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2023 Vectorworks Design Scholarship Now Accepting Submissions

Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. invites students to see where their designs can take them by entering the seventh Vectorworks Design Scholarship. The global competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students in major disciplines related to entertainment design, architecture, landscape architecture and design, and interior design. Students can submit a new design or past project from any of their classes for the chance to win up to $10,000 USD.Read More »2023 Vectorworks Design Scholarship Now Accepting Submissions

Gerry Dintelman Backs Up The Backseat Lovers ‘Waiting To Spill’ Tour with CHAUVET Professional

In the words of one critic, The Backseat Lovers latest Capital Records album Waiting To Spill, “doesn’t sound like something a bunch of teenagers dreamt up.” Instead, it was, as he wrote, “a remarkable artistic effort.”Read More »Gerry Dintelman Backs Up The Backseat Lovers ‘Waiting To Spill’ Tour with CHAUVET Professional

Datum Creative Selects IP Rated Elation Lighting to Carry ‘No Video’ Production for ‘We Belong Here’ Festival

One of the festival season’s more unique early gatherings took place February 25-26 when Miami’s Virginia Key Beach transformed into a pop-up beach club for We Belong Here. Datum Creative was responsible for the site, production, and lighting design and turned to Elation Professional’s industry-leading range of IP rated luminaires to carry the production visually and fulfill the festival organizer’s unique ‘no video’ brief. Technical Arts Group (TAG) served as lighting vendor. Here’s a video overview of the festival from Datum Creative:

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Astera Supports Bruno Poet and Richard White’s Design of Björk ‘Cornucopia’ Tour

Astera Titan Tubes and PixelBricks are woven ingeniously into the elegant lighting design by Bruno Poet and Richard White for Icelandic singer / songwriter and live performance trailblazer Björk, who is touring her Cornucopia theatrical show globally through 2023. This is a fantastic example of using lighting inventively to enhance a much larger mixed media ‘bigger picture’ that helps capture the many and varied expressions, emotions, moments, and messages of Björk’s stunning work.Read More »Astera Supports Bruno Poet and Richard White’s Design of Björk ‘Cornucopia’ Tour

Visit the Behind the Scenes Booth at NAMM for Valuable Mental Health Information

Visit the Behind the Scenes booth #11730 at The NAMM Show to learn about the BTS Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Initiative, receive valuable information to post in your workplace, and attend one of their brief presentations to learn about available tools and resources, Mental Health First Aid training, and hear about one person’s journey from the depths of depression to helping others.Read More »Visit the Behind the Scenes Booth at NAMM for Valuable Mental Health Information

Chauvet Acquires LynTec

In keeping with its mission of providing customers with cutting edge technological solutions, Chauvet has acquired LynTec, a leading global supplier of electrical power solutions for lighting, video, and audio systems. Founded in 1982, Lenexa, KS-based LynTec is widely known for its advanced lighting control panels, with these products installed in well over 10,000 sites throughout the world.Read More »Chauvet Acquires LynTec

Ayrton Mistrals Turn the Spotlight on Underoath’s ‘Blind Obedience’ Tour

American rock band Underoath has hit the road on its Blind Obedience tour featuring Ayrton Mistral fixtures from Sonus Pro. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton lighting in North America. Based in Moorestown, NJ and with offices in Raleigh, NC, Sonus Pro is a lighting, video, and audio rental, production and design house specializing in touring, anime, and gaming, and conventions. For Underoath’s Blind Obedience tour the company is furnishing all the lighting and audio equipment and Sonus Pro’s Director of Touring Accounts, Lenny Sasso, is serving as the Lighting Designer and Programmer.Read More »Ayrton Mistrals Turn the Spotlight on Underoath’s ‘Blind Obedience’ Tour

IPS Supports Drama of ‘The Thorn’ with Powerful Visuals from Elation Professional

Illuminate Production Services (IPS) plays an integral role in creating the visual magic that is The Thorn and again this year enhanced the drama using a large package of Elation Professional lighting. Lighting Designer Caleb Franke of IPS uses the dynamic lighting to help sculpt the inspiring story while wowing audiences with a variety of visual effects.Read More »IPS Supports Drama of ‘The Thorn’ with Powerful Visuals from Elation Professional

Bandit and Eric Cathcart Light ‘Love Rising’: Let Freedom Sing (And Dance)

Stars gathered at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena for Love Rising, a benefit concert for Tennessee Equality Project, Inclusion Tennessee, OUTMemphis, and The Tennessee Pride Chamber. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the evening of joy and dancing, where performances included Allison Russell, Maren Morris, Sheryl Crow, Amanda Shires, Brittany Howard, Hozier, Jake Wesley Rogers, Jason Isbell, Joy Oladokun, Julien Baker, Mya Byrne, The Rainbow Coalition Band, and YOLA.Read More »Bandit and Eric Cathcart Light ‘Love Rising’: Let Freedom Sing (And Dance)

GLP impression FR1 TM Transforms Der Player’s Atmosphere from Dinner into Party Fever

Since late last year there has been a new player in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg. Set in Hamburg’s Ottensen district, chef and author Jonas Straube appears to have effortlessly combined seeming opposites. Der Player (‘The Player’) is a restaurant, bar, games lounge, and nightclub all rolled into one. The innovative fusion concept posed a challenge for lighting and video planner Axel Fahrenhorst, from Hamburg-based creative consultancy lineareal GmbH. This is because when one seamlessly merges into the other, the lighting requirements change in next to no time.Read More »GLP impression FR1 TM Transforms Der Player’s Atmosphere from Dinner into Party Fever