DERRY~LONDONDERRY , Northern Ireland — “Mute Meadow” is a riverside art installation that includes 40 pairs of steel columns, varying in height from 6-8 meters and lit at night with pulsing hues inspired by stained glass and evoking the wordless “breath” of the city.
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LAS VEGAS — For the We Own the Night tour, designers Seth Jackson, Brian Jenkins and video director Brent Sandrock sought to provide Selena Gomez fans with something akin to an arena-sized dance party. Lighting company Bandit Lites, meanwhile, sought to avoid trashing the planet while doing it.
Read More »ATLANTA — Digital Projection International (DPI), together with display manufacturer Delta Group and software developer Mersive, announced a multi-city “Displays at Your Doorstep” road show with the following cities/dates confirmed: New York (Oct. 11-12) Orlando (Oct. 18-19), Washington, DC (Oct. 25-26), Atlanta (Nov. 2-3), Dallas (Nov. 9-10) and Los Angeles (Nov. 15-16). The events will demonstrate a variety of display technologies for commercial AV integrators.
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SAN DIEGO — For the 5th Annual Midway American Patriot Awards, a gala honoring senator John McCain, vice admiral James Stockdale and naval aviators, AV Concepts transformed the above-flight deck portion of the aircraft carrier USS Midway with large format projection.
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There’s a new live event production team in Tempe. And you’ll find their prices quite reasonable — likely even free. But you’ll have to be on the campus of Arizona State University to take advantage of it …
Students looking for experience, an opportunity to work with better gear, and a selfless desire to help their fellow students increase the production value of their events have formed Lighting Audio Video Arts (LAVA). It’s a student-led and student-crewed production group. Read More »
Brian MacDevitt Lights Three Distinct Worlds
Fresh from the minds of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q composer/lyricist Robert Lopez, Book of Mormon is the hottest ticket on Broadway right now, and with good reason. The profane-yet-profound send-up of religious faith is ripe with hilarious humor as a naive Mormon elder seeks to get sent on a mission to Orlando, FL but ends up in Uganda, Africa — with a socially awkward and annoying peer. Read More »
U.K. Designers Evoke the Past with Pastels
Pop culture’s love affair with nostalgia continues. Launched in 2009 at Henley-on-Thames, England, The Rewind Festival boasts what is perhaps the largest lineup of Reagan/Thatcher era artists this side of the US Festival.
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