LAS VEGAS – Barten Production Services recently provided technology reinforcement for the 2013 MOD Awards at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, with the set design depending on GLP’s Volkslicht Zoom and Impression Spot One LED fixtures. The MOD Awards honor the best in the modular exhibit industry.
HONG KONG – Hong Kong‘s leading TV station, Television Broadcast Limited (TVB), has recently made a major investment in GLP’s impression Spot One for its studios. Under a new management initiative to reduce the carbon footprint of the company, TVB’s engineering department needed an LED solution to replace their existing discharge lamp automated lighting system.
LOS ANGELES – GLP German Light Products GmbH, a manufacturer of automated lighting fixtures in the entertainment industry, appoints Guangzhou Ruisheng Lighting & Audio Equipment Co. Ltd. as their exclusive distributor for China, Taiwan and Macao.
TORONTO – Canadian new wave /indie band, Metric, recently completed a tour in support of their fifth album, Synthetica. LD Ian MacDonald designed the lighting to be diverse to scale from 1,000-seat theaters to arenas and amphitheaters. This tour involved five different set-ups, each including GLP’s new Spot One LED moving heads.
BLOOMINGTON, IL – The Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts (BCPA) in Illinois recently carried out a technical upgrade that has seen a number of GLP’s impression Spot One and Volkslicht Zoom LED fixtures replacing traditional tungsten heads. Jason Reberski of JR Lighting Design supplied the fixtures. He recommended the Volkslichts as he uses them in his own production rental inventory.
LOS ANGELES – Jackson Browne’s lighting director/production designer for four years, Steve Comer, is one who admits, “I had been looking for an LED hard edge light for a long time, and when the Spot One came along it was just the fixture I’d been waiting for.” GLP’s impression Spot One helps on the tour in various ways. Jackson Browne had wanted to go more green the past few years, and as his latest tour grew from a solo acoustic act to an ensemble, the stage called for a hard-edge beam to allow musicians to disappear behind Browne.
LOS ANGELES – In his fifth year of lighting the MTV Video Music Awards, LD Tom Kenny chose the GLP impression X4 to illuminate Florian Wieder’s futuristic set at Staples Center. VER’s Susan Tesh introduced Kenny to the fixtures and supplied them for this show, which featured Green Day, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Pink, Alicia Keys, Lil Wayne, Frank Ocean and One Direction.
WASHINGTON, DC – LD Bob Barnhart of Full Flood Inc. incorporated GLP impression fixtures into his designs for two big PRG-supported televised productions earlier this year – the U.S. National Memorial Day Concert on May 27, pictured here (it was cut short due to bad weather, unfortunately, but still featured performances by Trace Adkins and Daughtry) and the National Independence Day Celebration on July 4.
OZARK, AR – LD JC Campbell was again involved in the four-day Wakarusa Music and Arts Festival in the Ozarks of Northern Arkansas. Working with suppliers Midnight Lighting, he produced the lighting plot for the Outpost tent, using large quantities of GLP LED heads to add energy-efficient flash to the rig.