The 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held by the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) at the PalaOlimpico in Turin. About 200 million people watched live and – for the first time in three years – there was an almost full audience at the venue.Read More »Over 400 Claypaky Fixtures at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest
From the moment Thomas Rhett kicked things off with hits like his newly released “Slow Down Summer,” the iHeartCountry Festival projected a warm, intimate vibe that made it easy for fans to forget they were inside a 15,000+ seat arena in Austin, TX. The genuine, welcoming attitude of Rhett, and the event’s other superstars like Carrie Underwood, The Zac Brown Band, Maren Morris, and Dierks Bentley had a lot to do with engendering this hospitable vibe. Also contributing to the inviting mood at the festival, which was produced by Diversified Production Services, was the intimate, engaging lighting created on the Tom Kenny-design rig supplied by 4Wall Entertainment.Read More »Chauvet Professional and 4Wall Entertainment Help Tom Kenny Add Warmth to iHeartCountry Festival
New art and cultural movements seem to blossom most rapidly (and colorfully!) outside the grip of commercial interests. Such was the case in 1988, when… Read More »PYTCH Create Rave Vibe at Alfresco Disco with Chauvet Professional
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After a year’s pandemic-induced hiatus, the NAMM show will return to Anaheim, California next month. ADJ is preparing to use the exhibition to reunite with customers and demonstrate a variety of new lighting fixtures that have either been recently launched or will begin to ship over the summer. The company will also be the official sponsor of the outdoor Arena Plaza stage, which will showcase live performances throughout the show lit by ADJ IP65-rated fixtures and amplified by a sound system from sister company Avante Audio.Read More »ADJ To Exhibit New Lighting Products at NAMM 2022 and Sponsor the Arena Plaza Stage
Chicago-based systems integration, sales, and production firm JRLX, Inc. has added Elation Professional’s outdoor-rated Proteus Lucius™ LED profile moving head to its growing inventory of rental lighting fixtures. The Lucius, an all-purpose fixture in Elation’s market-leading Proteus line of weatherproof luminaires, is fully loaded and is the compact brother to the company’s popular Proteus Maximus™.Read More »JRLX Adds “Do All” Proteus Lucius™ to Rental Stock
Composer, producer and “rock star of film music” Hans Zimmer traveled through Europe this spring with his 19-piece band and an orchestra. Lightswitch LD John Featherstone and his team worked with an all-Robe moving light rig supplied by Satis & Fy.
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Norwegian DJ Alan Walker’s Hello World virtual concert for electric vehicle manufacturer NIO’s annual product launch day, used extended reality production powered by the disguise vx 4 and rx II media servers to create a mixed reality ‘alternative universe’ that amassed millions of online views.Read More »disguise xR Realizes Alan Walker’s Out-of-This-World NIO Day Virtual Concert
Solotech announces that it has opened its new facility in Nashville, TN. Take a quick video tour of the brand-new Solotech office in Nashville:
David Beebe became one of the first house LDs last year to add Chauvet Professional’s Maverick Force S Spot to his rig when he took… Read More »David Beebe Reflects Many Sides of The Zombies with Chauvet Professional
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Woodroffe Bassett Design creates breathtaking visuals at Al Wasl Plaza and other Expo entertainment venues
Elation’s Proteus Maximus™ has been employed on top name shows and events since launching in 2019 but none perhaps as impressive as Expo 2020. In September 2021, Dubai saw the beautiful opening ceremony of Expo 2020, the kickoff of the world’s premiere international exhibition event that ran through March 2022. With 192 participating countries a part of the journey, Expo focused on Connecting Minds and Creating the Future explored through the themes of Sustainability, Mobility, and Opportunity.Read More »Proteus Maximus™ Fulfills Key Visual Role at Expo 2020
During a game of racket ball in the 1830s, a group of London schoolboys noticed that a punctured ball, which “squashed” on impact with the wall, offered more variety and more intensity of play than its intact counterpart. Thus, to the delight of millions of fans ever since, the games of Squash was born.
Although its rules have evolved somewhat over the years, the game those lads stumbled upon in that long ago London afternoon, has lost none of its compelling power. Spectators who saw this year’s Allam British Open would readily attest to that; as they witnessed some of the world’s greatest squash players fiercely compete for the $165,000 (US) prize.Read More »Firefly AV Crafts Smashing Looks for the Allam British Open Squash Tournament with Chauvet Professional
From its world premiere off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons to a pre-Broadway run at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, the Pulitzer Prize winning musical, A Strange Loop, has now arrived on Broadway, and garnered 11 Tony nominations. PRG worked with the Tony-nominated creative team every step of the journey. Sharing their insights, designers Arnulfo Maldonado, Jen Schriever, and Drew Levy tell us how PRG’s solutions helped realize their designs.
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