Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) will exhibit at the 2016 NAB Show April 18-21 in Las Vegas. Exhibiting in booth C4309 at the show, Hitachi Kokusai will provide working demonstrations of their SK-UHD8060 Super Hi-Vision camera. The world’s first dockable 8K camera, the SK-UHD8060 is Hitachi Kokusai’s fourth-generation 8K production solution and is ideal for studio and outside broadcast (OB) applications.
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TORONTO – Decker LaDouceur, owner and director of the Toronto School of Circus Arts, relied upon BroadWeigh wireless load cell monitoring system to determine the maximum dynamic loads placed on a structure during a bounce for a bungee act. Using BroadWeigh load cell monitoring, the school was able to get accurate readings of the weight load that the performer placed on their rigging hardware and support structure overhead.
Read More »BRUSSELS, Belgium — Mariah Carey’s current tour through the U.K. and Europe included a March 27 show — on Easter Sunday, and the artist’s birthday — at the Forest National Arena in Brussels, Belgium. There had been speculation that the Brussels show would be canceled after the March 22 bombings that killed 31 and injured more than 300. On Friday, March 25, with the Belgian capital still reeling from the tragedy and the city still on heightened alert — continuing raids and arrests on Friday included a man with explosives in a backpack who was shot and apprehended by police while waiting at a light rail stop — the not-so-surprising cancellation became official.
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Blizzard Lighting’s TOURnado LED offerings expand with the addition of the TOURnado WW COB fixture. The bright LED fixture, equipped with a 60W tungsten color COB LED light source, emits a warm 3000K color temperature with a wide 60° beam angle. With a convection cooled cast aluminum housing, tempered glass lens, watertight internal gaskets and extended weatherproof power and data cable in/out connections, it’s suited for indoor or outdoor use.
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MIAMI – For the World Wide stage at this year’s Ultra Music Festival, LD Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting used 36 Chauvet Professional Next NXT-1 moving LED fixtures to create a “fingers of light” effect. Lieberman positioned the Next NXT-1 panels on eight truss beams fanning out from the center of the stage, which was positioned on the side of the arch structure, rather than in the back.
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NEW YORK, NY – The Long Reach Long Riders (LRLR) celebrated their upcoming ride through the Desert Southwest with a raffle and live auction to benefit Behind the Scenes during the USITT Conference in Salt Lake City last week. Sales of raffle tickets, some key donations, and sales of BTS and LRLR-branded swag raised over $15,000 for the charity. The LRLR 2016 ride, dubbed the Radioactive Ride, starts on June 4th in Las Cruces, NM. The riders cover all their own expenses so everything they raise goes to the charity.
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Videssence’s Vidnel 150 LED Fresnel expands the company’s LED Fresnel offerings, stepping up from their 80 watt, 4” lens forerunner to a new 150 watt 6”lens Fresnel option. The more powerful Vidnel 150 promises longer light throw and expanded flood capabilities while still delivering impressive color at 96+ CRI.
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ADJ’s Inno Pocket Spot LZR updates the original Pocket Spot with a powerful green laser. Users now have a way to bring the dance-floor to life with two-in-one effects from one portable fixture.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland – For Scottish-Swedish singer Nina Nesbitt’s latest tour, LD Ollie Wilkinson provided a design that included a variety of fixtures from Chauvet Professional and Chauvet DJ. His rig for the tour, which includes mostly mid-sized venues, includes four Rogue R1 Spots, eight PiXPar 24 par style fixtures and ten BEAMbars.
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MIAMI – For the 2016 Ultra Music Festival, staged March 18, 19, and 20 in Miami’s Bayfront Park, fixtures from Robe, including BMFL and Pointe moving lights, played a key visual role on the Main Stage, Live Stage and Carl Cox & Friends Arena. The Main Stage is pictured here.
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MANCHESTER, UK – Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalist Dan Whitby performed freestyle motocross stunts in the dark using an LED-emblazoned bike and W-DMX wireless lighting control. The sold-out event took place in Manchester Arena last fall and attracted 7,000 spectators. Shock FX provided the customized gear including several Enttec DIN LED modules powered by a LiPo cell battery in an eight-zone configuration.
LONDON – Jonny Gaskell, LD for British drum and bass band Rudimental, turned to Color Sound Experiment for lighting gear and rigging for most of the band’s recent tour, including a sold-out show at London’s O2 Arena. The rig, which varied venue to venue, started off in C configuration as a floor package, then expanded to the A-rig for the O2, and was then re-worked onto a B version for the final dates in Europe. Two trucks expanded to seven for the O2, and these were re-packed back into two.
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