Buyer’s Guide: Audience Lighting (aka Blinders)
This month, all of the products submitted for PLSN’s Buyer’s Guide on Audience Lighting (aka Blinders) have LED light sources, reflecting a trend towards less power-hungry alternatives.
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Road Test: Blizzard Lighting G-Max™ 200 Spot
Craig Rutherford checks out Blizzard Lighting’s G-Max™ 200 spot, a compact luminaire that takes advanced features and puts them into a surprisingly affordable package.
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‘Stranger Things’: A Rift Appears in NYC
Lighting and Video Mapping the Upside Down on the Empire State Building
On an “ominously” cloudy May 26 evening in NYC the world turned upside down as a rift opened on the south side of the Empire State Building. This traffic stopping event was part of NETFLIX’s visually spectacular activation for the debut of Stranger Things 4, Vol. 1 that consisted of a light show and projection mapped ‘opening of rifts’ on 15 landmarks in 14 countries around the world. The rift projection and lighting presentation on the iconic Empire State Building (ESB) was actually a 15-minute show that looped for two hours. The effort to realize this event on the ESB epitomizes the saying ‘The devil is in the details.’ To learn more about those production details PLSN spoke with two of the companies that provided the lighting design and projection mapping solutions—Tactical Manoeuvre, LLC and PRG. They gave us some insight on the technology that captivated fans streaming around the world and New Yorkers who clogged streets and rooftops to glimpse the Upside Down.Read More »‘Stranger Things’: A Rift Appears in NYC
Stevie Nicks, Plant & Krauss, Hare’s Dream Job and More
Debi Moen has the latest news on how designers in our industry are keeping busy. She has info from Travis Shirley (Stevie Nicks), Brent Clark (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Barenaked Ladies and Stereophonics), David Hare (Six Flags), Victor Fable (live corporate gigs), Paul Guthrie (Miranda Lambert & Little Big Town) and more.
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Is the Touring Life for You?
Chris Lose notes the four times he’s taken the exit ramp from a life on the road, only to have once again hit the highway for another tour. As such, he can speak about the pros and cons with the voice of experience.
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Maverick City Music ‘Kingdom Tour’
Lighting Company
Integrated Production Solutions (IPS)
Venue
Prudential Center
Newark, NJ
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