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New Year, New Site: Enhancements to PLSN.com Continue

LAS VEGAS – Even before the Times Square ball dropped, the millions who tuned into Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and watched Mariah Carey perform could see that 2018 is going to be a significant improvement on 2017. Readers of PLSN can find further evidence of good things to come with one glance at the new home page at PLSN.com, with its splashy new graphic design suited to a wide array of mobile devices along with desktop computers.

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Odesza Tours with 185 Robe Fixtures

BROOKLYN, NY – For their coast-to-coast tour in support of their third studio album, A Moment Apart, Odesza’s Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight toured with a six-person synchronized drumline, starting in southern California and wrapping things up at Brooklyn, NY’s Barclays Center in mid-December. Kyle Kegan of Voyage Productions designed a light show that included 185 Robe fixtures.

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4Wall provided gear for Oculus Connect

Seeing Eye Lighting Design Turns to 4Wall to Light 4th Annual Oculus Connect

SAN JOSE, CA – Oculus Connect (OC4) brings together VR creators, developers, and pioneers under one roof for a 2-day conference where attendees explore new VR applications and technology. Event Producer FNTECH chose Seeing Eye Lighting Design and Principal Lighting Designer Paul Efron to light the 4th annual event utilizing gear from 4Wall Entertainment.

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Heroes Not Hard To Find in Las Vegas

[caption id="attachment_281705" align="alignnone" width="806"]Firehouse gives AV Vegas a hand in time or need[/caption]

LAS VEGAS – AV Vegas provided sound, lighting & backline for the “Next From Nashville” stage at the Route 91 festival. Our stage finished an hour before the festival ended on Oct 1 and our crew was busy striking our gear when the shooting began. Two trucks had already been loaded and the lighting was mostly packed and riggers were taking motors down when concert goers began running towards our stage to get away from the shooting. Everyone has seen the story on TV. It was awful and I won’t recap it here.

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PRG’s Zach Alexander, the Media Operator on Oblivion, is shown controlling the Mbox media server using the V676 Control Console. Photo by David James/Universal 2013

Lighting ‘Oblivion’ with a Projected Sky

Universal Studio’s sci-fi feature film, Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise, presents a post-apocalyptic earth, which would seem to demand heavy visual effects (VFX), and while there are many in the film, there are some surprising sequences that are, in fact, not CG. For two of the primary, futuristic sets — the Sky Tower and the Cloud Tower — cinematographer Claudio Miranda, ASC, and director Joseph Kosinski filmed most of the visual effects live in-camera rather than using green screens. It’s an old-school style that immerses the actors in the actual environment, but not the first instinct of filmmakers when the environment is supposed to be a cloud-surrounded glass-walled apartment 3,000 feet in the air.

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