FRANKFURT – There’s a powerful storm headed to Prolight + Sound, but instead of seeking shelter, lighting professionals will want to run toward it at Stand E21 in Hall 12.1, as CHAUVET Professional introduces the latest additions to its game-changing Maverick Storm series of IP65 rated fixtures. Engineered to stand up to “nature’s fury” as […]
A self-described “impatient big dreamer,” this London designer has never been one to wait for opportunities to come to him. At 12, he was writing letters introducing himself to leading designers in the city’s West End and major television networks. Four years later, he was programming his first national TV show. At 22, he became […]
For Max Koehler and Ryan Warffuel, LED video walls are more than a medium for displaying stunning breakout patterns and other images. The two young designers, who are partners in Minneapolis-based Antic Studios, view these panels as living, breathing vibrant entities in their own right — and not merely repositories for colorful images. Panels themselves […]
BIRMINGHAM, UK – The CHAUVET Professional Arena has always been a crowd pleaser at the BPM | PRO Show, but this year it broke all records for popularity. Aside from taking place at a new, larger and more impressive facility – the 16,000-capacity NEC Genting Arena – the event featured a stunningly bright and fast-moving […]
NEW YORK – Mickey Mantle, Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter…many of baseball’s greatest legends have experienced butterflies in their stomachs the first time they entered the colossus that is Yankee Stadium. Apparently so too do country music superstars. “I’m nervous as hell,” Garth Brooks, the best-selling solo album artist in the history of the US, said […]
From touring with Snoop Dog, to doing a one off on the rarified grounds of Harvard University, to working rural music festivals Tristan Rudat and his video panels have been welcomed at a lot of places – and with good reason. His walls, which are as likely to be broken into sections as they are […]
LED fixtures eliminate the need for dimmer packs…This is an oft repeated mantra; and while it’s true, this does not mean that LED fixtures are plug and play products, at least not if you want to control them fully. As Stephen Ellison, Lighting Designer Stark Raving Solutions, explains in this interview, controlling LED fixtures requires […]
It is somehow altogether fitting that Shinedown begins their set on the Carnival of Madness Tour with their raging rock anthem “Adrenaline.” An adrenaline rush is precisely what the hard rock icons have been serving up to fans on this festival tour with their cranked-up amps, ferocious riffs and frontman Brent Smith’s nonstop stage prowls. […]
NEW YORK – People who go to a moe. concert thinking they know what to expect, have probably never been to a moe. concert before. The quintet from upstate New York epitomizes the freewheeling improvisational unpredictability of jam band music, as it reels off 10-minute riffs with casual ease and seamlessly moves from song to […]
BOSTON – Labor Day may mark the official end to summer in the US, but for the big crowd gathered at Fenway Park the following weekend, the season was still in full swing. The hometown Red Sox were battling for a pennant, but they were 431 miles away in Toronto playing the Blue Jays. The […]
FLANDERS, BELGIUM – The Red Bull Elektropedia Room at Belgium’s 10-day Lokerse Feesten festival delivered a high-energy club-like feel with a stunning fast-moving lightshow designed by Ignace D’haese, Jonas Weyn and Tijs Coene of Arf & Yes that included 100 CHAUVET Professional Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures, supplied by Phlippo. With 500 individually controlled moving heads, […]
Mexico City – Responding to the rapidly increasing demand for its lighting and trussing products in Mexico, Chauvet has opened a new office, warehouse, service center and showroom in Lerma, just west of the nation’s capital. Located close to major highway and rail transit channels, the spacious new facility will house an extensive inventory of […]