2017 Bush Tour
Dataton and Epson Team Up for Projection Mapping Competition
CUSCO, Peru – Epson Projectors and Dataton teamed up to back the Latin American Mapping Challenge, an event where mapping artists showcase their art on eight iconic buildings in Latin America. The challenge, open for entries from Latin America, the US and Canada, launched with a show in Cusco, Peru in June. Mapping enthusiasts have until July 29 to submit their designs. Judging takes place in early August with the winning contributions presented on the eight landmark buildings from August 2017 to March 2018.
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Painting With Light Gets ‘Black To The Future’
GENK, Belgium – Lighting and visual innovators Painting with Light were approached to design a special feature for the current ‘Black To The Future’ art exhibition, which is being organized by art collective Het Labo and staged at the C-MINE cultural center in Genk, Belgium. The environment is a redeveloped coal mine once the pulse of local industry, now tastefully restored and again serving the community meaningfully as a cultural center and creative hub for media and tech-related companies and the LUCA School of Arts.
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Fineline Provides Diverse Looks At Glastonbury with Chauvet Professional
GLASTONBURY, UK – From its humble beginnings in 1970, the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts has championed performance diversity in all its shapes and forms. The Circus Big Top and the Wow! stages are two examples that perhaps best encapsulate this tradition of diversity at Glastonbury. While both stages featured very different forms of entertainment, both had a consistently excellent visual palette thanks once again to Fineline Lighting and rigs that featured CHAUVET Professional fixtures.
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BigCityBeats World Club Dome Experience Delivered By Blackmagic Design Live Production Workflow
FRANKFURT, Germany – The BigCityBeats World Club Dome, a major EDM event held May 31-June 3, 2017, included a multi camera live production PPU solution built around the ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K, Smart Videohub routers and a series of Teranex AV standards and frame rate converters from Blackmagic Design. The event took place at Frankfurt’s Commerzbank Arena and featured more than 20 stages over a 700,000 square meter outdoor area. The event featured top international DJs and VJ artists performing to a backdrop of pyrotechnic and video displays.
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tvONE Now Shipping ONErack
tvONE’s new solution for AV rack mounting woes, ONErack, is now shipping. It’s a universal racking mounting solution with power and cooling.
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d3 at the Center of Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience
LONDON – “Game of Thrones” fans were given another outlet for their favorite show when the “Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience” played a 24-date arena tour across North America. The tour featured the show’s composer, Ramin Djawadi, conducting an 35-piece orchestra and choirs performing highlights from the score. The 360º stage was rich in visuals and dynamic movement; d3 media servers tracked automation and drove the display of video content from six seasons of HBO’s epic fantasy series.
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Macroblock Provides Info on Hawkeye, Other LED Video Solutions at InfoComm 2017
ORLANDO – Macroblock offered attendees at InfoComm 2017 information about the company’s latest Hawkeye solution platform under the theme of “Superior, Simple, Smart.”
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PR Lighting Butterfly II
PR Lighting recently previewed the new Butterfly among a suite of new products at the Prolight+Sound Show in Frankfurt, Germany. Although it was well received, the company decided to supercharge it by adding five small plates on the central disk, containing 15 x 1W LEDs, to the 6 x 40W Osram R/G/B/W 4 in 1 LEDs already existing. It is now known as the Butterfly II.
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ChamSys Supports Array of Artists at Glastonbury
PILTON, U.K. – ChamSys consoles were widely used at the 2017 edition of the Glastonbury Festival. From the Other Stage, where the event’s top headliners performed, to the Silver Hayes WOW Stage, where LDs cooked up hot looks for EDM artists, ChamSys products were used at the festival. Pictured here, JC from JC from GLS Lighting looks after the MQ200 console used for the event’s Avalon Stage.
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Clearwing Productions Acquires DSI Event Group in Denver, CO
DENVER, CO – Clearwing Productions, a multi-generational family business, has acquired DSI Event Group in Denver, CO. Founded in 1979 as Dowlen Sound, the DSI location joins already existing Clearwing offices in Milwaukee, WI and Phoenix, AZ. The new subsidiary will operate as Clearwing Productions Colorado, LLC.
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Goalen Group Uses PixelFLEX Panels to “Raise the Roof” for Corporate Gig in Dallas
DALLAS – Goalen Group, a full-service, live event design and production provider based in Santa Monica, CA, used FLEXLite Plus 3.9mm LED video from Nashville-based PixelFLEX to visually “raise the roof” for an aerospace manufacturer’s event staged at the Bomb Factory in Dallas, TX.
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