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Dirty Rigger Octo-Pouch

Octo-Pouch

Dirty Rigger Octo-Pouch

CAMBRIDGESHIRE, UK – The Dirty Rigger Octo-Pouch is designed for tool convenience, especially when working in the rig. The Octo-Pouch offers a durable 600 x 600 denier polyester nylon construction with a built-in buckle system to securely attach tools directly to the pouch, ready for quick release when required. The built-in draw-string closure net keeps smaller tools secure in the main center pocket. More tools can be attached on the multiple metal D-rings positioned around the pouch.

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Jeremy Lloyd

Jeremy Lloyd Joins Tait as Spectaculars Director

LONDON – Jeremy Lloyd has taken on a new role as spectaculars director at Tait, based at the company’s U.K. location. Lloyd has worked on many of the industry’s biggest productions during his 22 years of live event experience. Most recently he led the technical design and staging teams for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Ceremonies in London.

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Jim Hutchison

CAST at Event Live Expo 2013

TORONTO – CAST Group previews its involvement at next month’s Event Live Expo Feb. 5-7 in Los Angeles with new products to showcase and a keynote presentation by CAST’s product manager and resident lighting design expert, Jim Hutchison.

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Fox Sports Media Group

Fox Sports Studio Adds Spyders for Content Feeds

LOS ANGELES – Vista Systems’ Spyders are at the core of a Fox Sports Media Group studio in Century City, CA, where the NFL on Fox, UFC on Fox, College Football Saturday and soccer coverage are produced.  The Spyders feed seven different monitor walls and are used to route images to the appropriate wall.  The network needs to easily create different presets and scaling and the Spyders facilitate changing presets in the middle of a live show.

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Carl Spaulding

Carl Spaulding Joins Barbizon’s Boston Office

BOSTON – Carl Spaulding has joined the team at Barbizon’s Boston office. In his new role, he will focus on sales of products and expendables. He was previously employed at ENTTEC, where was he Northern regional sales manager. Before that, he worked as sales manager at BMI Supply. He has also been a lighting designer, scenic designer, technical director, and master electrician.

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StageTek single deck

Wenger StageTek Staging

OWATONNA, MN — Wenger Corporation’s new StageTek staging was designed to offer the user more benefits over its older product line. The StageTek staging assembles quickly without tools, folding frames or other cumbersome understructure. The decks are 20 percent lighter than comparably sized Wenger Versalite decks and feature integrated hand grips that require 40 percent less grip strength to handle. Assembly time is also reduced.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers at NYE 2013

A New Year’s Eve of Chaos

LAS VEGAS – Chaos Visual Productions celebrated the New Year with shows on both ends of the Las Vegas Strip. Performances from The Killers and Red Hot Chili Peppers entertained at The Chelsea Ballroom in The Cosmopolitan Hotel, while Beyonce rang in the New Year at The Wynn Hotel. Dick Clark Productions’ Rockin’ New Year’s Eve was also on the calendar of Chaos.

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City Flats Ballroom

Elation Helps Bank Lobby Conversion into Ballroom

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The lobby of the old Michigan National Bank was one of the downtown Grand Rapids’ historic treasures. But the stunning space had sat empty for more than a decade after the bank branch closed. Then, in 2012, the bank lobby received new life when it was converted into a ballroom for the CityFlats Hotel. This rejuvenation was accomplished with help from LiveSpace, which designed and installed the room’s lighting and sound systems, and Elation Professional lighting products.

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Deadmau5

Chauvet Video Panels Provide Set for Audible Festival

EL PASO — More than 200 Chauvet Professional video panels became the central part of  Audible, an EDM event featuring Deadmau5, Chris Lake and Audrey Napoleon. Creative Production & Design of Austin, TX, supplied the gear. “The design of this show depended on the transparent nature of the columns and the MVP 18 panels where a perfect fit,” said Justin Jenkins, director of Creative Production & Design. “This transparency has allowed us to not only layer video designs, such as this one, but to also allow lighting to be mounted behind the panels and ‘blow through’ for an additive effect.”

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