Green Hippo technology once again helps Eurovision contestants to hit the heights. Eurovision 2018 saw over 200 million people witness a spectacular example of what 3D projection mapping can do.
LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Board of Advisors has announced that Chris Adamson will receive the Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award at the 18th annual ceremony in Anaheim, CA on Jan. 25, 2019. He’s pictured here at the 2018 ceremony, where he was both an awards presenter and recipient (Tour Manager of the Year).
American rockers All Time Low know how to deliver high-impact, adrenaline-fueled arena shows. Backed by a huge, fractured LED screen and stadium-scale lighting rig, their current world tour is a blaze of eye-candy glory.
The 2018 edition of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS) is featured another exciting and eye-catching lighting design created by the show’s long term LD Manuel da Costa and Jonas König
LONDON – Queen + Adam Lambert, who continue to tour since teaming up in 2012, are impressing large audiences with visuals powered by a disguise gx 2 media server. Graham Miller, head of music/entertainment at Creative Technology, Europe, detailed how the server supports the visual design crafted by a creative team including Ric Lipson from Stufish Entertainment Architects, LD Rob Sinclair and content producer Sam Pattinson at The Third Company.
LONDON – Swedish-Scottish singer Nina Nesbitt followed up a series of performances in the U.S. with a tour of the U.K. LD Ollie Wilkinson used Chauvet Professional Maverick MK Pyxis fixtures supplied by Arranpaul to light the artist, who performed atop an illuminated Perspex plinth in the center of the stage. The Maverick MK Pyxis lit Nesbitt with a wide array of colored wash and beam effects.
After 10 years of globe-trotting around the world amazing festival goers with a unique and brilliantly crafted production, Arcadia Spectacular finally made a long-awaited debut appearance in London
LISBON, Portugal – LD Jerry Appelt, who worked with stage designer Florian Wieder on the Eurovision Song Contest 2018, included more than 600 GLP lighting fixtures for the semi-finals and finals of the massive competition, seen by the live audience within Lisbon’s Altice Arena and broadcast live to millions of TV viewers. Appelt chose KNV Arc modules along with JDC1 hybrid strobes and impression X4 L fixtures for the series of events.
Mike St-Jean says he was eager to challenge himself as a lighting designer when he signed on for TesseracT’s current tour in support of their fourth studio album Sonder. He certainly got what he wanted.
NASHVILLE – Almost immediately after Premier Global Production took delivery of 26 of Ayrton’s new Ghibli fixtures, the LED spot luminaires, which feature a factory-equipped framing system, went out on tour with country music singer/songwriter Brett Eldredge. Dominic Smith, LD and programmer, and Mike Marcario, board operator, joined Fireplay partners Nick Whitehouse and Kelly Sticksel in giving the new fixtures a big thumbs-up.
Israel taking the prize was the apotheosis of the grand final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, where Ampco Flashlight played a major role as supplier of all lighting, rigging, video and motion systems
CyberHoist by CyberMotion is on tour again, this time with Vegas native band The Killers on their Wonderful, Wonderful tour.