MIAMI — Pitbull hit the road recently with his “Bad Man” tour in the U.S. which featured a production design by Gabriel Fraboni and Michael Smalley of creative practice Twin Design. Robe’s BFML Spots played a central role in the production, with 46 of the fixtures serving as the main profile fixtures.
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NEW YORK – ETCP, which launched the new Portable Power Distribution Technician (PPDT) examination earlier this year, noted that 37 people passed and are the first to gain PPDT Certification.
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ElektraLite’s new ML-902 is a moving head profile spot fixture powered by a 120-watt cool white (6,500K) COB LED. The fixture promises an output equal to that of a 250-watt HMI discharge lamp. Features include an indexable seven-color wheel and a range of pattern choices via two wheels that each hold up to seven interchangeable gobos.
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Wago’s new compact 32-channel 40-pin Ribbon Connector Interface offers 24 VDC selectable connections that can be used with a variety of PLC devices.
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LAS VEGAS — Exhibiting on the adjacent stand to their US distributors, GLP Inc., Cosmic Truss’s display at last month’s LDI Show in Las Vegas took on an alluringly ghoulish theme — which really galvanized visitors, who may have thought they had arrived at the Gates of Hell. Appearing the week before Halloween, the custom-created skull that hung above the booth was one of the most photographed item at the show.
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NEWFIELD, NJ – Ken Kepler and Ed Di Bona have formed KD Productions, a full service AV production/rental company serving the Atlantic City/Philadelphia markets. The partners, who started their company two years ago, have a combined 50 years of industry experience. Di Bona was most recently technical director at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, NJ. Kepler spent more than 12 years as the lead audio engineer and lead project manager for Showorks Audio Visual.
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ETC’s new Mosaic Atlas, part of the company’s Unison Mosaic line of products, is now available. Designed to control large scale projects, Mosaic Atlas promises to make it easier to map large LED pixel arrays for building facades, bridges, and presentation walls. Users can play video content across their arrays or incorporate a range of creative, generative effects.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – For their Oct. 26 show at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, which kicks off a trek through Latin America in support of their 10th album, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, Musique Xpress Lights provided 49 Q-Wash 560Z-LED moving heads and 16 COLORado 4 IP RGBW linear wash fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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CZECH REPUBLIC – Milos has just released a second video as part of a three-month push to increase awareness about its crowd barriers. In this video, Area Four Industries R&D director Marc Hendriks provides information on the technical design and construction of Milos barriers, as well as their optimal use in real world situations.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA — TV LD Victor Fable used Elation’s new Fuze Par Z120 IP LED wash light and other Elation Professional fixtures on the recent AT&T/Audience Network Music Concerts that aired exclusively on DirecTV and AT&T U-verse. Southern California-based Kinetic Lighting supplied the Fuze LED wash light for the shows along with Elation’s Platinum FLX hybrid, Colour Chorus Series LED batten, Platinum Beam 5R and Platinum Beam 5R Extreme moving head beam lights.
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LONDON — YouTube needed an assist with three studios — two which were double height — where YouTubers with more than 10,000 subscribers could book free studio time for content creation. The company turned to lighting consultant Peter Daffarn, who worked with Photon Beard and Doughty for a rigging assist.
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