Disguise has opened a new office in the heart of New York City. Featuring a state-of-the-art virtual production space with both LED and green screen stages, the 3,000 sq ft facility will enable film, broadcast, and live events professionals to explore how their ideas can be brought to life faster and more efficiently using real-time content visualization.Read More »Disguise Opens New Production Studio in New York City
PROLIGHTS products illuminated the TV show ‘The Passion’. broadcast in the Netherlands and Germany, and produced by Media Water Production, KRO-NCRV, and RTL Deutschland. The lighting setup provided by Light Image included PROLIGHTS’ battery-powered Smart BatWash fixtures and EclFresnel CT+SIP luminaires.
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At InfoComm booth #W1071 at the Las Vegas Convention Center next week, Long Island, New York-based Group One Limited will be celebrating the 30-year milestone for elektraLite. Unlike the other brands on the American pro audio and lighting distributor’s line card, elektraLite represents Group One’s singular manufacturing endeavor, which continues to be a success three decades later.Read More »elektraLite Celebrates 30th Anniversary
Panasonic Connect North America announced additions to its AV solution suite to power innovative and engaging visual experiences across industries. The dynamic visuals of immersive exhibitions are no longer reserved just for entertainment venues: they are key to engaging audiences from classrooms to corporate meeting rooms to houses of worship. Panasonic Connect will highlight its full AV ecosystem of both new and existing solutions at InfoComm 2024. The booth (#W1500) will feature its array of solutions that power dynamic entertainment experiences, foster better collaboration, and simplify workflows.Read More »Panasonic Connect Expands AV Solutions at InfoComm 2024
Groundbreaking choreographer and contemporary dance innovator Andrew McNicol presented the world premiere of Upstream, his first collaboration with the Companhia Nacional de Bailado (CNB) – the National Ballet of Portugal – for which he asked acclaimed Lighting Designer Yaron Abulafia to create scenography and lighting for the performance which was staged at the São Carlos Opera House, Lisbon, Portugal. Upstream was presented as part of a trilogy of works, together with Baracco Concerto by the late George Balanchine and Workwithinwork (which originally premiered in 1998) by William Forsythe – three distinctive works from very different eras and generations of choreographers based on classical dance.Read More »Robe T1s Go ‘Upstream’ for National Ballet of Portugal Production
PRG EMEA is adding to its extensive lighting technology line-up. With the investment in the new ORON H2, PRG is one of the first customers worldwide to have the IP65 hybrid moving head with phosphor-laser engine in its portfolio.Read More »PRG EMEA Invests in New Cameo ORON® H2 Phosphor-Laser Moving Head
ETC announces the talented students that will be a part of the 2024 Fred Foster Student Mentorship Program in North America. Through the program’s online networking events, students will meet a range of industry mentors. ETC’s late Founder and CEO Fred Foster started the program in 1999, recognizing the critical role mentorship plays in any lighting professional’s career.Read More »ETC Introduces 2024 Fred Foster Student Mentees
Writing about this year’s edition of the Stereofunk Festival, one critic declared: “it isn’t just a music festival; it’s a vibrant D.I.Y community… a whirlwind of art and culture.” At the center of this “whirlwind” (at least as far as the performances on the main stage were concerned) was Steve McCracken of Mac-Events, who used the ChamSys Stadium MagicQ MQ250M to busk lightshows for Wanda Dee, iconic hip-hop artists from The Bronx, Vengoboys, a Top-10 Dutch Euro-dance group, and Urban Cookie Collective, a UK electronic duo, along with a wide range of other global acts.Read More »Steve McCracken Celebrates Stereofunk ‘First Festival of Summer’ With ChamSys
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Solotech, a global leader in audiovisual and entertainment technology, announces that it has won the prestigious AV Production Company of the Year award at the 2024 Canadian Live Music Industry Awards. Read More »Solotech Wins AV Production Company of the Year at the 2024 Canadian Live Music Industry Awards
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Cincinnati-based rock band The National’s touring lighting crew appreciated using a mix of Robe BMFL Blade and Spiider wash beam moving lights for their show at Auckland, New Zealand’s Spark Arena venue, for which equipment was supplied by rental company NW Group / Oceania, and used to great effect to realize a touring version of Michael Brown’s production lighting design. The National played the Australia and New Zealand leg of their ongoing world tour in February and March in a show that embraces new material from two albums including the latest Laugh Track and continues through 2024.Read More »The National Works with Robe in New Zealand