FREDERICK, MD – Parlights, Inc. has become the most recent member of A.C.T Lighting, Inc.’s dot2 Preferred Stocking Dealer program. Launched earlier this year, the program is open to select dealerships, which stock MA Lighting’s dot2 family of consoles and offer system training and support. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America.
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LAS VEGAS – Tweny years after the first Electric Daisy Carnival, and the sixth year since the event moved from the Los Angeles area to Las Vegas, EDC 2016 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway updated the Circuit Grounds performance arena by expanding it enough to accommodate twice as many people as previous years. To light the massive area, production and lighting designer Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting used nearly 850 Elation Professional LED luminaires.
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FORT MYERS, FL – Creative Sound and Lighting Solutions of Cape Coral, FL gave an AV boost to Cypress Lake United Methodist Church by adding to their current Eiki projection equipment. The church has two new Eiki LC-HDT700 HD Widescreen Projectors.
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LIMA, Peru – The new Clay Paky Scenius Spot has landed in South America for the first time and is dubbed ‘fixture of choice’ by prolific lighting designer Mario Raez in the Peruvian staging of jukebox classic Mamma Mia at the Teatro Peruano Japones in Lima. Raez is the first lighting designer in South America to put the Scenius Spot through its paces, employing six of the units in his show.
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LOUISVILLE, KY— Held annually at the Galt House Hotel’s Grand Ballroom on on the eve of the Kentucky Derby, Unbridled Eve is a black tie-optional event which offers live performances along with a VIP cocktail reception and dinner. The 2016 event featured performances by Robin Thicke, John Elefante, Dennis DeYoung, JD Shelburne and Wynonna Judd.
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LAS VEGAS – Along with a 10,000-square-foot tent devoted to the sale of fireworks, the Moapa Paiute Travel Plaza offers 4th of July pyro enthusiasts an open space in the desert where they can ignite their purchases and light up the night sky. This year, the two-day Moapa Madness Festival offered a stage with live music as well. LD Steven Brody used 16 Q-Wash 419Z RGBW LED washes from Chauvet Professional LED fixtures. Kilroy’s Lighting & Production supplied the gear.
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CHICAGO – NanoLumens worked with DIRTT Environmental Solutions on its Green Learning Center (GLC) in Chicago, which now features the first NanoSlim Engage 1.8mm ‘digital wallpaper’ display embedded into a DIRTT-designed wall.
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SOUTHHAMPTON, U.K. – Ovation of the Seas took its maiden voyage in April as the third Quantum class luxury cruise liner from Royal Caribbean International to feature an onboard Elation Professional lighting and video system. It follows the successful launch of Quantum of the Seas and Anthem of the Seas, both of which sail with a full complement of energy-efficient Elation Professional products.
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Since the joining the Laserworld Group in the beginning of 2016, a lot of development has happened at tarm: Not only have several new laser systems been developed and published, but their processes have been streamlined and optimized. With the launch of their new website, tarm clearly focuses their core products and services. The products section provides technical details on the new show laser systems and the laser show section provides details on the laser show services tarm and partners within the Laserworld Group can offer.
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WROCLAW, Poland – Wroclaw, Poland continues to celebrate its role as one of the European Capitals of Culture for 2016 with Spanish Night with Carmen – Zarzuela Show at the Wroclaw Stadium. The spectacle featured fragments of Bizet’s iconic opera, Carmen, presented in the tradition of the Spanish popular opera. Carmen was performed by about 500 artists, including an orchestra, ballet, choir and Wroclaw Opera soloists plus vocal and dance groups from other parts of Poland.
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LAS VEGAS – Belgium based automations, engineering and scenic construction specialist WIcreations was asked by staging experts StageCo, working for Insomniac the production company, to produce key scenic elements of the circuitGROUNDS stage at the 2016 Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) dance extravaganza. The event was staged at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and attracting around 450,000 people over three days with a stellar line-up of the best DJs embracing multiple musical genres.
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COLUMBUS, OH – The 2016 annual high school graduation ceremony for the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT), an online public community school, was staged at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, OH, where close to 12,000 people watched more than 1,300 students graduate. Zachary Durban lit the event with 80 Robe BMFL WashBeams and 28 Pointes supplied by Loud and Clear, a lighting and audio rental company based in the Cincinnati area.
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