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Proteus Excalibur™ Welcomes in 2023 on Spectacular New Year’s Eve London Show

Tim Routledge designed a stunning light show to complement fireworks and a drone display with high-power Elation beam lights in each of the London Eye’s 32 pods

London’s largest ever New Year’s Eve celebration took place at the London Eye on the River Thames, featuring a stunning fireworks and drone display accompanied by a mesmerizing light show designed by Tim Routledge. His first-time lighting London’s end-of-the-year celebration, Routledge chose Elation’s powerful Proteus Excalibur™ beam moving head as a key fixture in his design.Read More »Proteus Excalibur™ Welcomes in 2023 on Spectacular New Year’s Eve London Show

Filament Eleven 11 Gets Creative with Astera

The costume/set piece from ‘Scenes from a Yellow Peril’. Photo by Andi Crown

Auckland, New Zealand-based design studio Filament Eleven 11 is a creative tour de force combining the talents and imagination of lighting and visual artists Rachel Marlow and Brad Gledhill. Working across multiple genres – theatre, opera, dance, rock ‘n’ roll’ live events, installation, and light art – and embracing a mix of media and light forms, the company is known for its innovative and fun approach to enhancing storytelling with this unique form of expression.Read More »Filament Eleven 11 Gets Creative with Astera

CEG Boosts Robe Stock

Cambridge, UK-based company CEG announced they now have 13 Robe RoboSpot systems, meaning CEG holds one of the largest rental-only stocks in the UK and these make up over 500 Robe luminaires currently available.

IP65 or Higher Rated Luminaires

Compare the most recent LDI show’s offerings with luminaires featured a decade ago, and it’s clear that IP-rated fixtures have taken the industry by storm. Here’s a look at what’s now available, along with an explanation of what the IP rating numbers mean.

Chaparral High School in Killeen, TX Installs Vari-Lite Luminaires to Enhance Professional Learning

The new lighting systems includes a Neo and Vision.Net control system, VL800, Acclaim LED and Coda LED fixtures, and Aurora LED Strips. Photo by Cindy Roberts

Chaparral High School in Killeen, TX opened its doors in August 2022 with a state-of-the-art performing arts wing designed to elevate student learning. It is equipped with an array of luminaires from Vari-Lite including a Neo and Vision.Net control system, VL800, Acclaim LED and Coda LED fixtures, and Aurora LED Strips.Read More »Chaparral High School in Killeen, TX Installs Vari-Lite Luminaires to Enhance Professional Learning

ADJ Focus Profile and Encore Profile Pro Color Luminaires Chosen For Theater at Movie Park Germany

Movie Park, the film-themed amusement park in Bottrop Germany, recently refitted its Studio 7 theater venue using ADJ LED-powered entertainment lighting fixtures. The large and versatile space, used for seasonal productions throughout the year, is now equipped with an equally versatile lighting rig. Encore Profile Pro Color ellipsoidals provide an even stage wash with full color mixing, while Focus Profile moving heads positioned both above and in front of the stage can be utilized as spots, specials and for aerial beam effects.Read More »ADJ Focus Profile and Encore Profile Pro Color Luminaires Chosen For Theater at Movie Park Germany

David Garrett is Alive with Robe

Classic and crossover violinist David Garrett is a unique, interesting, and fun artist to light requiring a mix of treatments inspired by multiple visual genres, which is one of the many aspects – and challenges – relished by Lighting Designer Gerard Maijenburg who has worked with him for the last seven years. The European leg of Garrett’s current Alive tour featured over 200 Robe moving lights, picked by Maijenburg to energize his design.Read More »David Garrett is Alive with Robe

R90 Lighting Covers Seattle and Beyond with Elation LED Lighting

Bustling lighting rental house covers projects from intimate corporate to large-scale festivals

 

One of Seattle’s largest lighting rental houses, R90 Lighting, often turns to Elation Professional products to light a wide scope of projects and has recently added more Elation fixtures to its rental inventory. The concert and event lighting design firm emphasizes the latest in LED technology in its inventory of stage lighting fixtures, a principle the company has held since its founding 10 years ago. R90’s new acquisition includes an LED package of Fuze MAX Profile™, Fuze Wash FR™, Proteus Rayzor 760™, Artiste Picasso™ and Paladin Panel™ luminaires.Read More »R90 Lighting Covers Seattle and Beyond with Elation LED Lighting

Piedra Iluminación and CHAUVET Professional Immerse at Falabella Chile Inmobiliario

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

Nine Inch Nails Tour 2022

Nine Inch Nails played a limited number of make-up headlining dates on their spring and fall 2022 tour. PLSN caught up with Toss Film & Design’s Paul “Arlo” Guthrie about his work as designer, director, and programmer for the NIN tour. We also checked in with Lighting Technician Matthew “Matt” Schiller for some fixture details in the design, with lighting supplied by tour vendor Upstaging.

Robe is Icy Cool for Twenty One Pilots Tour

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.