The enigmatic Japanese artist, Joji recently performed two one-night only shows, at Madison Square Garden in NYC and at The Kia Forum in Los Angeles. Both sold-out in pre-sales less than a week after being announced. PLSN catches up with PM Andrew McClymont and Production Designer Travis Shirley about how the design supported this high-energy and multi-faceted performer.
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Designed by John McGuire, bLinK-182 have returned to the stage and hit the road with a massive world tour that is wowing audiences. A bit of a departure for the band, they are filling arenas with production values that include a floating ambulance and elevating drumset. PLSN hears from McGuire, Eric Gorleski and Griffin Dennen about working on the tour.
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Steve Jennings speaks with Lighting Designer/Lighting and Video Programmer Sarah Landau, and Lighting Director Erin Peters about their work in support of French electronic group M83, with their style of alternate/pop-new wave music. Landau has designed every M83 tour since 2011.
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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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