The Other Left
Having fixtures all facing the same direction is key – not just for pan and tilt movement, but also for the default direction that color… Read More »The Other Left
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Chauvet Professional Maverick MK Pyxis Earns PLSN Gold Star Award for Best New Effects Light
LAS VEGAS – Chauvet Professional’s design team felt that they broke new ground earlier this fall when they introduced the multi-functional Maverick MK Pyxis, a new eye candy effect that can do double and triple duty as a wash or beam. Now they have a shiny new accolade to support this belief, as they earned the first-ever PLSN Gold Star Product Award for Best New Effects Light at this year’s LDI Show.
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Zenith Lighting Names Ben Coker Technical Manager
ORLANDO, FL – Zenith Lighting named LD Ben Coker technical manager. Coker, LD for Porter Robinson and others, has extensive experience in stage and event lighting, having worked his way up as a stagehand, shop laborer, master electrician and LD.
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For-A to Showcase New AV Gear at Government Video Expo
WASHINGTON, DC – For-A noted that it will highlight portable video switcher, video server, ClassX character generator and LTO video archiving recorder solutions at the 22nd annual Government Video Expo. FOR-A will exhibit in Booth 530 at the upcoming show, which takes place Nov. 29-30 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
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Fun Radio Ibiza Experience, EDM Event Staged at Accor Hotels Arena in Paris, Includes 200+ Ayrton Fixtures
PARIS – The Fun Radio Ibiza Experience, staged earlier this year, featured EDM artists including Robin Schultz, Nervo, Sam Feldt, W&W and headliners, Afrojack and Hardwell. Show director Romain Pissenem got an assist from Paris-based Ayrton in the form of more than 200 Ayrton lighting fixtures, including 100-plus MagicBlade-FX, 50 MagicPanel-FX and 50 MagicDot-XT fixtures.
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SGM Q-10
SGM’s IP65-rated Q-10, featured at LDI 2017 in Las Vegas, is a 60K lumen output RGBW LED luminaire that can function as a strobe, flood, pixel light and blinder with non-fading continuous output.
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Mojo Barriers Names New Budapest Distributor
BUDAPEST, Hungary – A range of Mojo Barriers aluminum crowd safety barriers are now based in Budapest with the announcement of a new Mojo distributor giving convenient, cost effective barrier rental for festival organizers and tours coming to Eastern Europe on Nov. 17, 2017.
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Robert Juliat’s Lancelots Rock in Rio
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RIO – Four Robert Juliat Lancelot 4K HTI followspots took pride of place front-of-house at Brazil’s Rock In Rio Festival this summer. Held over two weekends at the Cidade do Rock at Rio de Janeiro’s Parque Olímpico da Barra, this amazing festival saw headliners Aerosmith, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Bon Jovi, Maroon 5 and the Red Hot Chili Peppers play to over 700,000 during seven fantastic nights.
ER Productions sets new GUINNESS WORLD RECORD™ title for Largest Laser Show with 314-laser display at LDI
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LAS VEGAS – ER Productions has achieved the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the Largest Laser Show with a spectacular display at Live Design International (LDI) in Las Vegas. In celebration of its tenth anniversary, laser specialist ER Productions held the 30-minute laser showcase on 18th November that culminated in a seven-minute recording-breaking finale that incorporated 314 individual laser fixtures. An adjudicator from GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS was present to confirm the world record-breaking achievement.
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Robe Rocks LDI 2017
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LAS VEGAS – The 2017 LDI Show started on a high note for Robe Lighting, with the company’s new MegaPointe moving light awarded a 2017 PLSN Gold Star Product Award for “Best New Hybrid Light” – an auspicious start for what Robe North America CEO Bob Schacherl described as “our busiest and most energized LDI to date. The turnout of clients was amazing and validates our sales and marketing approach for the North American market.”
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Mountain Productions’ E-commerce Platform, MTN Shop, Launches in Europe
DUBLIN, Ireland – Mountain Productions, a leading North American supplier of staging and event production, continues to expand with the launch of their e-commerce website, MTN Shop, in Europe.
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Anna Valley First to Land Hippotizer + Media Server Range
LONDON, UK, – The new Hippotizer + range of Media Servers, launched at LDI today, brings a host of added benefits to the maker’s powerful machines, and the first UK outfit to take delivery of the latest models is Anna Valley. Anna Valley has provided both fixed installation and rental services to the event, retail, corporate and entertainment sectors in the UK for over 25 years.