FORT WORTH, TX — In the new headquarters of Bell Helicopter a convex video wall greets visitors in the main lobby. The screen, measuring 8.4 square meters, is made from 48 omniSHAPES from eyevis. It displays 8192 x 4608 pixels and is able to be seen clearly despite the area’s ambient light.
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BRISTOL, U.K. — Bristol based lighting and video rental specialist Fineline enjoyed another ‘Sessions’ season at the Eden Project in Cornwall, providing production lighting, LED screen, trussing and rigging for the 2015 Eden Sessions – seven high profile concerts with a diverse line up including Elton John (2 shows), Paolo Nutini, Paloma Faith, Motorhead (pictured here), The Stranglers, Spandau Ballet and Ben Howard.
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NEW YORK – NY CityFest with evangelist Luis Palau featured a free outdoor concert held July 11 on Central Park’s Great Lawn. Gordon Painter and Kevin Shaw designed the show visuals, which included 280 EPT6IP panels from Elation. Boston-based Audio Spectrum provided the screens and staging, with a sub-rental assist from Elation dealer Gemini Light, Sound & Video.
Read More »MUNICH, Germany – Astera has partnered with Kaiser Showtechnik GmbH as a stocking dealer for Astera’s wireless event lights in Germany. Kaiser, based in Augsburg, Bavaria, will assist end users throughout Germany.
Read More »LOS ANGELES – Zylight, a manufacturer of innovative LED lighting solutions, named BLV as its exclusive distributor in Germany and Austria.
Read More »TORRANCE, CA – Luminit LLC, a privately held high technology company specializing in custom and standard holographic light shaping diffusers, announced that its propriety Light Shaping Diffusers (LSDs) have been added to Optis’ SPEOS optical modeling and simulation library.
Read More »LOS ANGELES –Christie is participating in an Emerging Technologies demonstration displaying its latest digital “sandbox.” Attendees will also see Christie projection technology in action across the conference, including lighting up BARTKRESA Design’s Shogyo Muyo 360-degree projection mapping installation.
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LAUREL, MD — Over the last eight months, X-Laser USA has worked to engineer new products that make more possible with less. “Less,” in this case, is the removal of vertical scanning via the Y-Axis in their newly released Aurora laser projectors. Contrary to conventional thinking, removing vertical scanning actually creates the best, brightest and safest version of a “liquid sky machine.” The new Aurora 4C and Aurora 4G models give users the ability to simply and easily make stunning “liquid sky” effects on a flat plane.
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COLOGNE – make.tv is driving the revolution toward cloud-based TV production further forward with its latest development, make.tv ACQUIRE. The new plugin enables third-party solution providers to integrate the functions of the make.tv Live Video Cloud into their own applications. As part of this development, make.tv is pleased to announce that Avid® has certified the integration of the make.tv ACQUIRE plugin within the Avid MediaCentral™ Platform ecosystem, using the Avid Connectivity Toolkit.
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NEW YORK – It’s summer in the city and New Yorkers are celebrating at “Midsummer Night Swing” (pictured here) and “Lincoln Center Out of Doors.” WorldStage is providing lighting support for lighting designer Andrew Grant at the two annual festivals held in Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. WorldStage was awarded the big summer package after supporting a number of Lincoln Center events earlier this year.
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LONDON – On July 22-23, 2015, British electronic musician Goldie and the Heritage Orchestra performed Goldie’s 1995 album, Timeless, at the Royal Festival Hall in London. LD Richard Godin lit the event with gear provided by White Light.
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LONDON – Entec provided gear for Portishead’s summer shows. Entec first started working with Portishead through their previous lighting designer Tony Austin, who also originally asked current LD Niall Hannell to come on-board, initially as a programmer in April 2008. Niall took over as LD last year.
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