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PixelFLEX LED Curtains Offer Space Saving Solution for Straight No Chaser Tour
Adding versatility, flexibility and affordability, LED Curtains from PixelFLEX served as a tool for promotional material, and added a novel element of background images and video throughout each performance.
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Intensity adjustment is seen as so very important that many console manufactures include a dedicated intensity wheel on their desks. This wheel is always active… Read More »Intensity Adjustments: Absolute vs. Relative
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Ivete Sangalo Uses Extensive SGM Portfolio for DVD Recording
Faced with lighting an entire stadium for the recording of a DVD, LD Marcos Olivio turned to SGM to meet his lighting needs. A large-scale LED package made the challenge of illuminating such a large arena simpler and more economical by requiring less energy while providing a much greater intensity.
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Laura Pausini Tour Rig Includes Robe Fixtures
ROME – LD Francesco de Cave included Robe fixtures for Laura Pausini’s recent performances. Among the 200 or so lighting fixtures on the European tour were 50 LEDWash 300s. They are used for all the production’s base stage and band washing looks.
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Andy Walters Leaves James Thomas Engineering
Spectacles in Dubai and Doha Get A&O Support
Copenhagen Building Gets New Look with Martin LEDs
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Harman’s Martin Professional, Kollision and Transform Architects refurbished the exterior of the Confederation of Danish Industry building here. The structure now features a façade with an ever-changing LED media surface.
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Bandit Teams with LED North America, Touts Light, Bright SuperSport Arena Fixtures
NASHVILLE —Bandit Lites has formed a partnership with LED North America and is touting the development of the SuperSport, a 400W, 35,000 lumen output fixture that weighs just over 20 pounds and is “the size of a couple shoe boxes.” The fixture has an efficacy of 89 lm/W and promises energy savings of up to 85 percent. Because SuperSport units are designed to replace traditional fixtures weighing 100 to 150 lbs., the fixtures also promise to significantly increase venue load bearing capacities.
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“Pepsi Grammy Halftime Show” Rig Included Chauvet Nexus 4×4 LEDs
LOS ANGELES — The 2+-minute “Pepsi Grammy Half Time Show” commercial, which depicted ex-football stars “returning the favor” by singing and dancing halfway through a celebrity-studded Grammy Awards-style black tie event (modeled on the actual event, which included Beyoncé and Jay-Z, pictured here), was filmed at the LA Sports Arena using a lighting rig from Visions Lighting. A total of 40 Nexus 4×4 high output COB LED panels from Chauvet Professional were included in the lighting rig.
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Albert Hall in Manchester, UK: Century Old Building, 21st Century Lighting
MANCHESTER, U.K. – dbn has transformed a former Methodist meeting hall into Albert Hall with the installation of an elaborate lighting system. The century-old building will now host bands, comedy and cabaret shows, club nights, parties and corporate events.
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