After an absence of 31 years, Luxembourg marked its return to the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 by staging the precursor Luxembourg Song Contest event, organized and broadcast by RTL and featuring Claypaky lighting fixtures. Prior to 1993, Luxembourg had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 37 times, winning on five occasions. But after a poor…
Jacob Kaplan has learned a valuable life lesson early in his burgeoning lighting design career: It never hurts to ask. A high school senior at Fusion Academy Plano, Texas, Kaplan is also the Lighting Designer for NTPA (North Texas Performing Arts) Collegiate Pursuits, a troupe launched in fall 2022 to offer a bridge to the collegiate and professional theater worlds via a quality…
While many attending LDI 2022 in Las Vegas “oohed and aahed” over Claypaky’s demo of their Volero Wave LED bar, OSA International’s Mark Fetto bought the full LDI rig Claypaky’s of the innovative new fixtures. “We jumped on them,” he says. “Volero Wave was the coolest new product we saw at LDI.” Volero Wave is…
A large array of Claypaky fixtures illuminated the eighth edition of “Flowers of the Soul: Remember Florian Pittis,” a two-day tribute concert held in Bucharest last June honoring the Romanian stage and television actor, folk singer, writer and director who died in 2007. “It can be tricky to create something for an already installed simple…
Claypaky Mini-B fixtures, the smallest LED moving light ever made by Claypaky for the professional market, are in constant demand at Burbank-based Volt Lites, Inc. where “American Song Contest” was among its latest users. Volt Lites was the first company in the US to acquire Mini-B and now boasts more than 200 of the fixtures…
Claypaky drew crowds at the recent PALM AV-ICN Expo 2022 in Mumbai, India’s foremost trade show for the professional sound, audiovisual and lighting industry, where it exhibited in the booth of the company’s Indian distributor, Hi Tech Audio and Image Pvt. Ltd. Claypaky launched its Sharpy X Frame multifunction luminaire during the event and highlighted…
In Ukrainian singer Olya Polyakova’s “The Queen of the Night” show, staged at Kiev’s Palace of Sports in October 2021, a large array of Claypaky lighting fixtures gave a dynamic, high-energy look to the concert and accented the royal design motif employed by the popular performer. Yuriy Andrushchenko, Director of Feyeria, supplied Lighting Designer Vlad…
A large complement of Claypaky Mini-B fixtures, supplemented by Claypaky A.leda B-EYE K20s, illuminated the set of “Qui Sait Chanter,” a one-of-a-kind singing competition making its debut on Quebec’s Noovo network this fall. The Quebec version of the show is the latest in South Korea’s “I Can See Your Voice” franchise, which airs in 16…
The first company in the US to acquire Claypaky Mini-B fixtures, Burbank-based Volt Lites, Inc. has seen a steady pace of requests for the smallest LED moving light ever made by Claypaky for the professional market. The most recent was from Lighting Designer Arnold Serame who chose Mini-Bs for Riot Games’ LCS 2021 Mid-Season Showdown…
When Vice President of Lighting Mark Fetto came on board at OSA International in 2019 to build the company’s lighting division, he saw Claypaky Mini-B fixtures at LDI and thought the small but versatile LED moving lights would easily meet customers’ lighting needs. One of the first companies to invest in Claypaky Mini-Bs, OSA has…
Colombian rapper and singer/songwriter Nanpa Básico held his virtual KOSMO concert last fall with a large complement of Claypaky fixtures lighting up the live-streamed show. A team from Arbol Naranja, led by Jorge Jiménez, Camilo Mejía and William Gallo, were challenged to craft a virtual concert that the public would enjoy from their homes and…
Volt Lites Co-founders Matthew Shimamoto and Harrison Lippman and Lulu Creative Director Michael Zinman of Zinman Company have launched the 3by3 Space on the premises of entertainment production services company Volt Lites in Burbank. The three partners have created a safe stage for the COVID-19 era that’s equipped with a trio of lighting, video and…
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