For a production house, one of the most tedious — yet mission-critically important — tasks is keeping track of the gear that goes out on a gig and then comes back in from it. So what if that cable could tell you it was there? It’s actually not that far-fetched…
Read More »A natural rainbow is a beautiful sight to behold. We have all marveled at the ethereal glow of colors arching across the sky. For as long as man has existed, the rainbow has triggered a sense of awe and inspiration. For centuries, humans tried to recreate the colors of the rainbow through various devices. Today’s modern automated lights and LED based products make recreating rainbow looks as simple as the press of a single button. But this magic comes at a cost. We are slowly losing our creativity and settling for simplicity as we accept rainbow chases into many facets of our lives. I am hereby calling for an end of the rainbow!
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It wouldn’t be a holiday without the heavy metal and production spectacle of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and LD Bryan Hartley is back with this year’s winter tour, “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve.” Hartley has been designing the production and lighting for 17 years, since the beginning of TSO, he says. “I decided not to build a traditional custom set and instead, I designed the video as the set. Then I can change to whatever set look I want.” The identical East and West Coast legs run through Dec. 30 in the US and Canada.
These days, putting on a harness before you climb is as automatic as putting on a pair of gloves or checking your radio channel before you start work. But any lighting technician or rigger of a certain age remembers when wearing a harness — even the ones that are illegal today for fall protection — was optional. In the early 80’s I was a house rigger at the Rockford MetroCentre in Rockford, IL. The head rigger there was Bo Medearis. Bo was a thoughtful, methodical, and confident rigger — which made him everything I wasn’t. I was young, brash, and cocky.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – At the Frankfurt Motor Show (International Automobile-Ausstellung or IAA), some of the cars were lit with Clay Paky fixtures .
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LOS ANGELES – When STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9) began its U.S. fall tour, LD Saxton Waller decided to add Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s to the B-EYE K10 rig he deployed for the band’s 2014 tour, which included their sold-out concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Waller obtained the Clay Paky B-EYES and a full-size grandMA2 console from Brown Note Productions, Inc., in Thornton, CO, which has been working with STS9 for the last 10 years.
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NEW YORK – Squeek Lights LD Victor Zeiser provided Chauvet Professional fixtures for a tour featuring two hard-rocking bands – Senses Fail and Silverstein. Pooling their resources, the two bands were able to tour with an impressive visual design. Zeiser’s Chauvet-centered rig included six Nexus 4×1 linear COB LED fixtures, 12 Rogue R2 Washes, 10 Rogue R1 Spots and 16 Shocker 90IRC par style fixtures.
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NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites added two new team members – Allana Duyungan to the Technical Service Department and Mark Mistal to Sales and Systems Integration. Allana Duyungan is pictured here; Mark Mistal is pictured below.
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NASHVILLE — At the 49th Annual Country Music Awards, broadcast live on ABC from the Bridgestone Arena last month, mobile production specialist TNDV took on an expanded role as it returned to produce live streaming media and video packages.
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MADRID – Clay Paky and by its Spanish distributor Stonex hosted a seminar at the Matadero de Madrid featuring the concepts of lighting designers Al Gurdon and Peter Canning, who have lit shows including the Eurovision song contest, the halftime entertainment shows of the NFL’s Superbowl and the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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NEW YORK – Canal Sound and Light’s Jason Ayala and Jeffry Kwan used Chauvet Professional fixtures to transform a low-ceiling space on Manhattan’s far West Side. Formerly housing a bagel factory, it had been repurposed to serve as exhibition space. For the Global Spin Awards Expo, which required a staged awards show, Ayala used Chauvet’s PVP S5 LED video panels and Rogue moving fixtures.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Acoustic & Lighting System (A&L) held an open-house event on Nov. 17 to introduce Clay Paky’s The Projectors series: the Scenius, Mythos, Supersharpy and Stormy.
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