NASHVILLE – Somewhere between EDM and the Grateful Dead? Sounds like some sort of chimerical space residing in the deepest recesses of a very wild dream! But such a spot really does exist, right smack dab in the middle of a Billy Strings show. That’s how Matthieu Larivée describes it. He ought to know too. […]

DAVIE, FL – There are a lot of impressive features everyone can expect to find in the new Maverick Storm 1 Flex, from its jaw-dropping zoom range (2.6° to over 50°) to its dual gobo wheels, to its layerable prisms, to its ability to produce true reds, but there is one thing that no one […]

FRANKFURT – Recently, CHAUVET Professional has been marketing its celebrated line of fixtures under the banner “Finally True Colours ReveaLED.” And while it’s true that the brilliant, realistic colours created by the company’s latest fixture are nothing short of jaw dropping, it’s also true that the company will be impressing with another kind of “reveal” […]

LONG BEACH, CA – Big results require big ambitions. The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said it, and how right he was! Dreamstate SoCal’s creative design team certainly got the “big ambitions” part of that down. Their vision for their main stage was to deliver a production that took fans on an evolving journey across the […]

PRAGUE – Transcendence is built into the very essence of art, which, at its best, is never limited to a single time, place, or culture, but rather, serves as a beautiful fabric that weaves them all together into one beautiful, unifying tapestry. Pioneering Czech Art Nouveau painter-illustrator Alfons (Alphonse) Mucha certainly exemplified this quality. Moving […]

NASHVILLE — Motown is a good distance from Music City (533 miles, to be exact), but inspiration has a way of transcending geographical space. It was on a trip back home to Detroit for the holiday’s that Alexandra Kay’s lighting designer, Corbin Alvae saw a stylized heart in an advertisement. And like an arrow from […]

EDINBURGH – Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. There’s safety in numbers. Hedge your bets! There is no shortage of advice, telling us that we should avoid finding ourselves in a position where we rely on only one solution with no alternative. After all, it is common sense, right? Well…not always! Fortunately for […]

NASHVILLE – Over 75 million records sold… 35 No. 1 hits… A pair of Grammys… 16 CMA Awards! That’s just the beginning of what Alan Jackson has accomplished in his stellar career. The superstar who has given us such treasures as “It’s 5 O’clock Somewhere,” and “Don’t Rock The Jukebox,” is performing a lively selection […]

MONTREAL – Lighting a festival in a former power plant kind of lends itself to electrifying images. The team at Onedot certainly thought so. They took this inspiration and flew with it during the three-day Lumen Festival that Produkt produced at New City Gas, a site that traces its roots back to an iconic 1849 […]

Magic, they say, is built on defying perception. How true! Especially in Las Vegas, the desert oasis that has been known to bend reality in unimaginable directions. A special kind of magic was indeed in the air on The Strip February 5th when charismatic superstar Blake Shelton kicked off his six-show residency at The Colosseum […]

A friend of a friend said… Many times, a conversation that follows such a track doesn’t really lead to much. But in the case of well-known lighting designer, Chris Reade, and his client, multi-platinum superstar Dierks Bentley, it proved to be the start of a richly productive creative relationship. The friend-to-friend conversation happened right around […]

Say the word RED… Can any other colour evoke such powerful imagery just by having its name uttered? And what a range of images it is too! Often thought of as the most aggressive color, red burrows its way deep into the heart, unleashing an array of sensations, symbolizing revolution, turmoil, and anger on one […]