Two key individuals who have been integral to Robe lighting s.r.o’s international sales team for many years will be taking on new roles in the company. Harry von den Stemmen, pictured here, is taking an “ambassadorial” role within the company as global key account manager while Ingo Dombrowski, an 18-year company veteran, steps up as international sales director, the post previously held by von den Stemmen.
The much-anticipated 2022 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) proved every bit as thrilling, visually dramatic and sonically entertaining as music fans globally have come to expect of this high-profile live broadcast extravaganza! This year it was staged at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, and lit for the third year by Tom Sutherland of DX7 Design.Read More »Robe Rocks at the 2022 VMAs with LD Tom Sutherland
Elation Professional continues to expand its award-winning Proteus line of IP65 rated luminaires with the extraordinary Proteus Brutus™, a powerful 70,000-lumen LED wash effects fixture capable of high intensity washes and piercing narrow beams that can cut through at tremendous distances. Available now and shipping, the Proteus Brutus is the brightest lighting fixture that Elation has ever produced.Read More »Elation Launches Proteus Brutus™ LED Wash Effects Luminaire, an All-Weather 70,000-Lumen Powerhouse
Ayrton announces the release of Huracán Wash, its first wash type fixtures designed around a Fresnel lens. With Huracán Wash, Ayrton has reinvented the wash luminaire by designing an avant-garde product capable of creating a sublime atmosphere. Here’s a product preview of the Huracán Wash:
American rapper and singer Jelly Roll is out on the road performing with a lighting system from Bandit Lites. The Southern hip hop country rock… Read More »Bandit Lites Illuminates Jelly Roll
Toyota Motor Europe has had plenty of exciting developments to share with customers and the media of late thanks to its impressive array of recently introduced hybrid and electric vehicles. Now, with the opening of its Brand Experience Centre in Brussels, it also has a sleek and engaging new platform for highlighting these innovations.Read More »Auvicom Lights Toyota Motor Europe’s Brand Experience with CHAUVET Professional
ULTRA Europe made its triumphant return to Park Mladeži in Split, Croatia from July 8 –10, 2022, welcoming more than 160,000 attendees from 141 countries for the festival’s eighth edition. Europe’s premier destination music festival featured four stages, with the Main Stage impressing attendees as a marvelous giant measuring 20m high and 80m long, with more than 500 sq. m. of LED screens and flanked by world-class pyrotechnics.
As a part of the Main Stage at Ultra Europe, four extreme power RTI NANO 100 laser systems were deployed. Here are some photos and information on these powerful lasers in use at the music festival. Read More »Ultra Europe 2022’s Main Stage Dazzles with RTI NANO 100 Laser Systems
Les Goldberg, the founder and CEO of LMG and CEO of Entertainment Technology Partners, delivered yet another riveting entrepreneurial guide to success, this time amid a global pandemic. The release of his third book, The Show Must Go On: The Art of Leading Through a Crisis, offers quintessential strategies for successful crisis leadership.Read More »Les Goldberg Publishes 3rd Book, ‘The Show Must Go On: The Art of Leading Through a Crisis’
PLSN Co-Editors Debi Moen and Michael S. Eddy each penned an Editor’s Note for the October 2022 issue.
We take a look at a variety of new products being launched this fall from a range of manufacturers and distributors. This product guide includes new luminaires, control and distribution products, staging, trussing, video, special effects, and other production equipment.
The Lumineers’ “Brightside” tour brings a production family back together with Tour Director Sara Full, Designers Sooner Routhier and Robert Long of SRae Productions and Lighting Director Ian Haslauer. The show is triumph of lighting, video, and automation.
Comic-Con, the global comic-book convention and entertainment event held annually in San Diego since its founding as a tiny gathering of fans in a hotel basement in 1970, has become the international focal point for this multi-genre art form. Last November, San Diego Comic Convention, parent company of Comic-Con, opened its long-awaited Comic-Con Museum, which will curate the best of what is often featured at Comic-Con’s annual convention. Of note is one of its most immersive exhibits, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Beyond Amazing – The Exhibition. Produced by Semmel Exhibitions, in association with Marvel and San Diego Comic Convention, the project opened on July 1 and is celebrating 60 years of the renowned web-slinger’s presence in the comic book hero pantheon.Read More »elektraLite’s Stingray Mini Lights Up ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man: Beyond Amazing – The Exhibition’