SCHEESSEL and NEUHAUSEN OB ECK, Germany — Die Ärzte and their light show were part of the twin festivals in north and south Germany, Hurricane and Southside. The band’s LD Lui Helmig designed a specials package that could be integrated with the house lighting system for the band’s performance at both sites.
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LONDON — Stevie Marr, lighting and video designer for Maximo Park’s Quicken the Heart tour, is using Martin MAC III Profiles, MAC 250 Washes and Atomic 3000 strobes in his design. Lite Alternative is supplying the gear.
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LOS ANGELES — Rapper Jay-Z began a five-city summer tour with Ciara lit by Patrick Dierson and Justin Collie of Performance Environment Design Group. Atomic Lighting supplied the rig.
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CATTOLICA, Rimini, Italy — An architectural lighting scheme using Anolis LEDs has been installed at the Millionaire Lounge Café. The design was created and specified by interior designer Pierpaolo Saioni, who was working for independent owners, Magi, Gucciardi & Pipitone, and was supplied direct to the venue by Robe Multimedia, Anolis’s Italian distributor.
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HOLLYWOOD, FL — Chauvet has named Jamey Brock director of sales and has hired Rob Carpenter to be the company’s southwest business territory manager.
Read More »ORLANDO, FL— Matthew D. Loeb was unanimously re-elected as International President of IATSE at the 66th Quadrennial IATSE Convention in Orlando, Fla. Additionally, James B. Wood was re-elected as General Secretary-Treasurer and the entire General Executive Board, consisting of 13 vice-presidents, as well as three international trustees and the union’s delegate to the Canadian Labor Congress were also re-elected. All candidates ran unopposed and were re-elected by acclamation.
Read More »The staging industry has been looking for ways to go green. But Sustainable Waves seems to be the first to actually make the stage itself… Read More »Solar Powered Staging Emerges
Read More »LAS VEGAS — Nominations are being accepted online to honor those individuals and companies for exceptional work in the pro lighting and staging field, and this window of opportunity will be closing Aug. 31, so go to www.parnelliawards.com and click on the Parnelli Awards nomination link today.
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CAMROSE, AB, Canada — A woman attending the Big Valley Jamboree country music festival was killed when a storm caused the main stage to collapse just before 6 p.m. on Aug. 1. An estimated 75 were injured.
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Elation Professional is offering three versions of IP65-rated LED video panels: medium-resolution SMD Tri-Color, EVLED 1024SMD (20mm pixel pitch); medium-resolution RGB Discrete LED, EVLED 1024 (18.75mm pixel pitch); and low-resolution RGB Discrete LED, EVLED 256 (37.5 mm pixel pitch).
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PR Lighting's new XL Beam 300 automated lighting fixture is touted for its long-throw beam, which has been designed to cut through the brightness of stage washes and LED backgrounds.
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Martin Professional’s P3-100 System Controller for LED screens lets designers treat LED screens like lighting instruments. Brightness, image position, image rotation, etc. can be adjusted and changed instantly, independently from the video source. The P3-100 is not a media server but an interface between the source and the screen.
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