LONDON – LD Rob Sinclair’s design for Adele’s international tour this year featured a distinctive back wall of 96 cone-shaped lampshades using 60-watt incandescent household bulbs to illuminate them. The rest of the show featured moving lights that didn’t move, and lots of white light, to allow Adele’s voice to be the star. Jands Vista v2 software controlled the show.
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LITTLE ROCK, AR – Little Rock First Baptist Church needed to update its lighting system without alienating its congregation. The 1200-capacity church recently found a way to update its worship events with uplifting color, lighting and control from Martin products.
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NEW CASTLE, DE – The family entertainment tour, “Yo Gabba Gabba! Live – It’s Time to Dance,” is taking kids’ shows up a notch production-wise. Pete’s Big TVs is providing various LED video panels making up the set of the show, produced by S2BN Entertainment – the same entity producing the Broadway musical, “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”
Read More »NEW YORK, NY – The ESTA Foundation’s Behind the Scenes program continues to directly benefit entertainment technology professionals who are seriously ill or injured. ESTA issued a holiday season reminder to think of our colleagues in the industry – and this program in particular – when considering charitable giving.
Read More »ARTESIA, CA and WESTPORT, CT — The lighting industry lost two of its own in late November: Andy Figueroa Jr., 30, died after a Nov. 27 car accident in his hometown; Marvin Gelman, 84, founder of Lighting Services Inc. (LSI), an architectural lighting products manufacturer, died Nov. 29 of complications from cancer. Figueroa, known as “Andy Fig Jr.,” was the son of lighting programmer/director Andrew Figueroa, Sr. and had emerged as a prominent lighting tech/lighting director himself. Gelman, who retired from LSI in 2000, is credited for many advances in track, accent and display lighting.
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MANHEIM, PA – Mojo Barriers’ US office has enjoyed a successful summer helping to keep crowds and artists safe at festivals and concerts across the nation. One of the biggest events was Lollapalooza Aug. 5-7 in Chicago, where they designed and installed a new stage barrier configuration for crowds of up to 90,000 people each day.
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TEMPE, AZ – Arizona’s Sound Wave festival is appropriately named for its location: inside a wave pool at the Big Surf Waterpark in Tempe. Creative Backstage handled the video and stage design, choosing EVLED 1024SMD panels from Elation to create a 3D-like effect.
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MADRID, Spain – A Spanish bullfighting arena served as the location for Coldplay’s one-off performance Oct. 26 to promote their new album, Mylo Xyloto. Stageco provided five trucks of equipment for the show, which was challenged when bad weather turned the sandy floor into mud. Anton Corbijn filmed the gig and streamed it live on YouTube.
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