Installations

It’s no secret that many houses of worship have gone high-tech in order to amplify their message and provide dazzling services for their congregations. Northview Church in Carmel, IN certainly had that in mind when they built a $16 million auditorium that boasts plenty of cutting edge sound and lighting. What they did not bank on (but can now) was the fact that many Christian music acts would regularly play there, even luring people away from a major secular venue in the Indianapolis area. It seems that the means for delivering their message appeals to others as well.

It does not take a large budget or ambitious design to revitalize a local lounge into a dynamic new space. It just takes ingenuity and know-how. A case in point: Ian Hoffer’s transformation of the interior look for the Level 2 nightclub in Harrisburg, PA. “It’s an upscale restaurant and lounge,” he tells PLSN. “But it just had gotten stale and needed a fresh look.”

Immersive Lighting and Video at NYC’s VIP Club

Sometimes you have a grand design concept swirling around in your head but just can’t quite express it to your clients in the way you would like. But then you get the chance to gradually unfurl and execute your vision over time despite their initial trepidation, and once it’s fully rolled out and realized, they fall in love with it. They’re elated, and you’re stoked.

Las Vegas is upping its EDM ante, with competition among its casino nightclubs intensifying to the point where the desert city (also now host to the biggest of the annual Electric Daisy Carnivals) might rival Miami, and eventually even Ibiza, with appearances by world’s most popular DJs. The most recent addition to the lineup of clubs welcoming big-name DJs is Hakkasan, at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino. Since it opened in April 2013, Hakkasan, a name once associated mostly with Asian-fusion cuisine, has become synonymous with a no-holds-barred nightlife and clubbing experience.

Names like Tiësto, Deaudmau5, Steve Aoki and Calvin Harris bring gatherings like the Electric Daisy Carnival, Ultra Music Festival and Coachella to mind, along with the Las Vegas nightclub scene — lots of late night revelers, partying to the beat to impressive, and sometimes blindingly bright, lighting and video displays. But what happens when you take the same big-name DJs and use them to draw partiers to the casino’s pool, in broad daylight? They can serve up the same throbbing basslines, but when the DJs are spinning in the sun, there’s no way a light show can deliver the same impact.

Sight & Sound, a Christian theatre company founded in Pennsylvania’s Amish country in the mid-1970s by Glenn and Shirley Eshelman, has been entertaining audiences and spreading the story of the Bible ever since.

These days, it seems that nightclub concepts in general have a shelf life of no more than a few years — and the same holds true for gentlemen’s clubs. While the dancers may be the main attraction, club owners are willing to invest millions to update a major club’s atmosphere, décor and branding.

When you’ve got thousands of seats, dozens of moving lights, hundreds of conventional fixtures and a Christmas production seen by more than 30,000 people each year, what do you do to raise your production bar to the next level? IS there a next level? If you’re NorthRidge Church in Plymouth, MI, the answer is a resounding “yes!” The 3,300-seat facility just west of Detroit has wowed audiences for almost 20 years with its production values, not just at Christmas and Easter, but every Sunday.