MIAMI — Life In Color (LIC), founded in 2006 as Dayglow and renamed after its acquisition by Robert F. X. Sillerman’s SFX Entertainment in late 2012, combines EDM music, art, DJs, dancers, aerial acts and fire effects with its trademark paint cannons. The group performed three shows near the end of the 2013 International Champions Cup soccer tournament at Sun Life Stadium here in early August. Collyns Stenzel of Advanced Concert Productions, also an SFX Company, used 102 Elation Platinum Beam 5R fixtures, supplied by The Design Oasis (Davie, FL) and Act Productions (Miami Beach, FL).
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Peter Mumford’s Helpmann Award winning lighting design for King Kong The Musical includes ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ profiles and Vari-Lite VL3500 units, among other gear.
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GEEL, Belgium — Lighting Designer and operator David Smeets of TCF placed Robe moving lights at the heart of his design for the Main Stage at the 2013 Reggae Geel festival, held Aug. 2-3. Headliners included Pentateuch, Iba Mahr & Dubtronic Kru, Ironites, Freddie McGregor and many more.
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FREDERICKSBURG, VA — U.K.-based Harkness Screens, which has its U.S. office here, named Dazian LLC, with office locations in South Hackensack, NJ, Sun Valley CA and Orlando, FL, as its sole distribution partner for its U.S. event screen business. The distribution agreement went into effect earlier this year.
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Elation Professional says the smooth, even output of its 170W Cool White Platinum Spot LED II Pro, which features built-in EWDMX for wireless control, is comparable to a 250W discharge fixture. All dimming and strobing is done electronically; there’s no need for a dimmer or shutter motor. Features include a 17 to 36 degree zoom, 16-bit resolution on all motor functions, smooth dimming, two gobo wheels with a total of 14 gobos including seven interchangeable, rotating, and indexing glass gobos, and a static dichroic color wheel with seven colors plus white.
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ERLANGER, KY — TV One added four new test engineers to its R&D team based in Maidenhead, UK. Three new engineers — Uma Mathapati, Dario Rivas and Wan Azhar Wan Khalil — will work with Neil Baptiste, who joins the company as the new R&D Test Team Leader.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — LD Declan Randall is using Philips Vari-Lite’s VL3500 Spot Luminaires and customized gobos for the Johannesburg production of Starlight Express. Theatre lighting supplier Gearhouse Splitbeam provided the fixtures for the production, which played at The Mandela, Joburg Theatre.
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