BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Beverly Hilton’s AquaStar Pool now features a lighting update featuring Chauvet Professional and Iluminarc fixtures installed by AMP’D Entertainment. Owner Arteen Kharrat and his team provided Ovation E910-FC and Colorist Pod 7Qa RGBA fixtures along with 22 Ovation E910-FC units and 24 Colorist fixtures for the pool area.
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MIAMI – DMDs7udios has been relying upon Avolites Ai media servers to tackle projects ranging from the inside of a DJ-fueled dance party to the outside of a major new museum. The company has deployed Ai S8 and R8 media servers on a number of recent projects that underscore Ai’s power and flexibility. Pictured here are the Billboard Latin Music Awards, staged in late April, where DMDs7udios principal Scott Chmielewski oversaw media screen direction, programming, content, and media server services for a complex set design by Telemundo’s Scenery Department.
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KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites named Kathy Tanner (pictured here) senior payroll adminsitrator and promoted Shay Simpson controller. Tanner comes to Bandit from the Oak Ridge Housing Authority, where she served as office manager. As controller, Simpson will oversee the company’s accounting operations.
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CLEVELAND, OH – For the 2016 Republican National Convention, which took place July 18–21 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, LD David Grill and lighting director Paul Sonnleitner used a rig that included Clay Paky Mythos lighting fixtures and grandMA2 consoles for control. The elephant in the room, so to speak, was the video backdrop (it was HUGE). That meant the lighting truss had to be 85 feet in the air, requiring fixtures that could perform well with a 120-foot throw distance and 65 foot candles of white light on the floor. PRG provided Grill with 68 Clay Paky Mythos for effects lighting. Clay Paky and grandMA products are distributed by A.C.T Lighting.
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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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