NASHVILLE — Early in 2015, creative production design company 44 Designs (44designs.com) of Nashville, Tennessee, took on set and lighting design duties for country music duo Thompson Square’s new music video “Trans Am” and used Elation Cuepix Panels, Sniper 2R multi-effects and Platinum Beams in the visual design. The award-winning and multi-platinum group liked the look so much they decided to take it out on tour.
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David Cunningham will accept the 2015 Parnelli Visionary Award at the annual gala to be held at the Rio Hotel and Casino Oct. 24, in recognition of advances including the ETC Source Four fixture and advancements in lighting consoles and dimming.
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Top Vote-Getters for Five U.S. Regions and Canada Honored for Taking Care of Business
PLSN readers have put the latest spotlight — scratch that — hybrid LED moving light — on who they think are the best of the best of their region when it comes to lighting, staging and video. We have some fresh faces and some “repeat offenders.”
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DTS perhaps might not be familiar to many Americans, but the Italian company has been around since the 1980s when they started making domestic and commercial lighting and working with fiber optics. Today, they make a range of LED and arc-source fixtures for entertainment and architectural applications. The company’s WONDER.D enters the scene with a few tricks up its proverbial sleeve, including some unique and very interesting zoom effects.
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Since 1983, TMB has supplied some of our industry’s hottest products — ProPlex Data Distribution equipment and cabling, ProPower power distros, and others. A year and a half ago, they introduced their Solaris LED line of fixtures, including the new Solaris LED Linear battens, which come in four different configurations for not only direct viewing, but also as a cyclorama wash role or as a high-powered performer wash.
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Bob Gordon has been a major player in the live concert business since the 1960’s. While long known and revered as the founder of A.C.T Lighting, few realize the Bob spent the first half of his adult life on the road with touring acts as a lighting designer and production manager. When it was time to get off of the road, he became an account rep for various light and sound companies.
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There was a time in the not-too-distant past that video racks were big. Not because we needed room for all the blinky lights or Star Trek navigational gear. The reason was because video people, like our audio cousins, tend to be very …um…. thorough (read retentive to a fault).
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This column is the first in a series of articles about drones, professionally known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). We’ll call them drones to keep things clear for our audio/video world, yet the following thoughts apply to each type of unmanned system — regardless of the acronym.
Read More »LOS ANGELES — VER acquired U.K.-based Aurora Lighting Hire Ltd., a lighting rental specialist serving the television, broadcast and entertainment media production industries. The acquisition represents the latest step in VER’s strategic plan to expand its industry-leading lighting capabilities and equipment inventory throughout the U.K. and Europe.
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MYRTLE BEACH, SC – Port City Community Church’s Annual FUSE summer camp brings together four campuses, over 500 students, and 150 leaders. This year’s incarnation also brought exceptional stage lighting to the program with a rig designed by Student Ministries Production Coordinator Matthew Berry. 4Wall DC was chosen as the lighting provider for the event.
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SAN FRANCISCO – AC/DC’s Rock or Bust Tour is thundering across North America, bringing night after night of head-banging delight to hundreds of thousands of fans. The grungy, buffalo horned, ‘Mad Max’ style arena spectacular is the inspired work of Ray Winkler of Stufish Design and Patrick Woodroffe of Woodroffe Bassett Design Ltd and sees lighting and set seamlessly welded together in an imposing corrugated steel clad domed stage.
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Vectorworks, Inc., formerly Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., released Vectorworks 2016. The release includes more than 100 updates and features for its CAD and BIM design solutions, including Vectorworks Designer, Architect, Landmark, Fundamentals, Renderworks and Spotlight (pictured here).
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