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Green Hippo Puts on the Red Lights at 2017 Polar Music Prize Ceremony

Green Hippo Puts on the Red Lights at 2017 Polar Music Prize Ceremony

[caption id="attachment_278355" align="alignnone" width="800"]The Polar Prize Award Show in Stockholm uses Green Hippo[/caption]

STOCKHOLM – Swedish lighting designer Per Sundin relies on Hippotizer Media Servers to impress at prestigious annual music prize event held in the Stockholm Concert Hall. The Polar Music Prize is recognized as one of music’s most prestigious international honors and this year’s ceremony saw Hippotizer Media Servers playing a key part in Sundin Designers Sweden’s lighting and image display for the show.

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Lighting The Starboy

[caption id="attachment_278352" align="alignnone" width="800"]Robe makes an appearance in StarBoy[/caption]

EUROPE – Canadian singer / songwriter The Weeknd is currently rocking plenty of style and enjoying success, critical acclaim, multiple awards and several hits from his chart-topping third studio album ‘Starboy’ …. propelling him a long way from his underground roots and early anonymous mixtapes uploaded to You Tube in 2010. Lighting for 2017’s ‘Starboy Legend of the Fall’ tour has been designed by Sooner Routhier who picked Robe Spikie moving lights together with BMFL Spots and WashBeams to be at the heart of the rig.

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MDG ATMe Generates Drama for RADA

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MANCHESTER, UK – MDG was happy to see the students of London’s premier drama school, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), taking full advantage of the capabilities of one of its ATMe haze generators during their recent production of Rona Munro’s Scuttlers.

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Hometown Heroe Nominations for 2018 Awards Now Underway

Nominations Underway for Parnelli Hometown Hero Awards!

ANAHEIM, CA – Each year, PLSN honors regional lighting companies with our Hometown Hero awards. These awards honor the best small companies in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest and Canada. PLSN readers – the people who actually work with these companies – get to decide who’s really the best. We are looking for your ideas on the best regional lighting production company in the U.S. and Canada. Let us know your faves (and, yes, you can nominate your own company).

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Ai Media Servers Are A ‘Dream’ For Coldplay At Global Citizen 2017 Event

[caption id="attachment_278339" align="alignnone" width="800"]Coldplay at Global Citizen 2017 event[/caption]

HAMBURG, GERMANY: Knight of illumination award-winning video designer Ben Miles has praised the Avolites Ai R6 media servers in their performance for festival opener Coldplay at the star-studded Global Citizen Festival in Hamburg, Germany, ahead of the annual G20 Summit. This year was the first time the event had been held in Europe – and featured performances by world-renowned superstars including Pharrell Williams, Shakira, Ellie Goulding, German superstars Herbert Gronemeyer and Andrea Bourani – all opened by multi-million selling British band Coldplay.

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Spring Dance Team Show in Texas Brightens with HES SolaSpot 2000s

[caption id="attachment_278336" align="alignnone" width="648"]Cavalettes get an assist from HES products[/caption]

AUSTIN, TX – For a recent collaboration with the Cavalettes Dance Team in Austin, TX, Lake Travis High School students Max Dalton and Trenton Schoonmaker used High End Systems SolaSpot 2000s to take the group’s production, Love, to a new artistic level. The technicians at the Lake Travis PAC are all students enrolled in the Technical Theatre program at Lake Travis High School, and are part of the LTHS Student Chapter of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology.

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Unite with Tomorrowland events took place this year in Dubai, Germany, Israel, Lebanon, Malta, South Korea, Spain and Taiwan.

Fire, Typhoon Cancel Tomorrowland’s Satellite EDM Events in Barcelona and Taiwan

BOOM, Belgium – Although the main Tomorrowland EDM event in Boom, Belgium once again drew crowds with top EDM artists performing over two weekends in July, the biggest spectacle generating international headlines in 2017 was the fire that engulfed the stage of a “mirror” event in Barcelona, Spain on July 29, forcing the evacuation of 22,000 attendees. A typhoon also forced the cancellation of a similar event in Taiwan.

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Latest Eos Family Software Unlocks Output Upgrades And Empowers Element

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MIDDLETON, WI – When Eos® family console users install software v2.6, they may find that their systems get a serious boost. As announced at CUE, ETC’s professional development conference, Eos v2.6 brings major upgrades for Element consoles, and improvements to Snapshots and other programming features. The release also marks a change in the way the console family handles output upgrades for both new and existing users.

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Amos Lee Tours With Bandit Lites

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – Amos Lee departed for his 2017 summer tour with both his sixth studio album, Spirit ̧ and a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites in tow. The singer- songwriter, known for his hybrid of blues, rock and folk sound has been bringing his smooth vocals to performances across the country, culminating in his first solo headline tour this fall. Bandit Lites provided Production Manager Drew Consalvo and Lighting Designer Tom Laveuf a package of over 75 fixtures for the tour, making sure to streamline the prep for the daily execution of shows by a single crew member.

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