TEMPE, AZ – XLNT’s CyberHoist II system was used to automate the impressive 415-strong PAR Can rig for Kanye West’s headlining set at the Summer Ends Music Festival in the Phoenix area. More than 28,000 revelers descended on Tempe Beach Park for the four-day event, with West bringing it to a close Sept. 27.
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GOTHENBURG, Sweden – For Spargrisarna kan rädda världen (Saving Pigs Can Save The World), LD Michael Sevholt uses Robe fixtures to light the production’s four actors, who perform along with a 10-piece orchestra. The rig includes eight Robe DL4S Profiles and 14 LEDWash 300s.
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FLORENCE, Italy – Showlight, set for May 20-23, 2017, is still a ways off, but the first exhibitors have already confirmed their attendance at teh event, held once every four years. They include Arri, German Light Products (GLP), Hawthorn and Robe.
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BRISTOL, U.K. – Entertainment lighting hire and event production specialist Fineline Lighting noted a standout year of festival support for the 2015 season, with Avolites Titan consoles, dimmers, Ai servers and TitanNet Processors providing visuals control. Pictured here and below, the lighting used at the 2015 Eden Seessions, part of Cornwall’s Eden Project.
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The Futurelight PLB-280 from Steinigke is designed to serve as a spot, beam and wash light – three fixtures in one. The moving head is equipped with a 280W Osram Sirius discharge lamp for a combination of power and flexibility. In beam mode, it demonstrates an extremely narrow beam angle of 2 degrees, which can be increased to 10 degrees with the motorized focus. The built-in 8-fold prism multiplies the sharp image and arranges it in a circle, while the 6-fold prism creates a linear image. Adding more creative possibilities are the 14 gobos and 13 colors on the color wheel. Using the moving head as spot, the zoom makes it possible to adjust the beam angle between 5.5 degrees and 23 degrees. In addition to the functions mentioned above, a gobo wheel with 9 rotating gobos can now be used. Gobos can be changed easily and quickly.
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CARDIFF, U.K. – dbn Lighting from Manchester collaborated once again with producers Walk The Plank to celebrate the tenth nniversary of the landmark Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay, Wales. dbn’s Stephen Page was asked to design lighting for the spectacle, staged outside along the main concourse approach to the Center.
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AUKLAND, NZ – Simon Garrett from Oceania Productions used Robe BMFLs to light the runway at New Zealand Fashion Week (NZFW) 2015 at the main show-space within the ANZ Viaduct Events Centre (VEC) in Aukland.
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SOUTHAMPTON, U.K. – GLS, founded in 1995, and now the newest member of the growing HSL Family, marked 20 years at the sharp end of the pro lighting and entertainment technology industry with a celebration at the Dancing Man Brewery.
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LONDON – Lighting designer Jip Nipius controlled the lighting for a special ‘cinematic’ two-part show by English rockers Suede at London’s Roundhouse in November using an Avolites Tiger Touch II for the first time. Nipius has been working with Suede since the late 1990s and was asked to create a lighting design to complement the band’s ‘experiential’ new shows, which were performed to launch a brand new concept album and short film.
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LONDON – For an event at the Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House in London that heralded the launch of LD Yaron Abulafia’s book, The Art of Light on Stage – Lighting in Contemporary Theatre, Yaron used Robe-supplied fixtures to light the Leeds-based Phoenix Dance Theatre.
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NASHVILLE – For Jethro Tull singer-songwriter and front man Ian Anderson’s latest shows, titled Jethro Tull – The Rock Opera, LD Mark Wheatley used a Bandit Lites-supplied rig that included Martin MAC Viper Profiles, MAC Auras, GLP Impression X4s and Clay Paky Sharpys.
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BOSTON – Rapper (and Rihanna boyfriend) Travis Scott energized Boston’s House of Blues with a pre-Thanksgiving show stuffed with vivid visual imagery. Image Production Services set up and ran the event’s MVP Ta8 Curve Panels from Chauvet Professional.
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