groningen has purchased a range of Claypaky moving head fixtures as part of a major technical upgrade to the center’s lighting and audio departments.
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INDIO, CA – Empire of the Sun performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival’s Sahara Stage with artistic flourishes that included glowing pyramids and a six-pronged stage element cradling a white orb. The light show featured a blend of bright white light and vivid colors, programmed and controlled by Dave Taylor, who used a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium console.
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NEW YORK – Bon Jovi’s “This House Is Not For Sale” tour opened with select dates in the U.S. Canada and the U.K. last fall, and recently completed another leg earlier this year from Feb. 8 (Greenville, SC) to mid-April, finishing with two shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden. PRG supplied the tour rig, which included 36 Claypaky Scenius Spots, controlled by Joe Bay, lighting director and programmer, who used a grandMA2 Full lighting console for control.
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VAN NUYS, CA – Joshua Harris, longtime webmaster for PLSN.com, died April 19, 2017 after suffering a heart attack. He was 42.
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MIAMI – Blackmagic Design noted that its URSA Mini 4.6K and URSA Mini Pro cameras were used to produce a live YouTube broadcast during this year’s Ultra Music Festival (UMF). For the first time at the UMF, DJs on the Main Stage were captured and broadcast in 4K.
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MA Lighting released its latest software for grandMA2 lighting consoles, version 3.3, which offers significant updates to the help and fixture library systems along with hundreds of other smaller tweaks.
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Barco added a 7mm pixel pitch model to its R-Series range of “digital media canvases. The product will be featured at Barco’s booth 3601.at InfoComm in Orlando, set for June 14-16.
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