CHICAGO – An hour after the famous New Year’s Eve ball dropped in Times Square, a gleaming multi-colored celestial structure located almost 800 miles away welcomed 2016 by moving in the opposite direction. Chi-Town Rising, the Windy City’s first countdown NYE celebration, featured a 70-foot star that rose on a downtown high rise until it […]
NEW YORK – Even by the standards of pop punk, a genre famous for blending outrageously divergent sounds, The Wonder Years stands out for its incredibly wide-ranging style. Deftly swinging from subtle melodies to heart-pounding choruses in the blink of a musical eye, this freewheeling band from the Philadelphia area takes fans on an emotionally […]
NEW YORK– Even by the standards of pop punk, a genre famous for blending outrageously divergent sounds, The Wonder Years stands out for its incredibly wide-ranging style. Deftly swinging from subtle melodies to heart-pounding choruses in the blink of a musical eye, this freewheeling band from the Philadelphia area takes fans on an emotionally charged […]
Popularity has its price, at least in terms of the misconceptions that spring up around an idea that suddenly becomes widely embraced. Such is the case with pixel mapping. Although mapping is in the forefront of lighting design, it’s also often misunderstood. In this interview, CHAUVET Professional senior product manager Ford Sellers takes an in […]
LAS VEGAS – They say you can find anything you want in Las Vegas. Adventure Combat Ops, one of the city’s newest attractions, falls into that category. Located in a 77,000 square foot former warehouse just off the famed Strip, this unique venue serves up a two-hour adrenaline rush of non-stop action by enlisting customers […]
STURGIS, SOUTH DAKOTA – A small spec on the map in the western part of America’s 46th most populous state is hardly the type of place where one would expect to encounter a traffic jam. However, anyone who journeys to little Sturgis, South Dakota (population 6,900) during the first week of August will find that […]
NEW YORK – Rock and roll never dies; neither do rock and roll dreams, although sometimes they may take an extended hiatus while “adult responsibilities” are looked after. Such was the case for New York attorney Charles Bonfante. In the ’80s and early ’90s, the Long Island native was the drummer for a number of […]
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA– By any measure, the Mediatech Africa 2015 Advanced Technology Trade Show was an outstanding success for Audiosure. The South African company drew large appreciative crowds to see its extensive collection of audio and AV products as well as lighting from CHAUVET Professional and CHAUVET DJ. However, beyond being drawn by the […]
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – By any measure, the Mediatech Africa 2015 Advanced Technology Trade Show was an outstanding success for Audiosure. The South African company drew large appreciative crowds to see its extensive collection of audio and AV products as well as lighting from CHAUVET Professional and CHAUVET DJ. However, beyond being drawn by the […]
ORLANDO, Fla. – Although the CHAUVET Professional team arrived at InfoComm with great enthusiasm about the products they would be exhibiting, even the most optimistic among them didn’t anticipate the size of the crowds that would stream into their booth — nor the overwhelming praise that attendees would lavish on the company’s latest innovations in […]
NEW YORK – From its unique fixed color wheel with 14 slots plus white to its variable speed scrolling, the Rogue R1 Beam has a variety of special features. Lighting designer Dougie Lazer needed every last one of these capabilities recently when he worked the boards for “Out of the Ashes: Phoenix Rising,” a party […]
NEW YORK – From its unique fixed color wheel with 14 slots plus white to its variable speed scrolling, the Rogue R1 Beam has a variety of special features. Lighting designer Dougie Lazer needed every last one of these capabilities recently when he worked the boards for “Out of the Ashes: Phoenix Rising,” a party […]