The Spanish open-air festival series “I Love Reggaeton” was held in Valencia and Madrid from the end of May to the beginning of June. Genre… Read More »Pyramids of Light – Cameo at the I Love Reggaeton Festival
One of Spain’s most prominent lighting designers, Xavier Costas, a member of the Asociación de Autores de Iluminación (AAI), has been a cornerstone in the… Read More »Xavier Costas: Two Decades of Lighting Success with the ONYX Platform
PROLIGHTS products are part of the new lighting setup for the PBS News studio. The studio embraces a modern and minimalist design in line with… Read More »PROLIGHTS Products Illuminate the New PBS News Studio
2024 was the second year that South African Lighting Designer Renaldo van den Berg has lit the prestigious Metro FM Awards, which is a leading… Read More »Robe for the 2024 Metro FM Awards
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stepping into the world of Raw Cereal means diving into a realm of creativity and cutting-edge technology. The global creative and production studio with the intriguing name creates immersive live experiences for some of the world’s best-known artists, with one of the hottest names in country music, Lainey Wilson, thrilling fans with Raw Cereal-designed shows that include Elation RAYZOR series lights.
Flames, lasers, and lights fired up the night sky at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in the UK as Arcadia launched its amazing new “Dragonfly” spectacular concept. Lighting included Robe’s new iBOLTS, a laser-source searchlight style moving light, and iPointe65s – an IP65 version of Robe’s MegaPointe moving light – as a part of the over 200 lights illuminating the Arcadia Arena.