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Buyer’s Guide: August 2022 – Dimming and Power Distribution Products

The Festival Landscape

After two summers of waiting, festivals are once again flourishing, bringing musicians, fans and production partners together. But while their sudden return is a welcome development for the live event production industry, the festival landscape in 2022 is not without its challenges. PLSN shares current perspectives from designers Chris Lisle and Patrick Dierson and vendors including 3G Productions, 4Wall Entertainment, Bandit Lites, Brown Note Productions and Music Matters Productions.

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Going Deep: Fan Controlled Football in Atlanta’s Pullman Yards

Planning for Fan Controlled Football’s recently completed Season Two, played at the historic Pullman Yards in Atlanta, GA from April to June 2022, required completely building out the field, the VIP suites and grandstands as well as all the support facilities. Production Designer / Production Manager Tom E. Marzullo worked with All-Access and the Magnum Companies as well as Elation Lighting to ensure the elaborate made-for-broadcast sports production went off without a hitch.

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X-Laser’s Mercury

X-Laser’s Mercury is not a projector. Instead, it’s an integrated hardware solution that is installed into X-Laser projectors, allowing LDs to work with lasers as if they were simply another light fixture in the rig, seamlessly controlling X-Laser effects from their lighting consoles.

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A Memorable 20th Annual Parnelli Awards

The 20th Annual Parnelli Awards, held Friday, June 3 during the 2022 NAMM show, were unique in more ways than one. It was the first to be held in June, and with so few live shows staged in 2021, the focus shifted to the three career achievement honorees, the Parnelli NextGen award and the four Indispensable Technology product awards. But despite all the challenges, the well-attended event proved to be a truly memorable evening.

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Horse-Drawn Video

When Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in early 1952, she probably never imagined that, 70 years later, her video likeness would be smiling and waving to her royal subjects from the same a gilded horse-drawn carriage. Technology helped bring her Platinum Jubilee full circle from her Coronation Day.

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Stage Directions Callboard: Shubert Foundation, Ruth Arts Announce New Grants

The Shubert Foundation recently announced a record $37.6 million in grants for not-for-profit theater and dance companies along with $2 million for two HBCU colleges. Another bright spot on the horizon: Ruth Arts, created on behalf of the late arts philanthropist Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, has plans for a wide array of grants totaling more than $17 million annually.

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