This year’s winners of the PLASA Awards for Innovation were announced Monday night at the PLASA Show at Olympia London. The Innovation Awards celebrate future-focused tech that improves safety, efficiency and performance through new methods and materials.Read More »PLASA 2022: Innovation Award Winners
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
This year marks the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II and in honor of the historical anniversary, the United Kingdom is holding several events celebrating her 70-year reign. At The Royal Windsor Horse Show in May, Elation Professional had its own workhorse on display albeit not of the equine variety. PRG provided a full lighting rig for the event that incorporated 171 Elation Proteus Maximus™ IP65-rated LED moving heads as the key luminaire in the design.Read More »Workhorse Proteus Maximus™ on Display at The Royal Windsor Horse Show
At stand E5, everything centers around the color lime this time – and for good reason
When GLP gave a world premiere to the impression X5 at this year’s Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, it established the new lime chip – which was quickly revered by LDs everywhere. An accompanying campaign entitled Our Lime makes the Difference helped reinforce the message about the expanded color palette.Read More »GLP Promises Lime with Everything at PLASA Show
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
Introduced in March 2021, the Ovation Rêve E-3 LED ellipsoidal combines a full spectrum of saturated colors with vivid whites featuring +/- green adjustments, along with a host of other features. Now the new Ovation Réve E-3 IP from Chauvet Professional offers all the output and performance of its popular predecessor, along with the added benefit of being an IP65 rated fixture. Here’s a video preview from Chauvet for the Ovation Réve E-3 IP luminaire:
For Ed Sheeran’s “Mathematics” tour, production designer Mark Cunniffe delivered an innovative mast-supported in-the-round design. The tour also marks the debut of GLP’s XDC1 IP Hybrid fixture. Lights Control Rigging (LCR) supplied 162 of the new fixtures for the worldwide stadium trek.
Sports bar and restaurant throughout the week and full-on nightclub at the weekends, barCode is a well-established staple of the nightlife scene in Elizabeth, NJ. As part of a recent expansion of the venue’s pool area, its owner has recently purchased 100 ADJ Hydro Beam X1 IP65-rated moving head fixtures to generate an awe-inspiring lightshow. Chosen for a variety of reasons – including their compact size, intense output, and wireless DMX compatibility – the ADJ fixtures have allowed the club to level up its production to rival any in the Tri-State area.Read More »New Jersey Nightclub barCode Invests In 100 ADJ IP65-Rated Moving Head Fixtures
Bristol-based, Enlightened, one of the largest event suppliers in the southwest of the UK, has recently invested in a stock of Ayrton Perseo Profile IP65-rated fixtures to service its busy events schedule.
Enlightened specializes in full production services, supported dry hire, design, and delivery of permanent installations, as well as sales, skilled repairs, and maintenance to a diverse range of clients and venues. “Corporate and private parties and events, large outdoor events in winter, festivals in the summer, installation, sales—basically, we do everything for everyone!” says Head of Hire and Production, Dave Thorpe. “Bristol is a good hub for small to medium companies to which, along with many small companies and theatres all over the country, we cross hire equipment. We therefore make a point of only investing in the very latest in top quality entertainment technology.”Read More »Enlightened of Bristol Invests in Ayrton Perseo IP65 Profiles
LOS ANGELES – In Nov. 2018, Elation Professional took one of its Proteus Hybrid IP65-rated moving heads, mounted it to a small truss on the… Read More »Elation Proteus Hybrid Runs Nonstop for 17,000 Hours