LOS ANGELES – Zylight, a leading manufacturer of innovative LED lighting solutions, recently announced it has been named the exclusive distributor of Aladdin professional LED lighting instruments throughout North, Central and South America. Aladdin’s product line includes the Bi-Flex family of flexible LED panels, which are available in three sizes up to 200 watts.
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ADJ’s Vizi Beam RXONE joins the company’s Vizi range of professional moving head lighting fixtures. The compact, agile and budget-friendly Vizi Beam RXONE features a 6,000-hour Osram Sirius HRI 1R discharge lamp as its light source. Other features include a sharp 3-degree beam that travels up to 100 meters with a white color temperature of 8,000˚K and illuminance measurements of 99,250 lux at 10m and 70,030 lux at 15m.
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SANTIAGO, Chile – Clay Paky’s Chilean distributor, Valook, showcased more than 80 units of the company’s latest fixtures as part of an Open Day event for local rental and production companies, theatres, lighting designers and TV representatives. Organized by Valook – which has been a Clay Paky distributor since 2014 – the event was held on the rooftop of Santiago’s 64-storey Costanera Center Tower. Featured fixtures included Clay Paky’s Mythos, Glow Up, Scenius Spot, Sharpy, Sharpy Wash, B-EYE K10 and K20, Stormy and Stormy CC fixtures.
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Ayrton’s WildSun-S25 is the color-mixing cousin of Ayrton’s WildSun-K25 wash light. The new full color model packs 217 highly efficient single RGBW LED emitters into a compact moving head and punches out 60,000 lumens of light. Ayrton notes that this output rivals that of 4000W HMI luminaires fitted with color filters, but with far greater flexibility of use and lower maintenance.
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NASHVILLE – American rock band Kansas is about to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the multi-platinum album, Leftoverture, right on the heels of the release of a brand new album, Prelude Implicit, which is their first album since 2000. The “Dust in the Wind” super group is currently gearing up for the celebratory fall tour (which will feature the entirety of Leftoverture performed in sequence, in addition to other hits and new songs) with a spring tour that included a lighting package from Bandit Lites.
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ORLANDO – Asserting that the market demand for replacement projector lamps will be sustained for years to come, Projector Lamp Experts (PLE), an industry leading distributor of OEM and Platinum projector lamps, recently announced that it will be making its official commercial market introduction to dealers, resellers and distributors at InfoComm 2016. The introduction will take place at Projector Lamp Experts Booth #C9436 at the Las Vegas Convention Center from June 4 – 10, 2016.
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LONDON and BRISTOL, U.K. – Utopium has invested in new lighting and rigging equipment to bolster the production company’s already extensive inventory. Utopium now stocks SGM P-2s (LED RGBW Floods), Martin MAC Quantum Profile LED moving lights, Chauvet Rogue R1 LED moving wash lights, Robert Juliat Roxie LED followspots, SGM G-Spots (LED IP65 moving profiles), SGM Q-7s (LED IP65 strobe / flood / blinders) and ProLights Z8 LED IP65 wireless battery battens. Pictured here is Utopium’s Colin Bodenham.
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MENDOZA, Argentina – Merino Producciones added lighting to its audio production duties for the Fiesta de la Vendimia (Grape Harvest Festival) at Frank Romero Day Greek Theater, located in Mendoza’s General San Martin Park. Merino Producciones’ Mariano Velasco looked after the lighting rig, which included an assortment of lighting fixtures from PR Lighting.
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NASHVILLE—For Alan Jackson’s 2016 “Still Keepin’ it Country” tour, Craig Rutherford of Blueshift Design is serving as production and lighting designer. He was looking for something with more versatility than a standard beam light fixture. He found it in Elation Professional’s Platinum FLX. Nashville-based Elite Multimedia Productions is supplying the gear, along with the rest of the show’s lighting and video elements. “Still Keepin’ it Country” started in April and will play festival and arena dates until November.
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LEOPOLDSBURG, Belgium — For a large scale promenade theatrical spectacle, titled De Groote Rappel, freelance LD Michel Jacobs worked with Timothy Haesevoets from Leopoldsburg City Theatre on a unique lighting setup that included Robe fixtures.
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LONDON – Corporate and event lighting specialists, Blinding Light Ltd., recently expanded their wash light inventory by making a substantial investment in Martin MAC Aura XB LED wash light fixtures. Pictured here is the Blinding Light team with the new fixtures.
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Blizzard says its “True” main power and extension cables are built with thicker wire gauges, better jackets, shields and connectors. They are compatible with Neutrik powerCON TRUE1 locking, IP65-rated connectors. The connectors feature a simple, yet rugged locking device to guarantee safe power connections. Blizzard also notes that these connectors have breaking capacity, allowting “True” power connections to be connected or disconnected safely under load.
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