LONDON – PLASA Show 2015 is just a few days away, but the organizers are working right up to the wire to bring in the best speakers for the PLASA Professional Development Program. Four new sessions have just been announced, respectively addressing lighting, sound and video.
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LOS ANGELES – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. named Aaron Hubbard as the company’s new sales person for the Western Region. Hubbard was most recently Director of Business Development for Clearwing Productions, based in their Milwaukee office.
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SUN VALLEY, CA – October will mark one of GLP’s busiest periods ever — on both sides of the Atlantic — as the German company and its U.S. subsidiary sets out for trade shows in London and Las Vegas.
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LONDON – Lighting designer Ed Warren is using a large number of newly developed LED PAR can frames from LED design and manufacture house Light Initiative (LI) to add an extra punch to his design for Mumford & Sons’ world tour and headline festival dates.
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NASHVILLE – More than 2,500 people attended Nashville’s third annual Music City Food + Wine Festival. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the festival, which took place Sept. 19 and 20. Following a survey of the site, Bandit Vice President Mike Golden and Project Manager Shawn Lear recommended a circle truss as an architectural focal point, using lights to create the appearance of festoons. Clay Paky Sharpys lit the tops of the tents around the grounds, while GRNLite Pars and VL 3500 Washes provided general color wash of the audience.
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UK – For Steve Angello’s show at the Size Matters arena at Creamfields 2015, lighting designer Jon Trincas worked with an upstage wall of light coming from 48 Robe PATT 2013 luminaires.
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UK – For Eric Prydz’s EDM set at his own ‘Pryda’ stage at Creamfields this year, Avolites Ai servers and an Arena console powered more than 100 light fixtures, including Clay Paky Sharpys, Robin LEDWash 600s, and various strobes, wash and blinders all supplied by Colour Sound Experiment.
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HAMBURG, Germany – The Frappant, an underground art gallery and artists residence in Hamburg’s Altona borough, was the site of a noted avant-garde exhibition “Der liebe Gott” (The Dear God). Among the pieces attracting the most attention during the 10-day event was light artist Boris Frentzel-Beyme’s “Deus luminogaster.” It makes use of carefully placed Freedom Pars from Chauvet DJ to make its powerful impression.
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NASHVILLE – For Gary Allan’s latest nationwide tour, lighting director and production manager Brandon Quisberg crafted visual looks using gear supplied by Elite Multimedia. Elite provided a full lighting package including Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpy and A.leda Wash K5 luminaires, along with Showline SL NITRO 510 strobes, Martin Atomic 3000 strobes, Chauvet SlimPAR HEX 6 LED PAR fixtures, and a GrandMA console for control.
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SANTIAGO, Chile – Light Initiative’s IntelliFlex and NeonFlex LED systems are visually keeping the beat on Blur’s current world tour, in a design by Dave Byars. Byars commissioned Light Initiative to create individually controllable RGB LED light boxes from its in-house-invented IntelliFlex LED system.
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