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Selena Gomez Tour Lit Like an Arena-Sized Dance Party

Selena Gomez on tour

Selena Gomez Tour Lit Like an Arena-Sized Dance Party

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.

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IBC 2011 Sets Record for Attendance, Exhibition Space

LONDON — IBC 2011 set records for attendance (50,462); a 4 percent increase over 2010, and also for display space (13 halls and 1,300+ exhibitors).  The conference was structured around four areas of interest — Added Value, Technological Advancements, Content Creation and Innovation and the Business of Broadcasting.

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DPI Announces Fall 2011 Road Show Dates

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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The Show Doesn’t Always Have to Go On

This summer has turned out to be a costly one. The recent stage collapses have brought to light a call for stricter standards and a closer inspection of rigging practices. It is heartbreaking to hear about the number of people that lost their lives to these devastating events. Could these tragedies have been prevented? We may never know.

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Andrew Latimer and Kelsey Booth, founders of Lighting Audio Video Arts (LAVA).

College Students Form Non-Profit Production Company at ASU

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.

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Book of Mormon photo by Joan Marcus

The Book of Mormon

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.

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80s Rewind Festival (Henley, UK)

80’s Rewind Festival

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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Rock band Bambi tells the story. Photo by Eva Mueller

Alex Koch, Adam Frank and “Goodbar”

PLSN: Can you tell us the story of Goodbar briefly?

Alex Koch, video designer: Goodbar is based on the gruesome murder of Roseann Quinn, a young school teacher by day, club fiend by night who was murdered in NYC in 1973. Judith Rossner retells the story in her 1975 novel Looking for Mr Goodbar. The book’s 1977 film adaptation directed by Richard Brooks affirmed the story’s hold on the public conscious and it was something of a cultural touchstone.

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