Lighting and set designer Olivier Ilisca of Chicago-based lighting design and show management practice CenterStage Productions (CSP), used 82 Chroma-Q Color Force 48 LED battens on his lighting rig for the 2011 Walgreen's Managers Meeting event, staged at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. CSP is a highly successful company that was founded in 1996 by Olivier and Bruce Holland. They now … [Read more...]
Martin Theatrical Lighting Innovation at ABTT 2011
June 15-16 will see the Martin UK team attending the ABTT Theatre Show (Royal Horticultural Halls, London, Lawrence Hall, Stand 98) where Martin will be displaying its broad portfolio of lighting and video display products specifically designed to enhance theatre environments. Martin’s theatrical range of products continues to set new standards in performance and efficiency from the latest in … [Read more...]
The Judds Go Martin for “The Last Encore”
Grammy award-winning country music duo Naomi and Wynonna Judd bid their fans a final farewell on an 18-city tour that saw the reunited mother-daughter act performing beneath a large rig that included 17 Martin MAC III Profiles, 22 MAC 2000 Wash XBs, and 20 MAC 700 Wash fixtures, among other automated luminaires, all provided by Upstaging. Production Designer John Featherstone of Lightswitch … [Read more...]
Maxedia Magic for Florida Grand Opera’s “The Barber of Seville”
Opera companies typically build grandiose sets befitting the stature of the pieces they produce. But for Florida Grand Opera’s recent production of “The Barber of Seville,” the creative team did something different by using a huge rear projection screen with 20k projector fed by a Martin Maxedia Broadcast media server with fantastic results! The backdrop graphics provided subtle enhancements to … [Read more...]
Martin Maxedia Drives Large, Lavish LED Chandelier at Vanity Nightclub, Las Vegas
Vanity is a high profile nightclub at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas whose visual focal point is a stunning, custom-made chandelier made up of 20,000 LED points driven by a Martin Maxedia Compact media server. The Maxedia media server drives 25 universes of pixel-mapped Artnet output across the chandelier, creating highly unique floating graphic effects with a unique … [Read more...]
