BET Experience Concerts 2016
Red Bull’s Elektropedia Room at 10-Day Belgian Festival Gets Club Atmosphere with 100 Rogue R1 FX-B Fixtures
LOKEREN, Belgium — The Red Bull Elektropedia Room at Belgium’s 10-day Lokerse Feesten festival delivered a high-energy club-like feel with a fast-moving lightshow designed by Ignace D’haese, Jonas Weyn and Tijs Coene of Arf & Yes that included 100 Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures, supplied by Phlippo. The event ran from Aug. 5-14 in Lokeren, in Belgium’s East Flanders province.
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VER’s New Lighting Department at London Hub Led by David March
LOS ANGELES – VER opened a full-support lighting department in their London branch. The expansion includes the appointment of David March as Head of Lighting for VER UK and sister company Aurora. VER also named Craig Hancock, Tim Massey, Ben Taylor and Joe Marter as Senior Lighting Project Managers.
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Clay Paky B-EYE K10s Light Up Morro Bay Stacks Art Light Installation Project
LOS ANGELES – Morro Bay is a town of 10,000 people on a picture-perfect slice of the California coastline near San Luis Obispo. It boasts a rock one-third the size of The Rock of Gibraltar and a two-mile waterfront, which includes a shuttered power plant that’s been a challenge to tear down or repurpose.Three giant smokestacks at a decommissioned power plant in Morro Bay, California came alive with vivid colored lights and patterns in a pair of “guerrilla-style” art projects featuring Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K10 fixtures.
US Open Sports Coverage Lit by TV Lighting Design Firm FLDA
NEW YORK —From the first serve to the final championship match, tennis fans were able to enjoy coverage worldwide from the 2016 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, NY. While the commentators and analysts, as well as interview subjects, were discussing every volley and ace they were lit by the television lighting design firm Ferri Lighting Design & Associates (FLDA), led by Sr. Designer and Founder, Bruce Ferri.
Read More »Building Your Own Fixture Library
If you’ve ever wanted to build your own fixture library, it is possible, yet not always the easiest thing to do. Some library editors are… Read More »Building Your Own Fixture Library
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Last Chance to Vote for 2016 Parnelli Awards, Deadline is Sept. 30 at Noon!
LAS VEGAS — This is it — the last chance to vote for the 2016 Parnelli Awards. Voting from readers of PLSN and FRONT of HOUSE magazines will continue until Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 at 12 noon (PST). After that, the votes will be tallied and envelopes and awards prepared for the 2016 gala, to take place on Oct. 22 at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The event, which begins at 8 p.m. after a cocktail reception kicks things off at 7 p.m. is hosted by Adrian Belew and honors Richard Fernandez, Danny O’Bryen and Greg Mackie with this year’s Lifetime Achievement, Visionary and Audio Innovator awards.
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ElektraLite Dazer Downlight
ElektraLite’s new Dazer Downlight is available in Warm White (3400K) and RGBA versions, in a variety of custom or standard (black, white, silver) colors. The fixtures uses 36 5W LEDs for bright, flicker-free output and a lensing system with 15, 25, 40 and 60-degree beam spreads. The fixture offers a terminal strip for data and screw terminals for power. An integrated yoke allows for sloped-ceiling mounting. Attachment to the yoke is made via a 3/4-inch fan downrod, where cables can also be run to allow for installation with no visible wires. Additionally, a safety cable ring holds the fixture as a second point of safety for secure mounting. The MSRP is $799.
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LD Mike Gott with Chicago
Tour: Chicago
Dates: Chicago tours solo until Oct. 1, 2016, then co-headlines with Earth Wind & Fire starting on Oct. 19, 2016.
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Fixtures: Quality vs. Cost
During the week, I run this magazine for a living. But on weekends, I still dabble in my other craft, lighting bands doing one-offs. I generally like to use about 60 movers and some key lights on a show. I’m not picky on what lights I get, because I’m playing mostly festivals with these acts during the summer. I take what I get. The beauty is, I get to test about every fixture made over the summer.
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Low Budget Luxury: Video at NYMF 2016
The glitz and glamour of Broadway often overshadows the more modest production values and strong merits of off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions. The annual New York Musical Festival (NYMF) features original and often innovative shows, many driven by off-the-wall concepts, that create more with less. During this past run in July, PLSN caught two entertaining shows that featured creative use of video that helped to expand their scope without overwhelming them. We tracked down their digital creators who, despite experience with much larger productions, enjoyed the challenges that their more compact NYMF shows presented them.