A World-Class Nightclub Opens to the Stars
Albania’s Folie Terrace Upgrades with a Retractable Roof and 5,150 VC-Dots
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Blue Martini Orlando Updates its Location, Concept and Technology
Griffin Automation Helps Broaden the Club’s Array of Colors and Looks.
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Parnelli Profile: David Cunningham
David Cunningham will accept the 2015 Parnelli Visionary Award at the annual gala to be held at the Rio Hotel and Casino Oct. 24, in recognition of advances including the ETC Source Four fixture and advancements in lighting consoles and dimming.
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2015 Hometown Hero Finalists
Top Vote-Getters for Five U.S. Regions and Canada Honored for Taking Care of Business
PLSN readers have put the latest spotlight — scratch that — hybrid LED moving light — on who they think are the best of the best of their region when it comes to lighting, staging and video. We have some fresh faces and some “repeat offenders.”
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DTS WONDER.D
DTS perhaps might not be familiar to many Americans, but the Italian company has been around since the 1980s when they started making domestic and commercial lighting and working with fiber optics. Today, they make a range of LED and arc-source fixtures for entertainment and architectural applications. The company’s WONDER.D enters the scene with a few tricks up its proverbial sleeve, including some unique and very interesting zoom effects.
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Solaris LED Linear Battens
Since 1983, TMB has supplied some of our industry’s hottest products — ProPlex Data Distribution equipment and cabling, ProPower power distros, and others. A year and a half ago, they introduced their Solaris LED line of fixtures, including the new Solaris LED Linear battens, which come in four different configurations for not only direct viewing, but also as a cyclorama wash role or as a high-powered performer wash.
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A Chat with A.C.T. Lighting Founder Bob Gordon
Bob Gordon has been a major player in the live concert business since the 1960’s. While long known and revered as the founder of A.C.T Lighting, few realize the Bob spent the first half of his adult life on the road with touring acts as a lighting designer and production manager. When it was time to get off of the road, he became an account rep for various light and sound companies.
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Blackmagic Design MultiView 16
There was a time in the not-too-distant past that video racks were big. Not because we needed room for all the blinky lights or Star Trek navigational gear. The reason was because video people, like our audio cousins, tend to be very …um…. thorough (read retentive to a fault).
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The Little Drone Revolution
This column is the first in a series of articles about drones, professionally known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). We’ll call them drones to keep things clear for our audio/video world, yet the following thoughts apply to each type of unmanned system — regardless of the acronym.
Read More »A Little Prep Work
Automated lighting programmers are responsible for much more than just entering values into a console. We are usually also called upon to be a part of the creative team working alongside the lighting designer. We suggest looks, offer advice on what features exist within fixtures and organize the show layout among many other duties. One of the most important functions of a programmer is to complete the required programming within the allotted time. Quite often, this requires great forethought and planning to ensure that the time on-site is used most effectively. By preparing the patch, palettes/presets, cues and more, we can significantly reduce the work required once we enter the venue.
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Summer Tours Slip Into September
Richard Neville of Sydney-based Mandylights said the “big project of note” is Ricky Martin’s “One World Tour,” which hits North American arenas Sept. 15-Oct. 25 after previous tour legs in New Zealand, Australia and Mexico earlier this year.
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The Bizarro World of Lighting Mummies for a Living
I have been working in lighting on a national scale for almost 35 years, five more if you count regional club bands in the 70’s. I have worked in every sized venue, designing and programming lights for every type act, from hardcore country to the heaviest of heavy metal. I’m not exactly sure where my latest band falls in that category, but I can certainly say they’re never boring.
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