BARI, Italy – The Stadio San Nicola, a 58,000-capacity venue used most often for soccer games, recently hosted a Vasco Rossi rock concert organized by Live Nation Italy. Colin Luke, senior project manager at Oswestry, U.K.-based Load Cell Rental, was asked to supply a way of monitoring the stage weights during the build. Luke and Load Cell Rental supplied a 20 cell BroadWeigh system.
Read More »JAKARTA, Indonesia — Cinema 21 Group, a long-term partner of Barco in Indonesia, has equipped its auditorium with Barco’s 6P Flagship Laser cinema projector for large screens (DP4K-60L). The installation was a first step in preparation of a more extensive rollout across the group’s halls and theaters.
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LONDON – Blackout continued its longstanding relationship with Somerset House, supplying rigging and drapes for this year’s Summer Series and Film4 Summer Screen events in July and August 2015. Blackout worked alongside production manager Jon Howes, within a team of contractors, who year on year collaborate with the venue’s management and sponsors. The team work to facilitate both events and aid Somerset House’s transformation into an iconic concert setting and then an open air cinema.
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BREWSTER, MA – Lighting designer Herrick Goldman recently designed Evita at the Cape Rep Theatre and turned to Elation Professional’s Platinum Profile 35 Pro moving head light to create the compelling mood lighting. Herrick and his associate Susan Nicholson designed both the lighting and the projections for the critically acclaimed production, which is directed by William Roudebush with scenery by James Dardenne.
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SYDNEY – Jands Venue Engineering (JVE) and event AV services provider, Staging Connections, worked together on a staging solution for Westin Hotel in the center of the city.
OMAHA, NE – Lighting and visuals designer Fenton Williams and co-LD / programmer Aaron Stinebrink again collaborated to produce a new production design – incorporating lighting, set and video – for the current Dave Matthews Band (DMB) U.S. summer tour. For the first time, they specified Robe’s BMFL Spot fixtures, 22 of which are being supplied by the tour’s lighting vendor, Theatrical Media Services (TMS) from Omaha, Nebraska.
Read More »PESA will demo its new Cheetah Flex hybrid routing environment and integrated NewTek routing solution at IBC2015 (Stand 8.E47), which runs Sept. 11-15 at Amsterdam RAI.
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EDINBURGH – The latest AniMotion live painting, digital art and music show is being presented by Aurora Nova at George Herriot’s School as part of the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The power of original painting created in real-time and projected onto architecture accompanied by live music is a collaboration between projection artist Ross Ashton, percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and visual artist and painter Maria Rud.
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CHARLOTTE, NC – For Toby Keith’s 2015 ‘Good Times and Pick Up Lines’ tour, which runs from May 29-Sept. 26, production designers Seth Jackson and Elizabeth O’Keefe (TPI, St. Louis) used Chauvet Professional Legend 230SR Beams supplied by Bandit Lites to light a series of pantographs to give the production a sleek, high-tech look.
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HUNTINGDON, U.K. – Colour Sound Experiment continued its frenetic 2015 summer festival season supplying lighting to 12 major stages, 24 smaller performance areas and 8 bars at the 2015 Secret Garden Party (SGP) event staged in Abbots Ripton near Huntingdon, UK. Colour Sound’s crew of 22 were chiefed by James Hinde and Alex Ryan. Robe, Clay Paky, SGM, Chauvet and other fixtures were controlled with Avolites consoles. Colour Sound also provided its own Green Hippo controlled BT-6 6 mm LED screens for the festival.
LOS ANGELES – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. promoted Ryan Hindinger to director of sales logistics, a new position. Hindinger, a 2006 graduate of Loyola College in Maryland with a B.A. in English Literature and Theater, began his career in sales with A.C.T Lighting in 2007.
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