EMERYVILLE, CA – Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a leading data, video, audio and film integration firm, has added Brian Seaver to its Technical Services Team, effective Jan. 5. Based in New York, Seaver is part of the team that designs, deploys, and supports storage and asset management systems for ASG’s clients across the nation.
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SINGAPORE – For Illumi Run, participants are splashed with Illumi glow water as they set out on their race route, passing through different colorful glowing zones before ending up at the finish line. An after-party dance area then features a massive assembly of DJs. Event production house Showmakers Pte. Ltd. supplied P-5 wash lights from SGM. Pictured here are technical directors Louis Wong and Hanslee Lim.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany — Riedel Communications promoted Ian Hamilton, pictured here, to general manager for Riedel Australia. The company also named Julian (“Jules”) Hewitt (pictured below) Riedel Australia’s technical operations manager.
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LONDON – Two Tribes, a TV show hosted by Richard Osman, is using projection from XL Video. Sixty episodes of the Endemol UK/Remarkable TV show, are being filmed at the BBC Studios in Elstree for broadcast this year on BBC2.
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LONDON – HSL supplied lighting equipment and crew to the current UK tour by X-Factor winner Sam Bailey, who followed up her 2013 win and subsequent Christmas number one with her chart topping “Power of Love” debut album in spring last year.
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GLENDALE, AZ – Clay Paky fixtures played a central role the lighting rig for Katy Perry’s glittering halftime show at Super Bowl XLIX in the University of Phoenix Stadium.
Read More »NEW YORK — PRG is combining PRG Concert Touring, PRG Nocturne, and Chaos Visual Productions units to create a single division called PRG Music Group. Led by Mickey Curbishley, now CEO PRG Music, the division will focus on providing integrated video and lighting solutions for tours, festivals, and concert events around the world.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany — Riedel Communications named Maribel Roman as the company’s sales manager for Spain. Roman, an international sales manager with more than seven years’ experience in the broadcasting market, will support company clients in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Expert systems designer, Rapenburg Plaza saw an intensive year of meticulous planning, design and integration come to fruition on Dec. 13 when the National Military Museum, Europe’s biggest military museum opened to the public.
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PARIS – The Arch of Triumph (Arc de Triomphe) was even more of a focal point than usual during the celebrations welcoming 2015 as the clock ticked off the final seconds of 2014. LD Jeff Freeman used an arsenal of gear that included Clay Paky SuperSharpys to light the arch for the festivities as hundreds of thousands of revelers congregated in front of it or watched at home on television.
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NanoLumens’ NanoSlim Engage promises to serve as “an easy-to-install and easy-to-service 2.5MM pixel pitch solution that can be viewed with spectacular edge-to-edge clarify from very short distances,” accordign to Nate Remmes, NanoLumens’ VP of marketing and business development.
Read More »GUANGZHOU, China – The fourth annual Guangzhou International Light Festival ranked among the world’s largest visual and lighting spectaculars, seen by as many as 8 million. French multimedia design firm Danny Rose added to the visual spectacle with Play Me!, an interactive and immersive 3D architectural projection mapping experience. The event ran every evening from Nov. 15-30, 2014.
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