ALGIERS, Algeria — LD David Seligmann-Forest of Paris based Lite4Life chose a lighting rig centering on 10 Robe DL4S LED profiles for MasterChef Algeria, which was recorded in a new purpose-built studio and former envelope factory in El Hamis, a suburb of Algiers.
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SUNRISE, FL — Chauvet & Sons LLC has acquired ChamSys Ltd., the U.K.-based designer and manufacturer of lighting controllers. ChamSys provides Chauvet with a strong presence in the controller market, complementing Chauvet’s lighting fixtures and LED video panels. ChamSys will continue to operate from its facility in Southampton, U.K., led by ChamSys founders Chris Kennedy and George McDuff, who will serve as managing directors, and sales director Tony Cameron.
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NYC – The Entertainment Technician Certification Program (ETCP) will launch a practice exam for the Portable Power Distribution Technician certification examination on April 1, 2017. The web-based practice exam will consist of fifty questions is available from that date forward for forty dollars at etcp.esta.org/practiceexams. Candidates should go to the “Candidates” link and then follow the menu to ETCP and choose this exam.
SUN VALLEY, CA – Following a number of successful field trials, GLP’s GT-1 hybrid fixture is now ready for official release and has begun shipping. Already proving hugely popular, the GT-1 is a true hybrid fixture, working as a Beam, Spot and Wash fixture with highest levels of performance. Incorporation of a new 440W Osram discharge lamp dramatically improves the output, while its high-quality optical system produces a beam that features an enormous 22:1 ratio zoom range from 3.5° to 57°.
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ROME – On the Italian TV special, Music!, a wide array of international celebrities shared the stories of the songs of their lives and gave their own live renditions of the tunes. STS Communication, d3’s new rental partner in Italy, provided technical resources for the show, including using d3 to projection map the large dome that topped the set. Music! aired on Italy’s Mediaset Canale 5 in primetime for three evenings in January with 4.6 million viewers per episode.
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NASHVILLE – Shaping Sound, a mash up of contemporary dancers, musical genres and dancing styles, has returned to the road with a new production with Shaping Sound: After the Curtain. Bandit Lites is once again providing the lighting package for the spectacle, which is under the artistic direction of Emmy Award winner Travis Wall and co-created with Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance and Kyle Robinson.
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SAN DIEGO – Most of the fans who turned up at The Holding Company to hear a St. Patrick’s Day concert by the popular Irish band The Fooks were appropriately dressed in green. They weren’t alone. The well-known Ocean Beach music venue was also adorned in brilliant emerald, thanks to some imaginative lighting by Matt Collier and a collection of fixtures from CHAUVET Professional and CHAUVET DJ.
TARTU, Estonia – The brand new Eesti Rahva Muuseum (Estonian National Museum) in Tartu has recently opened in a fabulous new single story state-of-the-art 350 metre long architectural masterpiece resembling a portion of a runway lifting upwards … built on the former Raadi Air Base just outside the cultural hub and second city of Tartu, and near to the site of the original Muuseum at Raadi Manor. Around 100 x Robe LED fixtures – a mix of DL4S Profiles, DL4X Spots, LEDBeam 1000s and CycFX 8s have been specified and supplied for the Muuseum’s three main performance, event and conference spaces.
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LOS ANGELES – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. continues its support of the educational community by providing students with new equipment used by lighting professionals worldwide. Most recently A.C.T Lighting supplied Claypaky fixtures and grandMA2 consoles to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of Claypaky fixtures and MA Lighting products in North America.
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NYC – Multi award-winning and Tony-nominated lighting designer Justin Townsend (The Humans, American Psycho, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) finds that he is using Elation Professional lights more and more since his first experience with them in 2013/2014 on the Broadway musical A Night with Janis Joplin. Currently, he is using Elation Satura Profile™ and Platinum Seven™ LED-based moving heads on the world premiere of Joan of Arc: Into the Fire, an exciting new Off-Broadway musical penned by David Byrne.
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