NEW YORK — Equipped with new LED gear receptive to pixel-mapped programming, the Empire State Building featured an elaborate lighting design synching the artistry of LD Marc Brickman, music chosen by Usher and the finale of the annual Macy’s Fireworks Spectacular. Brickman relied upon a grandMA2 lighting console and MA VPU plus video processing unit for control for the event. The light show was also synched with radio broadcasts and featured during a two-hour special on NBC.
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INDIO, CA — Fantasy Springs Casino, which is owned and operated by Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, is expecting to save 291,000 kWh and receive a $32,000 rebate after switching to LED lighting for the casino/hotel’s parking structure. LEDtronics provided 41-watt LED luminaires to replace 150W HPS lights for the resort’s parking garage structure and T8 tubelights for uplighting outside the structure.
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LOS ANGELES — Scott Barnes and Joshua Thatcher, who often work together as moving light programmers for the motion picture and television industries, were early adopters with the Hog 4 control platform. “We got our Hog 4 consoles in November of last year, and we were fortunate to get some of the first desks on the West Coast,” said Barnes. “From November to March, we used the new desk for commercials and re-shoots, so by April when we started Captain America 2, I was really comfortable with the Hog 4 and ready to go ‘full tilt boogie.’”
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LOS ANGELES — The MDA Show of Strength telethon, which airs on the ABC network in a two-hour prime time slot on Sunday, Sept. 1, will raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association — and it will once again look completely different from the black-and-white memories Baby Boomers might have of the show’s previous incarnation as the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, which ran from 1966 to 2010.
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BERLIN, Germany – For the fourth annual A&P Summer Rave, a music festival sponsored by a grocery company that gets staged in three of the same airport hangars that were used for the Berlin Airlift, LD Martin Kuhn deployed a rig featuring a variety of Clay Paky fixtures, including Sharpys, Alpha Spot QWO 800 STs and Alpha Beam 700s.
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The TS4525 is a 45-watt LED fixture that utilizes 12 Cree LEDs. This unit is particularly well suited for retail applications where a bright, long-lasting source is required. The LE4525 is available in standard black, white, or silver finishes. Custom colors are available upon request. Features include: 45-Watt, 120 Volt light source; 35,000 Hour average life; 25 degree beam; 3000K color temperature; 80 CRI. For non-dimming applications only.
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