Lightware U.S.A., the US distributor for Budapest-based Lightware Visual Engineering, has announced the availability of new CPU2 card ugrades for Lightware's modular matrix family (16×16, 32×32, 64×64 and 80×80).
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RICHMOND, CA – DiCon Lighting and Main Light Industries are teaming up to promote FiberLamp's flagship product, the FL5100B. Main Light Industries manufactures and rents a wide range of fiber optic-based products to the entertainment industry, and the FL5100B, recently added to Main Light's rental offerings, is being marketed as the LightStar Illuminator.
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MIAMI BEACH, FL – The $160 million Frank Gehry-designed New World Center is offering simulcast Wallcast projections of symphonic performances outside the building as part of its mission to bring classical music performances to a broader audience, with an assist from coolux media servers.
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ABU DHABI, UAE – The Ferrari World F1 Grand Prix events held in 2010 on Yas Island were accompanied by a series of city-wide events known as Yasalam, and there were also three nights of after-race concerts headlined by Kanye West, Linkin Park and Prince. Fixtures from Clay Paky were included in the lighting rig.
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LONDON – Entec is supplying lighting, rigging and part of the visuals package, including a new Green Hippo Grasshopper HD media server, to the current Australian Pink Floyd Show tour. Entec has supplied gear for the band, lit by LD Phil White, since 2004.
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PUEBLO, CO – While most of his colleagues go about their daily occupation in theaters and concert halls, lighting professional Nelson Meeks works in an environment that's much more "earthy." "My world is dirt," said Meeks. As the lighting designer for the Professional Bull Riders Tour (PBR), Meeks meant this quite literally.
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LONDON – Three of the four shows nominated for best lighting design at this year's Olivier Awards, including the winner, The White Guard, lit by Neil Austin at the Royal National Theatre's Lyttleton Theatre, relied upon ETC Eos for lighting control.
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SINGAPORE – LumenRadio and Total Solution, its distributor for Singapore, are staying busy providing LumenRadio's CRMX wireless lighting control to meet various entertainment and hospitality lighting needs at the 2,561-room, $6.35 billion Marina Sands Bay Resort.
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Prism Projection's RevEAL Profile joins the company's energy-efficient RevEAL Color Wash (RevEAL CW) and RevEAL Studio fixtures. It is a high-CRI, LED Profile Spot with 16,000-lumen output, a variable CCT range (2800k-6500k), adjustable focus from hard to soft edge, changeable lenses for beam angles from 14º to 70º, and a flat field. It also offers four shutters on a tri-plane; an M-size GOBO; DMX, ArtNet and local control; and universal AC input (90-260 VAC).
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AUSTIN, TX – Omega Broadcast Group provided Riedel's Acrobat Wireless Intercom System to the XI Media staff at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival's Fader Fort stage.
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VERS-PONT-DU-GARD, France – LumenRadio's CRMX RDM wireless lighting control system is playing a key role controlling the architectural lighting for Pont du Gard, an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge and UNESCO world heritage site in southern France.
Read More »NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA – Jeff Ravitz and Intensity Advisors provided the lighting design for their fourth installment in the American Express series, "Unstaged," featuring Duran Duran. The band performed songs from their new album, All You Need is Now, for a live webcast March 23 from the Mayan Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The show was directed by David Lynch of Blue Velvet, Dune, Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks fame.
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