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Martin Seeks Career Stories from Standouts for its New “Wall of Dedication”

Martin Seeks Career Stories from Standouts for its New “Wall of Dedication”

AARHUS, Denmark – Martin Professional may be known for its luminaires, but it’s also looking to add to its collection of luminaries – people involved in the lighting industry who have felt a passion for what they do. The company’s “Wall of Dedication” is a collection of these personal accounts. People share their stories of how they got into the industry, their sources of inspiration as well as pieces of advice and pearls of wisdom on a web-based platform.

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Luc Peumans Rocks Clay Paky B-EYE Effects on Clouseau Tour

WILLEBROEK, Belgium — AED Rent, based here, provided LD Luc Peumans with fixtures to support the latest tour for Belgian/Dutch rock band Clouseau’s latest tour. Peumans met the challenge of creating a “large looking” show with fewer lighting fixtures with an assortment of gear that included a dozen of Clay Paky’s A.leda B-EYE K20s.” They inspired a lot of looks for this show,” he noted.

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LMG Touring Supports Childish Gambino’s Web of Visuals

LMG Touring Supports Childish Gambino’s Web of Visuals

LMG Touring provided lighting and video gear for Donald Glover, a.k.a. Childish Gambino, who has been touring in support of his second album, Because the Internet, released last December. Along with a full lighting rig, LMG provided Barco 18K Projectors and AI Media Servers. The video gear supported custom content created by Moment Factory. The different projection surfaces included a back screen, two columns, front scrim or Kabuki, riser surfaces, and stage props.  The tour provided the audience with animated sequences that took them on a ride through the Internet.

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HSL Lights Massive Attack Tour of Europe. Photo by Louise Stickland

HSL Lights Massive Attack Tour of Europe

BLACKBURN, U.K. – Lighting and visuals specialist HSL, based here, supplied a floor package for the European leg of Massive Attack’s summer tour. LD Tim Oliver’s overall visual design included having lights in front of and behind the screens, and the rig was also designed to be easy to rig, break down and transport between festival gigs. As with previous Massive Attack shows, back-lighting played a key role in retaining a sense of visual mystery and magic.

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GLP Spot One Lights Up MBC’s New HQ in Seoul’s Digital Media City

GLP Spot One Lights Up MBC’s New HQ in Seoul’s Digital Media City

SEOUL – Highlighting its new headquarters in Seoul’s new Digital Media City, Korean TV network broadcaster MBC is using eight impression Spot Ones from GLP to light the building’s exterior. The eight impression Spot Ones are mounted in locally sourced domes to protect them from the extreme weather conditions as they throw their high output beams over a distance of 20 to 30 meters.

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LD Thomas Gerdon Includes GLP’s New X4 XL at Nature One Festival. Photo by Ralph Larmann

LD Thomas Gerdon Includes GLP’s New X4 XL at Nature One Festival

KASTELLAUN, Germany – The Nature One music festival, which took place here July 31-Aug. 2, drew some 72,000 visitors with a roster of 300 international DJs and EDM acts. The event gave LD Thomas Gerdon the chance to use GLP’s new large-format impression X4 XL for the first time. Gerdon already had 64 impression X4 heads incorporated into the stage design but managed to work in 12 additional X4 XL fixtures.

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Fineline Provides Lighting and Video Support for Eden Sessions in Cornwall, U.K.

Fineline Provides Lighting and Video Support for Eden Sessions in Cornwall, U.K.

CORNWALL, U.K. – Fineline supplied lighting, LED screen, rigging and crew to the 2014 Eden Sessions, a diverse series of music performances staged at the Eden Project, based here. The sessions ran over a 5+ week period and featured a line up including Skrillex, Dizzee Rascal, Katy B, Ellie Goulding, Elbow, The Pixies and others. For the second year, Fineline worked closely with Andy Cotton of TAO Productions, who production managed the events and coordinated all technical aspects.

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Elation EZ Kling

Elation EZ Kling

Elation’s new EZ Kling is an RJ45 to DMX, Kling-Net and Art-Net interface that lets users pixel map Kling-Net fixtures through the Kling-Net mapper, which is included in ArKaos’s LED Master, Media Master Express and Media Master Pro software. EZ Kling also works via ArtNet, which allows for pixel mapping of any LED pixel-controllable DMX fixture.

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elektraLite Audience Blinder

elektraLite Audience Blinder

elektraLite’s new Audience Blinder is powered by 144 5-watt LEDs. It is available in two versions: “Warm White” with a 3,200K color temperature and CRI of 94, and “Cool White,” with a 6,500K white with CRI of 78. Providing 128 potential combinations of optics and color, the fixture is designed to accommodate a full range of floodlight/wash light requirements.

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Elation LED Panels and Platinum Beams Used for Electrisize Festival

Elation LED Panels and Platinum Beams Used for Electrisize Festival

ERKLENZ, Germany – Century-old monastery buildings provided a distinctive backdrop for the Electrisize Open Air Festival. LD Frank Zander used 24 Elation EVLED 256 panels to create four large LED screen columns to anchor the stage and then placed 12 EVLED 1024 LED panels in front of the DJ to present high-res graphics and logos. Further lighting was provided by eight Elation Platinum Beam 5R fixtures for bright aerial effects.

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d3 Technologies Names Sarah Cox Sales Manager

LONDON – d3 Technologies named Sarah Cox as the new Sales Manager EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Cox joins the company at its head office in Borough, London. Cox brings previous experience with project and production management, architectural and events installation as well as sales distribution in the AV industry.

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Creative Technology Provides Video for Wimbledon

LONDON – For this year’s Wimbledon Championships, Creative Technology provided nine new Electronic Information Displays on the front façade of Centre Court and various other strategic locations around the facility. The purpose-built housings will remain in place on a permanent basis while the AOTO M8C display technology is installed and removed on an annual basis. All displays are controlled from a central location via a dedicated fibre network. Creative Technology was also involved in the production facility located within the broadcast centre which feeds live content, highlights packages and other entertainment to the large screen and other locations.

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