ISE 2023 (Stand #3F450) HARMAN Professional Solutions, the global leader in audio, video, lighting and control, introduced its ISE 2023 visitors to a range of innovative, powerful and versatile solutions introduced during the past year.Read More »HARMAN Professional Showcases Latest Pro Video and Lighting Solutions at ISE 2023
“Anytime I create, my goal is audience immersion,” Matt Moreland says when describing his approach to lighting design. “I strive to make the audience feel as though they are part of the show, not sitting in the dark watching what is happening on stage.”Read More »Matt Moreland Immerses at Free Chapel with Help From CHAUVET Professional and 4Wall
The recently opened Falabella Chile Inmobiliario at the Open Plaza Kennedy shopping center, has a simple, but very ambitious, goal: to offer customers a unique culinary experience in surroundings that make them feel special. The 6,000 square foot space, which is located on the fourth floor of this stylish center, is well on its way to doing just that, serving as home to 12 restaurants offering a mouth-watering variety of dishes from Chile and around the world.Read More »Piedra Iluminación and CHAUVET Professional Immerse at Falabella Chile Inmobiliario
The LDI Show returned to Las Vegas after a busy year of live event productions across North America. The aisles were busy with production pros seeking to gear up for another busy year ahead, with exhibitors unveiling as many new products as steadily improving supply chain conditions would permit.
Twenty One Pilots’ “Icy” tour hit the road this summer, offering LD Tyler “Shap” Shapard the chance to produce an elegant and imaginative lighting design. To atmospherically engineer the mood and vibes for each song, he relied on a Solotech-supplied rig that included 80 Robe MegaPointes.
Lighting Designer Marsha Stern started out lighting for discos in the 1970s before transitioning into architectural and architainment lighting projects in the 90s. She has a podcast, Heartbeat of the Dance Floor® that looks back fondly on the glory days of disco. In episode #12, Stern has assembled a lighting design panel to discuss lighting in those early days. Here is the video replay of A Lighting Panel with Special Guests Ken Billington, Jason Kantrowitz, (KB Associates / The Red Parrot), Anne Militello (Vortex Lighting / California Institute of the Arts), and Paul Gregory (Focus Lighting / Saturday Night Fever dance floor):
Read More »A Lighting Panel with Marsha Stern’s Heartbeat Of The Dance Floor® Episode #012
The American Society of Theatre Consultants (ASTC) mourns the loss of longtime member and Fellow, James “Jim” Read, FASTC, who passed away on November 2, 2022. Read served as a President of the ASTC and was a constant presence at organization events. Even as he retired from consulting and moved to emeritus status, Read was often present online or in person, always contributing observations and information.Read More »In Memoriam: Jim Read, FASTC Theater Consultant
Robe is delighted to be back at LDI 2022 in Las Vegas, action-packed with a range of exciting new products and innovative lighting technologies on Booth 1943 that will stun and amaze visitors. New products shown at a U.S. expo for the first time will include Robe’s impressive and potent iFORTETM moving light and the iFORTE FSTM (FollowSpot) luminaire – both IP65 versions of the original FORTETM—currently Robe’s highest-powered TETM (TRANSFERABLE ENGINE™) LED luminaire.Read More »Robe at LDI 2022
We hear all about the massive circular structure rig on Swedish House Mafia’s Paradise Again world tour from Ben Dalgleish and the Human Person design team, the architects of this rave arena experience. We also talk to All Access about the build and with ER Productions about the laser design by Derek Abbott.
For Harvest Nights at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Blockhouse Studios, designed and created an illuminated immersive experience using Epson projectors and their own impressive projection mapping skills.
Legendary lighting designers Jules Fisher and Jennifer Tipton were each honored with the Ming Cho Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Design, bestowed by the Henry Hewes Design Awards during the 58th annual awards ceremony on Oct. 24. “In honoring Jules Fisher and Jennifer Tipton,” said Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, chair of the awards committee, “we celebrate two pioneers who have given us so many important dramatic memories—and have lit the way for those who follow.”
Astera Titan Tubes provided a great solution for the lighting of a rolling ‘small stage’ scenic truck which was central to the action for the 2022 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival’s acclaimed production of Alessandro nell’Indie (Alexander in India) by Leonardo Vinci, directed by Max Emmanuel Cancic and lit by David Debrinay from Paris and Lyon, France, based design studio, LJOMA. Three unique performances were staged at the beautiful Margravial Opera House (Markgräfliches Opernhaus), a UNESCO World Heritage site.Read More »Astera Titans for Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival