For country star Chase Rice’s show at the Blame My Roots Festival in eastern Ohio this summer, Zakk Bosserman paired his floor package design with an overhead rig provided by Showtime Sound that included Chauvet Professional Maverick MK3 Profile, STRIKE 4 and Rogue R2 Wash fixtures.
BLUMANO, engineering consultancy and advisers for safety and stage machinery design, is proud to announce its expansion with BLUMANO Deutschland. This base, located in the heart of Western Europe, will work closely with BLUMANO’s network of offices in Ireland, the UK, Italy, South Korea, and the Netherlands.Read More »Engineering Consultants BLUMANO Launches in Germany
Expanding ADJ’s groundbreaking Hydro Series of powerful, reliable, and affordable IP65 rated moving heads, the new Hydro Beam X12 is a nimble fixture that outputs an intense, razor-sharp beam. Ideal for generating aerial effects at concerts, tours, festivals, and dance events, it combines the punchy Philips® Platinum 12R LL MSD 6,000-hour discharge lamp technology with a carefully curated selection of beam-shaping tools that include motorized focus and a dynamic 24-facet prism. Here’s an introductory video on the Hydro Beam X12 from ADJ:
Read More »Sharp & Powerful: ADJ’s New Hydro Beam X12 IP65-Rated Dedicated Beam Moving Head
Ayrton, which celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year, will be exhibiting its latest ground-breaking LED lighting products on the stand of its exclusive UK distributor, Ambersphere Solutions (Stand C11). New for this year and being exhibited for the first time in the UK are Cobra, Zonda 9 FX, and Domino LT. All three of these products have enjoyed phenomenal success on the plethora of tours and festivals that have taken place worldwide since their launch.Read More »Ayrton Brings New Products to PLASA 2022
Abbas Ritscher and his team at The Design Oasis made up for the lack of front-lighting at the Rolling Loud festival’s Snipes Stage by grabbing 12 extra Chauvet Professional Maverick Storm 1 Wash fixtures from their inventory and hanging them “as far down the stage as we could” for a camera-friendly lighting design. The Design Oasis also used Chauvet fixtures to illuminate the smaller VH1 stage and the festival grounds.
It’s been a busy year for lighting and production designer Chris Lisle and his company CLLD. The production design firm recently wrapped up work on Lollapalooza, their sixth major event back to back, where they relied on an Elation-centered rig including Proteus series IP65 luminaires to light Perry’s Stage.
The Industrial Revolution was just kicking into high gear in the mid-19th century, and a group of Belgian factory owners were concerned about the… Read More »Chauvet Professional Shines Throughout Belgium’s Gentse Feesten
Event Safety Alliance announces the next edition of the Crowd Safety Symposium, taking place September 8-9, 2022, at Furman University in Greenville, SC. This two-day workshop aims to provide an understanding of the four aspects of basic crowd safety and to provide techniques to plan and manage safe pedestrian flows in crowded places during all phases of an event.Read More »ESA’s Crowd Safety Symposium Heads to Greenville, SC in September 2022
Here’s a video of the Pet Shop Boys in a production-heavy performance of “It’s a Sin” at Glastonbury 2022. As festivals are hitting the stage worldwide, the upcoming July issue of PLSN takes a look at the festival landscape: setting and supplying the stage.
Read More »Video of the Week: The Pet Shop Boys at Glastonbury 2022
Le Mark Group has long been known for providing kit that makes sense in the backstage world. Now, the flooring, tapes and labels specialist has… Read More »Le Mark: Sausage and T-Bar Camera Markers by Dirty Rigger
with Ruben Laine – Chief Nerd at Creative Integration Studio
On this episode, we discuss how can video content get us through the isolation period, how video and media servers have overtaken lighting as a focal point, how modern festivals are just a giant video walls now, how content needs to accentuate the performance and not distract, the ownership of content after the show, the intellectual property concerns with content after media server manipulation, who should be in charge of the video content, media servers, pixels, projection, video, mapping, VR, AR, XR, and reinventing yourself during these uncertain times.
“Collaborating in today’s industry is a must. Creative Integration is a necessity in today’s show business.”
— Yamil Charif, YC3 Lighting Design.
Please visit: https://creativeintegration.studio/ and https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l6d6ygzdvvuhef1/AAA46ZT3Yn58vuiFH9_5b8eCa?dl=0&preview=LD+at+Large+-+Media+Bible+-+as+of+Aug08.pdf
From the PLSN Podcast archives, with Cort Lawrence – Production Designer and Creative Director at Creative ByCort