Show Director/Production and Lighting Designer Ricardo Rojas talks about the theatrical presentation and reinvention of indie rock band MGMT’s 2007 major label debut, Oracular Spectacular. Rojas developed an especially creative production design for the recent one-off show of their biggest hit album.
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PLSN takes an in-depth look at Rauw Alejandro’s 2023 ‘Saturno World Tour’ with production solutions from PRG in support of the design from Creative Director Adrian Martinez and Lighting Designer Marcus Jessup.
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Here’s a look at the large format projections that were part of Vivid Sydney 2023, which also featured the debut of a new Barco projector used by the TDC design team.
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THE Conference: Live at Lititz is returning to the Rock Lititz Campus in December. A much anticipated second gathering, the unique industry event is for live entertainment production professionals to focus on important industry issues, concerns and objectives to build a stronger, healthier touring and live event industry.
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Details on 18 products that are particularly well suited for film and TV production.
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‘New York, New York’ is a big, spectacular Broadway musical with stunning designs that saw Scenic Designer Beowulf Boritt win a Tony Award and Lighting Designer Ken Billington get a Tony nomination. They tell us about how their designs evoke 1940’s New York and interpret it for a musical theater stylized staging.
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Visionary Scenic Designer Robin Wagner’s Passing Honored; SMA Announces Del Hughes Awards
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This month, PLSN’s LD-at-Large Chris Lose discusses how to avoid becoming a ‘Tech Dinosaur’ and stay one-step ahead of tech extinction by continuing to learn and evolve your skill set.
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On July 4, the Sphere came to life with a captivating display of dynamic, animated content on the venue’s exterior – the Exosphere – transforming the Las Vegas skyline. As part of a special show to celebrate the Fourth of July, for the first time ever, Sphere’s 580,000 square foot fully-programmable LED exterior – the largest LED screen on earth – was completely illuminated. The show started with a welcome – “Hello World” – and was followed by fireworks and stars and stripes animations, before transitioning through a wide array of visual content, from vibrant underwater scenes to performances to vividly-textured lunar surfaces, putting on full display the versatility of this unparalleled canvas. Here’s some video of the Exosphere in operation:
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A new Anolis external lighting scheme is illuminating the facades of The Godfrey Hotel in Boston, picking out the detail and architectural intricacies of the impressive former Blake & Armory Building, a historic commercial site at the corner of Temple Place and Washington Street in the city’s Downtown Crossing pedestrian shopping zone. Ron Kuszmar of PORT led the project and explained that the hotel’s owners brought them onboard to specify, design, and install a new LED lighting scheme that would highlight the building in all its glory and replace the previous system dating back to when The Godfrey originally opened in 2016.Read More »Anolis Chosen for The Godfrey Hotel’s New Lighting Scheme
Production company Krank’d relied on Show Technology, Prolights distributor in Australia, to expand their rental inventory with Prolights fixtures. The new selection includes the EclProfile CT+ LED high-quality profile and the EclCyclorama 100 soft-edge linear projector.Read More »Krank’d Krank it up with PROLIGHTS