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Lighting and Video for Drake’s Boy Meets World Tour by Guy Pavelo and Steve Kidd with Support from PRG Worldwide

Lighting and Video for Drake’s Boy Meets World Tour by Guy Pavelo and Steve Kidd with Support from PRG Worldwide

[caption id="attachment_275260" align="alignnone" width="800"]Drake appeared at the O2 in London[/caption]

LONDON – Drake’s 2017 “Boy Meets World” tour, on the heels of his successful “Summer Sixteen” tour last year, has been impressing audiences in the U.K. and Europe this year. After a Jan. 28 show at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, Drake performed a series of shows at London’s O2 Arena and other big venues in the U.K. and Europe before returning to the Ziggo Dome later this month.

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String Cheese Incident, lit by Andrew Cass. Photo by Doug Fondriest

Morpheus Lights

A Unique Company Supports Top Tours and Events with an Expanding Array of New Lighting Products

Morpheus Lights is one of the pioneer companies of the modern entertainment lighting industry. The Morpheus brand is recognized as a hallmark in intelligent lighting fixture development, with numerous innovations, including CYM color mixing and rotating gobos that have now become industry standards.

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PLSN Buyers Guide, March 2017 - Moving Lights with Framing Shutters

Moving Lights with Framing Shutters

Framing shutters have been a part of ellipsoidal fixtures for as long as anyone can remember. They consist of four separate blades that can cut into the focal path and shape the beam of light. The shutters (blades) are spaced 90 degrees apart around the fixture and can be moved inwards and angled, allowing the light source to concentrate its beam on a particular area. With the advent of the Vari-Lite VL1000, we saw a moving light with electronic shutters for the first time. Now, framing shutters on moving hard edge and wash fixtures have become immensely popular. PLSN displays what’s on the market today.

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Daric Bassan

Daric Bassan on Teaching the Right Way

Evert once in a while, a story pops up about the value of being educated properly in the technical aspects of the entertainment biz. This education could come from your college, your own school of hard knocks (meaning other folks taking time to school you) or perhaps your high school theater teacher. This education likely took years and molded you into the person you are today.

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The floor package was based around six trussing towers made from pre-rigged truss

Wilkinson Tours U.K. with Colour Sound Experiment

[caption id="attachment_275243" align="alignnone" width="800"]The floor package was based around six trussing towers made from pre-rigged truss[/caption]

LONDON – Colour Sound Experiement delivered equipment for a recent U.K. tour by d’n’b music producer Wilkinson. The series of sold-out gigs were slated ahead of the release of the artist’s planned April 2017 release of his album, Hypnotic. LD Sam Tozer designed the visuals for the tour.

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FOR-A’s HVS-490 production switcher can support up to 10 inputs and seven 4K outputs

FOR-A Gearing Up for NAB 2017 Show

LAS VEGAS — FOR-A will introduce the HVS-490 live HD/4K-UHD multiple effects production switcher; HVS-100TB2 interface; MBP-200TB2 SDI Gateway with Thunderbolt interface; and FVW-700 HD/4K-UHD telestrator. Held from April 22-27 this year at the Las Vegas Convention Center, FOR-A will exhibit in NAB booth C5117.

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Tait is supplying the TMB-distributed FloppyFlex LED Neon product for the tour.

Adele Live 2017 Tour in Australia, New Zealand Includes FloppyFlex LED Neon, Quantum SFX Confetti and CO2 Jets

SYDNEY — TMB, distributor of Firefly FloppyFlex LED neon products, noted that 285 meters of the product was incorporated into Woodroffe Bassett Design’s looks for Adele on her current tour of New Zealand and Australia. Tait supplied the product for the tour leg, an extension of Adele’s Live 2016 trek (now called Adele Live 2017), which began Feb. 28 and runs through March 26. The tour also includes confetti effects from Quantum SFX.

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Lasers for DJ Steve Aoki’s MTV Wonderland performance. All photos courtesy MTV

From Warehouse to Wonderland

Remember when MTV played music? Back when MTV launched in 1981, I was in college and procrastinated away many an hour watching music videos on the channel. Over time, MTV tried a lot of different things and reality TV was the one thing that stuck. Airing music became mostly a thing of the past, until now. In 2016, MTV brought music back in a big way when, for the first time in 20 years, they began producing a live music show called Wonderland.

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Video Dreams

Video Dreams

I started out as a lighting guy. But I saw the writing on the wall early on, and with the aid of my mind’s eye, I drifted into a video guy. I guess in some sense I’ll always be a lighting guy — can’t have video without lighting, right?

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Datapath Fx4

Datapath x4, Fx4 and dL8

Although Datapath has been around for a while, I only recently became aware of their product line. Having spec’d a rather large video wall a scant six months ago, Datapath frequently rose to the top of my Internet search as an external graphics box manufacturer, and they make some killer boxes. The company is mainly known for large, scalable wall controller servers and graphics capture cards, but they also offer a series of small-but-powerful multi-display units that are worth checking out.

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