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ArKaos, White Light Team Up on Video Mapping Demo Using ArKaos MediaMaster PRO

At White Light’s Studio 15 training center, trainees got the chance to give video-mapping a try. Entitled Learn to Video Map Like a PRO! attendees of all levels of experience learned how easy it is to achieve complex projections quickly, trigger shows from a lighting desk and build a quick cue sequence using ArKaos MediaMaster PRO. Pictured here is ArKaos' MD Agnes Wojewoda with WL MD Bryan Raven

ArKaos, White Light Team Up on Video Mapping Demo Using ArKaos MediaMaster PRO

LONDON – At White Light’s Studio 15 training center, trainees got the chance to give video-mapping a try. Entitled Learn to Video Map Like a PRO! attendees of all levels of experience learned how easy it is to achieve complex projections quickly, trigger shows from a lighting desk and build a quick cue sequence using ArKaos MediaMaster PRO. Pictured here are ArKaos’ MD Agnes Wojewoda with White Light MD Bryan Raven.

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Lady Antebellum (c) Steve Jennings

Lady Antebellum “Wheels Up” Tour

Designer Paul “Arlo” Guthrie who set up Toss Film & Design back in 2002, a company that handles tour design, video and content, has kept busy lately. Along with the 2015 Van Halen tour design and recent Fleetwood Mac tour, Guthrie’s design on Lady Antebellum’s “Wheels Up” tour is his second outing with the band. His first collaboration with Lady A was their 2013 ‘Take Me Downtown” tour.

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At EDC Las Vegas last year, Laserworld provided 30 laser systems.

Laserworld Increases Presence in North America

Laserworld’s world is getting a bit bigger. Founded in 2007 in Switzerland, its array of products quickly dominated the European continent. More recently they have increased their visibility in the U.S., serving the laser needs of live event professionals from the modest DJ to the lighting designer of the largest concert tour act and producer of mega live events.

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(c) Ben Dickman

Steely Dan

Jon Pollak must be something of a mathematician, because he’s dealing with a lot of numbers. The first is Steely Dan’s band: There are 14 musicians to keep track of, and even on the typical big shed stage here on a not-too-hot July evening, that’s a crowded stage. Next, any given show’s set list comes from a master list of 70 tunes, all of which he has to be ready for.

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Thompson Square 'Trans Am' Video and Tour Lit with Elation

Thompson Square “Trans Am” Video and Tour Lit with Elation

NASHVILLE — Early in 2015, creative production design company 44 Designs (44designs.com) of Nashville, Tennessee, took on set and lighting design duties for country music duo Thompson Square’s new music video “Trans Am” and used Elation Cuepix Panels, Sniper 2R multi-effects and Platinum Beams in the visual design. The award-winning and multi-platinum group liked the look so much they decided to take it out on tour.

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David Cunningham at Brit Awards

Parnelli Profile: David Cunningham

David Cunningham will accept the 2015 Parnelli Visionary Award at the annual gala to be held at the Rio Hotel and Casino Oct. 24, in recognition of advances including the ETC Source Four fixture and advancements in lighting consoles and dimming.

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Hometown Heroes 2015

2015 Hometown Hero Finalists

Top Vote-Getters for Five U.S. Regions and Canada Honored for Taking Care of Business

PLSN readers have put the latest spotlight — scratch that — hybrid LED moving light — on who they think are the best of the best of their region when it comes to lighting, staging and video. We have some fresh faces and some “repeat offenders.”

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WONDER.D

DTS WONDER.D

DTS perhaps might not be familiar to many Americans, but the Italian company has been around since the 1980s when they started making domestic and commercial lighting and working with fiber optics. Today, they make a range of LED and arc-source fixtures for entertainment and architectural applications. The company’s WONDER.D enters the scene with a few tricks up its proverbial sleeve, including some unique and very interesting zoom effects.

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