Ghost from Sweden and Volbeat from Denmark co-headlined a U.S. tour lit, respectively, by LDs Erich Bertti and Niels Bjerregaard. Premier Global Productions provided a rig centered on Robe moving lights including MegaPointes, Spiiders, and BMFL Spots.
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The AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas has invested in Vari-Lite and Strand luminaires from Signify in five of its main spaces to transform their lighting and reduce power consumption. The $360 million multi-venue Center upgraded its fixtures with more than 200 Vari-Lite and Strand products.Read More »Dallas’ AT&T Performing Arts Center Upgrades all Main Venues to Vari-Lite and Strand
The eight-time Grammy Award-winner and R&B superstar Usher Raymond IV recently headlined a Las Vegas residency, delivering his fans an extraordinary immersive performance and “an Usher experience like they’ve never seen or heard before”. Opened at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on July 16, 2021, Usher delivered 12 shows in total – eight in July, three in December, and a final event on January 1, 2022. BrainHub and LMG Touring & Entertainment, both part of Entertainment Technology Partners (ETP), worked closely together and with the production team, including Production Designer, Paul Tate DePoo III and Video Design firm FragmentNine’s Jackson Gallagher, to design a larger-than-life experience featuring more than 500 moving lights, creative LED, and video solutions. [PLSN covered the Usher Residency in the November, 2021 issue. You can read that story here.]Read More »Brompton Technology Helps Deliver Usher’s Supreme Las Vegas Residency Experience
tvONE and Green Hippo are launching a competition to highlight excellence in control system design using their range of products. tvONE is looking for programmers, operators and designers who have mastered video manipulation using Green Hippo’s Hippotizer range of Media Servers, or harnessed the power of tvONE’s CORIOmaster family of video processors.Read More »Green Hippo and tvONE Launch the CONECT Control Competition
Detroit-based Display Group has acquired Belleville, MI-based Fantasee Lighting. The combination creates a full-service event production company—offering clients a one-stop shop for production services for… Read More »Display Group Acquires Fantasee Lighting to Fill Out Event Production Offerings
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The Howell Binkley Fellowship Program, part of the Hemsley Lighting Programs, proudly announces its Fellow for the 2022-23 season, Samantha (Sam) Weiser (she/her). Weiser hails from Long Island, NY where she was exposed to theatre at a young age. Her passion for lighting design led her to the Long Island High School for the Arts and then to receive her BFA from the University of Michigan in 2020. Her favorite part of designing is turning “what if’s” into reality.Read More »Meet Samantha Weiser, The 2022 Howell Binkley Fellow
Collaboration’s wings take creativity to new heights. The wisdom of this adage was on full display at the 2022 iHeart Radio Music Awards when superstars John Legend and Charlie Puth sat down at dueling pianos to banter and play a five-minute mash up of one another’s hits, before announcing plans to record a song together.Read More »Allen Branton Lights iHeart Awards with Chauvet Professional Fixtures from 4Wall Entertainment
Bandit Lites supplied more than 200 fixtures for Reba McEntire’s current tour, with LDs Gayle Hase and David Hare specifying a rig including Martin MAC Viper Profiles, Elation Proteus Maximus, Elation SixBar 1000, Elation CuePix WW4, Robe BMFL spots, Elation Smartys and Elation Proteus Rayzor 760 fixtures.
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LD Marc Janowitz described the evolution of the focal point for Black Puma’s current visual design–the band’s logo–and how the 60 GLP KNV Dots now in his toolbox help draw the eye to the band’s signature visual element.
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At its best, architecture not only shapes buildings, but it also shapes the experience of those inside them. Anyone attending services at Holy Cross Lutheran in College Station, TX would find it easy to agree with this bit of wisdom. With the gracefully curved surfaces of its sanctuary and altar platform harmoniously balanced against the angles of its vaulted ceilings, open spaces, and light-toned walls, this newly built church sitting atop a hill overlooking the city, engenders a welcoming, peaceful feeling among worshippers.Read More »Chandler Mann and Chauvet Professional Balance Light at Holy Cross Lutheran
ESTA and PLASA announce the release of an updated Version 2.0 of the International Code of Practice for Entertainment Rigging (ICOPER), which is available as a free download at www.esta.org/icoper or www.plasa.org/icoper. Read More »Version 2.0 of International Code of Practice for Entertainment Rigging Now Available