LAS VEGAS — No fatalities had been reported immediately after this year’s Electric Daisy Carnival festival held at Las Vegas Motor Speedway June 17-19. But one attendee who collapsed from suspected heat stroke at about 6 a.m. after the event’s third night of revelry was hospitalized and did not recover. Kenani Kaimuloa, 20, from the San Diego area, was declared brain-dead and taken off life support.
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BALTIMORE, MD – For the 14th edition of Maryland Deathfest, held over Memorial Day Weekend, Zack Bunner, lighting designer at Showtime Sound (Frederick, Maryland) added visual impact with fixtures from Chauvet Professional, including Rogue R2 Washes and STRIKE 4 LED fixtures.
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LONDON – Leading UK Lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment celebrated 10 years of being a main technical supplier to Field Day – one of London’s premier and most popular urban music events, staged in Victoria Park, Hackney. Lighting was designed to be as flexible as possible to deal with the dynamic line-up of DJs and live acts which included legendary French electronica duo Air headlining on the Sunday.
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LONDON – Earlier this month, Graham Jones Music Ltd organized ‘Project 70’ – a 70th birthday celebration that took place at the historic Tower of London. In order to create a memorable occasion, the event featured a 70 piece marching band along with a live performance from soprano Laura Wright. As a result, it required reliable AV support and White Light was called upon to provide the complete technical solutions.
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CANBERRA, Australia – Elite Sound and Lighting, based in the Australian capital, Canberra, is one of the country’s fastest growing rental and production companies. Headed by owner and founder Darren Russell, Elite made its first Robe investment in 2011 and in 2013, Darren made the conscious commitment to Robe as their ‘house’ moving light brand. “I simply wanted a premium brand that was reliable and had a diverse enough range to cover all requirements for rental, staging and installation applications,” he said.
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NEW YORK – The Daryl Hall and John Oates 2016 tour kicked off this year at New York’s Madison Square Garden and will continue through the summer. Nashville based Morris, in collaboration with well known designer Jesper Luth, provided the production and lighting design. Featured in the design are 140 Solaris Mozart fixtures.
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DUBAI – Maestra was asked on-board by sports producers ProActiv to provide all the rigging, sound, video, lighting, staging and draping needed for the popular two day event, project managed for Maestra Group by managing partner of Maestra Dubai, Tom Clements. The brief included coordinating the extensive soft-goods required around the site and setting up a workable backstage space using creative draping to give dressing and green rooms and technical areas. Maestra also supplied the local crew and specialized event security.
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Digital Projection International’s (DPI) E-Vision Laser 8500, featured at InfoComm in Las Vegas earlier this month, offers users 8,500 lumens and 20,000 hours of illumination. This single chip projector was developed with DPI’s ‘Fit and Forget’ directive, promising that it will need only minimal maintenance throughout the lifetime of the display.
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PARIS – Lighting designer Nicolas Maisonneuve specified eight Robe BMFL Blades for the Très souvent je pense à vous (Very Often I Think of You) tour by French singer Patrick Bruel. Maisonneuve also designed the stage set and evolved the show design and direction with the artist himself.
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NEW YORK – The Entertainment Technician Certification Program’s (ETCP) Portable Power Distribution Technician (PPDT) examination will be offered at more than 190 testing centers in North America beginning July 15 for computer-based testing. There is no application deadline and once a candidate is approved he/she can usually test within a couple of weeks, depending on candidate volume. Because this is a new examination, score reports will be delayed during this time.
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NEW YORK – When American Idiot hit the Broadway stage in 2010, theatergoers were treated to more than just the punk-rock sounds of Green Day’s iconic rock opera; they experienced the visual impact that lighting can bring to storytelling. When Pace University staged American Idiot in 2016 at the NYC campus’ Schimmel Center, LD Zach Blane took an approach with his lighting rig that – like punk rock – broke the rules, using theatrical fixtures not just for traditional purposes, but for hard-driving strobe effects.
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NEW YORK – Brillz (aka Sami Diament) has been touring the U.S. with his “Twonk Di Nation” tour in recent months with a hard-hitting light show from designers Ethan Kairer, Jim Feeney and Corey Mattonen. The visual impact comes from a collection of Nexus 4×4 LED panels and MVP Ta8 Curve video panels from Chauvet Professional supplied by Hatboro, PA-based Zeo Brothers.
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