The very first Robe SPOTE lighting fixture sold in South Africa is being used amongst the oldest fossils and artifacts in Johannesburg! It can be found at the Origins Centre Museum, a museum at Wits University in Johannesburg that celebrates the history of humankind, and which covers topics relating

  Dream Studio deploys K and X Series for the historic pageant celebrating the opening of new National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation   Cairo, Egypt – May 2021 – The National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC) in Fustat is one of UNESCO’s projects to help safeguard and preserve Egypt’s cultural

  South Africa – The latest season of South Africa’s popular Idols TV singing contest culminated in a spectacular finale broadcast live from Pretoria with visuals powered by a Hippotizer™ Boreal Media Server.   Renowned lighting and video designer Joshua Cutts of production design company Visual Frontier was at the

DWR Distribution offers a full technical solution for the architectural, commercial, broadcast and entertainment markets. We house a range of products from lighting to audio, AV and truss, and even safety gear, while our theatre design and manufacturing team are able to assist with mechanical equipment, stage curtains, rails and

Mellow Yellow Entertainment, producers of South African music games show “Musiek Roulette” wanted a new look for the 2021 season, so called on the services of Ryan Lombard, head of show lighting at Blond Productions and Michael Gill, owner of Michael Gill Designs  to design lighting and set respectively. TV

  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

Two cutting-edge broadcast studio spaces utilized by German prime TV news channel Welt are at the epicentre of the stunning new Axel Springer Building in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, which recently opened for business. The studio lighting and control systems were specified and designed by the ARRI System Group in Berlin,

It was a proud moment for South Africa as the Ndlovu Youth Choir caused shudders of emotions, the audience rising up to dance, at America’s Got Talent back in June 2019. Little did this youth choir from Limpopo know, many of its member’s orphans living in conditions without electricity or

    A grandMA3 hardware and software package was the lighting control platform of choice for The Answer Trap, a brand-new list-based UK TV quiz show for quick thinkers produced by the Objective Media Group and Motion Content Group and presented by Anita Rani for Channel 4’s daytime viewing.  

  For Global Kingdom, the mid-pandemic upgrade to their audio systems is all about staying ahead of the curve and expanding the reach of the message they preach. While Coronavirus restrictions hastened the Toronto-based church’s efforts to enhance their ministry, using cutting-edge technology to do just that has always been

  Join Kyle Robson of DWR Distribution for a Waves Training Webinar on Tuesday,  25 May from 13:00 to 16:00. Waves is the world’s leading developer of audio plugins and signal processors for the professional and consumer electronics audio markets. Heard on hit records, major motion pictures and popular video

  Supplied by See Factor in 2019, the first fixed art-gallery install of L-ISA technology continues to sonically delight artists and audiences alike for new exhibitions   ARTECHOUSE NYC, located in a never previously occupied boiler room beneath the iconic Chelsea Market, is one of the most unique art destinations

Lighting designer to the stars Tom Kenny utilized nearly 400 Robe moving lights on a spectacular lighting rig for the debut of Triller Fight Club, an exciting new PPV entertainment and sporting concept partnership between US video sharing and social network, Triller, and iconic rapper Snoop Dogg. Embracing the pro

    Why is it vital to monitor loads at LIVE EVENTS when heavy light, sound and video equipment is hanging above the audience? In our modern era, live events are characterized by ever more complex arrays of dynamic light, audio and video equipment, often resulting in tens of tons of  massive equipment being suspended directly over people’s heads –

  From projection mapping a building in daylight to creating an interactive game for an audience of hundreds, corporate shows are never short of challenges. Hippotizer ensures you can exceed all the client’s expectations. Hippotizer’s FlexRes codec offers true Lossless 4:4:4 colour reproduction so your client’s logo is perfect every

DWR Distribution’s Jaco Beukes was delighted to welcome nine delegates who attended the two-day DiGiCo S-Series training workshop hosted in May. The course was held at the DWR offices in Johannesburg.   “The training went exceptionally well,” said Jaco Beukes, who presented the workshop. “It was exciting and good to

Amsterdam, Netherlands-based live experience design studio Live Legends has delivered the full production design and implementation – including lighting, video / visual, laser, scenic and related 360-degree interior elements plus equipment specification, programming, and commissioning – for the brand-new 1,200 capacity nightclub OT Cities Gui in Nanning. This is the

The first Robe T2 Profiles to arrive in Australia were snapped up by Perth-based lighting and visual rental and production company What Noiz and made their debut on the lighting rig designed by Matt Marshall for West Australian Ballet’s compelling “As One: Ballet at the Quarry”. This was performed as

  Located just half a kilometre from Melbourne’s Sandridge Beach, PM Port Melbourne is a luxury apartment building with sweeping views of Port Phillip Bay and the CBD. Recently opening its doors at the very top of PM Port Melbourne sits Sol & Luna, a rooftop bar and restaurant featuring

  South African lighting designer, Mandla Mtshali,  had every intention of boarding a plane to Switzerland to light a ballet for the Grand Théâtre de Genève. The opera house’s ballet company was planning to showcase a new programme, ‘Hors Cadre’, in November 2020, which featured choreography by Fana Tshabalala (Better

For curious minds intrigued by anthropology, archaeology and the San people, the oldest residents of South Africa, the Origins Centre Museum at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, has an extensive collection of stone tools, fossils and rock art, all interwoven with technology. Since opening its door in 2005

       After events for the London Climate Change Festival were postponed in 2020, the festival returned for 2021 with a televised broadcast. The specially created concert, titled Song For Nature, debuted on Sky Arts on Earth Day, 22 April. Paul Smith of Apex Acoustics provided audio equipment for

  A and X Series deliver punch and clarity for award-winning Australian musical Adelaide, Australia – May 2021 – Written by Australian playwright, screenwriter, and composer Yve Blake, FANGIRLS is a co-production with Belvoir, Queensland Theatre and Brisbane Festival, in association with Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP). It is

Global nutrition company Herbalife honoured its top performing sales force and distributors in a spectacular Awards event staged at the Los Angeles Convention Centre in March, a slick and elegant streamed show that was executive & technically produced by Raj Kapoor Productions & Steffan Jones for CG Creative Studios. Tom

  Version 2, which specialises in lighting hire specifically for the television industry, has expanded its stock of MDG products with the addition of two ATMe haze generators. “Our clients trust us to specify the right products and we know that MDG produces the best haze for the television market,”

Elstree, UK – Distro Design Ltd, the UK-based manufacturer of bespoke power distribution systems, has been working with long-standing customer BBC Studioworks to upgrade the dimming system for Studio D at BBC Elstree Centre.   BBC Studioworks selected Distro Design’s most advanced dimming system for the project, which features GEN

Audix Creator, professional drummer, and University of Kansas professor Brandon Draper recently made a short video with drum student Nick Velicer. Using a single Audix A133 Large Diaphragm Studio Condenser Microphone, they capture a full drum kit in four different positions. WATCH THE VIDEO  Position 1: Overhead  Placing the A133 on a boom arm

Indiana, USA – Northview Church, a multi-site community church serving central Indiana from nine campuses, is delivering engaging visual content for its live worship and online services using the powerful, time-saving features of a Hippotizer™ Boreal Media Server from Green Hippo. Located at the church’s Carmel campus, the Boreal feeds