ST. LOUIS – Despite the pandemic, and all the restrictions it has created, Gerry Dintelman has been in a groove of late, firing up brutal, hard-hitting livestream looks for metallic heavyweights like Fister, Dead Pilgrim and Chaos Collective. But recently, he had to change gears and focus his creative vision in a softer, more romantic […]
ATLANTA – In 1997 race car driver Geoff Bodine put the pedal to the metal and reached 197.479 miles per hour on the famed Atlanta Motor Speedway. No one has ever equaled that speed on the big course since, but the action was probably even more blistering on the weekend of September 22-24, as close […]
LOWELL, MA – Every time Tim Messina sat down at his computer to work on a design for the 2017 Steubenville East Conference, he felt “less than completely satisfied” with the end result. The owner of Events United, Messina has been creating the lighting, audio, video, and stage design for the large Catholic youth conference […]
NOTTINGHAM, UK – Since opening its doors in 1980, Nottingham’s 2,500-capacity Rock City has showcased some of biggest names in alternative music. Last year, the iconic club won its 10th consecutive Kerrang! Award as Venue of the Year. However, even legends need to upgrade their visual presentation to keep up with the changing tastes and […]
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 […]
CHILLICOTHE, IL – The 20,000-plus fans who turn out for the weekend Summer Camp Music Festival like it so much that every year about half of them turn up a day early for a giant “Pre Party.” The assembled partiers almost double the population of the central Illinois hamlet of Chillicothe, but no one – […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Beauty is big business in Florida, a state that follows pageants with a level of interest that is unmatched in all but a few places in the US. This year’s edition of the Miss Florida pageant generated over $1 million for host city Fort Lauderdale. Recognizing the significance of the event, […]
CAMBRIDGE, MA – Harvard Yard has hosted visits from presidents, kings and Nobel laureates too numerous to mention over the course of the past 300 years. On Sunday April 24, however, the fabled 22-acre site was the scene of an altogether different kind of event, when electro house capo Steve Aoki thrilled a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd […]
BOSTON – When global medical equipment giant Smith & Nephew was looking for images to dress up its booth at the Arthroscopy Association of North America convention, the company didn’t have to search any further than the event’s host city. Over 17 million people visit Boston every year, easily placing the city among the top […]
London, England – The UK premiere of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was big news throughout Europe. Setting an appropriately grand tone for this A-list event at London’s Leicester Square, Impact Production Services, created the highest profile video installation in the company’s history using a collection of PVP X6IP LED panels and pixel mapped […]
MIAMI – Jack U, Steve Aoki, Zeds Dead, Flosstradamus, Big Sean and other EDM heavies are headlining the current Life In Color “Kingdom” Tour, which is selling out venues in the US and UK. As powerful as these superstars are, however, none of them is the big cat on stage. That honor belongs to Panthera […]
Nowadays when LED video walls are about as common at concerts as T-shirt vendors, it’s difficult to imagine that these panels were all but unheard of just a few short years ago. The technology behind video walls has progressed so fast and been embraced so widely that it’s sometimes hard to keep up with these […]