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The Power of Four at LDI

The Power of Four at LDI

[caption id="attachment_281496" align="alignnone" width="800"]Area Four Industries makes a statement at LDI[/caption]

LAS VEGAS -Area Four Industries America’s presence at LDI 2017 proved to be an extremely successful follow-up to its first attendance at last year’s LDI show, where the newly launched company made its debut. Its impressive booth at this year’s show was constructed from the flexible and easy to assemble LITEC Libera series truss, which made the shape of the company’s iconic number four, and featured products from its MILOS, LITEC, EXE Technology and Mobiltechlifts brands. 

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Nook Schoenfeld, Editor, PLSN

Noticeable Improvements

I love when people raise the bar, and a lot of that was done this year. It has become quite evident that discharge bulbs are quickly going the way of fossil fuels. Only the old folks will still think there’s money to be made in these things. Heck, one look at the LED Engin series of light sources that Osram has shows us how committed manufacturers have become.

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PLSN's 2017 LDI Show Report

PLSN’s 2017 LDI Show Report

The LDI exhibition returned to the Las Vegas Convention Center Nov. 17-19, and with more than 350 exhibitors using the event for some of their most significant product launches of the year, there was plenty of innovation for the 16,000-plus attendees to check out.

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2017 PLSN Gold Star Product Awards

2017 PLSN Gold Star Product Awards

Over the course of 2017, the staff at PLSN checks out every new product that has to do with the live event industry and beyond. Besides the wide variety of lighting categories we have these days for fixtures, there are great innovations in everything from touring video systems to clamps and gadgets that aid us in our pursuit of the perfect tools for our shows.

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Smeeton has been a pioneer since the Psychedelic Sixties.

Parnelli Profile: Jonathan Smeeton, Visionary Award Winner

It’s not just that 2018’s Parnelli Visionary honoree has worked with a lot of acts — it’s the artistic diversity of those acts that underscores the artistic diversity of a designer who is always reinventing himself. Jonathan Smeeton pioneered the concept of visually enhancing a concert beyond throwing some lights with gel on them, and he is quite likely the first LD to take a lighting show on the road. He went on to build by hand key lighting components, and was also an early designer of one of the first big festivals in England, the Bath Festival.

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Song Liling (Jin Ha) during a colorful performance. Photo by Matthew Murphy

M. Butterfly

David Henry Hwang’s play M. Butterfly re-emerges at a relevant moment in our history as the show delves into politics, gender identity and cultural stereotyping of the East by the West. Featuring some new material written in by Hwang to update it, the Broadway revival, the first since its original 1988-1990 run, was directed by Julie Taymor (of Spider-Man and Lion King fame), who is known for large, lavish productions.

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