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GLP’s impression X5 Family Integration Reaps Rich Rewards at PLASA Show

GLP’s impression X5 Family Integration Reaps Rich Rewards at PLASA Show

GLP reported its best PLASA Show footfall for a number of years. According to the head of GLP UK, Simon Barrett, this was partly because of its unmissable stand—immediately inside the entrance—but also because it placed a clear focus on promoting the new impression X5 product family integration—and the quality and integrity of light emanating from its new color engine. But equal focus was placed on GLP’s highly professional, and ever-expanding, technical and customer support team.Read More »GLP’s impression X5 Family Integration Reaps Rich Rewards at PLASA Show

Voting for the Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year Award Ends Friday Oct. 6!

Attention PLSN readers, you only have until October 6, 2023 to vote for the best regional lighting company in each of six separate regions in North America – five U.S. regions and all of Canada. Your votes will narrow the list of 36 companies below down to just six. These regional winners will then automatically appear on the final Parnelli Awards ballot, which will be posted for a final round of voting.

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Trilith Studios Atlanta Opens for Cine Gear Expo: Oct 6 & 7, 2023

Cine Gear Expo announces that Free Registration is open for the industry’s top Hollywood-style event to be held at the world-renowned Trilith Studios Atlanta in Fayetteville, Georgia on October 6-7, 2023. Known for its focus on connecting industry members with the art and craft of filmmaking, this year’s show brings it all together with the latest technology and techniques via exhibits, seminars, demos, screenings and a key opportunity to catch up and network with friends and colleagues. 

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Blackmagic Design Announces New Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K G2

Blackmagic Design announces the Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K G2, a next generation model of the popular Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K. The new model retains an incredibly compact design of the original model, but now upgraded with a 4K digital film sensor with 13 stops of dynamic range and dual native ISO up to 25,600 for incredible low light performance. In addition, Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K G2 adds 12G-SDI for operation up to 2160p60, and a new USB-C expansion port for recording Blackmagic RAW to external disks as well as network control via Ethernet adapters. Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K G2 will be available in October from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide for US$995.Read More »Blackmagic Design Announces New Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K G2

Previz Helps ‘Happy Belgium’ Finale Synch Lighting, Lasers and Fireworks

With minimal time on-site to rehearse the lighting and laser effects accompanying the grand finale for the fireworks spectacle that wrapped up the orchestral music celebrating Belgian National Day 2023—and no time at all to synch the visuals with the fireworks themselves—Painting with Light relied on previz software to ensure that the 15-minute finale would have maximum impact for the 60,000+ onsite attendees and huge broadcast audience.

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ADJ USA Appoints Technical Sales Specialist Rich Anders

Rich Anders

Bringing a wealth of technical AVL knowledge as well as decades of industry sales experience, Rich Anders has joined the ADJ US Sales Team as a Regional Sales Manager. Based out of Katy, TX, Anders will drive forward sales of ADJ’s constantly expanding and evolving catalog of professional lighting, LED video and atmospheric effects products, with a particular focus on integration and project work.Read More »ADJ USA Appoints Technical Sales Specialist Rich Anders

Robe for Mega-Monsters Tour

Gojira: By Clark Terrell Photography

The Mega-Monsters Tour was a block-busting Spring and Summer co-headliner that blistered across North America with Grammy Award-winning heavy rockers Mastodon joining forces with French heavy metal phenom, Gojira, for a mind-blowing double bill that enthralled rock and metal music fans everywhere. The tour also unleashed the talents of two equally creative and distinctive Lighting Designers – Eric Price (Mastodon) and Pete Cary of Summit Production Design (Gojira), who share an overhead rig of primarily Robe moving lights specified by both, to which they added some individual floor elements and SFX.Read More »Robe for Mega-Monsters Tour

Elation Lighting Refurb Enhances Safety, Opens Possibilities at Royal Oak Middle School Theater, California

Entertainment market contractors BCT Builders, part of leading AV production company BCT Entertainment, recently upgraded an outdated lighting system at Royal Oak Middle School Theater in Covina, CA, with a state-of-the-art rig of Elation Professional LED luminaires. The theater lighting renovation has created a safer working environment for students and enhanced the overall educational and artistic experience for students and the community.Read More »Elation Lighting Refurb Enhances Safety, Opens Possibilities at Royal Oak Middle School Theater, California

GLP KNV animates NATURE ONE’s open-air floor

Top international electronic dance music acts, along with 65,000 ravers, again transformed the former Pydna missile base in the Hunsrück area of Germany into one of the hotspots of the European EDM scene recently. GERDON DESIGN has been providing the NATURE ONE festival with sensational creative designs for over 10 years – and this year was no exception, with designer Marek Papke’s team again responsible for the event’s open-air floor. Numerous pyramids, which formed part of the set construction, and the unbridled light output from 64 GLP KNV Cubes played a key role in maintaining all-round consistency for this largest open-air floor of the festival.

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