Elation, Daktronics and Flying by Foy Help Engineer a New Cruise Ship Experience
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCCL) bills their newest cruise ship as the most technologically advanced to date, with broadband Internet access, digital wristbands to track passengers’ movements and purchases and personalized mobile apps. In short, a “smart ship,” named “Quantum of the Seas.”
LD Steve Lieberman Incorporates New Lighting, Video Gear
The XS Nightclub at Encore at Wynn Las Vegas has been named “best nightclub in the United States” by revenue an unprecedented five times in the annual Top 100 listing by Nightclub & Bar magazine, the bible of the bibulous.
We’re on our way to the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum’s recently renovated planetarium in Centerport, NY, which is on the north shore of Long Island. After undergoing 18 months and four-million-dollars worth of remodeling and technical upgrades, the facility reopened in March 2013 and was renamed the Charles and Helen Reichert Planetarium.
The Castle of Love Festival, a two-day music festival, returned for the ninth year to the historic and wooded environs of Castle Park Erenstein near Kerkrade, a city on the Netherlands side of the Netherlands/Germany border Aug. 16-17, 2014. With 20,000 visitors looking to dance to the beat of popular acts including The Partysquad, Yellow Claw, Sick Individuals and Jay Hardway, LD Tom Franken was looking for gear that would inject electrified excitement into the normally serene surroundings.
Restaurateur and one-time Hollywood film producer Victor Drai has radically shifted the course of Sin City VIP nightlife entertainment multiple times over the last two decades. In a highly competitive market, Drai has proven himself to be both prolific and visionary, having established Drai’s After Hours at Barbary Coast/Bill’s Gambling Hall 15 years ago, XS at Encore Las Vegas back in 2008 and the exceedingly popular Tryst in Wynn Las Vegas, which opened in 2007.
With only about 681,000 residents — down from 1.86 million in 1950 — and about $18.5 billion in bills to pay (more than $27,000 per person), the city of Detroit declared bankruptcy in mid-2013. It was, by far, the largest municipal default in U.S. history. The city’s financial conundrum is a puzzle that might even stump sculptor Auguste Rodin’s iconic Thinker, a casting of which is perched high on a pedestal outside the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) museum — and one of more than 60,000 artworks in the city-owned museum, now drawing more than just aesthetic interest from the city’s beleaguered creditors.
Here’s a little math quiz. What do you get when you add 600 square feet of video wall units, one major “party pit” boasting nearly 60 moving heads and 360 LED video bars, and $40 million in construction and soft costs? The surprising answer is E11even — a 24-hour cabaret/nightclub in Miami, Florida, that made its debut earlier this year.
The LED-versus-projection video debate seems long resolved — in terms of luminous firepower, LED clearly won that smack down. Yet that discussion still continues to those extremely budget minded … like a house of worship.
Let there be light. Actually, the saying was more along the lines of, “Let there be more light.” At least that’s what The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas conveyed to Burbank, CA-based Global Trend Productions when the casino and hotel approached the company about revamping its increasingly popular Bond bar. The Cosmopolitan, with the help of its design team, had big plans for elevating the appeal of its trendy bar area, having envisioned a wondrous, hybrid space that could be infused with Sin City-styled dance performances, gaming aspects and brightly lit visual elements. The Vegas hotspot accomplished this — and more. At the end of a month long renovation process, The Cosmopolitan completely transformed the look of the Bond bar with a unique and unprecedented application of LED technology within a casino environment.
In October 2013, pop music icon Katy Perry held an album release party for her latest studio offering, Prism, at iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank, CA. After making a special appearance at the media and events venue, Perry was interviewed by The X Factor host Mario Lopez for an event that was broadcast by 175 Clear Channel stations across the U.S.
Architects building cool, inevitably iconic buildings don’t always think about how the heck the exterior will be lit. At least they probably didn’t in 1963. That year, the James S. McDonnell Planetarium in St. Louis, MO was built by modernist architect Gyo Obata. The planetarium, part of the St. Louis Science Center, is where stargazers can sit reclined in a circle, looking up as the interior and ceiling are lit up to show the solar system.