ESTORIL, Portugal — For the rollout of Pirelli’s latest tire offerings, Newtonlab’s Lucio Ferreira turned to LD Giovanni Pinna for a lighting design assist. The event’s lighting, staged at the race track in Estoril, Portugal, included Clay Paky’s bright, sharp and quick Sharpy fixtures. Musical Box VR provided the gear.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA – At last month’s Cine Gear Expo Technical Awards, Chroma-Q’s new Space Force LED fixture got the nod in the Lighting Award category. The list of award-winners, which were selected by a panel of industry experts with an eye toward the latest in technology, were chosen after reviewing and evaluating nearly 100 of the newest technologies submitted and presented at this year’s Cine Gear Expo.
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SAN DIEGO — San Diego television station KUSI-TV has deployed five Z-HD6000 HDTV studio production cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. to enhance image quality and operational versatility for the broadcaster’s live news productions. When the first-generation HD cameras used in its news studio became time-consuming and costly to maintain, KUSI-TV Chief Engineer Fred Swift sought replacements that would also improve the visual quality of their news productions.
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WELLINGTON, NZ – When the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo came to the Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand in February 2016, production supplier, MJF Lighting decided the scale of the production warranted new followspots and invested in four Robert Juliat Merlin 2500W HMI followspots specifically for the spectacular show.
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PETERBOROUGH, U.K. – Key Theatre replaced its tungsten Fresnels with 36 energy-efficient Philips Selecon RAMA LED Fresnel luminaires to save on power and add functionality to the lighting system. The new fixtures were supplied and fitted by Stage Electrics, whose technical sales consultant, Andy Elsegood, recommended the RAMA LED Fresnels as a crisp, white LED solution for the theatre’s range of stage lighting requirements.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – Parklife, formerly known as The Parklife Weekender, is an independent music festival held annually in Manchester. This year’s event saw 140,000 people attend the two day festival held on June 11-12. dbn Lighting were back in Heaton Park, where they supplied lighting, rigging and LED screen to five out of the eight main performance areas – including the Main Stage, Stage 3 (The Rotunda), Stage 5 (Elrow), Stage 6 (The Colonnade) and Stage 8 which was hosted by two pumping club nights MTA and MK.
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SYDNEY — For Vivid Sydney 2016, the Star hotel and casino presented roof-mounted beams from 36 Clay Paky SuperSharpys, protecting each fixture from the elements with Clay Paky Igloos. Show Technology supplied the gear, with technical manager Mike Gearin working with Bruce Dwyer to put the system together. Thirty-six IP-rated ShowPro LED Flood EX36 were positioned between the Supersharpys for color wash.
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NYC – Jim Digby, a 30 plus year veteran of the entertainment industry has accepted an invitation to join the Behind the Scenes Foundation Board of Directors. Jim is the founder and Chairman of the Event Safety Alliance® and owner of Collaborative Endeavor Group (CEG), which provides international touring strategies and complete production solutions for the live entertainment industry. He currently serves as Director of Touring and Production for the multi-million selling artists Linkin Park, and has previously worked with artists as diverse as The Backstreet Boys, Bon Jovi, and Marilyn Manson, as well as winning Parnelli’s “Production Manager of the Year” award for 2012.
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PILTON, U.K. – The the lineup of folk/roots bands performing at the Glastonbury Festival’s Field of Avalon performance area, GLS Lighting provided a rig that included a collection of Rogue and Strike 4 fixtures from Chauvet Professional. The GLS team, headed by Wil Thomas and John Curtis, flew 12 Rogue R1 Beam, 8 Rogue R2 Wash and 8 Rogue R2 Beam fixtures on the upstage truss.
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Blizzard Lighting’s Lo-Pro CSI LED black light PAR fixture gets its ultraviolet light from 36 3-Watt 365nm UV LEDs. The fixture also offers designers two pixel patterns and a 15° beam angle. This black light can be controlled with either 1/2/3/4 or 5-channels of DMX and comes with built-in auto and sound active programs with variable electronic strobe and dimming capabilities. For additional UV coverage, users can link multiple units together with the fixture’s pass-through power option.
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LONDON – AV company Electrosonic named Steve Leyland executive chairman of the board. Leyland has been a non-executive director and advisor on the Electrosonic board since July 2015 and has worked for many leading global technology companies during his career. Philip Aminoff, who has served as chairman of the Electrosonic board for the last 14 years, remains a director of the board, and chairman of Electrosonic’s parent company Helectron Oy Ab.
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ARLINGTON, TX — A cappella group Pentatonix have been touring with a lighting design where Elation Professional’s compact ACL 360i beam effect light plays a key role. Production designer Sooner Routhier of SRae Productions used many of the fixture’s features for the Grammy-winning group. After their U.S. dates, Pentatonix toured Europe and are heading to Japan and Australia/New Zealand this summer. The band will resume touring the U.S. in October.
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