OSAKA, Japan – The Rock Star Hotel in Osaka City has built a full 4K broadcast workflow, which is built around three Blackmagic Studio Camera 4Ks and an ATEM Production Studio 4K, to stream live events from the hotel.
Read More »AARHUS, Denmark — Although the headquarters for its Martin lighting unit will remain in Aarhus, Harman International announced Aug. 5 that the production facility for Martin lighting products in Frederikshavn, Denmark will close and operations there will shift to Hungary. Martin’s smoke machine factory in the U.K. would not be affected by the relocation. Harman noted that the Frederikshavn factory will remain in operation for at least six months as the transition takes place.
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LONDON – Interest surrounding Avolites’ newest lighting console, the live control focused Arena, has been gathering momentum after a number of festival appearances, including at Somerset House’s Summer Series for acts including Angus & Julia Stone.
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LONDON – On 25 July 2015, the Tate Modern in London hosted a special one day event in their iconic Turbine Hall. As part of the Turbine Festival 2015, video designer, Icarus Wilson-Wright, was asked to transform the Turbine Hall with a new look for the event. To support this, he asked d3 Technologies, XL Video, and Barco to assist in realizing the project.
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KONYA, Turkey — The Konya Science Center, Turkey’s first large interactive institution dedicated to informal learning about science and technology, has added a gallery on human health with audio-visual equipment, installation and programming by Electrosonic.
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LOS ANGELES – Felix Lighting was called upon to provide gear for the kineticFIELD main stage at the 2015 Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) in Las Vegas, as well as the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara for the West Coast leg of the Grateful Dead’s landmark “Fare Thee Well” shows. The LA based lighting company invested in 60 of Robe’s BMFL moving lights – 48 BMFL Spots and 12 BMFL Blades – for their busy rental stock.
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LOS ANGELES – To combat theft, an epidemic that annually costs the motion picture/television industry millions, PLASA introduced RENTAL GUARD, an enhanced alert system and missing equipment database consisting of three distinct tools. The RENTAL GUARD Database and Notification Module allows anyone to report stolen equipment and receive notifications of recent thefts at no charge. Companies or individuals buying, selling or servicing equipment can quickly check serial numbers to determine if equipment has been reported missing or stolen.
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MIDDLETON, Wi. – How do you control a new frontier? The rise of LED luminaires is changing the way that lighting designers are able to think about color. As Source Four LED Series 2 and other luminaires increasingly replace gelled incandescent lights, rigs may be streamlined, but design opportunities and complexities grow exponentially. When any hue can be mixed at any moment and different LED mixes of the same color can achieve different onstage effects, designers and programmers may find themselves oversaturated with color choices.
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NASHVILLE, Tn. – More than 150,000 people turned out for what the city of Nashville hailed as the largest Fourth of July firework show in the country. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for Music City July 4th: Let Freedom Sing!, where Martina McBride, Missy Ekko and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra performed.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium — Jo Van den Wijngaerde, manager of Soundfield Productions, credited Rogue R2 Washes from Chauvet Professional for their role in complementing an immersive projected video installation called ‘Discover the Power of Light.’ Soundfield Productions collaborated on the project with B-Phot, the photonics research group of the Vrije Universiteit of Brussels (VUB).
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LOS ANGELES – Three MA Lighting dot2 XL-F consoles recently purchased by Strictly FX, the live special effects (SFX) company based in Wood Dale, Illinois, have been flying out the door since they arrived. The dot2s have been deployed on Luke Bryan’s concert tour, the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, “Dancing With The Stars” and more. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America.
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