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NanoLumens Engage Series LED Display Installed at New UFC Corporate Campus

UFC in Las Vegas

NanoLumens Engage Series LED Display Installed at New UFC Corporate Campus

LAS VEGAS — When UFC mixed martial arts organization designed its new, global corporate campus in Las Vegas, they wanted every inch of the campus, which includes its state-of-the-art UFC Performance Institute, to amplify the global brand’s image as a world-class organization. One of the most critical notable components of the facility is the NanoLumens 2.5mm ENGAGE Series™ LED display in the main lobby, that gives visitors an initial glimpse of the corporate campus’s grandeur.

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OneRepublic performs on 2017 Honda Civic Tour

OneRepublic Headlines 2017 Honda Civic Tour, Lit with Claypaky Fixtures

VANCOUVER, BC Canada – For the 2017 Honda Civic Tour headlined by OneRepublic, production designer/LD Mark Butts collaborated with show designer Raj Kapoor on a lighting rig that includes Claypaky Mythos2 and Sharpy Wash fixtures with grandMA2 consoles for control. Brian Jenkins and A.J. Pen programmed the show, and Pen is out as lighting director. The tour, which wraps up with some September shows near Houston, TX, also features Fitz & The Tantrums and opener James Arthur.

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10th Knight of Illumination Awards Concert Touring & Events Shortlist is Announced

10th Knight of Illumination Awards Concert Touring & Events Shortlist is Announced

LONDON – The 2017 Knight of Illumination (KOI) Awards has announced this year’s shortlist of lighting and video designers, recognized for their creative work in the Concert Touring & Events sector. The winners will be announced at the 10th anniversary KOI Awards ceremony, to be held at London’s Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith, on Sept. 17r. The Concert Touring & Events shortlist is the third and final shortlist to be announced, following the Theatre and Television categories announced in recent weeks.

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Photo by Giovanni Pinna

WI Moves the Big Screens, Lighting Truss for Tiziano in Italy

LIGNANO, Italy – Italian singer/songwriter and producer Tiziano Ferro is known as the modern face of Italian pop music and his successful career has seen one chart-busting album and single after another earning him a dedicated fan following. His live shows are also known for their visual flamboyance and style and the recent Italian stadium tour was no exception. Belgian engineering and automation specialist WIcreations was commissioned to find solutions for two primary motion-control ‘brain-teasers’.

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Mendes toured Europe before hitting the U.S. and Canada with his Illuminate World Tour

Shawn Mendes Tours Europe with Robe Fixtures

LONDON – UK based creative design practice Okulus – James Scott and Louis Oliver – was asked to create a production design the first major production world tour for rising Canadian singer / song-writing star Shawn Mendes. This followed their work for the launch of his second studio album, “Illuminate” at Madison Square Garden in September 2016, and Okulus’ penchant for bringing fresh and interesting visual perspectives to a show.

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El Club Detroit

Detroit’s El Club Features Eclectic Music with Elation Lighting Rig to Match

DETROIT – Graeme Flegenheimer, owner of El Club in Detroit, Michigan, fell in love with music at a young age. That may explain his diverse taste in music and the wide variety of acts that play at the popular live music venue, which has featured a customizable Elation Professional lighting rig since opening in 2016. “I pride myself on El Club having an eclectic calendar,” says Flegenheimer, who has a background as a music publicist. “There’s not a typical night here. It’s always changing and Elation is able to meet every requirement of the artist coming in here and capture the vibe of the evening.”

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Calvary Orlando Church

Calvary Orlando Church Enlivens Worship Services with Live Presentation Solutions by Renewed Vision

WINTER PARK, FL — Calvary Orlando—an Assembly of God Pentacostal Church in Winter Park, FL—has long been an active and engaging house of worship, with a lively main sanctuary that can comfortably seat 5,600 people. In an effort to further enhance the worship experience for congregants, Calvary Orlando has amplified its audio-visual strategy with live video, graphics, lyrics and other media assets powered by Renewed Vision.

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PLSN August 2017 New Products

August 2017 New Products

PLSN’s August 2017 New Products section features the following items:

  • ADJ 18P Hex
  • Blizzard Lighting G-Mix 200
  • Chauvet Professional F4IP Video Panel
  • Elation Fuze Wash 575
  • Futurelight DMH-200
  • Hammond Mfg. Pole Mounting Kits
  • High End Systems
  • Mega-Lite XL LED Strobe RGB
  • PR Lighting Butterfly II
  • Whirlwind ROK1 and ROK2
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Beowulf Boritt’s elaborate set for Act One was one of the biggest to make use of a turntable. Photo by Joan Marcus

Turning the Tables

Set Designers Discuss the Pros and Cons of Turntables

I remember the first time I saw a turntable in action was in a performance during the original run of Les Misérables in the spring of 1987. My teenage self had never experienced a Broadway show before, and it was all rather overwhelming, including the sequence where Jean Valjean races through a series of important events in his life that were represented through rotations on the show’s turntable. While I’ve always recalled that the sequence felt rushed (for the time), it was novel to me, it was state-of-the-art at the time, and it hinted at the direction that moving scenery would head towards in the future.

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