Blackmagic Design today announced that a multicamera live production workflow, featuring the URSA Broadcast and URSA Mini Pro G2, was employed during the Holy Ghost Festival of Life
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WANTAGH, NY – Santana’s 2019 “Supernatural Now” tour visited venues across the U.S. with the Doobie Brothers along for the ride, marking 20 years since the release of Santana’s Supernatural album and 50 years since Woodstock. LD Michael Ledesma’s rig from Innovative Concert Lighting included Elation Protron Eclypse and Elation SEVEN Batten 14 LED strip lights. The tour ran from June 20-Aug. 20, with another show set for Nov. 12 at the new Chase Center in San Francisco.
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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – Bandit Lites has spent the summer outfitting massive tours, record-breaking festivals and immense events, causing the world’s foremost lighting company to… Read More »Bandit Lites Makes Elation Professional Gear Purchase
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SHANGHAI, China – For GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Shanghai in late June, designer Nick Ho used his ChamSys MagicQ MQ60 console for a work-around that helped him meet a tight deadline. “We used a feature in the ChamSys called the ‘Art-Net Retransmit.’ This allowed us to use the MQ60 to transmit the incoming LTC to Pangolin via Art-Net,” Ho said.
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VIENNA, Austria – Roland Greil and Patrick Woodroffe of Woodroffe Bassett Design (WBD) specified Claypaky HY B-Eye K25, Scenius Unico, Mythos 2 and Sharpy fixtures for Rammstein’s 2019 summer stadium tour in Europe. WBD also did the tour’s show design, with Florian Wieder serving as production designer, Cuno Hahn as set designer and Faren Matern and Marc Brunkhardt as lighting directors. Neg Earth supplied the fixtures for the tour, which resumes next spring and summer.
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Excitement is building for the official launch of Ayrton’s two latest products: Perseo and Huracán-X which takes place at Olympia.
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DORTMUND, Germany – For Udo Lindenberg’s Live 2019 tour, the veteran rocker, artist and activist toured his native Germany, energizing audiences with a spectacle that included up to 50 performers on stage. LD Günter Jäckle included 22 Vari-Lite VL6000 Beams in the rig, crediting the fixture as “retro,” but also “modern.”
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BELGIUM – Visual design specialist Painting with Light (PWL) was asked by the organizers of the 2019 Campo Solar Festival in Belgium to create site-wide… Read More »Painting the Cornfields with Luminosity
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LONDON – MDG will be exhibiting at PLASA 2019 in London’s Olympia on Stand 50 where it will be celebrating the 5th anniversary of… Read More »MDG at PLASA 2019
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MADRID – Singer/dancer Joana Sainz Garcia, 30, died early Sept. 2 after being hit by an exploding pyro device while on stage before an audience… Read More »Spanish Performer Killed Onstage in Pyro Accident
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VALENCIA, SPAIN – Mexican AV specialists S3 (Sound Systems Suppliers) has invested in a WORK PRO LightShark LS-1 DMX-based hardware lighting console in order… Read More »WORK PRO LightShark Console Delivers Major Workflow Benefits to Mexican AV Specialist S3
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PRAGUE – For Let It Roll 2019, which drew 25,000 to Milovice Airfield, a former Soviet-era airbase north of Prague in the Czech Republic, a lighting rig with nearly 100 Robe fixtures adorned the main stage, a.k.a. Mothership, during the festival, devoted to drum and bass sounds. They included Pointes, MegaPointes, Spiiders, Tarrantulas, CitySkape Xtremes and BMFL Blades, all supplied by JESA.
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