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Robe Fixtures Light Gavin Degraw and Matt Nathanson Tour

Robe Fixtures Light Gavin Degraw and Matt Nathanson Tour

Robe Fixtures Light Gavin Degraw and Matt Nathanson Tour

LOS ANGELES – When LD Brock Hogan designed lighting for the recent co-headlining Matt Nathanson and Gavin Degraw tour, he specified Robe ROBIN LEDWash 600s as the main stage washes. For Gavin Degraw’s performance, the LEDWashes and other fixtures could be used as impressive beam effects. Although it meant more challenging conditions for lighting, restricting the smoke helped guarantee that both artists had a completely different aesthetic for their respective performances … while sharing the same lighting rig.

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London Production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” Lit with Showline SL Bar 640s

LONDON – Lighting designer Jon Clark has specified Showline’s SL Bar 640 luminaries production of A Streetcar Named Desire at The Young Vic. “The SL BAR 640 luminaires allow us to achieve a deep and intense color saturation,” notes Clark. “The range of colors the units can accurately reproduce is impressive; from dirty, sickly yellows and greens to deeply saturated reds and low frequency blues.”

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Patrick Rizzotti

Set Designer Patrick Rizzotti to Visit USITT’s PLASA Booth on Oct. 6

LONDON – Patrick Rizzotti will give a presentation on his set designs at USITT’s PLASA booth at London’s ExCeL Center, Stand R42, on Oct. 6. Rizzotti won USITT’s 2014 Scene Design Award, which is sponsored by Rose Brand. USITT Executive Director David Grindle and several USITT officers and staff also will be at the show promoting USITT programs and the Annual Conference & Stage Expo. Rizzotti was among 11 Young Designers & Technicians honored at USITT 2014 in Fort Worth, Texas, last March.

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W-DMX Coordinates Art Cars at Burning Man

PERSHING COUNTY, NV – Art cars are a favorite feature of the annual Burning Man festival, and W-DMX made it possible for a series of art cars, bedazzled in light, to move through the festival with control coming from a moving stage. Ryan Tucknott of Walter Productions explained, “We transmitted the DMX signal and received it on all of our vehicles using 8db high-gain antennas. The system worked flawlessly last year with our four vehicles so we added to the fleet this year.”

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WorldStage Provides Lighting, Audio Support for “Dive” Artwork in NYC Tunnel

WorldStage Provides Lighting, Audio Support for “Dive” Artwork in NYC Tunnel

NEW YORK – New York City’s Summer Streets 2014 arts festival once again turned Manhattan’s Park Avenue pedestrian tunnel into an immersive art experience with help from WorldStage, which provided audio and lighting support for Norwegian artist’s Jana Winderen’s sound installation, “Dive.” Lighting fixtures included 100 Color Kinetics Color Blasts and 100 Astera wireless LED PARs, which supplemented 30 high-output LED fixtures and 12 high-output sodium fixtures – the regular tunnel lighting – that were gelled to match the WorldStage units.

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French Monastery Lit with Elation TVL 3000 White Light LED Fixtures

French Monastery Lit with Elation TVL 3000 White Light LED Fixtures

NORMANDY, France – The Abbey of Saint Wandrille here sought to improve the church’s indoor lighting with more state-of-the-art illumination, but as silence plays a central role in the Benedictine tradition, absolute silence was a must. Thirty-five Elation TVL 3000 fixtures are mounted on a series of oak beams along the nave of the church, each fixture drawing a low 72W of power and using silent convection cooling technology to eliminate fan noise.

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival Production Rigs Include Robe Fixtures. Photo by Louise Stickland

Edinburgh Fringe Festival Production Rigs Include Robe Fixtures

EDINBURGH , Scotland – Robe moving lights were used throughout the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Pleasance, a collection of performance spaces featuring numerous productions each day, relied upon a total of 46 of Robe’s fixtures, including a mix of Pointes, 600E Spots, MMX Spots, MMX WashBeams, MMX Blades and LEDWash 600s. The 750-seat Pleasance Grand was used to stage the elaborate production ofThis is Brazil. That show’s rig included 10 LEDWash 600s, six MMX Blades and six MMX WashBeams.

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In Memoriam: Kraig 'Bundy' Boyd, 49

In Memoriam: Kraig “Bundy” Boyd, 49

PORT HUENEME, CA — Kraig “Bundy” Boyd, whose long career in video and lighting production included shows featuring Rolling Stones, Kenny Chesney, Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond and Janet Jackson, among many others, died July 10, 2015. Services were held July 18 at Lane Funeral Home in Niagara Falls, NY. Video production company Screenworks held a memorial in Boyd’s honor in Camarillo, CA on Aug. 23, 2015.

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MDG Names New Distributors for U.K., Middle East

LONDON — MDG Fog Ltd has appointed two new distributors for its range of fog and haze generators. Effective Oct. 1, MDGfog UK, a trading division of Robe UK Ltd, will take responsibility for the exclusive distribution of the full MDG product range in the UK and Ireland. This new division will be headed by Matt Wiseman, a well-known face in the UK entertainment industry who brings 20 years of experience to the role.

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The Street at Pacific Quay on Referendum Night, illuminated with SGM P-5s

Events Related to Scottish Independence Referendum Lit with SGM P-5 Fixtures

GLASGOW, Scotland — Two TV rental specialists — one operating in London and one in Glasgow — pooled their respective SGM inventories recently during the recent Scottish Independence Referendum. With most of the broadcast activity centered on Glasgow, Tony Kennedy’s Teknique Systems, having purchased 12 SGM P-5 Washlights from SGM UK, joined forces with Richard Martin Lighting (RML) to provide lighting infrastructure in two very different venues.

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