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… Read More »Wondrous Woods’ Woodyfest
Virtual GRiZMAS Supports Music Education Fund for Kids in Detroit Ever the innovators, the full service production team at Brown Note has not sat idle… Read More »12 Days of GRiZMAS
In December 2019, the Paul Winter Consort, led by Grammy-winning soprano saxophonist Paul Winter, celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the group’s annual Winter Solstice… Read More »Paul Winter’s 40th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration
PixMob Lights Up the Stands and Field with Recycled LED Wristbands Super Bowl LIV took place on Feb 2 in Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium with… Read More »Immersing the Super Bowl Crowd in Light
Pop Orchestra’s Open Air Concert Lights Up with All-LED Rig Guido’s Orchestra, the popular Dutch ensemble that fuses pop and classical music, performed their annual… Read More »Guido’s Orchestra
David Singleton is the man behind Production Collective, a creative “front” under whose guise he provides lighting design, production and video design, tour management, production… Read More »San Holo at Red Rocks
The annual pageant in Palmyra, NY at the site historically linked to the Book of Mormon is an epic production, with a prefab set and… Read More »The 81st Hill Cumorah Pageant
For a big concert staged during Super Bowl weekend at Mystic Lake Casino in the Twin Cities area, The Legacy Production Group got a big last-minute order for gear. “They took every last fixture we had and incorporated it into the design,” said Tom Gorman. “Our next problem was that, while we had the fixtures, we didn’t have the cable and distros to power them up, and they wanted to load in fairly soon.” The phone call had come in about ten days before load-in would commence in the ballroom, as the casino’s large stage in the theater was unavailable.
Once again over 100 million people from 180 countries tuned in to watch the Super Bowl and its infamous halftime show, as Justin Timberlake played a 13-minute set revealing a new song and plenty of his hits. It was his third Super Bowl appearance, but first as a headliner. A crack squad of technicians and I.A.T.S.E. members were able to set the stages on the field in approximately six minutes. Considering there were seven different performance stations for Timberlake, this was a feat that took some serious planning.
Radio shows have stepped out of the studio since the 1970s. After PLSN came across a few photos posted by LD Jeffrey W. Pardee of his design work for REAL 92.3’s 2017 “REAL Show” at the L.A. Forum, we gave him a call.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) held their annual re:Invent Conference in Las Vegas the last week of November with events and meetings taking place at multiple hotels including MGM, Aria, Venetian/Palazzo, and more.
The State Fair of Texas has been an institution in the Lone Star State since 1886. Held annually at 277-acre Fair Park in Dallas, this year’s fair ran from Sept. 29-Oct. 22. Although the fair’s nightly spectacular, “Illumination Sensation,” hasn’t been around for quite that long, it’s become one of the big draws of the yearly event. Lighting designer/programmer Nick Belley and show producers Interlaced Productions upped the shows visual appeal for 2017, incorporating effects from Elation Professional’s IP65-rated Proteus series moving heads, along with other Elation gear.