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PLSN 07-19-2016 PROJECTION, LIGHTS AND STAGING NEWS 2016 MEDIA KIT 100% Visual Presentation Editorial Visual Presentation Audience Au or dio NO Au Ed di ito en ri ce al PROJECTION, LIGHTS AND STAGING NEWS PROJEC Look how our advertisers rate PLSN. Advertise Where You Get Results – Projection, Lights & Staging News • 55.8% of PLSN subscribers are presidents/ owners or are in management.* • 87.5% of PLSN subscribers recommend or make final purchasing decisions.** ma • 40.6% of PLSN subscribers have — as a directt result result of viewing v direct an ad — purchased a product product and anndd 79.3% 799.33% have hav visited an advertiser’s website.*** website.*** • 34.2% of of PLSN PLSN subscribers suubs indicate a future spending llevel evel oonn eentertainment nt spending technology for themselves oorr ttheir heir ccompany in excess of $100k*** themselves *June 2016 Verified Audit Circulation Statement, **Publisher’s Own Research from subscription cards ***Publisher’s 2015 Reader Survey www.plsn.com/mediakit Bill Andersen, Marketing Director, —TMB “Advertising in PLSN has been key to CHAUVET’s branding and successful crossover into the production and rental markets. PLSN is one of very few publications in this industry with editorial credibility. It attracts the kind of potential buyers we seek: discerning and educated readers, savvy designers and installers.” Berenice Chauvet, Vice President – CHAUVET PLSN 07-19-2016 • 22,481 Qualified Subscribers* “PLSN’s reader response program is an integral part of our marketing operations and has proven to be very beneficial. The comprehensive reports arrive like clockwork, sometimes with hundreds of contacts! With each contact representing a potential customer for us, our dealers and reps . . . well, you do the math.” Editorial Profile PROJECTION, LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS Nook Schoenfeld, Editor of PLSN Magazine 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. PLSN 07-19-2016 T 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. 2016 EDITORIAL CALENDAR Year SALES CONTACTS 2 0 1 6 PROJECTION, LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS Issue Focus Special Feature Buyer’s Guide Bonus Distribution Ad Due Dates January New Year - New Gear What type of gear is missing from your inventory? LED Pars Winter NAMM December 23, 2015 February Focus on Nashville Edition We look at several Nashville companies Production and Stage Managers for hire in Nashville March Theatre Issue Theatrical productions and technology. Dimmers USITT, PL+S Frankfurt February 25, 2016 April TV and Film issue Interviews with top DPs and LDs in the film world. Fresnels and Soft Lights NAB March 25, 2016 May Corporate Events New gear from overseas - Report from PL+S Frankfurt. Wireless DMX June AV Issue Concert video directors and the latest video gear. Media Servers July Festival Issue So many festivals, so many types. An intro to all of them. Lasers June 25, 2016 August Houses of Worship The latest technology hits your local church. Automated Lighting Consoles July 25, 2016 September Nightclubs Coming up with a new club design - from soup to nuts. LED Pancake - Wash Lights August 25, 2016 October Concert Touring In-depth report on the summer touring season. Foggers November Trade Show Lighting LDI wrapup on all the latest new gear. Hard Edge Moving Arc Lights October 25, 2016 December Holiday Issue Coverage of holiday productions. Followspots November 25, 2016 Greg Gallardo - Publisher Entertainment Division Tel: 702.454.8550 Fax: 702.898.2942 gregg@timelesscom.com Matt Huber Account Manager Tel: 702.932.5585 Fax: 702.554.5340 mh@timelesscom.com Michael Devine Account Manager Tel: 702.478.8112 Fax: 702.554.5340 md@timelesscom.com Terry Lowe President Tel: 702.932.5585 Fax: 702.554.5340 tlowe@timelesscom.com Judy Wang The Greater China Worldwide Focus Media Tel: 0086-13810325171 judy@timelesscom.com January 25, 2016 April 25, 2016 InfoComm LDI May 25, 2016 September 25, 2016 PROJECTION, LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS In-Depth and Comprehensive Editorial PROJECTION, LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS Every issue of Projection, Lights & Staging News is packed with the news, features and columns that subscribers turn to for information and insights they can’t get anywhere else. IN MEMORIAM Remembering Troels Volver, Page13 NEWS Showtime PLSN readers get a chance to see their own work in print. They send us gig shots, crew credits and details about the gear they used. 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. PROJE CT I AN NIVERSARY By JustinLang News Spotlight 5 Chris Lamb Named 2015 Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Honoree 8 In Memoriam: Lenore Travis, 67; Lyle Centola, 59 45 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. More details at plsn.me/TulXoB 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.” More details at plsn.me/Tum0k8 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 PROJECTION CONNECTION p. 45 CUT THE CABLES 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. malighting.com 7ÀiiÃÃÞVÌÀ8} Ì}wÝÌÕÀià ,i`ÕViVÃÌÃvÀ8V>Lià ,i`ÕViÃiÌÕ«Ìi>`>LÀiÝ«iÃià ,i`Õ ÕViÃiÌÕ«ÌÌ i> -Üi`à 7ÀiiÃÃ-ÕÌ78ÒV«iÌÃLÕÌ -Üi`à 7À ÀiiÃÃ-ÕÌ 7 >ÃÞ«>À} > >ÃÞ«>À mega-lite.com I sales@mega-lite.com 866-460-MEGA (6342) I San Antonio, TX ETC is committed to interoperability of different manufacturers’ products. ETC helped to develop Ethernet-based networking in entertainment lighting systems. Their Net3 devices offer streamlined system control, and higher performance than legacy 22 30 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. Qlimax Hardstyle Revelers Immersed in Sound, Visuals 40 42 Inside Theatre Wide Angle Venue Design Derek McLane’s Scenic Designs Bob Seger's Ride Out Tour China's Han Show Theatre 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. 40 11 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. 0$5&+plsn.com GLOBAL NEWS COMPANY 411 PRODUCTIONPROFILE ONTHEMOVE 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. » ANDY REESE 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. More details at plsn.me/W7TTIn Morpheus Lights named Barbara Brennan vice-president of business develop- 16 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 Vol. 16.02 March, 2015 HTS & STA , LIG GI ON S NEW NG 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. More details at plsn.me/W7TQMH 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. More details at plsn.me/W7TPZ6 NIVERSARY Battle Born Tour LD Steven Douglas Goes Bold and Stark with New Design, Gear By WillRomano News Spotlight 5 Super Bowl Halftime Show Sets Record for U.S. TV Viewership 5 Two Killed, Four Injured in Accident at Alabama Pyro Factory 6 Stanley Miller Joins Parnelli Awards' Board of Advisors White Light named Sarah Cox as its European divisional sales manager. Cox most recently worked as business development manager for Stage Electrics. Before that, she held positions with Roland Hemming and TMB. More details at plsn.me/W7TTIf LD Steven Douglas 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. PROJECTION CONNECTION p. 55 )(%58$5<plsn.com 64 Yo u s p i n m e LED BREAKTHROUGH ON THE MOVE The YEAR AN 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. APRIL 2013 • plsn.com Road Test PRODUCTION PROFILE Cla Pak Clay Paky Mythos 40 Designer Insights XRLED 1200 SPOT The endless pan• 800-Watt & tilt makes RGB the LED XLED 2007 Beam go right round. • Adjustable Color Temp LD-AT-LARGE Set in a Bag By NookSchoenfeld » Ready to Soar 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. NEXT MONTH Inside Theatre Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Buyers Guide Automated Rigging The Biz Corporate Branding Strategies 60 ILLUSTRATION BY ANDY AU E 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. SECTIONHEADLINE PROJECTION CONNECTION Headline • Adjustable Zoom » The Lighting Rig 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 nook@plsn.com. PRLIGHTING.US www.MegaSystemsInc.com Will Potts Lights the 2015 Tour LDATLARGE Inside Theatre Topical discussions with the leading lights in the world of theatre, on and off Broadway. Production Profile Lighting, video and set designers share their challenges, triumphs and insights about trend-setting touring productions. Inside. . . Deck Ai Media Servers Company 411 Every manufacturer that has risen to prominence in our industry has done so against huge odds. Here are their stories. Buyers Guide A no-hype-allowed zone for industry professionals making critical buying decisions. Road Test Sizing up a piece of gear on a trade show floor is one thing. Actually putting it to work on a real-world production is another. Here’s where industry pros put the rubber to the road. Interviews and Chats PLSN speaks with the Legends behind the scenes as they chat about life and the productions they have been involved in. 37 COVER PHOTO BY STEVE JENNINGS IR Cameras By LineHere WHAT’S HOT 38 Robbie Williams’ O2 Arena Shows Put New Video Technologies to the Test Pete’s Big TVs Supply Donny & Marie Christmas Shows XL Video provided Pixled FX-200 LED spheres and Barco HDQ-2K40 projectors. 36 48 68 Designer Insights 3URGXFWLRQ3URÀOH LD-at-Large Eric Church's The Outsiders Tour Red Bull's Crashed Ice Tour Jess Baker: From Rock to Corporate Gigs 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 continued on page 35 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 More details at plsn.me/Tum83j Electrosonic’s Jim Bowie 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- » APRIL 2013 • plsn.com SCHEDULED ISSUE EDITORIAL Installations The artistry and engineering embodied within the venues themselves, and the people who make them happen. COMPANY411 By Kevin M. Mitchell S WHAT’S HOT plsn.com2013 JANUARY 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 BUYERS GUIDE Buyers Guide Seven Design Works Transforms the "V" Tour 26 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. martin.com FEBRUARY 2013 SOVQFRP 28 Production Profile COVER PHOTO BY TODD KAPLAN 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. More details at plsn.me/Tum0kc Martin Professional Electronic Theatre Controls With the Mega Air PRO DMX 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. artisticlicence.com Production Resource 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. More details at plsn.me/Tum0AG 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. INDUSTRY NEWS Designer Insights Marilyn Manson FEATURED PRODUCTS 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. plsn.com )(%58$5< Feeding the Machines A veteran lighting programmer shares practical tips leavened with humorous observations of the joys and tribulations of life on the road. LD-at-Large Humor and wisdom at the end of the day — 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. More details at plsn.me/1257Yuk BUYERSGUIDE G TOREY MUNDKOWSKY. On the Move Who’s who in the industry, and where they’re heading, plus the latest information of companies in transition. Auld Acquaintances Meet New Technology for NYE 2013 Vol. 16.04 May, 2015 HTS & STA , LIG GI ON YEAR PROJE CT I Global News Concert touring, theatre and architectural lighting news from around the world. Joshua Timmermans Industry News PLSN provides the industry with an independent editorial voice, covering the industry like no other news source. Pyro Ignites Acoustic Foam in Brazil Nightclub; 237 Killed, 120+ Hospitalized Drew Ressler/rukes.com Bandit Lites gear lit Widespread Panic in Charlotte, NC. plsn.com2013 JANUARY 33 PROJECTION CONNECTION Product Focus A new look at technological innovation within select groups of products. Product Focus will cover product developments with more depth and breadth than ever before. Projection Connection A unique magazine-within-a-magazine format covering video projection and the latest LED video display elements within touring productions and fixed installations. Video Digerati Observations and insights from a working video programmer. Focus on Fundamentals A must-read for industry newcomers, and a refresher for industry pros. 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