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Nate Haber Adds Festive Touch to A Lorna Shore Christmas with CHAUVET Professional

“My client wanted this to have the look and feel of a quintessential Christmas show.” Every lighting designer can relate to that this time of year. But in Nate Haber’s case, the request was made with a bit of a different twist. Instead of being asked to support standard holiday tunes, his design had to reflect the raw, merciless power of death metal music in a Yuletide setting.Read More »Nate Haber Adds Festive Touch to A Lorna Shore Christmas with CHAUVET Professional

Red Rover Entertainment Delivers All-Round, Adaptable Elation Rig for Faouzia Tour

Photo: David Milejszo

Upon completing a string of European performances in July, global pop star Faouzia began preparations for a fall North American tour that saw the Moroccan Canadian singer playing dates across the U.S. and Canada. Jon Stanners of entertainment production company Red Rover Entertainment of Winnipeg designed lighting for the outing and specified an Elation rig of Fuze SFX™ moving heads, SixBar 500™ linear bars, and SixPar 200™ 6-color PAR lights.Read More »Red Rover Entertainment Delivers All-Round, Adaptable Elation Rig for Faouzia Tour

Rapyd’s ‘Hack the Galaxy’ Event Shines with Claypaky Fixtures Chosen by Lighting Designers Omer Israeli and Dor Aichner

Lighting Designers Omer Israeli & Dor Aichner of Tel Aviv-based lighting and stage design company, LEAD, chose a large complement of Claypaky fixtures to illuminate the dynamic, futuristic Hack the Galaxy event held by Rapyd at the 2022 Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. They utilized 96 Tambora Batten Square, 16 Mythos 2, and 48 Xtylos fixtures for the third and last event in Rapyd’s Hack the Galaxy campaign held at developer conferences in Europe in 2022. Previous events took place in Berlin, Germany and Zadar, Croatia. Lisbon’s Web Summit is an annual tech conference focusing on Internet technology, emerging technologies and venture capitalism. More than 70,000 attended the November 2022 gathering.Read More »Rapyd’s ‘Hack the Galaxy’ Event Shines with Claypaky Fixtures Chosen by Lighting Designers Omer Israeli and Dor Aichner

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

LDI 2022 Visitors Surge to Preview GLP’s Next-Generation Products

Top LD Nate Files meshes together a mesmerizing JDC Line/impression X5 lightshow

At the recent LDI 2022, GLP focused on giving some ‘real-world’ exposure to the JDC Line – now gaining the attention it deserves after the Covid-19 pandemic somewhat choked its initial launch. They were fortunate to have the services of one of the hottest LDs in the industry, Nate Files, to mesh the JDC Line together with the new impression X5 in a mesmerizing, beautifully programmed, integrated lightshow which beckoned visitors to the booth. Files is well familiar with the GLP culture, having been part of the creative team that brought its award-winning large format shows to life.Read More »LDI 2022 Visitors Surge to Preview GLP’s Next-Generation Products

LDI Award Winning Products

Here’s a sampling of some of the products that stood out among the many innovations featured at the LDI show in Las Vegas in November 2022.

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.

Ghost – A Design Like None Other

The Swedish rock band Ghost recently wrapped up the third, North American leg of its Imperatour tour for which Brazil-based Lighting Designer, Erich Bertti was once again back designing along with the band’s lead singer Tobias Forge. Also returning to support the Ghost tour and Bertti was Senior Account Manager, Steven “Creech” Anderson and Madison, TN-based Premier Global Production, providing lighting, rigging, truss and crew. Bertti and Anderson fill PLSN in on the design and their working relationship for Ghost’s tour.

Lighting in the Digital Age

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.

LDI 2022 Helps Industry Gear Up for Busy 2023

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.

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.