Lighting Designer Matt Mills just wrapped up a tour around the U.S. with the nu metal band KoRn from California. Due to international travel restrictions the booked LD for KoRn was unable to join the tour in U.S. Stepping in, Mills saw this as a great opportunity to tour with his Follow-Me 3D SIX remote followspot system and shares his experiences of using Follow-Me from the early days of Follow-Me 2D to the current Follow-Me 3D systems.Read More »LD Matt Mills and Follow-Me Track KoRn on Tour
Analog Way announces major updates in the new software release 3.4 for its Picturall™ series of media servers. The new features include support for NDI™ live video streaming (input and output), advanced audio features, synchronized layer timecode over the network, and enhanced show and server synchronization for back up.Read More »Major Software Release, V3.4 for Analog Way Picturall Media Servers
Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. opens its sixth Vectorworks Design Scholarship. This global competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students in major disciplines related to entertainment design, architecture, landscape architecture, landscape design, and interior design who can now submit either new or past projects for a chance to win up to $10,000 USD. The entry deadline is July 31, 2022. The winners will be revealed on December 9, 2022.Read More »2022 Vectorworks Design Scholarship Now Open for Submissions
Described by poets as “the music of the earth,” flowers have an almost magical power to turn every hillside and valley into a symphony that one can almost hear, as well as see. At the Enchanted Gardens light art festival, the “sound” of flowers harmonized beautifully with the human voice, thanks to the inspired work of Dynamic Beeld, Licht & Geluid.Read More »Dynamic Beeld, Licht & Geluid Captures Spirit of Enchanted Gardens with Chauvet Professional
Croatian pop superstar Petar Grašo’s four-word brief for Sven Kučinić, LD for Grašo’s return to the live stage after Covid, was to “make it absolutely awesome.” Kučinić opted for a lighting rig that included close to 200 Robe moving lights.
Spectacular sell-out lighting trail, Woodyfest, saw Vari-Lite VL2600 PROFILE fixtures from Signify deliver stunning projections, punchy color-rich washes, and breakup patterns on the rear façade of Scotland’s finest stately home, Hopetoun House in South Queensferry. These effects were augmented by far-reaching aerial light effects, created by the Vari-Lite VL10 BEAMWASH, which reportedly attracted the local community’s attention some distance away, and even caused some to speculate that the aliens were coming.Read More »Vari-Lite is Out of this World on Wondrous Woods’ Woodyfest
AV Stumpfl recently released a new information and support platform, dedicated to its PIXERA media server system.
AV Stumpfl recently released a new online information platform for its rapidly growing PIXERA media server user community called the ‘PIXERA knowledge base’. In addition to combining the latest written PIXERA documentation with video tutorials and animated clips of key topics, visitors to the knowledge base can also contact the PIXERA team by creating a support ticket from the same interface.Read More »AV Stumpfl Introduces PIXERA Knowledge Base
Pliant Technologies will be presenting High Density mode for both its CrewCom and CrewCom CB2 wireless intercom systems at NAB 2022 (Booth C7118). High Density mode is a selectable mode of operation that greatly increases user densities.Read More »Pliant® Technologies Brings High Density Mode to NAB 2022
The Red Hot Summer tour with lighting provided by EET including a range of Robe lighting fixtures. Photos by Darren Russell
Canberra-based Elite Event Technology – one of Australia’s leading rental and production companies – has made a new investment in 16 Robe MegaPointe moving lights for general stock, which join the sixteen that they already owned, purchased when the product was launched in 2018.Read More »Elite Event Technology Makes MegaPointe Investment
Trevor Noah, host for this year’s postponed and relocated Grammy Awards, paid homage to backstage workers during the event, which aired live on CBS from Las Vegas on April 3, and production team members helped introduce the artists with whom they worked. The event also featured an anti-war video from Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.