Twenty One Pilots’ “Icy” tour hit the road this summer, offering LD Tyler “Shap” Shapard the chance to produce an elegant and imaginative lighting design. To atmospherically engineer the mood and vibes for each song, he relied on a Solotech-supplied rig that included 80 Robe MegaPointes.
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Despite a November chill that turned patches of green a frosty white in the predawn hours on Nov. 17, the sun quickly warmed Rhodes Ranch Golf Club in Las Vegas for the 2022 PLSN/FOH Parnelli Classic golf tournament. PLSN/FOH’s Terry Lowe and Greg Gallardo welcomed close to 100 players to the event.
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GLP has announced the worldwide availability of its new IP65 rated LED spot, designated the FUSION X-PAR 12 Z. Developed in close cooperation with PRG, the fixture has already started featuring at events across Europe, to wide acclaim.Read More »GLP’s FUSION X-PAR 12 Z IP65 Spot: Future- and Weather-Proofed for All Applications
Lighting Designer Marsha Stern started out lighting for discos in the 1970s before transitioning into architectural and architainment lighting projects in the 90s. She has a podcast, Heartbeat of the Dance Floor® that looks back fondly on the glory days of disco. In episode #12, Stern has assembled a lighting design panel to discuss lighting in those early days. Here is the video replay of A Lighting Panel with Special Guests Ken Billington, Jason Kantrowitz, (KB Associates / The Red Parrot), Anne Militello (Vortex Lighting / California Institute of the Arts), and Paul Gregory (Focus Lighting / Saturday Night Fever dance floor):
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The University of Houston recently took advantage of the University Outreach Program from Vari-Lite, the originators of the modern moving head and Signify entertainment lighting brand, which enables emerging lighting design students to elevate their production looks and facilitates hands-on professional fixture experience. The latest collaborative project saw Andrew Archer, who is undertaking a BFA in Technical Theatre Production, create an inspired design for the play The Learned Ladies using VL2600 SPOT luminaires.Read More »Vari-Lite University Outreach Program Delivers VL2600 Uplift for the University of Houston
Bandit Lites has been nominated for the Concert Visuals Company of the Year at the 34th Annual Pollstar 2023 Awards. The awards will be held… Read More »Bandit Lites Nominated for Pollstar 2023 Award
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On 5th November, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) broadcast its anniversary program Ghörig – Party, Celebrities, Major Hits. 50 Years of ORF’s Vorarlberg Studio. The show, moderated by Inés Mäser and Norbert Oberhauser and directed by Nikolai Dörler (KSR Filmproduktion e.U.), was recorded in September in Studio 3 of the Vorarlberg studio in Dornbirn.Read More »LD Raphael Grebenstein Deploys Over 120 GLP impression FR1 for ORF’s Vorarlberg Broadcast Studio
Claypaky has achieved a key milestone in its “CP Green” Sustainability Project by gaining ISO 14064-1:2018 Certification as the first entertainment lighting company being certified in the Carbon Inventory Management System. In March 2022, Claypaky launched its “CP Green – Spotlight on Sustainability” initiative for environmental sustainability. The project was undertaken in cooperation with Spinlife, spin-off of the University of Padova. The Spinlife team provides public and private organizations of all sizes with tailored consulting plans regarding strategic environmental management and sustainability management techniques.Read More »Claypaky Achieves Key Milestone in its “CP Green” Sustainability Project
The 2022 AHA|SA Awards for Excellence was held at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on October 18th. Celebrating the vibrant hotel industry in South Australia, this annual event awards hotels with outstanding service and facilities. Novatech Creative Event Technology supplied full production, including the video equipment for the awards, using ROE Visual’s Vanish series as the main focus of the room and Carbon panels for the side screens.Read More »ROE Visual Features at AHA|SA Awards for Excellence
Busy and vibrant live music venue, Doornroosje, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has invested in more Robe moving lights for its two main performance halls, which are action-packed with a full program – currently staging around double the number of pre-covid shows such is the demand – making up for down time during the pandemic. Doornroosje is run by the local Nijmegen town council and managed by a full-time staff of bookers, admin and technical staff including Robbie Van Reen, who has been head of lighting since 2009.Read More »Doornroosje Makes New Robe Investment
DTS’s Alchemy line, of which Alchemy 7 is the newest fixture, already caught the attention of the theater and television industries for its high-quality light, extended color palette and classical look. This luminaire has been included as key light in TV shows, it has been a protagonist among wash fixtures setups in international theaters, as part of the lighting scenography in immersive events and concerts, and so on. Here’s an overview video from DTS on the Alchemy 7 Fresnel wash light:
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Ligabue drew big crowds for seven shows at the Arena di Verona in Italy, then performed four more concerts in Barcelona, Brussels, Paris and London. For the artist’s “30 Years in a Day” at the Arena in Campovolo on June 4, LD Jo Campana, used 61 Ayrton Domino Profiles provided by Agorà via Ayrton distributor Molpass.
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