MIDDLETON, WI — On behalf of Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC), writer Marshall Bissett profiled ETC’s rep/distributor for Colombia, Bogata-based SEEL S.A., led by Carlos Fernandez. Fernandez was among the international attendees visiting Wisconsin last summer for ETC’s 2016 Rep and Dealer Workshop.
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LERMA, Mexico – Chauvet held a grand opening event for its new office, warehouse, service center and showroom facility in Mexico recently. Close to 100 attended the event, which featured a buffet dinner, speeches and DJ entertainment. Pictured here, from left, are Carlos Zamora de Martino General Manager of Chauvet Mexico, Daniel Pérez Carrillo and Alma Delia Reyes Villegas of Kassthelm, Albert Chauvet and Berenice Chauvet
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Eurolite will be featuring its new Hypno fixtures at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt April 4-7, 2017. They included 30W and 60W versions. Both have LED rings around the lens, lighting up with 76 and 88 RGB SMD LEDs, respectively.
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BOISE, ID — Food and agribusiness company J.R. Simplot turned to Neurilink, also based in Boise, for ideas on how to deal with a four-foot-wide concrete column that employees and company visitors would be passing each day. Neurilink’s Michael Fornander detailed how his firm was able to transform that obstruction into an interactive information resource with the help of a curved NanoLumens Nixel Series LED video display.
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LOUISVILLE, KY — A rap concert staged at the Tim Faulkner Gallery in Louisville, KY’s Portland neighborhood was interrupted by gunfire and panic in the early hours of Sunday, March 19, killing one attendee and leaving five other attendees injured.
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DYERSBURG, TN — Lowrance Sound Company (LSC) installed a dozen elektraLite eyeBall LED lighting fixtures to brighten worship services at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Dyersburg, TN. LSC systems engineer Carl Lowrance sourced the fixtures via Quest Marketing in Miami Beach, FL.
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HONG KONG – A new three-day music festival, Dragonland, made its debut on the Hong Kong event scene recently. Billed as the region’s first outdoor festival to combine pop with EDM, it joins Clockenflap as the only large-scale event of its kind in Hong Kong. Promoted by Playerone, a crowd of 15,000 people per day had been estimated, and in terms of production AHM Engineering supplied 20 of GLP’s award-winning X4 Bar 10 battens and 90 impression X4, as one of the mainstays of the stage set.
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WATTENS, Austria – LD Björn Hermann used 60 Claypaky Mythos2 and 20 Claypaky Supersharpy2 fixtures to deliver two large light sculptures as part of global crystal producer Swarovski’s Festival of Light, hosted at their 17-acre fantasy park Swarovski Kristallwelten (Crystal Worlds) in Wattens, Austria. Lead creative agency for Festival of Light was Berlin-based international creative production company StudioNOW, who originated the project’s concept.
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NEW YORK – WorldStage launched its Sx3 AV platform, dubbed the Self-Contained Show System, at a conference for the IT industry in February. The Sxe AV platform is designed to significantly reduce set up time, deliver superior reliability and transform the look and feel of presentation rooms with 50 to 500 people.
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LOS ANGELES – ARRI Rental opened new “boutique” offices in Los Angeles and Vancouver, BC, Canada. Sarah Mather will oversee the Vancouver facility as Operations Manager. The company also announced that Rafael Adame and Tony Linares, pictured here, L-R, are joining the company’s Burbank, CA office. Both bring over 20 years of experience to ARRI Rental. As Technical Marketing Executive Rafael will be a key member of the ALEXA 65 support team for North America. Tony will manage key operational departments including prep, warehouse, logistics and inventory control in the role of Operations Manager.
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LAS VEGAS — The Stratosphere Theater, within the Stratosphere hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, is a busy place, with up to three different productions a day, all of which feature unique lighting requirements. Director of entertainment Chris Townsend credited DTS for the performance of 28 new Max L moving lights that have been installed in the venue since January.
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Staging Concepts, a provider of custom staging solutions based in Minneapolis, launched its second generation Uplift® Stage. Reconstructed with a new design, the product now requires no manual lifting and is 100 percent drill operated. The platform is a scissor stage that is raised and lowered with an electric drill, allowing users to setup quickly, efficiently, and with the least amount of effort.
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