BENSENVILLE, IL- ILC hosted its annual charity golf outing on July 21, with more than 60 golfers joined ILC’s staff, raising $10,000 for Behind the Scenes. Event sponsors included: Phillips Vari-Lite, A.C.T. Lighting, Ketra, High End Systems, Martin Professional, Elation Professional, Electronic Theater Controls, KSA Lighting, Lex Products, Navigator Systems, A.C. Lighting, Vistage Worldwide and Apollo Design Technology.
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NASHVILLE – Pennington Entertainment, led by industry veteran Shawn Pennington, announced a partnership with stage design and production company 44 Designs, headed by concert and event production pro Jeff “Lava” Lavallee.
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MANCHESTER, UK – The Lowry, a venue located in the Manchester area launched its first festival of arts, Week 53, from April 28 to May 8. The 11-day festival, which brought together contemporary dance, visual arts, music and theatre in interactive installations, exhibitions and performances, featured more than 200 international artists, and will be held annually for the next three years with a view to extend into the future. A recently purchased ATMe haze generator joined The Lowry’s 15-year old MDG Atmosphere unit.
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HONG KONG – Stage Tech Limited, a Hong Kong-based production company, has been using truss products from Milos for a variety of custom projects, fulfilling their stated promise to clients of “highlighting your ideas, enchanting your guests and making special occasions even more memorable.” In particular, they have used the Milos M400 range of truss for a variety of custom installations in public places within Hong Kong. Among their many creations is a hanging sculpture in Pacific Place shopping mall for its 25th Anniversary celebration and a hanging goat display at the PMQ Goat ARTventure exhibition gallery.
Chauvet Professional’s Strike 1, which follows the company’s launch for its Strike 4 multi format warm white fixture, is a single pod light that can be used anywhere as a blinder, strobe, wash and flood fixture. It uses a 230W warm white LED source for an even brighter and more intense output than each of the four pods within the Strike 4 unit (each of which are 100W). The Strike 1 is also rated for indoor and outdoor use.
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LAS VEGAS – Electric Daisy Carnival is one of the biggest electronic dance music festivals in the world. The June 2016 Las Vegas event generated more than 400,000 “turnstyle clicks” with attendance ranging from 130,000 to 135,000 for each of three nights starting on the evenings of June 17-19, 2016. The crowds were drawn with top EDM DJs, carnival rides, art and circus-style performances. Felix Lighting helped EDC celebrate its 20th anniversary (and sixth Las Vegas event) with a large complement of MDG fog generators, Clay Paky lighting fixtures and grandMA2 lighting consoles at its flagship Las Vegas Motor Speedway venue. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of the three brands in North America.
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Roland Pro A/V is introducing a new application for its XS-Series Matrix Switchers for use as high-quality, pixel-accurate cropping switcher/scalers for LED video walls. The XS-Series can switch eight HDMI or analog video inputs to up to four LED video walls, each with their own independent aspect ratio and scaling settings.
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Chauvet Professional’s Maverick series, including the MK2 Wash, MK1 Hybrid and MK2 Spot, Includes a W-DMX receiver card in every fixture as a standard feature.
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HUNTER, NY– At the Healy Hall Stage, one of three stages featuring live music during Mountain Jam, a festival held at the Hunter Mountain ski resort in June, LD Kyle Rose of KTR Lighting used Rogue R1 Spots from Chauvet Professional to light acts including The Movement, Upstate Rubdown, Madaila, Con Brio, Lettuce, and New Mastersounds.
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Blackmagic Design says its Blackmagic Duplicator 1.0.2 update will dramatically increase the performance of H.265 files on the latest playback devices. Since the Blackmagic Duplicator 4K was launched in April, new H.265 playback devices have been released and customers have also been providing feedback on the playback performance of the H.265 files. This feedback has been used to improve the codec in the Blackmagic Duplicator 4K, and this software update provides these improvements to all Blackmagic Duplicator 4K customers.
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GRONAU, Germany – Veteran rocker Udo Lindenberg didn’t panic as his 70th birthday approached on May 17. Instead, he prepared for his Keine Panik (No Panic) tour, which also features dancers, jugglers, acrobats, a UFO, a giant pink piano, a Russian empress, a houseboy, a children’s choir, biopic clips, various movies and so on … not to mention a jam-packed set list with over 30 songs. LD Günter Jäckle lit the 16 concerts in venues ranging from stadiums to mega-halls, using a rig that included GLP Impression X4 Bar fixtures.
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DORTMUND, Germany – The Reggae Summer Festival brought the sound of Jamaica to Revierpark Wischlingen in Dortmund, Germany. Simon Sonnenschmidt lit up the Dancehall Soundsystem Arena with three Clay Paky Sharpys, four Spheriscans and four Supersharpys, using a dot2 core plus and dot2 F-wing for control.
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