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Upon finishing school, I ventured down this audio
path and accidentally became a lighting guy. I had
learned some things in theater and stagecraft classes,
but nothing schooled me quite like doing shows in
the live entertainment business. I ended up touring
with bands and witnessed the birth of the moving
light personally. Through hours of painstaking trial
and error with these new lights (and hanging from
my ankles from trusses all day), it did not take long to
realize I would rather be a designer than a technician.
So I learned computers before most and was in
the right place at the right time, to be a lighting
programmer. Thirty years later, I still am in the game,
but found myself fancying a way out. After gigging in
80 different countries, I was finally bored with travel.
I have been writing for over ten years now. I enjoy
reading the trade mags and seeing articles of mine
published. I’m proud of the column I have occupied as
the LD-at-Large, located on the back page of PLSN for
the last eight years. I certainly fantasized to myself, that
wouldn’t it be great if one day, I could combine my early
education with what I had learned by touring the globe
for 30 years. But I never expected to be an editor. When I
was presented an offer to pursue this opportunity, I was
taken aback. I’ve always done things a little different than
the norm. In this case, one door opened, allowing me to
close another. So into the proverbial fire again I dove.
Stepping into some pretty tall shoes left vacated by my
predecessors was actually a bigger step than leaving the
road behind.
I have added my own touch to the last year’s
editions of this magazine, but by no means did I ever
think of changing the format that has worked so
well for so long. I hope to add some fresh views from
contributing writers and some new angles on the way
we all look at the amazing talent out there. My history
of personally using so much of the gear displayed
in PLSN gives me a keen eye for anything new and
exciting in this whacky entertainment business we
are all in. I look forward to entertaining you with
some fine reading over the years.
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aking over as editor for PLSN seems to be part
of the natural path in life that I have chosen.
Like many teenagers, I entered college without
a clue of what I would do with my life. But I liked music
and I liked reading. So I took a bunch of journalism,
English lit and theater classes, while figuring out
what to do. Liberal arts they called it. Along the way,
I joined a group of stagehands and local audio folks
doing shows in my spare time. Changing majors,
I found myself more interested in audio. While
pursuing that path, all my knowledge of writing was
placed on a back burner.
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NEW YORK — New technologies added
to the festivities shared by auld acquaintances for 2013’s New Years Eve celebrations, from
Manhattan’s Times Square to the beaches of
Brazil, with an equally wide range of production companies and manufacturers supporting the spectacles.
NYE performances on Times Square’s
Nivea Kiss and Countdown stages for ABC’s
Dick Clark’s New Years Rockin’ Eve and NBC’s
New Years Eve with Carson Daly included Taylor Swift, Train, Neon Trees, Carly Rae Jepsen,
Psy, Yuri, The Voice winner Cassadee Pope,
USO’s Liberty Bells and the Broadway cast of
Million Dollar Quartet.
LD Paul Miller and programmer Paul Sonnleitner used Martin MAC Auras and Clay Paky
Sharpys provided by 4Wall NY to light the
Kiss and Countdown Stages, which also featured appearances by NYC mayor Michael
Bloomberg and hosts including CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Mario and Courtney Lopez.
“We were able to get more variety across
the performances and have a little more
flash,” Miller said, crediting the gear for helping overcome obstacles ranging from power,
site access and time constraints to inclement
weather and the need to compete with Times
Square’s sensory overload. “Everyone was really happy with the new look.” More details at
http://plsn.me/VsRLIh.
Also in New York’s celebratory epicenter
was AWB Design, providing a visual assist for
MTV’s Times Square performances by Ke$ha,
Sean Kingston, Ne-Yo and Conor Maynard,
among others. The LMG Nashville-supplied
gear included 22 Elation EPV762 MH moving
head LED video panels.
Production designer Anthony Bishop
of AWB collaborated with LMG’s Ken Gay
to create the environment that worked for
the live audience as well as for the cameras,
Woodroffe, lighting director Mac Mosier, crew
chief Oli James and lighting crew Tom James,
Dave Evans, Mike Coryell, Richard Krohne, Brian Reed, Robert Starksfield and John Flynn.
For a corrected Lady Gaga crew and gear list,
go to plsn.me/LadyGaga2012fix.
In the same Showtime feature, the gear list
for the Jay-Z/Kanye West tour listing should
have included 90 Elements Krypton 25 and
110 Elements Krypton 10 fixtures, and the video company supporting Bruce Springsteen’s
tour, Pete’s Big TVs, should have been credited.
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LONDON —British pop star Robbie Williams performed at London’s O2 Arena for
three nights of concerts Nov 22-Nov 24. The
final night was broadcast across England’s
Sky1 network. PRG supplied the lighting
package, including its Best Boy 4000 Spot
luminaire, for creative director Willie Williams
and set designer Mark Fisher. Willie Williams
brought in LD Allen Branton to consult on the
lighting for the televised show.
With an arsenal of bright lighting and
Danish Fixtures
Light Leningrad in
St. Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Leningrad, a
Russian band that performed at the Yubileyny
sports complex here last fall, was lit by LD
Elena Morozova, who incorporated 10 Martin MAC Vipers into the rig. Rental company
Euroshow supplied the Vipers, which made
their first appearance in the country, along
with the rest of the lighting gear.
Morozova used the Vipers for a variety
of new lighting looks, including hard-edged
beam effects. Euroshow owner Aleksandr Blednykh also credited the fixture for its
brightness, speed and versatility.
Along with the Vipers, Morozova’s design
included eight automated pods of MAC 101s,
each with 16 of the compact LED fixtures.
Martin LC 2140 LED video screens fed by a
media server complemented the pod visuals.
Sixteen MAC 2000 Wash XB moving heads
and 20 MAC 250 Beam fixtures rounded out
the Martin fixtures used for the shows.
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video effects flashing in synch with the music
for the in-the-round production, revealing —
and then concealing — both the stage and
surrounding audiences served as a key design
objective. To pull that off, Willie Williams and
Branton needed bright, long-range fixtures
with strategically shaped shutter positions
and beams. The 40-plus Best Boys proved up
to the task.
“One of the challenges is that you don’t
always want to see all the audience and the
architectural elements in all the shots,” Branton said. “We knew that we would need a
high output, shutter-able light that allowed
us accurate control to cut in to just the audience at the barricades and not show security
or crew, as well as controlling spill. The Best
Boy is a great light, which gave us the fine
control that we needed, and with its clever
optics, gave us far more output than I would
have expected.”
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Compact LED Fixtures Fit Well with
Miss Venezuela Pageant’s Petite Stage
Doug Fleenor Design
Doug Fleenor Design has been manufacturing DMX512
distribution and interface equipment for the entertainment
industry since 1990. A long and growing list of standard products is supplemented by a custom design service that provides solutions to unique problems. Products range from opto
splitters, mergers and DMX over Ethernet devices.
dfd.com
E:cue
e:cue lighting control develops control and automation
solutions to deliver sustainable and dynamic lighting experiences. e:cue provides software and hardware products to
provide the right lighting control solution together with lighting professionals and partners around the world. Products
include network lighting control engines, DIN-rail devices,
mergers and network hubs.
ecue.com
protocols using a network-native environment for greater flexibility and a more efficient system. ETC’s NET3 products include network, 5-pin and terminal gateways for DMX and Show Control.
etcconnect.com
Enttec
Enttec has developed a number of DMX distribution devices for every level of the entertainment and architectural markets, from entry level to professional. Products include DMX
over USB, DMX over Ethernet, show recording and playback,
along with splitters and mergers.
enttec.om
Goddard Design
Goddard Design is known for their DMX testing and distribution devices. They have a wide range of products in the distribution market, including mergers, splitters, decoders, hubs
and processors that feature RDM protocol.
goddarddesign.com
Luminex
Luminex Lighting Control Equipment, launched in early
2002, specializes in DMX network distribution devices for the
entertainment industry that work over Ethernet. Products include splitters, boosters, nodes and network switches.
luminex.be
Pathway Connectivity
Founded in 1985, Pathway Connectivity provides data
communications solutions for the entertainment lighting industry. They design, manufacture and support products that
enable the operation of sophisticated stage and architectural
lighting systems. Pathway Connectivity offers DMX-over Ethernet nodes, switches, hubs, relays and convertors.
pathwayconnect.com
Philips Strand Lighting
Strand Lighting offers a range of luminaires, dimming
equipment, control systems and software for use with theatre, television, film, themed environments and architectural
applications. Philips Strand offers networking devices such as
splitters, mergers, DMX-over-Ethernet nodes and relays.
strandlighting.com
PRG
PRG serves a range of markets, including concert touring, corporate events, trade shows, special events, theatre,
television and film. PRG provides integrated services and
equipment for video, lighting, rigging, staging, scenery and
automation systems. Their networking products include DMX
nodes, DMX-over-Ethernet devices, switches and consoles.
prg.com
Swisson
Elation Lighting
MA Lighting
Elation Lighting provides a wide range of products for the
entertainment lighting industry. They offer a number of cost
effective products with features and functions installations
and tours require. Networking products include DMX recorders, mergers, splitters and wireless devices.
elationlighting.com
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Founded in 1983, MA Lighting offers a variety of networking components, digital dimming systems, DMX nodes and
processors along with their grandMA and grandMA2 computer-controlled lighting consoles.
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Swisson provides DMX and RMD networking and testing products including DMX testing, splitters, boosters and
mergers. They are available in hardwire or wireless options.
swisson.com
ure, you know iWeiss.
Or do you?
Don’t confuse it with I. Weiss, the century-old supplier of soft goods to Broadway
productions. Building on that legacy, the company continues to embrace that market while
expanding into others. This includes putting
their rigging expertise to work on different
projects, and their foray into products like the
ViaWinch.
“We felt that ‘I. Weiss’ did not fully express all
we do today, or the idea that we look forward
to applying our expertise to custom work that
requires especially creative solutions,” says president David Rosenberg on their 2011 name
change to iWeiss Theatrical Solutions. “We want
to apply what we’ve learned through our extensive theater work to other areas. For example,
when a museum asks if we can rig an 80-foot
whale skeleton, we don’t hesitate to say yes.”
“A lot of companies view us as a drapery
company, as a company that does high end
theater soft goods,” says Jennifer Tankleff, vice
president. “But we want more of them to know
of our extensive experience in rigging and automation.”
Rosenberg adds that iWeiss has developed
partnerships with companies like Stage Technologies, J.R. Clancy and Serapid. “It’s great to
work with respected companies like them, and
we want to do more of that,” he says. “We want
to focus on what we do best with a wider range
of clients in a larger live entertainment sphere.”
The design team included SGM gear in the rig.
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Where They’ve Been
The company’s history is one of the oldest
and most esteemed in the live event industry,
with roots going back to 1900. By the late 1970s,
the company’s reputation for quality continued to thrive, but the owners faced business
challenges that were overwhelming. I. Weiss
enjoyed a rebirth in 1981 when it was reincorporated, and Rosenberg assumed the helm in
1985.
When the economic downturn hit in 2008,
at first the company didn’t experience too great
a change, as many projects they participate in
are of the big, long-term variety. “But money for
nonprofit and school projects dried up, and Jennifer [Tankleff] and I looked at things and said,
‘Okay, hard times are coming, how can we plan
for it?’” Rosenberg is proud they didn’t have to
let anyone go, and that’s because of what they
did in terms of planning and budgeting.
But it’s equally important what they didn’t do:
“We concentrate hard on keeping the focus on
what we do best, rather than getting our hands
in every nook and cranny of the entertainment
business,” he explains. “We are really good at
anything soft goods related, rigging, and design
and build. We solve problems with that special
custom job. So the mission now is to apply more
of those skills for a greater array of clients.”
In May of 2010, after 28 Years, iWeiss
moved from Long Island City across the Hudson to swankier, larger facility in Fairview, NJ
measuring 30,000 square feet. The new site is
home to the company’s sales team, drapery
fabrication and rigging shop along with its
production and project management staff.
It features a large layout, hanging space, and
room for efficient levels of inventory. “We
have a steel shop that handles all the fabrication of our ViaLift and ViaWinch plus other
projects,” Rosenberg says. “It’s wonderful because we can be better, faster, and more competitive than ever.”
LD Roberto Penso specified
Q-Wash 560Z-LEDs and other
CARACAS, Venezuela — LD Roberto Penso incorporated 54 fixtures from Chauvet
fixtures from Chauvet.
Professional within his design for the Miss Venezuela Pageant, which was televised from
the Hotel Intercontinental here. Chauvet’s Q-Wash 560Z-LED fixtures, provided by VLPS,
proved a good fit for the challenges posed by the production, including a small stage and
low ceiling within the hotel ballroom. For audience lighting, Penso used 36 COLORado 1 Tour wash
lights.
“A little while ago, LEDs didn’t look too good on TV,” Penso noted. “But since the Q-Wash 560Z-LED
lights use Cree LEDs with high CRI value, color rendering is no longer a negative issue, especially with
the HDTV technology, which perceives colors more accurately. These LED fixtures performed amazingly well.”
More details at plsn.me/TulXox
The 10 Martin MAC Vipers in Leningrad’s rig served as the
fixtures’ debut in Russia.
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From left, iWeiss’ David Rosenberg,
Jennifer Tankleff and Richard Parks
petitive field. In 2001, Richard
Parks joined the company.
The longtime member of IATSE local 635 quickly rose to
the senior project manager
position and is responsible for
all of their historical renovation projects in addition to the
many custom rigging related
projects. “He has really grown
our installation design rigging
department,” Rosenberg says
of Parks. “And then, two years
ago, Paul [Kelm], previously a
head of automation at Cirque
du Soleil, joined and began
to design machinery for us.”
Today Kelm, often referred to
as the “mad scientist” of the
company, has created a lot
of custom line shafts; batten
iWeiss’ ViaWinch was nominated for a Parnelli “IT” award in 2011
hoists; curtain machines; controls; and other integral parts
for theaters, colleges, and big PACs. (For a closer
The Theatrical Twist
While rigging has always been part of the look at one recent project, the Capitol Theatre in
iWeiss repertoire, the company has made an Port Chester, NY, see PLSN, Oct. 2012, page 68).
“It’s important that lighting, staging and proeffort to become more dominant in that com-
duction companies understand that we provide
a different area of rigging expertise,” Rosenberg
says. “There are plenty out there who are good
with truss and chain motors, but we bring a theatrical twist to the arena that others just don’t
have.”
iWeiss played a key role in the renovation of
the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in
New York City. Parks led a team that put in a firstof-its-kind acoustic fire curtain. It’s the traditional
fire safety curtain for use in an emergency, but
it’s also a reflective orchestra performance shell
that’s so soundproof an orchestra can practice in
the pit while a ballet troupe practices on stage
to a piano without one hearing the other. The
66-foot wide by 43-foot high steel frame weighs
23,000 pounds and the winch that operates it
was, as just one example of their partnerships,
engineered and fabricated by J.R. Clancy. The
custom arbor is 30 feet high and contains 290
counterweight bricks weighing 73 pounds each.
Motorized light ladders are mounted with trolleys to 11-foot I-beam sections for lateral movement, and each I-beam is motorized with a dual
drum line shaft for vertical movement. “The project was finished on time and on budget, and it’s
something we’re very proud of,” Rosenberg says.
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Alcorn McBride named Wincomn Technology Development Co. Ltd., with headquarters in Beijing and offices in Hong Kong,
Shenzhen and Shanghai, as its distributor in
China. The company also recently named distributors including Electori for Japan, Sovico
for Korea and several companies in Singapore. Alcorn McBride also named Tejix as its
distributor in France. Tejix was founded by
Henry Corrado, who had served as head of
Alcorn McBride’s Paris-based office.
More details at plsn.me/W7TQfw
Barco named Baranday as its distributor in
Switzerland. Baranday will handle Barco’s projection and image processing products.
More details at plsn.me/W7TQvY
Bandit Lites
named
Andy
Reese technical
assistant for the
company’s technical
services
department in
Nashville,
TN.
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Broadcast Pix named Steve Ellis as its president and CEO. Ellis’ AV career includes AT&T,
Merrill Lynch and the U.S. Air Force. Prior to
Broadcast Pix, he served as vice president of Telestream since 2008.
More details at plsn.me/W7TQwc
Creative
Stage Lighting
announced that
George B. Studnicky IV, who
joined the company in 2000 and
served as rentals
» GEORGE B. STUDNICKY IV
and production
department
manager since
2007, has been
promoted to vice
president.
Creative Stage
Lighting
also
named Michael
» MICHAEL CARATTINI
Carattini director
of sales. Prior to CSL, where he will also serve as
sales manager for the central US, Carattini held
leadership roles with Coemar, Robe, Strong
and DTS Lighting.
More details at plsn.me/W7TQfs
Electrosonic
named
Rob
Smith
sales
manager of its
Cultural Entertainment
and
Leisure
(CEL)
division
serv» ROB SMITH
ing markets in
Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Smith, a 20-year AV industry veteran, joined
Electrosonic’s CEL in 2010 as client account
manager.
ETC
(Electronic Theatre
Controls)
announced
that
Harvey Sweet,
who has spent
the last four
years as senior
» HARVEY SWEET
product
manager of ETC Rigging, has retired. Sweet’s
career in theatrical production spanned 59
years. He played a key role on ESTA’s E1.6-1
Rigging Task Group, which developed motorized rigging standards. He also served on
many industry committees. Sweet, the author of three theater-technology textbooks,
has also taught college-level courses in
theater technology, scenic design and
theater aesthetics for more than 30 years.
More details at plsn.me/W7TQfI
Gallagher Staging, based in La Mirada,
CA, opened a location 30 minutes from
Orlando and named Eddie Kercher as its
East Coast director of operations. Kercher
has been in the touring and production
industry for 35 years as a producer of festivals, corporate events and industrial
shows around the world. The new location
is at 722-724 South Industry Rd., Cocoa, FL,
32926.
More details at plsn.me/WK9xIg.
LED Source named Dorel Baila director of entertainment sales. Baila will oversee the company’s entertainment division
and its distribution of Coemar LED products.
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Morpheus Lights named Barbara Brennan vice-president of business develop-
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ment. Brennan, a
35-year industry
veteran,
most
recently served
Western U.S. regional manager
for PRG Integrated Solutions. She
» BARBARA BRENNAN
will be based in
Las Vegas.
More details at plsn.me/W7TTIr
Shockwave
Cargo
announced
that
independent
production manager Chris Gratton, who has 20
years of industry
» CHRIS GRATTON
experience, will
be working on Shockwave Cargo’s behalf,
helping its clients and prospects with their
shipping and touring needs.
More details at plsn.me/W7TQMv
Tait Technologies
named
Jeremy Lloyd as
its spectaculars
director. Lloyd,
who has 22 years
of live event
experience,
is
» JEREMY LLOYD
based at Tait’s
U.K. location. Among other big events, Lloyd
led the technical design and staging teams
for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Ceremonies in London.
More details at plsn.me/W7TRQA
Sapsis Rigging
added
Patrick
Finn to its team.
Finn is ETCP certified (Rigger-Theatre). Prior to
Sapsis Rigging,
Finn worked with
» PATRICK FINN
J. R. Clancy as a
dealer project manager and also as a product
developer.
More details at plsn.me/W7TTIb
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Barbizon Lighting hired Carl Spaulding
to handle sales of products and expendables
in Boston. Spaulding previously worked at
ENTTEC, BMI Supply, and also as a lighting designer, scenic designer, technical director and
master electrician.
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Prior to Bandit, Reese worked as an event
and operations coordinator for the BOK
Center in Tulsa, OK and as the changeover
manager for the Ted Constant Convocation
Center.
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F
or more than a decade, The Killers
have been pumping out hard-driving,
danceable and emotionally-charged
rock music, with glimmers of techno pop.
Through his eight years (and counting) as
a member of the band’s production team,
lighting designer/director Steven Douglas
has kept the visuals as fresh as the music.
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An “Uncluttered” Edict
For their 2012/2013 tour, in support of
their album, Battle Born, the Killers issued
an edict to Douglas: to keep the live show
design “uncluttered” with a bold and stark
approach. “The band “wanted to keep this
tour really simple, visually,” he notes.
That approach also ties in, visually, with
the Battle Born album art showing “mountains, big sky, and the Las Vegas desert,”
adds Douglas. (The album title is the same
as Nevada’s state motto.)
Douglas got an advanced look at the album about three weeks prior to its Sept.
2012 release, and noted how its graphics
tie in with the music as well, which leans
away from techno and more toward “the
Bruce Springsteen end of the musical
spectrum.”
“Ironically, even though this is more of
a stripped back design, it probably has the
most gear we’ve worked with,” Douglas
continues. “Last time when we went out,
it was much smaller. We had really low-res
video and not a lot of fixtures. We were
playing arenas, using maybe 40 or 50 fixtures.
“For this tour, we are not using every
light for every song,” Douglas notes. “Some
songs are lit by spots, others by LED fixtures. Some songs are lit by wash lights
and others by Sharpys. This time out, it’s
about using gear sparingly.”
Along with the combination of a paradoxically bigger fixture count for the lean32
er visual design, Douglas faced the
challenge of “drastically different”
set lists with “a lot of re-programming” as the tour kicked off in U.S.
and U.K. arenas last fall. The Killers have
since whittled down their nightly performances to a total closer to 20 tunes.
“I’ve been with these guys a long time
now — this is the fourth album I’ve done
with them,” Douglas notes. “With each
new tour that comes around, it’s a case of
learning new songs and re-imagining the
old ones, because you have already done
three or four different tour versions of
them.”
New Fixtures, New Looks
One way to ensure that your design
won’t be able to slouch toward complacency is to use new gear. “I’ve used the
same combination of fixtures for the last
three or four tours, and I was getting a little too comfortable with them,” Douglas
says. “It all started to look the same.”
A visit to Martin Professional headquarters in Denmark opened his eyes to some
new visual possibilities, and he ended up
adding 22 of the new 1000W Martin MAC
Viper Profiles into the Battle Born touring
rig. “I saw them when they were in production — I was very impressed.”
The Viper’s virtues, Douglas says, include the “flatness” of its beam, distinctive
gobos, fast zoom function, compact size,
and the fixture’s ability to hold its own
against powerful washes and vibrant video. “I can wash a whole stage with three
Vipers,” he says, adding that “they really
come in handy, because we really need
something to stand up against the video
screen.”
Along with the Viper Profiles, other
fixtures framing the main video screen’s
6,000 NITs of potential light output include Martin’s MAC Auras, MAC 2000 Wash
XBs, Atomic 3000 DMX strobes with Atomic Colors heads, Thomas 2-Lite DWEs and
Clay Paky Sharpys.
Split Screen, Straight Truss
The screen itself, an XL Video-supplied
semi-transparent (15.6mm pixel pitch) Pixled F-15 screen measuring 48 by 22 feet in
size (WxH), splits horizontally during the
course of the show. The upper 16-foot section flies up, separating from the six-foothigh floor-mounted portion.
The screen split reveals a straight truss
with “Vipers top-rigged,” says Douglas,
“and 14 MAC Auras outrigged from the
scaffolding piping. This wall of moving
lights gives the video screens dimension.”
The design evolved from earlier legs of
the tour, where the split screen revealed
seven Vipers mounted atop seven, threemeter-high upstage truss towers, which
also secured the 14 MAC Auras. “The move
toward straight trussing was done to allow
for more crossover space upstage, behind
the stage,” Douglas notes.
Video content reflects the band’s collaboration with top talents including Tim
Burton, whose video for the song “Bones,”
flashes on the upstage screen. Other content creators include Warren Fu and Chris
Callister.
“Having a number of artists generating
content takes a little bit of the burden off,”
notes Douglas. “They’ll turn up with files
that you can just drop into a media server.
That helps, so I can concentrate my energy
on other things. I don’t have much involvement with video creation, but I do get
shown the rough cuts, just to make sure
they all tie in color-wise with what we’re
doing on stage.”
Show Control and Video
Douglas uses an MA Lighting grandMA2
Light console, with a second as backup,
to control the lighting, video, live camera
feeds and lasers. The console is using 2.6.8
software and is connected to an ArKaos
MediaMaster Pro 3 server via ArtNet protocol.
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So I download the music and was
pleasantly surprised. Not only had I heard
these songs on the radio, they were popping up in advertisements from banks to
insurance companies. They were played
as background music for football games.
They were Imagine Dragons, and I realized right away they were going to be
huge. Only problem was, I was booked
solid for the next two months with putting together other shows. It was time
to call in the cavalry again. First call goes
out to Lightswitch veteran John Featherstone. John always finds time to help a
brother out when he is swamped. I forwarded him the email with the music link.
He listened. He was sold. We would need
to tag team the project. I called the manager up and explained how thrilled I was
with the band’s music. I asked for a week
to come up with some renderings of my
ideas. He in turn emailed me some paper bag sketches of trees with lanterns in
them and some ideas the band had been
bouncing off him. The following Friday,
he was meeting with a couple other designers and would talk to us afterwards.
There was only one stipulation. Whatever
I designed, it had to fit in a 16-foot trailer
towed behind a bus.
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ach year I
get a few
calls from
bands looking for a set or lighting design
for their tour. It’s always an exciting process as I let my imagination run for a few
days before I start putting pencil to paper.
Last month, I got a call from a booking
agent looking to hook me up with one
of her new acts. So I contacted the management company and they emailed me
a response. “Before we chat, take a listen
to this music and let us know if this is
something you would be interested in.”
Nobody has ever approached me in this
manner before. I had not thought I heard
the band’s name previously.
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I wanted a lighting package that was
self-contained. Something that was big
enough to light the band without any
other help from a venue’s in house lighting, But I did ask each venue to supply
me with 4 x 6 lamps bars and a handful
of Lekos to help with basic keylighting.
Christie Lites was the vendor of choice
for this act, as they have offices right
there in Vegas. They knew they were not
going to make money off this two-month
swing, but it got their foot in the door
with a band that will probably go big,
rather soon. I knew that they owned tons
of Martin gear, and for this tour I spec’d
all of their fixtures. I used a single Martin
Stagebar as a footlight for the front faces of each band member. Six Auras were
utilized for their wide beams, to illuminate the sails and uplight the trees. Then
I chose five MAC Vipers — two from the
sides and three from the back — to light
the act. The wide beam, fast response of
the yokes, and the incredible gobo selection these lights provide made them
the most important tool for the show.
Because of money concerns, I chose the
economical Martin M1 console.
I had one week of open
time in January to spend at
Normally this would
home. Thank God for Heroic
have been a huge turnoff
When I got called to design a
Lighting. Heroic is the prefor us. Instead, it became
compact set, I thought about
mier lighting/video/audio
a challenge. I told John
rental house in Minneapolis.
some of my ideas, and
something my friend Jonathan
Last month, I stopped down
we devised a preliminary
Smeeton
described
on
Facebook.
at their shop on a request.
plan. I called my artist
He developed a “set in the bag”
They were toying with the
Chris Tousey in Las Vegas.
idea of getting an ESP sysI discussed some ideas
concept for one of his artists.
tem and a pre-viz studio in
with him, and he starttheir complex. I gave them
ed devising preliminary
a few words of advice, since I
sketches. Since Mac (the
band’s manager) was located in
like material that one attaches to a skel- spend a lot of time in these joints. In return
the same town as him, it would
eton frame of aluminum. I was thinking they offered for me to be their first client,
make it easy to have Chris walk into his tent pole style nylon sails. But once I for free, to work out the bugs. There really
office with a thumb drive full of nice pics drew my idea on paper and sent them to weren’t any, as these guys built a stateand a conversation that explains every- my artist, I realized they were a lot big- of-the-art room that was the perfect setthing. I had a team of good talent, will- ger than what I originally thought of. I ting for me to work. And it was only a few
ing to work cheap because we just all had envisioned a little freestanding half miles outside of my downtown home. My
liked what we were hearing. Sometimes moon shape behind the drummer. Once director Justin flew in to meet me. After a
you have to offer your services afford- drawn, it turned out to be 15 feet high by 30-minute lesson in how the M1 console
ably and grow with the band. Two hours 32 feet wide. Then I asked for two small- works, he was programming like an old
after Chris met with Mac, I got the email. er shapes that could go downstage on pro. This console is just that easy. The six“You guys nailed it. You got us exactly the sides of the half moon. Chris came foot-wide plasma screen at Heroic made it
what we wanted, plus so much more. up with some shark fin-shaped sails that all simple. We knocked out 14 songs in two
But can we project stuff on the sails?” added to the depth of the stage. In front days, with a third spent running the cues
Of course we can. With that said, I im- of these sails I designed four aluminum back in the visualizer.
Two weeks later, we all met up at S.I.R.
mediately got one of my trusty young trees. Fourteen feet tall by about eight
Lighting Directors to come on board for feet wide. Complete with faux leaves. in Vegas for rehearsals. Warren Flynn, the
the same financial considerations. Justin The trees looked totally 3D and curved account rep from Christie Lites, came
Shaw completed the line up. He was now like old fruit trees. I hung three Martin through for us with a couple of trusses
the tour’s carpenter, video engineer and MAC 101 LED movers and three home- and some ground support for this square
lighting designer.
made lanterns from each tree. Joe Gal- box of rehearsal space. I flew in for a day
lagher built the entire set for a fair price, to do a quick grip and grin with the band,
and it fit on top of lighting cases. The felt their excitement, then left it up to the
Bag of Tricks
When I got called to design a com- whole set was huge, but took up four rest of the team to polish the rough gem
pact set, I thought about something my feet of truck space. I knew that this set of a show I left them with. Now on to defriend Jonathan Smeeton described on would be playing large outdoor venues signing the arena tour later this spring.
Facebook. He developed a “set in the by summer, so I needed to have the sails
bag” concept for one of his artists. Some made with beefy construction as opsimple cloth sails made of stretchy silk- posed to tent poles.
Reach Nook Schoenfeld at [email protected].
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Robbie Williams’ O2 Arena Shows Put New
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LONDON — Robbie Williams packed the cavernous O2 Arena here
recently for three solo performances. But the former Take That band
member wasn’t alone in the big room. Along with backup performers,
the concert featured a constantly changing array of brightly flashing
visuals using some of the latest technologies adopted by XL Video.
XL’s project manager, Phil Mercer, worked with Robbie Williams’
long-term production manager Wob Roberts. The set and stage architecture was designed by production designer Mark Fisher together
with creative director Willie Williams and overseen by executive producer Lee Lodge.
More than 2,000 of XL’s new Pixled FX-200 LED spheres were fash-
ioned into a series of oval shapes varying in diameter between 2.5 and
4 feet, then rigged onto a set of hand-rails built by Tait Technologies,
descending during the in-the-round show from the ceiling.
The LED spheres and four of XL’s new Barco HDQ-2K40 40K projectors, each with 40,000 lumens output with a 2K resolution, worked in
tandem with automated gauze projection surfaces arranged in landscape and portrait orientations to fill the void above the stage with
dynamic imagery. Two additional HDQ-2K40s beamed visuals across
the stage and into the audience at times.
Sam Pattinson and Luke Halls from Treatment Studio produced
playback material to Willie Williams’ creative
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Electrosonic Acquires Global Immersion
LOS ANGELES — Electrosonic completed its acquisition of Global Immersion, a designer and integrator of digital immersive theater
attractions for the planetarium, institutional theater and giant screen markets Dec. 10, 2012.
“As a single operation, we will service an even broader range of markets, bringing further innovation and an expanded offering to our
customers,” said Jim Bowie, president of Electrosonic Group. “Our goal to attract and develop the best industry talent has been one of the
drivers of the acquisition. Together we will lead by consolidating our strengths and delivering the best visual systems in the world,” he
added.
“I am delighted with this transaction with Electrosonic,” said Martin Howe, CEO of Global Immersion. “It allows us to further expand our activities and develop our product and service offering,
opening up new doors and bringing with it many synergies. The planetarium and giant screen markets are undergoing significant change as the digital revolution pace quickens.”
Founded in 2007, Global Immersion’s projects have drawn notice at the California Academy of
Sciences, Adler Planetarium, Moscow Planetarium, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Peoria Riverfront Museum and Reuben H. Fleet Science Center.
From left, Global Immersion’s Martin Howe and
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Three digiLED MC7 screens served as a backdrop.
LOS ANGELES — Pete’s Big TVs
provided video support for the Donny & Marie: Christmas in Los Angeles
shows that ran from Dec. 4-23 at the
Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.
The Newcastle, DE-based video
equipment rental company provided a full HD production system that
included three digiLED MC7 LED
screens, three Sony HDC1500 cameras and two robotic cameras for the
series of two-hour holiday performances.
“The design is similar to their past
Christmas shows last year in Chicago
and Detroit, which we worked on as
well,” noted Guy Benjamin of Pete’s
Big TVs.
Benjamin worked with video engineer Brian Brinckman and LED tech
Brent Jones on the variety-format
shows, which also featured a Christmas tree, fireplace, dancers and a live
orchestra.
The digiLED MC7 screens were
chosen for their high resolution and
lack of radio frequency interference
with audio elements in the produc-
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TMB offers products and services to professionals in the
entertainment production and architectural lighting industries. Formed in 1983, TMB provides a number of DMX networking products that function over Ethernet and fiber optics
from splitters, mergers, switches and hubs.
tmb.com
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Aarhus, Denmark-based Martin Professional, founded in
1987, now offers networking products that range from entry level
USB to DMX devices and include network switches, hubs and Ethernet-to-DMX products for their lighting control consoles for the
entertainment, architectural and commercial lighting sectors.
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ARNHEM, The Netherlands —
Qlimax, a Q-dance hardstyle event
that drew more than 30,000 revelers
to the GelreDome soccer stadium
here Nov. 24, provided an immersive
visual environment that relied heavily on circular truss and projection
screens. The lighting and production
design team, comprised of Jonas
Smith, Tamil van Draanen and Marcel
Binnenmarsch, also included SGM
fixtures in the rig. There were 24 SGM
Six Pack (SP-6) blinders operated from
the VIP decks along with 28 SGM P-5
washlights and 25 X-5 white strobes
flooding the stage.
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White Light Supplies The Bodyguard on Stage
Robbie Williams Returns to U.K. Stage in Style with Strategic Lighting, Video
Artistic Licence
Since 1988, Artistic Licence has specialized in the design,
development and manufacture of products for the architectural lighting and entertainment technology industries.
The product range includes products designed for use with
DMX512-A, RDM, Ethernet, Art-Net, DALI and MIDI. The range
extends from test equipment to data distribution and motion
control to LED lighting.
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Group Makes Plans to
Acquire XL Video
GLOBALNEWS
LONDON —White Light supplied lighting gear to The Bodyguard, a new musical based on
the popular 1992 film featuring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner.
The show, which opened recently, is directed by Thea Sharrock and produced by David Ian
and Michael Harrison, with scenic design by Tim Hatley and lighting by Mark Henderson.
White Light has collaborated regularly with Henderson over his 30-year career, supplying
gear for such long-running shows as Grease and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. For The Bodyguard,
Henderson is using gear including Martin MAC 2000 Performance, MAC III Profile and MAC
700 Profile spots, MAC700 and MAC TW1 Washes, Vari-Lite VL1000TS Spots and VL3000 Washes, Coemar Infinity ACL-M beamlights, Clay Paky Sharpys, Martin MAC Aura and i-Pix BB4 LED
washlights, Philips ColorKinetics ColorGraze Powercore LED battens and a Chroma-Q ColorWeb. In addition, the rig features ETC Source Fours, PAR cans, Rainbow scrollers, Robert Juliat
Cyrano followspots plus Unique haze machines, Viper smoke machines and Le Maitre Freeze
Fog low smoke effects. The rig is controlled from an ETC Eos control system.
Working with Henderson on the show is a lighting team led by production electrician Fraser Hall and programmer Stuart Cross. The show’s production manager is Matt Towell.
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DMX Distribution Companies
etting control signal from point A to B used to mean just
running a DMX cable. A hardline DMX is still the standard for
connecting devices to a control surface, although that often
means daisy chaining to get multiple devices on the same run, and
opto splitters for multiple runs.
In today’s computer-based lighting control world, networks
are becoming the norm, with Ethernet cables replacing long runs
of DMX cable. Running DMX signal over a network is a bit trickier
and involves some computer networking knowledge. Lucky for us,
there are some forward thinking companies out there putting long
hours and vast amounts of resources into devices that can make
our jobs a bit easier.
This month’s Buyers Guide focuses on those companies that
keep our DMX signal going down the line without interruption.
TMB
Also, PLSN’s new “On the Road” feature
(page 8) on Demfis Fyssicopulos included an
outdated Maroon 5 graphic element; it does
not reflect his design for the band.
PLSN regrets the errors.
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Christie Lites and LMG supplied lighting and video for
Bassnectar in Nashville.
that included eight production numbers,
a DJ, 14-piece band and 48 dancers. More
details at http://plsn.me/Xt7sR4.
Also in Vegas, Chaos Visual Productions
rang in 2013 with video support for big-name
acts on the Las Vegas Strip including The Killers and Red Hot Chili Peppers at The Chelsea
Ballroom in The Cosmopolitan Hotel and by
Beyoncé at the Wynn Hotel. Chaos also gave
an assist to Dick Clark Productions’ Rockin’
New Year’s Eve. See related story, page 34.
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practical tips leavened with humorous
observations of the joys and tribulations
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— on each issue’s last page.
4Wall provided lighting for Train in Times Square.
In Las Vegas, PLSN columnist Vickie Claiborne, who is also a product specialist at PRG,
used Avolites’ Ai media server to map projected content onto set elements spanning a
total 230 feet in width within the Aria hotel’s
Bristlecone Ballroom for a big NYE 2013 bash
CORRECTIONS
PLSN’s Showtime Top 10 Tours of 2012 feature (Jan. 2013, page 14-16) included the incorrect lighting company, an outdated crew
list and other errors for Lady Gaga’s 2012 tour.
The correct lighting company was Upstaging, with crew members including LD Patrick
The Biz
Emphasizing the “biz” side of show biz —
the all-important bottom line.
Designer Watch
Debi Moen checks in with designers
throughout the world to report on their
latest projects and where they are, helping readers keep up-to-date with their
friends and peers in the industry.
shoe-horning the gear within a set that offered only 11.5 feet of headroom. More details
at http://plsn.me/XND8ir.
On Rio’s not-quite-as-frosty Copacabana
Beach in Brazil, new technologies animating
live music performances included some of
the 70,500 Pixel Tablets that Tait Technologies
provided for the London Olympics — in this
case, 11,000 — that were flanking the stage
on a series of nets. See related story, page 15.
More details at plsn.me/TlR86M.
For a Widespread Panic show in Charlotte,
NC’s Time Warner Arena, LD Paul Hoffman
used new gear including Bandit Lites-supplied GLP impression X4s along with auld
“workhorses,” Vari*Lite VL3000 spots.
Hoffman kept the panic to a minimum
despite a perfect recipe for angst: the band
has a 350-song repertoire; there was no set
list in advance; Hoffman was learning the
ropes on a console new to him (grandMA2);
the band was making its first foray into video;
and, since the band was on hiatus for most of
2012, Hoffman needed lots of new looks from
scratch.
Along with the console and Martin Maxedia media server to feed content to Mirage
video panels, Bandit provided GRN LED Pars,
GRN LED Battens and Clay Paky Sharpys for
the event. More details at http://plsn.me/
W7TjcE.
In Nashville, Bassnectar returned to
Bridgestone Arena, with Michael Smalley’s
visuals making the most of a new in-theround stage setup. Christie Lites once again
supplied the lighting, with a rig centered on
Martin MAC III Profiles, the newer MAC III AirFX and Clay Paky Sharpys. LMG’s video assist
included the 11.25mm LED panels surrounding the DJ table on the circular stage and a
dozen 18.75mm LED screens extending out
from the center scoreboard screen.
SANTA MARIA, Brazil — Authorities have detained four people in
connection with a fire that ripped
through the packed Kiss nightclub
in this southern Brazil city in the
early morning hours of Sunday,
Jan. 27, killing 237. Pyro ignited
acoustic foam, and the revelers,
most of whom were college age,
stampeded and were suffocated
within minutes by the resulting
smoke and fumes.
Five of the six members of the
band performing at the time, Gurizada Fandangueira, survived and
were able to relay the details about
how the fire started to officials, but
one band member died after attempting to re-enter the
nightclub to retrieve an
accordion, according to
press reports.
There were also reports of security personnel blocking exits temporarily, and of bodies
blocking the entrance,
preventing emergency
personnel from reaching victims. 232 were
reported to have died
at the scene, with more
victims succumbing after being hospitalized.
The four detainees included two
band members and two co-owners
of the club.
Similar tragedies include the
2003 fire that killed 100
people at the Station
nightclub in West Warwick, RI, where pyro ignited foam insulation
in the walls and ceiling
near the stage. It took
less than six minutes
for that blaze to engulf
the club, with a stampede-blocked exit adding to the death toll.
A 2009 fire at the
Lame Horse nightclub
in Perm, Russia, was
caused by fireworks designed for
outdoor use igniting plastic decorations on the ceiling; 152 died as
a result. Another celebration where
fireworks ignited ceiling décor occurred in Buenos Aires, Argentina’s
República Cromagnon nightclub in
2004; the death toll there was 194.
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SALES CONTACTS
Greg Gallardo - Publisher
Entertainment Division
Tel: 702.454.8550
Fax: 702.898.2942
[email protected]
Matt Huber
Account Manager
Tel: 702.932.5585
Fax: 702.554.5340
[email protected]
Terry Lowe
President
Tel: 702.932.5585
Fax: 702.554.5340
[email protected]
Michael Devine
Account Manager
Tel: 702.478.8112
Fax: 702.554.5340
[email protected]
Judy Wang
The Greater China
Worldwide Focus Media
Tel: 0086-13810325171
[email protected]
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Chauvet Opens Mexico Subsidiary
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BROOKLYN, NY — For the muchdiscussed and tweeted-about 2013 MTV
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SALES CONTACTS
Greg Gallardo - Publisher
Entertainment Division
Tel: 702.454.8550
Fax: 702.898.2942
[email protected]
Matt Huber
Account Manager
Tel: 702.932.5585
Fax: 702.554.5340
[email protected]
Terry Lowe
President
Tel: 702.932.5585
Fax: 702.554.5340
[email protected]
Michael Devine
Account Manager
Tel: 702.478.8112
Fax: 702.554.5340
[email protected]
Judy Wang
The Greater China
Worldwide Focus Media
Tel: 0086-13810325171
[email protected]
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plus all of Canada will be automatically entered
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to vote on which regional company will be awarded the coveted
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SALES CONTACTS
Greg Gallardo - Publisher
Entertainment Division
Tel: 702.454.8550
Fax: 702.898.2942
[email protected]
Matt Huber
Account Manager
Tel: 702.932.5585
Fax: 702.554.5340
[email protected]
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[email protected]
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President
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Fax: 702.554.5340
[email protected]
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