We had A BLAST this weekend at the 2015 Ultra Music Festival, and we KNOW you all had a blast! It rained, it poured, but the bass dropped and all was happy!
Check out some really fun photos of the weekend’s work — the Main Stage lighting designer was Steve Lieberman; the Main Stage lighting director was Patrick Dierson, and the Creative Designer was Richard Milstein. What an AWESOME piece of work!
The Main Stage rig had a breathtaking 124 Legend 230SR Beam fixtures from CHAUVET Professional — thanks so much for spec’ing our fixtures, you really made them sing!
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Check out a seriously pertinent article in this month’s PLSN Magazine… production and the world of outdoors… with serious issues of production safety and live entertainment very clearly in the forefront of everyone’s mind, this is an article to read.
Check it out! From the article…
After a long design process, the plan was set. Close to 800 guests were bused the 100 miles or so from Los Angeles. The event would begin in a clear tent with a press conference and speeches by Sir Richard Branson and the governors of California and New Mexico. Guests would then be invited out into the Mojave evening to watch SpaceShipTwo rolling down 1,800 feet of taxiway, passing giant icons of the Virgin Galactic brand dubbed “The DNA of Flight.” As it approached the audience, 36 X&Y Big Lights and 40 Martin MAC 2000XB washes (part of a 500-light rig provided by Upstaging) would dramatically light SpaceShipTwo. After a walk around the history-making spacecraft, guests would move back into the tent along with two inflatable domes measuring 80 feet in diameter to party and celebrate. Sounds like a lovely evening, right?
Get it before April comes! It’s March’s Lighting Insights video insights with Jim Hutchison!
In March we’re talking color palettes and how to make the ones that work best for you — and in April we’ll be talking about how to do a similarly good job making your BEAM palettes. Check it out!
April’s issue of Lighting Insights from CHAUVET Professional is coming… make sure to read up before we launch the April 2015 edition by reading about Craig Rutherford and how to be a true road warrior in March 2015’s Lighting Insights!
April 2015’s Lighting Insights newsletter is coming out, so make sure you take a last peek at the March 2015 selections from CHAUVET Professional, starting with Joe Paradise… a lighting designer’s lighting designer!
Awesome!! San Diego local band Brothers Gow has another bunch of great live videos on the band’s YouTube page — a popular favorite here on the CHAUVET Professional Blog, Brothers Gow is out there rocking a full rig of CHAUVET!
From the band’s website:
The San Diego quintet Brothers Gow combines rock, funk, jazz and reggae influences with thoughtful lyrics, deep grooves and an ear for improvisation that keeps each show fresh and unique. With more than 500 shows under their belts, this well-seasoned band started off in Flagstaff, AZ, and since moving to Southern California, has developed a more dynamic sound, adding strong vocal harmonies and complex arrangements to their guitar-driven rock. Add to this mix an awe inspiring light show, and you have a recipe for a memorable concert experience.
Check out the title track from their newest album, Reflections — here on the CHAUVET Professional Blog!
The Brothers Gow rig consists of:
8 CHAUVET Professional Q-Spot 260
4 CHAUVET Professional Q Spot 560
4 Chauvet DJ Intimidator Wash Zoom 350
4 Chauvet DJ Intimidator Beam 350
22 Chauvet DJ Slim Par 64 RGB
If you came out to say hi at this year’s USITT Conference and Stage Expo in Cincinnati, Ohio, we’re glad to heave seen you! Our booth was mobbed with love for three days, and we’re so grateful to spread the love of light!
We took lots of photos for those of you who couldn’t make it… up to and including the awesome fire drill we had right at the end of the last day. It’s always a blast to put a few thousand Entertainment Business folks randomly onto a street during a sunny day in March!
We hope you had as much fun as we did, and we’ll see you next year in Salt Lake City! This year’s USITT booth was designed by Product Manager Ben Dickmann. Great work, Ben!
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It’s time for the VESUVIO RGBA hybrid atmospheric/lighting fixture to rock and roll your shows! If you’re in the market for a fixture that takes massive output and bright illumination and smashes both of them together at the speed of light, you need to check out the VESUVIO RGBA!
A new addition to the CHAUVET Professional atmospherics family, the Vesuvio RGBA brings together high output LED washes to towering fog output with ferocious intensity. The Vesuvio RGBA atmospheric effect generator allows you to add red, green, blue, and amber color mixing (RGBA) to voluminous fog output for multi-colored atmospheric columns, bringing a new level of effects to your production. Vesuvio RGBA features a quick heating 1.6 kW heater and a 2.5 L fluid tank for dependability in production, and features an incredible 40,000 cubic feet per minute output (CFM), bringing a huge punch for your show.
Happy Wednesday, lighting industry! This is a special week, tomorrow (Thursday, March 19, 2015) is the opening of the 2015 USITT Conference and Stage Expo here in Cincinnati, OH!
CHAUVET Professional is here, and we’re looking forward to seeing all of you on the USITT show floor tomorrow morning! The show floor opens at 10am, and we’re right up at the front in Booth #1013, some come on by and check out what we’re offering the Entertainment Lighting community – new technology, super performing moving head spots and washes, and an industry first – the first LED ERS and Fresnel that can operate on both a conventional dimmer, meet the Ovation ED-190WW and Ovation FD-165WW, two of the newest developments in technology in our industry!
Happy Wednesday, lighting industry! This is a special week, tomorrow (Thursday, March 19, 2015) is the opening of the 2015 USITT Conference and Stage Expo here in Cincinnati, OH!
CHAUVET Professional is here, and we’re looking forward to seeing all of you on the USITT show floor tomorrow morning! The show floor opens at 10am, and we’re right up at the front in Booth #1013, some come on by and check out what we’re offering the Entertainment Lighting community – new technology, super performing moving head spots and washes, and an industry first – the first LED ERS and Fresnel that can operate on both a conventional dimmer, meet the Ovation ED-190WW and Ovation FD-165WW, two of the newest developments in technology in our industry!
We’re showing off some of our other awesome products at the USITT show as well, like the ROGUE R2 Spot, our LED powerhouse moving head spot, and the ROGUE R2 Wash, our brightest LED wash in the ROGUE line. The ROGUE series is excellent for theatrical endeavors across all genres of theatrical entertainment – Opera, Dance, Theatre, Musical Theatre, and workshopped performances. ROGUE R2 Series spot and wash heads are reliable, LED powered, value-driven, and popular across all genres of entertainment, from La Traviata to Garth Brooks!
We’re very proud to bring the Ovation C-640FC LED cyc light to the USITT audience – we’ve got a top and bottom design of the excellent C-640FC cyc light on a hand-painted Ann Davis piece from Chicago, Illinois, please com on by and watch the LED wash bring the already amazing hand-painted drop to life! That’s what the C-640FC is known for – bright color mixing and a wash coverage that is every bit as good as what you can dream up, minus all the power consumption!
We’re very excited to show off our wonderful LED houselight, the Ovation H-105WW, which features Remote Device Management (RDM), multiple power configurations, and the ability to hang the unit as a pendant or sconce in your venue.
On the focus bench with the ED-190WW and FD-165WW sits the H-105WW Houselight, the newly released MIN-E-10WW mini-ERS (the perfect complement to the ED-190WW and E-190WW LED ellipsoidals), the new COLORdash Accent Quad single-source RGBA washer, the COLORdash Par Hex 12 LED wash unit that has an amazing color configuration of RGBAWUV, and the venerable COLORado 2 Quad Zoom Tour, the perfect replacement for any conventional wash – except the COLORado 2 Quad Zoom Tour features a wide zoom range, low power consumption, an incredible field of output, and RGBWE color mixing. It’s truly an LED color washing powerhouse!
Come on by Booth #1013 this week at the USITT Conference and Stage Expo here in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Duke Energy Arena! DeAnna Padgett, Dwight Slamp, Ben Dickmann, and Jim Hutchison will be in the booth to answer any and all questions you have about going CHAUVET Professional! We look forward to saying hi!
