NEW YORK –– For Gwen Stefani’s performance as part of the Today Show’s Citi Concert Series, LD Peter Greenbaum’s rig included 20 Rogue R1 FX-B moving LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional. WorldStage provided the fixtures for the live show, which was staged July 15 at New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza.
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ANTWERP, Belgium – For an event at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp celebrating Belgian venue Cherry Moon’s 25th anniversary, LD Steven Couliez designed the lighting, video and structural set elements to go with an evening devoted to techno, trance, house and retro sounds. Nachtcollective created the video content, and Belgian lighting rental company Splendit supplied a rig that included Robe Pointes, CycFX 8s and LEDBeam 100s.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – Before resigning in mid-July, former U.K. prime minister David Cameron championed a plan to create three million new apprentice positions by the year 2020. Announced last summer, the plan is designed to encourage the development of a better-skilled work force, which could help the U.K. compete in the global economy. As part of that larger effort, the U.K.’s National Rigging Advisory Group (NRAG) announced a trial program called the Live Event Rigging Apprenticeship. It provides formal training to new recruits, supporting them beyond the National Rigging Certificate Level 2. Key rigging leaders from Blackout, UK Rigging, RTM Rigging, PSI Production Ireland and NEC Group attended the trial run of the newly-created LERA program to test the assessment format and marking system before it is formally launched to the industry in September.
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INTERLAKEN, Switzerland – For the annual Greenfield rock festival, LD Nico Müller of technical supplier Go Audio used more than 150 Clay Paky fixtures. The Main Stage was equipped with 39 Alpha Wash 1200 fixtures, 36 Mythos and 18 Stormy CC strobes. Müller’s rig design for Greenfield’s smaller stages included 18 A.leda B-EYE K10, 18 Mythos, 16 Alpha Spot 800 QWO and eight Stormy CCs. The festival, which ran from June 8-11, welcomed more than 40 international rock, punk and metalcore bands including Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Prodigy, Dropkick Murphys and Bullet For My Valentine (BFMV). More than 100,000 people from across Europe attended the four -day event.
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RED OAK, IOWA – — Low ceilings. A long, narrow sanctuary. Dark corners. Small budget. The production team at Faith Community Church in Red Oak, Iowa, had a host of challenges in modernizing their worship space. Their old PARs and dimmer system just weren’t shining the light where they needed it. Seeking guidance, church tech Jonathan Showalter consulted with dealer/integrator CCI Solutions, which has worked with the church since 2003 on their sound, lighting and video systems. The answer—from CCI’s Dale Erickson—came in the form of 30 elektraLite eyeBall LED fixtures.
KANSAS CITY: Crush Music, the full service music company, came up with the idea of co-headlining two of their artists on a North American summer shed tour with Weezer and Panic! At The Disco. The tour started in Houston,TX on June 10th and will conclude in Irvine, CA on Aug 6th having played to a crowd of half a million people throughout the summer. Luz Studio’s Matthieu Larivée worked in conjunction with Weezer’s LD, Robb Jibbson, to design the touring production package.
DURBAN, South Africa – A massive fire destroyed the Durban Christian Centre’s 5,500-capacity Jesus Dome auditorium in the city’s Mayville neighborhood on the night of June 8. No one was injured in the blaze, but the structure, first dedicated in 1999, was a total loss. Three days later, the sky above the destroyed church’s parking lot lit up with beams from 12 Clay Paky Mythos fixtures, all pointed towards a star, as the congregation met together for a service. LD Michael Broderick and Brandon Bunyan of Black Coffee donated the idea and the use of the gear. Going forward, the megachurch will hold services using a large tent until the Jesus Dome can be rebuilt.
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FORT WALTON BEACH, FL – For a project at Al’s Beach Club and Burger Bar, located on the boardwalk along Fort Walton Beach, Sohail e. Najafi and his team at Najafi Design Group (Los Angeles, Las Vegas) installed linear and panel LED fixtures from Chauvet’s Iluminarc Colorist line. These included 30 Colorist 12Qa linear and 26 Colorist 6Qa linear units (both of which are RGBA) and two Colorist Panel 8Qa fixtures. Also included in the rig are 22 COLORado 2-Quad Zoom IP, three COLORado 1-Tri IP and four Q-Wash 260-LED fixtures, as well as two Vesuvio RGBA LED foggers from Chauvet Professional, plus four Intimidator Wave 360 IRC four-headed moving fixtures from Chauvet DJ.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – The Mall of Scandinavia near the center of Stockholm features DEX, a ceiling-mounted, 65-meter-long light sculpture made from 3,800 LED strips. Each of the LED strips has 64 individually controllable pixels. London-based video architecture firm BAJT created the volumetric content for DEX using d3’s creative suite, the Notch realtime 3D engine and Autodesk 3ds Max 3D animation software.
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MANSFIELD, MA —For Boston-based radio station Kiss 108’s summer concert, staged June 18 at Xfinity Center, East Coast Lighting & Production Services, Inc. (ECLPS) provided Elation Professional’s EPT6IP LED video panels. The screens gave the crowds a closer look at performances by a lineup that included Halsey, Flo Rida, Charlie Puth, The Chainsmokers, Iggy Azalea and Nelly, and they were also used to feature a variety of custom content. ECLPS supplied all of the lighting and video products for the annual summer event.
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BERLIN, Germany – AV Stumpfl’s multimedia and presentation technology was installed to support an elaborate AV feature within Berlin’s shopping center, Das Schloss. The project took two years for design and planning, two months for installation and two weeks just to set up. F1 Gesellschaft für Informationstechnologien und Managementberatung mbH, working in collaboration with VIOSO GmbH, installed 15 AV Stumpfl’s Wings VIOSO software packages for calibration and projection mapping, 15 Wings VIOSO servers for playback of high-resolution content, Wings Touch for simplified operation and Wings Avio Manager for system control and communication between system components.
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KANSAS CITY, MO – LD Mike Swinford, who has lit Kenny Chesney since the country artist’s first headline tour in 2001, has seen the whole visual concept for the live show evolve and change, with the main objective now being to create big impressive yet simple and straightforward looks. “It’s more about the music than a load of lighting fluff or gags” he states. To meet the needs of the current “Spread the Love” tour, Nashville-based Morris provided 24 Robe BMFL WashBeams.
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