The Eggshell Lighting Company was started in Hawaii in 1974, by a 16 years old Jay Robert Harmon. Today, celebrating 50 years on, Eggshell is the premier lighting company in the islands state handling a range of projects. Harmon tells us how it began and shares some stories of the past 5 decades.
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What does your post-work future look like? A cottage by the bay, a cabin in the woods, or the freedom to travel without a fixed residence? Maybe the idea of retiring doesn’t resonate, or perhaps it’s something that you haven’t considered yet. Here’s some financial planning from Rachael Bronstein of Life’s Jam. This column is packed with a lot of advice since the music industry adds another layer of complexity to financial planning.
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Debi Moen gives us a rundown on who’s up to what and gets a glimpse into the view from the video director on being part of The King of Country: George Strait’s historic, record-breaking Kyle Field performance for the in-the-round stadium event.
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Chris Lose shares some observations and experiences about industry travel. If you are looking to join the ranks of the touring vagabonds, he explores the different types of travel that our industry can provide for you.
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Cologne-based motion design and show development studio, visualprime, is used to doing things on a large scale, and Hannover’s Fairground Festival of electronic music is no exception. The second iteration of this relatively new festival – already classed as Germany’s third-largest indoor festival – took place in the cavernous spaces of the Hannover exhibition halls hosting 40,000 party-goers over two remarkable days. visualprime lighting designer, Tobias Reinartz, employed over 100 Ayrton fixtures to inject dynamism, color and striking linear arrays across the stage and dance floor.
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‘Live from Detroit: The Concert at Michigan Central’ was a celebration showcasing Detroit’s music and its iconic Michigan Central Station reinvention. Production Designer Tamlyn Wright and Lighting Designer Jon Kusner talk about making a building the star and spotlighting a city’s vibrant rising energy.
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Legendary American rockers Blink-182 are treating fans to LED-focused, in-the-round arena shows on their current One More Time Tour. Each show is packed with lights, pyrotechnics, and fireworks as well as LED screens and staging powered by tvONE’s Green Hippo brand of Hippotizer Media Servers, two flagship Tierra+ MK2 Media Servers.
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Get a look at the dynamic design of The Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds Tour in this video. Then, go Behind the Design with Creative Director Patrick Woodroffe, Lighting Designer Terry Cook and Associate Lighting Designer/Lighting Director Ethan Weber in the PLSN July 2024 issue article. Plus get the vendor views of supporting this massive design from lighting provider Upstaging and video supplier Nighthawk Video.
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Unleash the full potential of LED batten lighting and ignite your creative spark with the new SIX+ BAR from Elation. Building on the success of… Read More »Elation Redefines Creative LED Batten Lighting with New SIX+ BAR Series
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Each year, PLSN honors regional lighting production companies with our Hometown Hero award. This award honors the best regional lighting production company in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest, and Canada. This award—from nominations to winners—is selected by you, the entertainment technology industry, because you truly know who the Hometown Heroes are in the industry.
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Lighting Designer Daniel Knipper used 24 CHAUVET Professional Ovation Rêve E-3 IP LED ellipsoidals in his transformative design for the six-century-old Strasbourg Cathedral located in Place de la Cathédrale in Strasbourg, France. The full-spectrum color-mixing fixtures, which were supplied by XEOS, were hung on two porticos that flanked the façade. This arrangement allowed Knipper to highlight the architectural details of the façade by creating gobos based on digital photos.
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Broadway’s ‘Illinoise’ is an awe-inspiring dance musical derived from the 2006 Sufjan Stevens album of the same name. The four-time Tony nominated show is lit by Lighting Designer Brandon Stirling Baker. Illinoise runs the show on an Eos Ti, programmed by Jeff Englander. Stirling Baker’s joyous lighting design earned him a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut.
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