Lighting Designer Andre Beekmans of TAOL in collaboration with Andrei Predut of APart in Bucharest, Romania used a large complement of Claypaky fixtures to light the ‘We are ONE’ concert in the city’s National Arena to benefit humanitarian causes in the region.
Main Light, LLC, a preeminent dry hire rental partner, has recently added Ayrton’s Khamsin Profile luminaires to their extensive rental offerings. These new units are already in stock at Main Light which has the following locations—Main Light, East in Wilmington, DE, Main Light, South in Nashville, TN, and Main Light, West in Las Vegas, NV. To better introduce this new addition to their inventory Main Light has created this video demonstration of the Ayrton Khamsin-S luminaire:
Read More »Main Light Expands its Inventory with Ayrton’s Khamsin Profile Luminaires
Community building, relationships, and a desire to bring more joy into the world were the fuel for writer/director Guy Jacobson while writing, financing, and filming the upcoming courtroom comedy film, Out of Order. Jacobson, who co-wrote and produced Holly and co-directed the child exploitation documentary Redlight, wrote the script for Out of Order with Megan Freels Johnston.Read More »Out of Order, Guy Jacobson’s Upcoming Comedy Film, Shot with Camera Package from PRG
LD Liam McCarthy used 100 Robe moving lights supplied by Just Lites for ABBA Orchestral [an ABBA tribute show] at Dublin’s 3Arena. The musical extravaganza featured the Waterloo Concert Orchestra led by noted conductor and arranger Andy O’Callaghan.
Pixelhue is a company born of the desire to innovate, creating new technology and video processing solutions for the Pro AV industry, while never sacrificing the stability and ease of use. In Pixelhue, the rental solution world now has a new major player. Its mission begins with the user experience and has the ultimate goal of providing users with the astoundingly real visual experience. Pixelhue was started in 2017, mainly for the mid-to-high-end rental market, focusing on the field of video processing. The brand and products have grown from nothing and have gradually become well known to the market and customers.
In 2019, Pixelhue launched the first-generation F-series video switchers and U3 console which were applied in hundreds of large-scale projects and events in mainland China, such as CCTV Spring Festival Gala and Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, as well as new product launches for well-known companies. They are committed to continuously polishing and optimizing products, collecting positive feedback and valuable suggestions from the market and clients, and achieving continuous improvement and qualitative leaps in product performance and stability.
Now the company is releasing its very first media server – the X400.Read More »Pixelhue X400 Media Server
For Coldplay’s global ‘Music of the Spheres’ tour, spherical patterns extend out from the stage, an effect enhanced by Sooner Routhier’s lighting design, which features 192 Chauvet Professional Color STRIKE M fixtures.
The former White Stripes frontman currently wowing fans with Jack White: The Supply Chain Issues Tour has 82 Ayrton MagicBlade FX fixtures delivering dynamic effects… Read More »Ayrton MagicBlade FX Fixtures Create Dynamic Effects for Jack White’s Tour
Two of the most successful German Twitch streamers, Trymacs and MckyTV, met recently—not for an Esports event, but for a real boxing match. Believing in the motto ‘the more, the merrier’, the two brought in four more Twitch colleagues, who also tested their strength in two preliminary fights. For the Great Fight Night, moderator Steven Gätjen hosted the evening, while the spectacle was rounded off with a live music performance.Read More »PRG Sends GLP into Battle for the “Great Fight Night” at Cologne’s Lanxess Arena
LynTec, a leading manufacturer of innovative electrical power control solutions for professional audio, video, and lighting (AVL) systems, is providing simple, web-enabled, on/off power control and monitoring for FirstBank Amphitheater’s concession and perimeter lighting and future broadcast studio. Integrated Production Solutions (IPS) installed LynTec’s patented RPC Breaker Panels, RPCR Relay Panel, and XPC Series XRS 20 Rack Sequencer to ensure the proper power up and shut down of the venue’s incredible lighting system and other audio and video components.Read More »IPS Taps LynTec to Support the Massive Lighting Install at FirstBank Amphitheater
Lighting and Production Designer, Mark Cunniffe, has chosen to light Ed Sheeran’s current Mathematics world tour, with a lighting rig composed almost entirely of Ayrton… Read More »Mark Cunniffe Chooses Ayrton Rig for Ed Sheeran’s Mathematics Tour
PLSN has learned of the death of longtime television Scenic Designer Victor Paganuzzi, who died on June 16, 2022 at age 90. He was the designer of the distinctive set of CBS Sunday Morning and so many other CBS programs. Here’s a video from CBS that was broadcast on July 31, 2011 upon Paganuzzi’s retirement after nearly 50 years at CBS. Paganuzzi explains to Charles Osgood how the inspiration for the original CBS Sunday Morning set came from a baseball diamond.
Read More »In Memoriam: Television Scenic Designer Victor Paganuzzi, 90
Just as their 19th annual ride is starting, the Long Reach Long Riders are thrilled to announce the achievement of a major milestone. Thanks to literally thousands of individual and corporate sponsors over the years, the LRLR has been able to raise, and more importantly give away, over one million dollars!Read More »Long Reach Long Riders Reach $1M Milestone