DJ Lighting is pleased to announce that it’s new flagship LED-powered hybrid moving head fixture, the Vizi CMY300, is now shipping. The award-winning unit offers a whole host of professional features, including CMY color mixing, twin GOBO wheels, motorized focus, zoom and iris, wireless DMX and two rotating prisms.
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The latest development in the ETC and High End Systems story sees the formation of a closer alliance between High End Systems and ETC’s international subsidiaries – ETC Ltd, ETC GmbH and ETC Asia. Taking the reins from the former European master distributor, AED Distribution, ETC Ltd and GmbH will now be responsible for the distribution of High End Systems products in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA). Meanwhile, ETC Asia will take control of distribution for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
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Creative Technology finds “the future of auto show lighting” in new, auto show-optimized LED moving head. Lightswitch principal John Featherstone calls Fuze Wash 575 “the best light I’ve ever seen for lighting automobiles”
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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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UK – Thousands of festival-goers experienced the uniquely interactive audio-visual environment of the Samsung Hypercube as part of Samsung’s S8 phone UK launch this summer. The Samsung Hypercube toured its mind-boggling ‘360 Infinity Selfie’ Experience to Boardmasters, Bestival and Reading festivals, with Avolites’ Ai media control at the heart of its complex technical infrastructure.
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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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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional named Matthias Hinrichs product manager. Hinrichs has extensive experience as a lighting director and programmer, and has worked as a product manager for Martin Professional since 2003. “Having worked with Matthias before, I am really happy to be working with him again,” said Elation’s Eric Loader.
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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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PHOENIX – For 3 Doors Down, the headlining act for the sixth annual Bob’s Biker Bash fundraising concert held at Phoenix Children’s Hospital on Nov. 4, LD John Garberson and Creative BackStage put together a lighting rig that included 15 Maverick MK2 Spots, 25 Rogue R2 Washes and four Strike 4 fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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NASHVILLE – Andrew Peterson’s 18th annual “Behold The Lamb Of God” tour included a performance at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Dec. 11 that was also seen via live stream at Lipscomb University’s Shamblin Theatre. LD Winn Elliott, who has been supporting Andrew Peterson’s shows for more than a decade, relied on a Bandit Lites-supplied rig that included Vari-Lite VL500 Washes, Martin MAC Viper Spots, Martin MAC Aura Washes and in-line 4-lights.
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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.
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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