WEST PALM BEACH, FL — Theatrical Media Services (TMS) has been supporting the Dave Matthews Band for 23 years, and lighting and scenic designer Fenton Williams has lit DMB since 1991. The lighting rig got an update this year with new fixtures including Elation Colour Chorus Series LED battens and SixPar 200 LED Par lights. This summer’s tour wraps up in early September with three shows in George, WA.
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DUBLIN – Chris Brown’s recent “One Hell of a Nite” UK and European tour featured a production design by Tom E. Marzullo from Out Of Our Minds Creative Services, LLC, developed in collaboration with Robert Achlimbari from staging specialist All Access. The design included two lighting pods which were moved using a Kinesys automation system supplied by HSL from Blackburn UK, also the tour’s lighting and rigging vendors.
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BLACKBURN, U.K. – HSL supplied lighting and rigging to Earth Wind and Fire’s recent UK and European tour which included a closing headline slot on the West Holts Stage at Glastonbury 2016 as the second show. Lighting was designed by Merle McLain who has worked with the band for 23 years. He was on the road operating the key and conventional lights and also directing and switching seven robo-cams as well as keeping an overview on all-things visual.
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SAN BERNARDINO, CA – The 2016 RockStar Taste Of Chaos Tour recently wrapped a six week run across the U.S., giving live music fans high energy festival performances from headliners Dashboard Confessional as well as Taking Back Sunday, Saosin and The Early November. With lighting and video production supplied by Gemini Light Sound Video, the touring package included an ample assortment of High End Systems equipment, including 16 ShapeShifter C1’s, 17 SolaSpot 2000’s, Hog 4 control, Catalyst media servers and FQ100 fog generator.
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Rose Brand Inc. now offers “Melt Out” fabric, touted as a more economical and fire-safe ceiling fabric used to diffuse light over trade show booths, displays and exhibits. Melt Out has meltable seams, which appear every 12 inches along its length. In the event of fire, the seams open, allowing smoke to escape and water from sprinklers to come through. Melt Out is 96” wide, inherently flame retardant, stretchable, and comes in black, white, red, blue, as well as dark and light grey.
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FREMONT, CA – Blackmagic Design today announced the availability of Blackmagic Camera 4.0 Public Beta. This public beta lets customers install and test Blackmagic’s major new camera operating system and user interface for URSA Mini. Blackmagic Camera 4.0 Public Beta is available for download free of charge from the Blackmagic Design website for all Blackmagic URSA Mini customers.
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ST. LOUIS – Logic Systems’ Chip Self has been providing the design, and fixtures, for El Monstero as the band draws crowds for its take on Pink Floyd’s greatest hits. Logic Systems, Self’s company, provided more than 75 Rogue, Legend, COLORado and COLORdash fixtures.
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HAMBURG, Germany – Event technology service provider Nordlite has expanded its rental fleet to include 60 impression X4 Bar 20 fixtures from GLP. Nordlite, one of the leading full service technology service providers in northern Germany, provides its customers with technical design as well as consulting and planning for various events. Its services include CAD and 3D visualization and design, décor and technical equipment. In all, the company has 35 employees, its own fleet and 2,000 sqm of storage space.
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COLUMBUS, OH — On Aug. 11, 2016, Macy’s followed up a previous announcement in late 2015 that it would be shedding 35 to 40 stores with plans to shutter 100 additional locations, or about 15 percent of the remaining 769 retail locations. But in late June, the company also made clear that it was intent upon retooling those that remain, unveiling its “Store of the Future” concept at a Macy’s location in Columbus, OH. Macy’s turned to Gaiam, the yoga and fitness brand, for a design assist, and also introduced Gaiam to Dallas-based Reflect, who has been working with Macy’s for a number of years as their instore digital media partner. Reflect’s Matt Schmitt and Chas Thornhill worked with Gaiam visual merchandising manager Hannah Gilmore on a visual solution that included PixelFLEX’s 3.9mm FLEXLite NXG LED video panels, which are serviceable from front and rear.
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LOS ANGELES — Jake Whittingham and Dave Hill collaborated on the looks for Brit Floyd, a prominent Pink Floyd tribute band. For the band’s 2016 “Space and Time Continuum” tour legs in North America and Europe, The band relied on an extensive array of Elation Professional fixtures in 2015, and Whittingham and Hill opted to add Elation’s hybrid Platinum FLX and ACL Series fixtures to the rig for the 2016 shows.
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LOS ANGELES – At this year’s E3 video game expo, Microsoft unveiled a launch version of its Xbox One S, a more compact version of Xbox One, which will soon be joined by more powerful Xbox One S units. The company also outlined plans for its Project Scorpio consoles, to be launched further down the road. To optimize the visuals for the press briefing at the Los Angeles Convention Center, VER LA supplied four d3 4x4pros to production company Zed Ink.
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LONDON – AC Lasers upgraded their line of smoke and haze machines to feature integrated W-DMX control. NANO RX modules were installed into Look Solutions Viper 2.6 smoke machines and Pea Soup Phantom hazers to provide full wireless control of the output and variable blower control.
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