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Shinedown Tours with Bandit Lites-Supplied Elation SEVEN Battens


Hard rock band Shinedown has just wrapped its biggest stage show to date on The Revolution’s Live Tour, already their second headlining North American trek of the year. Lighting design was by Mitchell Schellenger, with Carter Fulghum out on the tour directing a rig that included effects from Elation Professional SEVEN Batten 72™ linear LED lights. Lighting supply was by Bandit Lites.Read More »Shinedown Tours with Bandit Lites-Supplied Elation SEVEN Battens

500+ Astera Titan Tubes Join the ‘Cyber Rodeo’ Party at Tesla Gigafactory

Lighting and visual designer Rob Ross of New York- and LA-based technical production company Rob Ross Design used over 500 Astera Titan Tubes to highlight architectural and industrial areas at Tesla’s new Gigafactory in Austin, TX for the automotive company’s recent facilities launch party, Cyber Rodeo. Here’s a highlight video from Tesla’s Cyber Rodeo:

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Rule #1: Stay Calm

Asked what advice he would give to someone in the early stage of their career, Programmer and Lighting Designer Rob Koenig says his “biggest advice is to stay calm. It’s very difficult to learn to stay calm. You’re in an environment with upwards of 50,000 people. Something goes wrong in the middle of the show—the first thing you cannot do is panic. You’ve got to chill out. I always tell them, ‘You are calm as a coma.’ No matter what happens, you need to delegate what needs to happen, and start fixing what needs to happen immediately—without panicking—and without drawing attention to it either.”

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Slide Show: PRG at Coachella 2022

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival returned to Indio, CA for two weekends in April, with close to 125,000 attending for each of the six music-packed days. PRG provided lighting and video for the main stage, including 1,180 active tiles of ROE Visual Carbon CB8. Click below for more info and photos.

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MDG theONE™ Provides the Canvas for Genesis The Last Domino? Tour

For the current Genesis tour, The Last Domino?, Roland Greil, co-lighting designer with show designer Patrick Woodroffe of Woodroffe Bassett Designs, chose five MDG theONE™ dual haze and fog generators, citing the need for an excellent canvas of haze on which to paint their lighting design for this iconic band’s potentially last tour.Read More »MDG theONE™ Provides the Canvas for Genesis The Last Domino? Tour

Court Theatre of Chicago to Receive 2022 Regional Theatre Tony Award

The Tony Awards® Administration Committee has announced that based on the recommendation by the American Theatre Critics Association, Court Theatre of Chicago will be the recipient of the 2022 Regional Theatre Tony Award. The honor is accompanied by a grant of $25,000, made possible by City National Bank’s generous support.Read More »Court Theatre of Chicago to Receive 2022 Regional Theatre Tony Award

GLP Shines Twice on Back-to-Back Primetime German TV Shows

LD Thomas Gerdon lights new Verstehen Sie Spaß production and the Beatrice Egli Show with impression X5, HIGHLANDER, GT-1, X4 Bar, X4, X4 L, JDC1, and Fusion FS16 Z

At the beginning of April, the classic German TV series Verstehen Sie Spaß (which translates as Do You Understand Fun?) entered a new season, with the moderator duties transferring from the long-serving Guido Cantz to Barbara Schöneberger, and the entire production moving from its familiar Munich location to the Berlin studio.Read More »GLP Shines Twice on Back-to-Back Primetime German TV Shows