"Life begins again with summer", wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps that’s why, in this season of sunny days and endless nights, everything seems possible—especially for the young.
The 2025 Pula Film Festival – staged in spectacular Pula Arena in Croatia, the world’s only remaining Roman amphitheatre with its four side towers fully preserved – had some extra magic added with Robe moving lights which were part of a design by Emil Koller to support the movie programme.
What you see is not always what it appears to be. This timeless reality check can make things a bit uncertain at times, but on the flip side, it can also lead to some wonderfully surprising moments. Such was the case with the production design that Rob Lister and his team at IYA created for the recently completed KORN world tour.
Creative Technology Middle East (CTME) has made a huge investment in new lighting equipment. This follows another substantial Robe purchase earlier in 2024.
The thirteenth edition of ParkCity Live took place on the last weekend of June in Heerlen’s Bekkerveld park (The Netherlands). Infinity and Showtec lighting products played a prominent role this year, bringing both the main stage and the dance tent to life.
Physicists define time and distance in terms of light for a reason: it seems to be everywhere at once, making it the ideal medium to show the passage of time in extraordinary journeys.
Lighting designer Christina Thanasoula of Athens, Greece-based creative design studio, Creative Lighting, has a penchant for invention and thinking out-of-the-box while crafting her art, and was recently a keynote speaker at the 2025 Showlight symposium in Dijon, France.
“We never do anything traditional. We never go through the front door. It's always the back door, or an open window or something”. That’s how Steve Harwell, the late lead singer of Smash Mouth, described the band’s unconventional approach to making music, in an interview with CNN.
Gearhouse Splitbeam of Johannesburg, part of South Africa’s Gearhouse Group, has updated and expanded its followspot inventory with the addition of 3 Robert Juliat Arthur LT 800W LED 4°-10° (Long Throw) followspots, supplied by Robert Juliat’s exclusive distributor for South Africa, DWR Distribution.
The Circlassica show returned to Madrid for the 2024-2025 season staged in the iconic IFEMA Madrid big white tent, with a new edition, Circlassica, la historia mundial continúa, produced by Productores de Sonrisas and lit by Juanjo Llorens who once again sprinkled some of his illuminative magic on the action.
