LISLE, IL — John Featherstone of Lightswitch specified 28 Clay Paky Sharpys for Illumination: The Lights at The Morton Arboretum, a lighting installation that brought bare trees in winter alive with luminous color. The fixtures, in Igloo domes, were programmed on grandMA consoles for the display, featured during the 2013/2014 holiday season.
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SYDNEY — A March 1 performance by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard at the Secret Garden Music Festival here was cut short when a roof element fell to the stage. Reports cited damage from heavy rains that had hit the area prior to the performance as the probable cause. The performance area, one of the festival’s main stages, was shut down.
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CHANDLER, AZ — Arizona State University (ASU), in cooperation with the Event Safety Alliance (ESA), is offering the first 10- and 30-hour OSHA Construction Industry Outreach courses tailored to the live event and special event industry. The inaugural session is set for March 26-27 at the ASU Chandler Innovation Center here.
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KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites named Andrew Fisher senior systems integrator. Prior to Bandit Lites, Fisher served as national sales manager for The Light Source, focusing on their LED product line. At Bandit, Fisher will be assisting with system specification sales, system integrations, and providing client solutions alongside Chris Barbee, Bandit’s global director of sales.
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AUSTIN, TX – Football reigns supreme in Texas, and college football fans can be a discerning group. To achieve optimal broadcast lighting, The Longhorn Network’s LD Walter Olden turned to Prism Projection’s RevEAL line of LED lighting instruments including the Studio fresnel and Prism RevEAL Profile Junior ellipsoidal.
LAS VEGAS – PixMob Video was used for the first time outside of the Super Bowl by Tiësto as part of his residency at Hakkasan Las Vegas. Some 2,500 Tiësto fans wore LED wristbands generating wireless video effects in sync with his music on Feb. 28. Pulsating with light as one organism, the crowd served as a part of Tiësto’s visuals. The technology will return as part of the show’s visual design during the DJ’s other shows at Hakkasan this year.
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The Designers Lighting Forum of New England (DLFNE) is pleased to announce lighting industry leaders Keith Bradshaw and Dr. John Curran will be speaking at the 2014 BOSTON LIGHTS Exposition on September 18th.
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The power of over 200 Clay Paky fixtures was employed to light the first-ever Turkvision Song Contest 2013 in an impressive lighting display that has been dubbed the ‘temple of light.’ To create a powerful and punchy colour scheme Klein and his team utilized the Clay Paky fixtures in a layered effect, building up the shows texture and intense of colour through the various beam outputs achievable with the Clay Paky fixtures. “We had to use light as a structure,” explained LD Eran Klein, “The show is a multi-national televised event and we wanted to find an abstract way to symbolise togetherness so we created the on-stage ‘temple of light’.”
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In South Africa, school’s out and it’s time to party for the next two weeks. The 4U Rage Festival marks the end of the school year, and an estimated 80,000 kids will visit the resort town of Balito to celebrate. Hirezone supplied the lighting for the main dance floor at the Sound Factory in Balito which included two 6m Prolyte H30v Circles and Clay Paky Sharpies. “This was an opportunity to play with a massive rig on consecutive nights to packed houses and some of the best music on offer,” said LD Bradley Bruchhausen. “The ClayPaky Sharpies are awesome fixtures – they make any stage look epic.”
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The first full production tour by trip hop trio London Grammar featured a new GoldPix 77 LED surface. This is a 500 X 500 mm panel populated with 7 x 7 warm white LEDs with very narrow beam optics, which is incredibly light, robustly built and ideal for touring and making a high visual impact. The tour’s stylish and off-beat visual design was created by Steve Bewley, who rose to the challenge of producing a scalable and flexible rig that would look good wherever they played.
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