Eighty-eight Ayrton MagicPanel-FX multi-function luminaires, controlled by a grandMA3 lighting console, play a key role as Post Malone’s Twelve Carat Tour gets underway this fall.… Read More »Ayrton MagicPanel-FX Light the Way for Post Malone’s Twelve Carat Tour with LD Dan Norman
Goodspeed Musicals, a professional musical theater located in a historic Opera House on the banks of the Connecticut River in East Haddam, CT is running a new production of 42nd Street, the tale of the chorus kid who becomes an overnight star that’s filled with a hit parade of songs and dance. Lighting Designer Cory Pattak is using 15 Ayrton Diablo S fixtures from PRG for this production. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton Lighting in North America.Read More »LD Cory Pattak Employs Ayrton Diablos at Goodspeed Musical’s ‘42nd Street’ Revival
Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour features a bevy of sustainable elements including four inflatable LED spheres that played a role in supporting the band’s green goals. PRG worked with their team on the engineering and fabrication of this innovative technology. In this video Production Designer Misty Buckley, Production Manager Jake Berry, Video Director Ant Barrett, Screens Director Josh Koffman, and Managing Director, PRG Projects Frederic Opsomer take us behind the scenes of the design.
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Here’s a video from WCPO 9 News in Cincinnati about the Blink Cincinnati 2022 lighting and projection mapping festival that ran from Oct. 13-16, 2022. Blink returned after a three-year hiatus and PRG was on hand providing projectors, lights, media servers, and networking solutions for the massive event. This video includes interviews with Lighting Designer, David Seitz and PRG Director of Solutions Engineering, Frank Roggio.
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PRG proudly contributed lighting, rigging, and LED video panels for first edition of UniVisionarios, which aired live on Thursday, September 22, 2022 on Univision. The lighting design by Rene Garcia featured more than 280 fixtures including Chroma Q Color Forces, Robe 600s and 1200s, and Vari-Lite VL2600s. The set design by Univision Production Designer Jorge Dominguez centered around a 40’W x 29’H LED wall comprised of 325 tiles, weighing in at nearly 10,000 lbs.Read More »PRG Provides 360° Solutions for ‘UniVisionarios’ 2022
PRG provided lighting for the 74th Primetime Emmys at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2022. An artful lighting design by 22 Degrees’ Al Gurdon and Ben Green, including more than 840 fixtures powered by PRG’s Series 400 Power and Data Distribution System, lit up the memorable night.
Acclaimed designer turns to Proteus Maximus™, Proteus Excalibur™ and new Proteus Rayzor Blade™ for entertaining, impactful Opening and Closing Ceremonies
Some 72 nations and territories came together July 28 – August 8 in Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, England, for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Lighting the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the quadrennial multi-sport event was Al Gurdon of Incandescent Design who used over 300 Elation Professional IP65 Proteus luminaires to light the festivities.Read More »Proteus Plays Key Role in Al Gurdon Design for Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
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
America watched as country music’s biggest stars graced the stage of CMA Fest 2022, which aired on August 3 on ABC. The festival’s live event was filmed in June at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium and featured some of the genre’s biggest artists including Carrie Underwood, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Wynonna Judd, Darius Rucker, Kelsea Ballerini, and more, with Elle King and Dierks Bentley hosting.Read More »PRG Provides Support for CMA Fest 2022
PRG and PRG Projects provided a massive 120′ high tower made up of INFiLED Titan-X LED panels for the French band Indochine’s tour. Titan-X has an 8mm pixel pitch, 70% transparency, and incorporates PRG’s innovative carbon fiber SpaceFrame technology. Here’s a video highlighting this concert touring application from PRG:
INFiLED’s Titan-X LED panel has an 8mm pixel pitch and a high transparency of 70% making it well suited for blow through screen applications where designers can layer lighting, effects, and even audio behind the LED screen. This newer LED panel was developed collaboratively between production and rental solutions provider, PRG and LED manufacturer, INFiLED.
On Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres tour, there are powerful video and camera systems that provide the video team the ability to take in any signal—in any flavor—and play it back where, and whenever needed on the many playback surfaces of Production Designer Misty Buckley’s massive set. Those playback surfaces include two 14m (45.93’) circular I-Mag screens—which are used constantly throughout the show; a large arched video wall—known as the Moonrise—that is approximately 44m (144.35’) wide by 6m (19.68’) at the tallest; and four large inflatable LED video spheres suspended high above the Moonrise. The I-Mag and Moonrise LED screens are made from ROE Visual Carbon Series CB8 8mm LED panels and the LED spheres are covered in PRG LED Strip with a nominal 25mm pixel pitch. [For more details on the inflatable LED spheres, go to page 24.]Read More »Coldplay’s Video and Camera Systems