RENTON, WA – LMG, a national provider of video, audio, lighting and LED support, has opened an office and warehouse in the Seattle, WA area. The company’s other locations operate out of Las Vegas, Nashville, Dallas, Detroit, and the headquarters in Orlando. LMG has hired industry veteran Mark Allen, pictured here, as the Seattle location’s general manager.
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Flex Rental Solutions released version 4.16.3 of the company’s flagship web-based rental management software during the first week of May. This is the fourth major (and fifth total) software release by the company since the start of 2016. This newest release includes several new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes.
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SKB just introduced their new 3RS Series 30″ Deep Shock Rack Transport Cases. And Canyonwest Cases is making them available to the military and commercial companies needing indestructible cases to transport sensitive electronic equipment.
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MOONACHIE, NY – 4Wall New York will once again open its doors to the public May 19 at 3 p.m. for the annual 4Wall Vendor Showcase and BBQ event. Attendance is free to the public, as is the food, which has become almost as anticipated as the lighting products.
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CHICAGO – The 81st NFL Draft returned to the Second City’s Grant Park to create Draft Town, a 900,000 square foot mini metropolis. C3 Presents commissioned Bandit Lites to provide lighting, crew and logistics for more than a dozen areas of Draft Town, including the NFL Autograph Stage, NFL Photo Op Stage, The Ferris Wheel, The NFL Lombardi Trophy, The NFL Museum, The NFL Draft Tavern, site lighting, two SL-100 stages, The Draft Town Entrance, The Buckingham Fountain and the outside of the Selection Square structure.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Ampere, a Cape Town-based rental and technical production company, invested in Robe Pointe moving lights, adding eight fixtures to their rental inventory. The crew is pictured here with the new Robe fixtures.
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LAS VEGAS AAdyn Technology, LLC (AAdynTech) added two industry veterans to its sales team, naming Joey Amman Western Regional Sales Manager and Joe Boda Eastern Regional Sales Manager. AAdynTech supplies LED lighting fixtures to the film, television, and mobile production industries.
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d3 Technologies announced r13, the company’s latest software release. r13 has a mix of new and improved features including a new user interface and new HMSF timeline designed to enhance workflow. Other improvements were made to the software’s matrix control and time code readout module, and there is an upgraded web module as well.
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ANTWERP, Belgium – A show design team from Painting with Light, led by Luc Peumans, delivered the set, video and lighting that helped present a live version of Belgian comedy TV show Tegen De Sterren Op (Against the Stars) at Antwerp Sportpalais. Two of the live shows were staged.
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DoPchoice has redesigned the classic softbox into the quick-deploying Snapbag, a lightweight, elegant solution for LED lights. Softboxes have become popular with LED lights to soften the light emitted and give DPs and gaffers more control. But the classic softbox becomes a project each time it has to be deployed and re-stored due to its complicated assembly.
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X-Laser’s Skywriter HPX Tour, a five-watt RGB laser system, promises to create stunning laser beams and graphics displays at a competitive price point.
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LOS ANGELES – For a well-received production of Madame Butterfly that was staged at the 3,000-plus capacity Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at Los Angeles this spring, lighting designer Rick Fisher used GLP’s impression X4 Bar 20 battens. Fisher had lit the same opera before, in 2010, at the Santa Fe Opera. The Los Angeles production, however, was in a significantly bigger venue. The fixtures helped him scale up the production to meet the needs of the larger space.
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