UK – BBC Studios’ hugely popular celebrity TV contest Strictly Come Dancing returned for its eighteenth series at the end of 2020, with brand new… Read More »Hippotizer Karst+ choreographs Strictly visuals
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LOS ANGELES – Today’s creative designer is asking more from every lighting fixture in the rig and the essential audience/stage blinder is no exception.… Read More »Still don’t think LED Blinders work? Elation to prove otherwise on March 18th Coffee Break
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COPENHAGEN – Danish DJ and music producer Martin Jensen has played a series of livestream concerts in unconventional locations around the country including department stores, ships and a forest tower. LD Mathias Skall Hansen from Frontsound has been lighting these unique gigs with Robe fixtures.
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ – Impact Church turned to Illuminate Production Services (IPS) for an AVL assist with a new worship center in a building originally designed to serve as a grocery store. IPS installed a video wall comprised of 144 ADJ VS3 panels. The large wall is complemented with a lighting rig that includes fixtures from ADJ and Elation.
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LAS VEGAS – The dimmer switch of Nevada’s venue capacity restrictions is bumping up again. One month after his mid-February announcement that public gatherings could be expanded from 50 to 100 people, or 35 percent of capacity, Nevada governor Steve Sisolak announced the further relaxation of venue capacity restrictions to the 50 percent mark. In response, dozens of shows in Las Vegas have plans to open again by late March.
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THRONTON HOUGH, UK – Set in a thickly wooded area and set off by beautifully manicured gardens, the brick and sandstone building on Liverpool… Read More »ASG Entertainments and CHAUVET Professional Turn Historic Red Fox Green
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MORRISON, Co – There are very few folks in the entertainment industry who don’t know Red Rocks Amphitheatre. A Rolling Stone magazine poll named… Read More »Red Rocks’ roof renovation is well under way and it’s spectacular.
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LONDON – disguise has announced new features for its xR software. This upgrade will further enhance its integration of Unreal Engine and address the continued demand… Read More »disguise democratises Virtual Production with new solutions for integrating Unreal Engine
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FRISCO, TX – Hope Fellowship Church in the Dallas area recently purchased Obsidian NX4 and NX Wing lighting controllers. They run on the ONYX platform across the ministry’s four campuses.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster Assistance issued its Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) preliminary application checklist on March 5. Since then, some live entertainment industry advocates have voiced concerns that many hard-hit businesses will be excluded from relief. PLSN has received a sample letter that readers can send to key officials in a push to ensure that SVOG eligibility doesn’t get narrowed in scope.
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WORLD – L8, a Ukraine-based previz software developer, announced the L8 Previz Design Challenge, a contest for all L8 users worldwide. The contest began March 11 and continues to April 11, with competition and prizes for three “weight classes” of users.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe – In February, Kayse Concert TV presented “Best of Both Worlds,” a three hour pay-per view livestream that showcased the talents of Zimbabwean headliners Winky D and Jah Prayzah. LD Kingdom Kudzerema lit the performances with Chauvet Maverick and Rogue fixtures supplied by Events Evolution.
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