The FRABA Group, an international supplier of sensors for industrial motion control and safety systems, has announced the opening of a new business unit in China. The new company, named the FRABA Industrial Automation (Shanghai) Company, Limited, will serve the rapidly expanding Chinese industrial automation market.
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Introducing the new Stryker Max from Eliminator Lighting, a moving head fixture which maximizes creative potential. Compact yet powerful, it can be used to generate… Read More »Stryker Max – Take Your Lighting to the Max with Eliminator’s Versatile New Moving Head
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Christie® announces the launch of Jazz Series, a new range of next generation 1DLP® laser projectors that offer exceptional performance without a premium price tag.… Read More »Christie Launches its Jazz Series 1DLP Laser Projectors
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NicLen GmbH continues to rely on Cameo in 2024. With its latest investment in the new ORON H2 phosphor laser moving head, the leading dry hire provider has added a real game-changer to its lighting technology portfolio. The IP65 hybrid moving head with phosphor-laser engine is now available in large quantities to all NicLen customers.
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The 2024 Behind the Scenes Holiday Cards are now available for purchase online at the BTS Boutique. This year’s collection features six different designs created especially for the charity by Ola Kraszpulska, Rick Martin, Robert Mendoza, and Court Watson. From designs highlighting the BTS ghostlight to magical winter scenes and everything in between, you’re sure to find a design that’s right for you.
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Cologne-based motion design and show development studio, visualprime, is used to doing things on a large scale, and Hannover’s Fairground Festival of electronic music is no exception. The second iteration of this relatively new festival – already classed as Germany’s third-largest indoor festival – took place in the cavernous spaces of the Hannover exhibition halls hosting 40,000 party-goers over two remarkable days. visualprime lighting designer, Tobias Reinartz, employed over 100 Ayrton fixtures to inject dynamism, color and striking linear arrays across the stage and dance floor.
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Legendary American rockers Blink-182 are treating fans to LED-focused, in-the-round arena shows on their current One More Time Tour. Each show is packed with lights, pyrotechnics, and fireworks as well as LED screens and staging powered by tvONE’s Green Hippo brand of Hippotizer Media Servers, two flagship Tierra+ MK2 Media Servers.
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Get a look at the dynamic design of The Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds Tour in this video. Then, go Behind the Design with Creative Director Patrick Woodroffe, Lighting Designer Terry Cook and Associate Lighting Designer/Lighting Director Ethan Weber in the PLSN July 2024 issue article. Plus get the vendor views of supporting this massive design from lighting provider Upstaging and video supplier Nighthawk Video.
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Unleash the full potential of LED batten lighting and ignite your creative spark with the new SIX+ BAR from Elation. Building on the success of… Read More »Elation Redefines Creative LED Batten Lighting with New SIX+ BAR Series
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Each year, PLSN honors regional lighting production companies with our Hometown Hero award. This award honors the best regional lighting production company in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest, and Canada. This award—from nominations to winners—is selected by you, the entertainment technology industry, because you truly know who the Hometown Heroes are in the industry.
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Lighting Designer Daniel Knipper used 24 CHAUVET Professional Ovation Rêve E-3 IP LED ellipsoidals in his transformative design for the six-century-old Strasbourg Cathedral located in Place de la Cathédrale in Strasbourg, France. The full-spectrum color-mixing fixtures, which were supplied by XEOS, were hung on two porticos that flanked the façade. This arrangement allowed Knipper to highlight the architectural details of the façade by creating gobos based on digital photos.
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Girls Aloud are back on the road for the first time in 11 years, with their Girls Aloud Show tour, a lively, edgy, pop-tastic collage of foot tapping hits, creatively directed by Beth Honan and lit by Peter Barnes. Lighting, video, automation and rigging equipment – including some new innovations – and crew are all supplied by PRG UK to Production North, whose unfazable Iain Whitehead is overseeing all related technical production elements.
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