DURBAN, South Africa – Insane Sound & Lighting, a production and design company run by Vimal Rawjee (pictured here), has made the eminently sensible decision to expand its collection of Robe fixtures. Insane S&L now has more than 100 of them in stock, including around 40 moving heads and more than 60 LEDForce 18 PARs.
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LONDON – The 2015 Rugby World Cup recently drew to a close with New Zealand beating Australia at Twickenham Stadium. Throughout the tournament, White Light provided the lighting, sound and production support for various aspects of the competition, helping to make this year’s Rugby World Cup one of the biggest yet. The events included the BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge, which was broadcast on ITV (pictured here).
NEW YORK – Every five years Canon presents its four-city global expo, and once again WorldStage provided the technology giant with AV support at New York City’s Javits Convention Center, the Expo’s only North American stop.
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BRISTOL, U.K. – Fineline Lighting acquired the first of Avolites’ latest console, Arena, model #001. Pictured here is the Fineline Lighting team with the console, from left: Ben DeSousa, Sevim Sangwell, Rob Sangwell, Stuart England and Will Dale.
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LAS VEGAS – GLP reported a successful LDI 2015 show in Las Vegas, with a variety of awards and honors accompanying the positive response the company got at its booth and demo area. GLP also noted that its 2015 LDI booth, pictured here, was “the largest trade show stand they had ever assembled.”
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ORLANDO, FL – For his True Colors world tour, an Aug. 6-Nov. 28 trek in support of his second studio album that goes by the same name, Russian-German musician Zedd turned to Pyrotecnico for a special effects assist. Along with custom pyrotechnic spinners, close proximity pyrotechnics, flames, cryogenics, confetti and streamers, Pyrotecnico used a total of 9 high power KVANT laser systems for the tour. They also utilized Pangolin’s Beyond software and FB3QS hardware to design and control the RGB Spectrum series lasers.
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BROOKFIELD, CT – IDK Corporation, a major player in Japan’s ProAV market, announced IDK America Inc. Based in Brookfield, CT, IDK America is led by Hideki Iwasaki, pictured here.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Director GMUNK and Visual Artist Adam LaBay of Future Weapons Lighting worked on the visuals to support the release of the new Samsung Galaxy S6 Android smartphones. They used Pangolin’s BEYOND software and laser projections to add to the excitement surrounding the product’s launch.
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MEXICO CITY – For the Hyde nightclub, Rodrigo Molina of Light Moxion created a new system using a lighting design fashioned by Michael Meacham of iDesign Productions (Miami). Along with color changing Swarovski candelabrums and LED tiles, the new design includes 32 Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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LOS ANGELES – Miranda Lambert’s most recent tour, which brings back the name of her first headlining tour in 2010, “Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars,” made use of a lighting rig supplied by Bandit Lites that included Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s driven by grandMA2 light and ultra light consoles. Both the lights and the consoles were sourced via exclusive North American distributor A.C.T Lighting for the 13-city trek. Production designer Chris Lisle designed the looks.
BERLIN – The Opening Ceremony of the 2015 European Maccabi Games (EMG2015), Europe’s biggest Jewish sports event, was staged at the Waldbühne amphitheatre in Berlin’s Olympic Park, and officially declared open by German President Joachim Gauk. The event’s lighting rig, supplied by Berlin-based TSE and designed by LD Ronen Najar, centered on fixtures from Robe, with close to 200 units in all.
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NASVILLE – Elation Professional is bringing its latest lighting and video products to the WFX show, which is set for Nov. 18-19 at the Music City Center in Nashville. Featured products will include the Platinum FLX hybrid moving head (pictured here) as well as the company’s Emotion moving head digital light.
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