The Mega-Monsters Tour is a block-busting Spring and Summer co-headliner that is blistering across North America with Grammy Award-winning heavy rockers Mastodon joining forces with French heavy metal phenom, Gojira, for a mind-blowing double bill that enthralls rock and metal music fans everywhere!
Back in 1975, two New York inventors came up with the idea of creating a ring that changed colors depending on the wearer’s mood. Technically, crystals in the ring’s stone were responding to fluctuations in body temperature and other physiological changes, but no matter, the evocative jewelry became an instant success, and is still wildly popular today.
Lighting designer Emmanuelle “Gigi” Pedron has taken Elation Professional’s broadcast market KL Panel XL IP™ LED soft light and transformed it into a high-impact, aesthetic rock 'n' roll light for Queens of the Stone Age’s The End Is Nero tour.
Iconic American singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer Janet Jackson has just completed her Together Again major North American tour with tour direction, production design and technical direction by Eric Wade from Dallas, Texas-based Crossfade Design.
Popular Philadelphia-based jam band Lotus evolved their own distinctive “jambatronica” sound and style and brought this to the instrumental bedrock of the jam genre. In an exhilarating rave-tastic collage of electronica, hip hop, dubstep and multiple other genres, they have been inspired by artists like The Orb, Aphex Twin and many others.
Painting with Light (PWL) was asked by the Agoria Sports and Entertainment Technology club – a networking hub for Belgian technology leaders – to show direct and design lighting for an epic mixed media visual spectacle - lighting, lasers & fireworks - which was the finale segment of the official 2023 Belgian National Day celebrations.
By any measure, summer 2023 in the U.S. has been extreme with intense heat, severe rainfall and unrelenting smoke. So when a number of outdoor festivals and events are on the program, the challenge for any production company is immense.
While not a single moving light source could actually appear on camera, Robe BMFLs, ESPRITES and RoboSpots played a starring role for three different live concerts filmed for the live sections of the Amazon Prime hit Daisy Jones & The Six.
Expo City Dubai is “a human-centric” metropolitan vision of the future currently in the making, and being developed as a large district with offices, homes, exhibition spaces, convention centres and entertainment venues on the site of Dubai’s impressive Expo 2020.
The Antwerpen Sportpaleis played host to a cornucopia projected lasers and lighting earlier this summer when promoters, Zillion presented their new immersive Iluminati dance concept.
Madrid, Spain based lighting designer Felipe Ramos specified a zactrack SMART system for tracking several key lighting fixtures for a production of The Bridges of Madison County, directed by Alberto Negrín (also the set designer), produced by Mad Bridge and Grupo Smedia and staged at the Gran Vía Theatre, Madrid.
“You’ve got to go back if you want to go forward”, Snoop Dogg once wrote. The superstar rapper, music producer, and all around uber talent, is doing plenty of both on his current High School Reunion tour with Wiz Khalifa.
Geodis Park, home of Nashville Soccer Club, staged its first ever concert recently, hosting Shania Twain’s one-off Queen of Me stadium show. The concert was lit by André Petrus, well known as an experienced programmer, to add dimension to a concept conceived by creative producer and production designer Cory FitzGerald, of Silent House Productions.
Lyon in France, a city famous for its annual Festival of Light, has also successfully reclaimed its two rivers, a project that started in 2002.
The circle, that most mystical of shapes that philosophers have describe as a “reflection of eternity,” served as an ideal design motif for the main stage at the recent Lake Festival. Like the circle itself, which has no beginning or end, and embraces all, the three-day festival encompassed a diverse mix of artists from Europe and USA with infinite ease.
The mood was high at Smukfest in Skanderborg when Denmark’s perhaps most beautiful festival took place on August 2nd to August 6th. 40,000 guests flooded the festival grounds every day to experience 5 days of performances by great international and Danish artists on the 5 different stages - and the odd rain shower.
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