LD Chris Lose takes a look at how the digital age is changing the job market for our industry. With the need for a “survival of the adaptable” outlook he discusses how to learn to retrain our brains to thrive in the modern world and our evolving industry.
For the U.S leg of Phoebe Bridgers’ 2022 world tour, Gateway Studios & Production of St Louis provided LD Spike Kienholz Inglis of Spike Design with a Robe moving light rig. The setup included 24 MegaPointes, 24 Spiiders, 16 Tetra1s and six FORTES.
One of the 2000’s most successful hard rock bands is Breaking Benjamin, whose guitar heavy sounds and powerful vocals delivered by Benjamin Burnley have endeared them to fans for two decades. The band teamed up recently with another iconic group, Alice in Chains, to co-headline a tour that also saw Bush on the bill as special guests.Read More »Smarty Hybrids Add Tailored Touch to Breaking Benjamin on Co-Headlining Tour
To provide My Chemical Romance with immersive and stylized lighting for their highly-anticipated world tour, lighting production house Penlight designed a custom-built rig featuring Martin MAC Ultra Performance, MAC Quantum Wash, MAC Aura XB, and Atomic 3000 fixtures from Martin Professional.
The LDI Show returned to Las Vegas after a busy year of live event productions across North America. The aisles were busy with production pros seeking to gear up for another busy year ahead, with exhibitors unveiling as many new products as steadily improving supply chain conditions would permit.
For Burna Boy’s supercharged performance at the Curaçao Festival Center in late October, Massive Productions’ Ramon Ramiz stepped in as LD for the artist, lighting the Grammy-winning singer and his fans with the power of 90 Chauvet Professional fixtures from Massive Productions and its partner, Aruba Elite Productions.
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.
The University of Houston recently took advantage of the University Outreach Program from Vari-Lite, the originators of the modern moving head and Signify entertainment lighting brand, which enables emerging lighting design students to elevate their production looks and facilitates hands-on professional fixture experience. The latest collaborative project saw Andrew Archer, who is undertaking a BFA in Technical Theatre Production, create an inspired design for the play The Learned Ladies using VL2600 SPOT luminaires.Read More »Vari-Lite University Outreach Program Delivers VL2600 Uplift for the University of Houston
When lighting designers are looking for a workhorse washlight but also want something novel to add to their designs they often turn to the Proteus Rayzor 760™, Elation’s popular LED wash, mid-air and specialty effect light in one. Now available and shipping is the Proteus Rayzor 1960™, a more powerful big brother that opens up its distinct visual qualities to shows and productions of every scale. With the power to handle long-throw applications, the Proteus Rayzor 1960 is part of Elation’s market-leading Proteus line of IP65 luminaires for use under adverse conditions and in any environment. Here’s a preview video from Elation on the Proteus Rayzor Series:
Read More »Proteus Rayzor 1960™ High-Output LED Wash and FX Light Shipping Now
Alice In Chains hadn’t performed a live concert in three years when the band took the stage on Aug. 10 at The Star Lake Pavilion; but as the fans outside Pittsburgh discovered that night, and as thousands more at 29 other venues would learn over the next three months, it was well worth the wait.Read More »Scott Holthaus Accents Alice in Chains with CHAUVET Professional
Wireless LED lighting specialist Astera launches a new accessory – the RuntimeExtender – an invaluable ‘battery plate’ tool for lighting techs working with Astera products in all sectors including live shows and events.Read More »Astera Launches RuntimeExtender Accessory
Robe is delighted to be back at LDI 2022 in Las Vegas, action-packed with a range of exciting new products and innovative lighting technologies on Booth 1943 that will stun and amaze visitors. New products shown at a U.S. expo for the first time will include Robe’s impressive and potent iFORTETM moving light and the iFORTE FSTM (FollowSpot) luminaire – both IP65 versions of the original FORTETM—currently Robe’s highest-powered TETM (TRANSFERABLE ENGINE™) LED luminaire.Read More »Robe at LDI 2022