ELSTREE, Hertfordshire, U.K. – DLM Events, production riggers for the last series of the BBC show, Strictly Come Dancing, supplied various Kinesys automation and flying elements for the production, recorded at the George Lucas 2 Stage at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire.
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MONTERREY, Mexico – Pro Audio Producciones del Norte, a busy full production solutions provider led by Victor Gutierrez, provides lighting, audio, video, rigging, staging, generators and power for a wide variety of tours, festivals and events. Recently Pro Audio has invested in 24 Pointe moving lights, their first investment in Robe products, which were supplied by Mexico City based distributor, Vari Internacional. Pictured here, from left, are Victor Gutierrez and Alberto Garcia from Vari Internacional, Robe’s distributor for Mexico.
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NEW YORK – Columbus McKinnon Corporation (CMCO), a leading manufacturer of electric chain hoist and rigging products, has pledged its support for ESTA’s Technical Standards Program by becoming a Visionary level “Investor in Innovation” with a five-year pledge of $10,000 per year. Pictured here, from left, are Ken Tilson, Vertical Market Specialist – Entertainment CMCO; Lori Rubinstein, ESTA Executive Director; Mike Garl, Co-Chair Technical Standards Council; and Kurt Wozniak, Vice President – Americas CMCO.
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Flex Released 4.13.0 to customers in early January, 2016. The release included several new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes, including a much anticipated feature – assignable sound themes per user. Other new features include the ability to add a Resource Type selector on the schedule page for inventory models, a new interface when free scanning in non-serialized models, the “Scan Selected Items Out” option to the Ship Scan warehouse scanning screen and the Deprep Scan warehouse scanning screen, a “Hide if Zero” option to the Total Block settings and he ability to manually edit the price of a child tier (on a tiered pricing model) and have it calculate to the parent price, among other enhancements.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – Keny Whitright, founder of Wybron, which closed in mid-2013 after a 33-year run, announced the formation of Wybron Scroller Parts, a web resource for those seeking to maintain the gear that Whitright and his company produced from 1980-2013.
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LOS ANGELES – Pointing to the future, ADJ has unveiled a new corporate logo, with the changes reflecting the evolution of the company since its previous brand mark was created back in 2007. Losing its red and yellow coloring, the iconic original logo has been enhanced with a stylish all-silver design that upholds ADJ’s reputation as an on-trend company that crafts modern, high-quality products.
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LONDON – For the recent Star Wars premiere event, which took place in Leicester Square, Colin Bodenham of Utopium used Chauvet Professional’s Rogue RH1 Hybrid spot/beam fixture to light key areas. Bodenham positioned 24 of the Rogue fixtures at ends of the red carpet, on the cinema canopies and the portable stage that was set up for the event.
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LOS ANGELES – Lighting designer/director Alex Specht of Spechtrum Lighting turned to the dynamic look of Elation Professional’s ACL 360 Bar effect luminaire for Danish rock band New Politics’ fall U.S. tour, teaming the continuous rotation batten effect with Elation’s warm-white Lumina Strips, among other lights.
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BRISTOL, U.K. – Lighting and visuals rental specialist Fineline was commissioned by production company The Fair to add lighting ambience to the Islington Square Festival of Culture, a four day event organized by the company at the heart of redeveloping the former site of the N1 post sorting office into a new and vibrant commercial and residential hub, due to launch in 2017.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Full Flood LD Matthew Firestone included GLP’s X4 Atom in the rig used for the performance stage during the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in front of the White House Dec. 3. President Obama threw the ceremonial switch, and Reese Witherspoon hosted the show. Firestone also used GLP’s impression X4 fixtures for the event. Matt Shimamoto programmed the show on a grandMA2.
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BALTIMORE — The animated clock on the big building counted down as 2015 came to an end. A large crowd gathered in the streets to watch the glistening ball drop to welcome the New Year. This was not Times Square, though — this was Baltimore. At GAME Sports & Spirits in the heart of the city between the Baltimore Ravens’ M&T Bank Stadium and Horseshoe Casino, X-Laser projectors generated vivid laser effects to help create the atmosphere for Baltimore’s first New Year’s Eve ball drop.
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WESTLAKE, TX. – The ESTA Control Protocols Plugfest, the event where manufacturers and developers can test their products for interoperability with other manufacturers’ products, is scheduled to take place Jan. 29 through Feb. 1 at the D/FW Marriott Solana in Westlake, TX. Attendees bring controllers, intelligent lights, control protocol analyzers, and various other tools and devices, in an effort to seek out and resolve interoperability challenges. People attend from all around the world to plug into this network and improve their products.
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