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Kid Rock photo by Steve Jennings

Kid Rock Turns 40 with Pyro, Lasers, Video and Lighting

Kid Rock turned 40 this year, and he had a small party. Just hundreds of thousands of his closest friends. Also, it went a little long. Eight months.

Part of the party was set/lighting designer and programmer Richard “Nook” Schoenfeld, who has been lighting up Rock since 2000. And there was a lot to light, too. Rock brought out a 10-person band plus four dancing girls. Kicking off in Detroit, Rock’s hometown, the high-energy flame-ignited spectacle dazzled more than 50,000 at Ford’s Field on July 17. He took the party across America through to September.

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Addressing the Risks of Uneven Load Distribution

With storm-related collapses of outdoor stage structures in the news this year, there have been extensive discussions on topics ranging from wind loads on truss structures to foul weather evacuation protocols. Here, we take a closer look at one of the many critical inter-related factors that all add up to truss collapse prevention and stage safety: The problem of unpredictable load distribution and the importance of load monitoring.

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Richard Pilbrow

Richard Pilbrow’s “A Theatre Project”

Autobiography, corporate history, theatre history, memoir—the new book, A Theatre Project, by Richard Pilbrow, is as hard to classify as Pilbrow himself. Best known as a lighting designer, Pilbrow has also served as a ground-breaking theatre consultant. He’s also produced theatre, film and TV and was a projection designer before there was even a recognized craft as such.

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UK's Minute to Win It

UK’s Minute to Win It Lit with Coemar

LONDON, UK – UK’s version of the popular U.S. TV competition show, Minute to Win It, had its own challenge: to emulate the lighting looks of a sports stadium in the small, 600-square meter studio. Distributor White Light teamed with Richard Martin Lighting to sample a range of Coemar’s Infinity range of products to help fill the bill.

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StageLight Tennessee

StageLight Doubles Space at Nashville Location

NASHVILLE — StageLight, now entering its 10th year of operations, is doubling the space at its Nashville location. Along with more space for theatrical lighting and production supplies that it sells to customers, the company will use the extra elbow room for demos, training, seminars, rental inventory and for a rental prep area. StageLight’s other facilities are in Houston, New Orleans and Dallas.

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Robert Juliat Names EES Distributor for Spain and Portugal

MADRID and ASTIGARRAGA, Spain — Robert Juliat named Entertainment Equipment Supplies (EES) distributor for Spain and Portugal for its followspots and also its tungsten, HMI and LED profiles and wash lights. Along with its two bases in Spain, EES works with Siamanto Ismaily to serve the needs of customers in Portugal. “The whole EES team is delighted to have started our relationship with Robert Juliat,” said Leire Olascoaga, managing director for EES.

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Hair. Photo: Pat Rigg

Elation’s ELEDs Get Groovy with Hair

ORLAND PARK, IL – The Opening Night Arts Group production of the classic 1960s-era musical, Hair, is using up-to-date LED stage lighting from Elation Professional. Designed/programmed by Jason Reberski of JR Lighting Design Inc., the rig includes Elation’s ELED Tri Par 56 tri-color LED PAR cans.

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Intellectual and Emotional Emulsion

I don’t know why you got started designing lights, but for me, it was color. Specifically, how color acts as a direct visual manifestation of my feeling about a piece. I’m sure there are people who get into creative pursuits for other reasons, but for me, I can not imagine doing so without it being driven by a desire to create and participate in a work of performative art. It was music that did it first, followed in short order by dance. And that is how every project begins for me — with some initial creative impulse. Everything else derives from there.

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