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Metallica Rocks Europe with Flares and ProPlex

Metallica Rocks Europe with Flares and ProPlex

[caption id="attachment_279454" align="alignnone" width="800"]Metallica playing in the round in Europe. Photos: Jeff Yeager / Brett Murray[/caption]

COLOGNE, Germany – Metallica, which is following up the summer tour leg of its ongoing WorldWired tour in North America with a trek through the U.K. and Europe that will run from Sept. 2017 to May 2018, is traveling with 50 Solaris Flare LED fixtures, and DMX distribution based around four ProPlex IQ Two 1616 Ethernet-DMX nodes, all supplied by Premier Global Production (PGP) of Nashville, TN.

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Deadline to Order Behind the Scenes Holiday Cards is September 29th

[caption id="attachment_279451" align="alignnone" width="200"]One Xmas Card offered by BTS[/caption]

NYC – The deadline for ordering 2017 Behind the Scenes Holiday Cards is just one week away. These unique cards were created especially for Behind the Scenes and are a great way to spread holiday cheer while bringing help and hope to your colleagues in need. The order deadline is September 29th so place your order now at http://behindthescenescharity.org/bts/holidaycards2017.htm

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WFX 2017 Show Preview: ADJ Has Quality, Affordable LED Lighting For Your Church Covered

[caption id="attachment_279448" align="alignnone" width="800"]ADJ has a huge presence at WFX[/caption]

LOS ANGELES – Next month the WFX Conference & Expo will take place in Dallas, Texas, when 3,500+ people involved with worship technology will come together to learn, share ideas and check out the latest equipment. ADJ will feature heavily on the show floor where we will be demonstrating a variety of our latest affordable yet innovative lighting solutions which are ideal for use by dynamic churches of all sizes.

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4Wall LA Provides Gear for Long Beach Opera’s Frida Production

[caption id="attachment_279445" align="alignnone" width="2264"]Long Beach Opera gets assist from 4Wall[/caption]

LONG BEACH, CA- This summer, Long Beach Opera brought Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s Frida production to Southern California for the first time. Lighting Designer Dan Weingarten and Director of Production Holly Ahlborn turned to 4Wall Los Angeles for the lighting needed to help tell the tale of famed artist Frida Kahlo. The overall goal of LD Weingarten’s lighting design was to capture the essence of Frida’s own color palette; her vibrant, rich colors influenced heavily by her surroundings in contrast to the subject matter of her work.

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Chauvet Professional Maverick MK Pyxis

[caption id="attachment_279442" align="alignnone" width="800"]Maverick Pyxis[/caption]

At the center of Chauvet Professional’s Maverick MK Pyxis is a single homogenous 60W RGBW LED with a fixed 3-degree beam angle. Surrounding this pixel is an outer ring made up of nine 15W RGBW LEDs with a 7-45-degree zoom angle. Working together, the center pixel and outer ring are capable of creating a variety of captivating beam, wash, atmospheric and set piece effects. The fixture also features 360-degree continuous pan and tilt movement. In addition to creating moving looks, the Maverick MK Pyxis can also do double and triple duty as wash and beam light. With a combined center pixel and outer ring illuminance of 27,560 lux at five meters, the fixture has the output needed for a wide variety of applications.

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Introducing Our New Range Of Lifters from Kuzar

[caption id="attachment_279439" align="alignnone" width="612"]Kuzar Products[/caption]

LONDON – Prolight Concepts Group have taken exclusive UK distribution of Kuzar Systems, a Spanish company located in Valencia, dedicated to the design, manufacture and distribution of lifters and lifting accessories for the lighting and sound industry. Designed for the professional user in the event and rental industry, Kuzar lifters are manufactured in Europe to both BGV C1 and CE (2006/42/CE) standards, and are also backed by a two-year warranty. The lifters feature ‘KAT’ locks that offer two positions, one for raising the lifter and the second for locking the lifter while static at height for increased safety.

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ZerOS RigSync Wins Innovation Award in London

[caption id="attachment_279436" align="alignnone" width="800"]Zero 88 PLASA 2017 Innovation Award [/caption]

LONDON – Eaton’s popular Zero 88 lighting control brand continues its winning ways … collecting a coveted PLASA 2017 ‘Award for Innovation’ for the ‘RigSync’ feature that is part of the latest version of its powerful and flexible ZerOS console software. RigSync demystifies the work of DMX addressing for console users, allowing them more time to focus on being imaginative … while the technical elements sort themselves out via the console communicating with the lighting rig.

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2017 MLB All-Star FanFest Features Video Tunnel Entrance using PixelFLEX

[caption id="attachment_279433" align="alignnone" width="800"]MLB Fanfare gets great looks from PixelFLEX LED[/caption]

MIAMI BEACH, FL – Major League Baseball’s 2017 All-Star Game took place July 11 at Marlins Park in Miami, FL. Leading up to the game, MLB once again stoked fan enthusiasm with FanFest, a multi-day event than ran from July 7-11 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The event producers worked with BaAM Productions and MSI Productions to create an LED video tunnel entrance using 3.9mm FLEXLite Plus from PixelFLEX.

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Ben Mansfield’s Oh Wonder Lightshow Flows With ChamSys

[caption id="attachment_279430" align="alignnone" width="800"]Oh Wonder on stage[/caption]

LONDON  –  There’s a good reason why words like “dreamy” and “ethereal” pop up often when critics write about Oh Wonder. The tightly woven male-female voices and lofty synths of this alt-pop duo seem to wrap themselves gently around listeners, sweeping them up in a transcendent musical swirl.  On their current tour in support of their album Ultralife, the group’s free-flowing sound is supported by an appropriately imaginative and far-reaching Ben Mansfield lightshow run on a ChamSys Magic Q MQ500 Stadium supplied by LeSmurf Lighting.

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Mega Systems to Appear at WFX!

HELOTES, Tx. – The MEGA team is getting ready for WFX Conference and Expo 2017 and this year we are MEGA EXCITED! We will have a booth filled with new products and are the proud sponsors of KEY NOTE lighting and video, please make plans to stop by and visit us. BOOTH 501 Will be our main booth where you will find our sales team and we’ll be showing a mix of our brands including MEGA-Lite, PR Lighting, RGBlink, Fenix, TAF and Imagecue. We will also be introducing the newest member of our brand line, MEGA VIEW. Please join us for libations and the opportunity to view some of our finest products.

More details from Mega (www.megasystemsinc.com):

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A.C. Lighting Inc. Announces New Vice President of Human Resources

[caption id="attachment_279422" align="alignnone" width="800"]Dorothy Brennan[/caption]

TORONTO, ON, – A.C. Lighting Inc., distributor of world-class lighting, rigging and video technologies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dorothy Brennan as Vice President of Human Resources. Brennan is A.C. Lightings Inc.’s fourth high-profile hire in recent months and joins a growing roster of dynamic and professional senior management staff. Dorothy’s hire comes at an appropriate time, as A.C. Lightings Inc. is positioned for exponential growth within the coming months.

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