MANCHESTER, U.K. – Everyone loves invention in this industry, and Manchester based lighting and rigging specialist dbn had great opportunity to show some real rigging finesse at Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery – just re-opened in a blaze of glory after a £15 million revamp that includes a brand new wing and some completely unique new gallery spaces reimagined from previously enclosed areas of the building.
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Lightware Visual Engineering has introduced Event Manager, a new feature of Lightware’s UMX-TPS transmitter family, which helps integrate lighting, audio and other systems without an additional control system. Event Manager was recently unveiled at ISE (Integrated Systems Europe) 2015. Lightware USA is the US distributor for Lightware products.
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LONDON — In 2015, after topping the UK charts once again with her hit single “Bang Bang,” pop vocalist Jessie J toured the country performing music from her latest album, Sweet Talker. White Light provided lighting, rigging and production support for the seven-date concert tour, working closely with LD Vince Foster and production manager John Pryer.
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BARCELONA, Spain – XL Video supplied a substantial projection system and control together with HD cameras / PPU, HD LED screen, several hundred monitors, networking and fibre infrastructure plus audio systems for two high profile Microsoft events staged back-to-back at the Fira de Barcelona Gran Via convention centre in Barcelona, Spain.
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VALAŠSKÉ MEZI?Í?Í, Czech Republic – Robe Lighting announces 2014 as the best year in the company’s history, together with comprehensive expansion plans for its HQ and production operation in the Czech Republic, which is ramping up again in response to demand for Robe’s products worldwide.
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NEW YORK – For “Out of the Ashes: Phoenix Rising,” a party at Manhattan’s Stage 48 that commemorated the rebirth of the city’s iconic Sound Factory venue, LD Dougie Lazer made good use of the features of the Rogue R1 Beam from Chauvet Professional, including its new color wheel with 14 slots plus white and its variable speed scrolling functionality.
MILAN, Italy – the Piccolo Teatro in Milan was Italy’s first permanent theatre and was declared a theatre of major European importance by Ministerial Decree in 1991. It was founded in the immediate post-war period by Paolo Grassi, Giorgio Strehler, Mario Apollonio, Virgilio Tosi and Nina Vinchi.
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NASHVILLE, TN — “Be So Bold” is the catchphrase surrounding luxury brand True Religion’s new marketing campaign. While encouraging consumer’s personal statements of daring fashion, True Religion made their own bold statement with the introduction of custom PixelFLEX FLEXDisplay LED video stands in a group of their top stores.
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LOS ANGELES – For Florida Georgia Line’s “Anything Goes” tour, LD/programmer Scott Cunningham is using Clay Paky lighting fixtures, grandMA2 consoles and MDG foggers and hazers, all supplied by Morris Light & Sound in Nashville and sourced via North American distributor A.C.T Lighting.
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TEL AVIV – You would expect an impressive and memorable show to accompany the launch of the newest and largest expo hall in the Middle East … and that was exactly the brief received by Lighting Designer Eran Klein of Tel Aviv based creative design practice Cochavi & Klein from show producers The Gallery.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — For White Night Melbourne on Feb. 21, Technical Direction Company (TDC) combined its projection mapping services with the creativity of graffiti artists as part of a graffiti-mapping artwork projected onto the largest mural in Melbourne — a surface spanning 5 stories in height and 70 meters in width.
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