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From left: Eduard Baró, Sales Manager, Martin Professional Iberia, Miguel Mezquita, Managing Director, Earpro, Fernando Moya, Key Account Manager, Martin Professional Iberia and Pere Castro, Business Corporate Manager, Earpro

Martin Names Earpro Distributor for Lighting Products in Spain

BARCELONA, Spain — Harman’s Martin Professional named Earpro, based here, as its distributor in Spain. Earpo, a member of Harman’s distributor network for audio products since 1988, will work to expand the sales and distribution of Martin Professional products in the Spanish entertainment lighting market. Pictured here, from left, are Harman and Earpro officials including Eduard Baro, Miguel Mezquita, Fernando Moya and Pere Castro.

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Stephen MacAurther, VAST lighting systems designer and engineer, steered the church toward Elation EPV762 video panels.

Sagebrush Community Church Installs 100 Elation EPV762 Video Panels

ALBUQUERQUE, NM — For a new worship center that is part of  Sagebrush Community Church, based here, church leaders turned to VAST Technologies, Inc. for a high resolution LED video screen. Stephen MacAurther, VAST lighting systems designer and engineer, steered the church toward Elation EPV762 video panels. The 100 panels are set up as two 50-panel walls, each measuring 10 by 5 feet (WxH).

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Elton John AIDs Foundation Oscars Party Gets Lighting Assist from 4Wall LA

Elton John AIDs Foundation Fundraiser Gets Lighting Assist from 4Wall LA

HOLLYWOOD PARK, CA — The 22nd annual Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) Academy Awards Viewing Party, which raised $5.1 million for the fight against AIDS, was lit with gear provided in part by 4Wall Los Angeles. The Viewing Party featured a 5-course dinner prepared by Chef Gordon Ramsay as well as a stage performance by singer / songwriter Ed Sheeran. The gear from 4Wall LA that was used to light the stage performance included ETC Source Four Lekos and Jarag Par 30 fixtures.

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Long Reach Long Riders held a raffle at USITT to benefit Behind the Scenes, a charity that helps behind the scenes workers struggling with hardships.

LRLR Raffle and Auction Raise Funds for BTS at USITT

FORT WORTH, TX — The Long Reach Long Riders celebrated their 11th ride with a raffle and live auction to benefit Behind the Scenes during the USITT Conference here in late March. Sales of raffle tickets, some key donations, and BTS and LRLR-branded swag raised just over $12,000 for the charity.

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Kevin Cauley selfie from a previous trek.

LD Kevin Cauley and Soundgarden

Tour Dates: The current leg includes the two broadcast shows at SXSW and a Lollapalooza run through South America at the end of March.

Design: It supports and emphasizes a mood where shadows delicately outweigh highlights. Vertical ladders left and right get the pretty light angles, and the video content supports a surreal theme. The show is based on a lighting design by Kille Knobel with production design by Justin Collie. It’s an eclectic mix right now, as these are a series of festival style shows, and luxuries you enjoy on a standard tour are not always available. Soundgarden music is a primal, distorted, haunting version of their own psychedelia. The task is to support and convey that mood no matter what rig I have to use.

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PLSN Editor Justin Lang

Finding Time to Work

The headline sounds nutty, right? “Finding Time to Work?” Don’t we already put in enough hours in the day to make our bosses happy? If you are on tour, in sales or a traveling man, a good part of your business is spent being outside of the office, being on site and, often, working out-of-pocket. Your typical “eight hour day” is spent nowhere near a computer and, most likely, away from paperwork. You know, those pesky pieces of paper or digital files that actually get us paid.

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