For the U.S leg of Phoebe Bridgers’ 2022 world tour, Gateway Studios & Production of St Louis provided LD Spike Kienholz Inglis of Spike Design with a Robe moving light rig. The setup included 24 MegaPointes, 24 Spiiders, 16 Tetra1s and six FORTES.
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Nature’s fury and man-made hazards can both play havoc with lighting design plans, but the innovative and thoughtful use of technology can protect against these threats. That’s been a driving concept behind the development of CHAUVET Professional’s IP65 rated product, and it was also stunningly reflected in the company’s booth at this year’s LDI Show.Read More »CHAUVET Professional Wins LDI 2022 Large Booth Award
One of the 2000’s most successful hard rock bands is Breaking Benjamin, whose guitar heavy sounds and powerful vocals delivered by Benjamin Burnley have endeared them to fans for two decades. The band teamed up recently with another iconic group, Alice in Chains, to co-headline a tour that also saw Bush on the bill as special guests.Read More »Smarty Hybrids Add Tailored Touch to Breaking Benjamin on Co-Headlining Tour
To provide My Chemical Romance with immersive and stylized lighting for their highly-anticipated world tour, lighting production house Penlight designed a custom-built rig featuring Martin MAC Ultra Performance, MAC Quantum Wash, MAC Aura XB, and Atomic 3000 fixtures from Martin Professional.
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It is with great sadness that the Showlight Committee announced the postponement of Showlight 2023. The popular quadrennial networking event was due to take place May 20-23 in Fontainebleau, France.
In the following statement from Showlight, Chairman John Allen explains the reasons behind this decision.Read More »Showlight 2023 Postponed
The LDI Show returned to Las Vegas after a busy year of live event productions across North America. The aisles were busy with production pros seeking to gear up for another busy year ahead, with exhibitors unveiling as many new products as steadily improving supply chain conditions would permit.
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ETC presented Behind the Scenes with a check during LDI for $26,493 representing proceeds from sales of the company’s iRFR and aRFR (Radio Focus Remote) applications. Since the launch of the iRFR in 2009, ETC’s mobile app sales have now generated over $465,000 in donations.
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BARCELONA, Spain – In response to the growing relevance of content production and distribution technologies across the pro-AV and systems integration market, ISE 2023, set… Read More »ISE 2023 to Highlight Pro AV Content Production and Distribution Technologies
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For Burna Boy’s supercharged performance at the Curaçao Festival Center in late October, Massive Productions’ Ramon Ramiz stepped in as LD for the artist, lighting the Grammy-winning singer and his fans with the power of 90 Chauvet Professional fixtures from Massive Productions and its partner, Aruba Elite Productions.
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Twenty One Pilots’ “Icy” tour hit the road this summer, offering LD Tyler “Shap” Shapard the chance to produce an elegant and imaginative lighting design. To atmospherically engineer the mood and vibes for each song, he relied on a Solotech-supplied rig that included 80 Robe MegaPointes.
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Despite a November chill that turned patches of green a frosty white in the predawn hours on Nov. 17, the sun quickly warmed Rhodes Ranch Golf Club in Las Vegas for the 2022 PLSN/FOH Parnelli Classic golf tournament. PLSN/FOH’s Terry Lowe and Greg Gallardo welcomed close to 100 players to the event.
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Lighting Designer Marsha Stern started out lighting for discos in the 1970s before transitioning into architectural and architainment lighting projects in the 90s. She has a podcast, Heartbeat of the Dance Floor® that looks back fondly on the glory days of disco. In episode #12, Stern has assembled a lighting design panel to discuss lighting in those early days. Here is the video replay of A Lighting Panel with Special Guests Ken Billington, Jason Kantrowitz, (KB Associates / The Red Parrot), Anne Militello (Vortex Lighting / California Institute of the Arts), and Paul Gregory (Focus Lighting / Saturday Night Fever dance floor):
Read More »A Lighting Panel with Marsha Stern’s Heartbeat Of The Dance Floor® Episode #012