CURITIBA, Brazil – The Main and VuuV stages at the 2014 TribalTech “Reborn” Festival in Brazil buzzed with energy and over 200 Robe moving lights which were integrated into two very different but equally eye-catching lighting designs, by UK based LD Alex “Junior” Cerio of Smash Productions.
The vibrant 20,000 capacity multicultural dance / trance extravaganza staged at the Fazenda Heimari showground in Parana, Brazil, was completely sold out, offering 13 enigmatic live music stages delivering the very best of techno, house, electronica, trance and psytrance action over 20 hours of non-stop intense dance music and entertainment!
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DALLAS – Philips Strand Lighting is offering a new series of online training webinars for the NEO Lighting Control Console. Taking place in January and February 2015, the live webinars will be led by product specialist Bobby Harrell and will cover beginner, intermediate and advanced programming concepts of the NEO console. Registration for the training webinars is now open and dates have been set for half-day beginner (Jan. 6 and Feb. 2) and half-day intermediate ((Jan. 12 and Feb. 23) training sessions.
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LAS VEGAS — LD Jason Robinson worked with set designer Tom Sellars on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards, staged at the Wynn Las Vegas and telecast live on the Fox Sports 1 network Dec. 5. The awards show design included more than 750 Versa Tubes along with VL3500 Washes, MAC Viper Profiles, GLP Impressions, Color Kinetics LEDs, GRNLite Par 64s and Atomic 3000 strobes, all supplied by Bandit Lites.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The Masonic has been a landmark in San Francisco since opening in 1958 and is now operated by concert promotion company, Live Nation. The venue’s recent renovation included a new concert stage, luxury VIP boxes and flexible, tiered open floor space for both general admission and seated shows. Now with a 3,300 seating capacity, The Masonic now also features a new stage lighting system with more than 45 of Harman’’s Martin Professional MAC Viper and MAC Aura fixtures.
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BIRMINGHAM, UK – For the second year, Creative Technology (CT) supplied the AV services used on the catwalk at the week-long Clothes Show Live event. The annual Clothes Show Live exhibition provides five days’ worth of all things fashion and beauty with up to six shows a day.
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HELSINKI, Finland – Eero Helle and Mikko Linnavuori from visual design company Visual45 used an array of Clay Paky fixtures to add power and reliability to their bold design for a sold-out show featuring Finnish rapper Cheek at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki
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NEW YORK, NY – Liverpool’s Cavern Club, the iconic venue that gave the Beatles their first taste of fame, began life as a cellar warehouse and later served as an air raid shelter during World War II. So, it’s only fitting that the world’s first interactive Beatles Tribute Show, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah (Y3), made its New York appearance at 42West, a venue that served as a mid-town Manhattan parking garage, before being transformed into one of the city’s hippest nightspots.
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Blackmagic Design’s latest update for its Teranex 2D, 3D and Express converters, Teranex 3.1, adds a new software application that lets customers remotely set up and change settings on their Teranex converters from a central location, as well as adding a new 12G-SDI to quad HD-SDI conversions to Teranex Express.
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TAMPA, FL — Close to 175 COLORado 1-Quad Tour par-style LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional provided by Barbizon Lighting Company were used to help illuminate and enhance Busch Gardens Tampa’s Christmas Town, lit with more than one million lights in all. Most of the fixtures provided external lighting for the attraction’s 50-foot-tall tree.
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LONDON – A stage design with multiple curtain reveals and a massive 22×12 meter LED wall requires a massive amount of planning and visualization. For Helene Fischers Farbenspiel Tournee 2014, Pixway used d3 provide visualisations, pre-programming and sequencing for the show as well as supplying the d3 servers to control the show.
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