MUNICH, Germany – Astera LED Technology GmbH is moving from its previous base in Rüdesheim an der Nahe, Germany to Munich. The company noted that its new sales office will be joined by an office devoted to technical and customer support, overseen by Astera’s R&D director, Simon Canins. Astera cited potential improvements in logistics, product demos and brand awareness.
AUSTIN, TX – The Austin City Limits Music Festival music showcase was also a showcase for Clay Paky lighting. In addition to “massive amounts” of Sharpy fixtures, eight A.leda B-EYE K20 fixtures were dedicated to each of two secondary headline stages and positioned in an upstage array across the rear truss. “There were no backdrops on these stages and, given the power situation, the B-EYEs were the perfect choice to fill the whole back picture. They really blasted through everything else, and the guys who did the overnight programming had time to dig into the features and use the multi-array tricks that come out it,” said LD Seth Jackson.
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AV Concepts announced the appointment of Kirk Hover as Client Services Director to help expand the company’s growing producer and agency business.
QUEBEC – Elation Professional’s new SixPar LED multi-chip PAR color changers were chosen to color several areas of Foresta Lumina, an illuminated night trail through the forest in Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook, a tourist attraction near Quebec, Canada.
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AMSTERDAM – Green Hippo will be holding a free video conference Feb. 10, 2015, during Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), which runs from Feb. 10-12, 2015. The hands-on instruction will cover features included in the company’s Hippotizer V4 media servers and AViary Video Tools.
MALTA – Lighting Director Nick Malbon and Creative Director John McCullagh relied heavily on Clay Paky lighting for the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, using more than 200 Clay Paky fixtures. “I really enjoyed working with the assortment of the Clay Paky fixtures. The A.leda is very, very bright but quite flexible, while the Sharpy and Super Sharpy deliver those amazing sharp beams. The whole package worked really well together in terms of colour and set nicely with the rest of the rig,” Malbon said.
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LYON, France — Airstar recently unveiled a temporary installation with giant inflatable LED lightbulbs of various shapes and sizes. The display greeted visitors to the Lyon Light Festival in France. Airstar installed nine giant old-style bulbs in an urban pond on the bank of the Rhône River, including a 10-meter-high “incandescent”-looking light bulb that lit up with 2,000 RGBW LED light sources inside.
Read More »PITTSBURGH and AMSTERDAM — NEP Group Inc. acquired Faber Audiovisuals, extending NEP’s video display capabilities into Europe and the broader international market. Faber is a leading European company providing solutions for complete audiovisual productions. They serve clients in the sport, music and corporate markets supporting productions of all sizes.
Read More »AUSTIN, TX and WILLEBROEK, Belgium — Barco’s High End Systems announced an agreement with AED Distribution to expand their existing distribution partnership. Starting Jan. 1, 2015, AED Distribution will serve as European Master Distributor for HES products in Europe, including the Scandinavian countries, Portugal, Italy, and Greece. The companies also announced that HES’ Constantinos Vonofakidis and Tania Lesage will now serve as AED Distribution’s HES Regional Sales Manager and Brand Manager, respectively. AED Distribution will also be assuming HES distribution responsibilities for all of Africa.
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LISLE, IL – The lighting setup for the annual display, Illumination: The Lights at The Morton Arboretum in suburban Chicago, included a new fixture this year: the recently-introduced Mythos from Clay Paky. The fixtures are mounted in Igloo domes and illuminate custom water features in the arboretum’s Meadow Lake. “They have more punch and more functionality for the show, including the ability to zoom in and out and go even bigger with the prism effect,” noted Matt Pearlman, senior account executive with Intelligent Lighting Creations (ILC).
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LEEDS, UK – Omni Pictures used d3 for the first time on its Theatre of Illumination light show, a white light projection mapping of Leed’s iconic Civic Hall. “d3 really came into it’s own in the mapping for me: the fine tuning and edge blending between all the sources was superb. We had a limited amount of time to get setup, only one night before, and without d3 I don’t think we could have realized it,” said director Will Simpson.
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NEW YORK – Tasked with lighting two events over two nights on a limited budget, LD Rob Strohmeier turned to 4Wall New York for the equipment needed for the 2014 CLIO Genius Visionary Awards (pictured here) and the CLIO Awards after party the following night. 4Wall provided ETC Source Four Ellipsoidals, Chroma-Q Color Force 12 units, TMB’s Solaris Flare, Martin MAC Auras and Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures.
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