FOR-A’s HVS-100 Express will be featured at NAB 2017 in booth C5117. The HVS-100 Express is part of the company’s offerings which will be featured at the show. It expands the company’s 1 M/E HVS-100 video switcher series.
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ST. LOUIS, MO — Chauvet Professional featured its Ovation E-260WW white light and Ovation E-910FC full color LED fixtures in the spotlight at the recent USITT conference and expo in St. Louis, MO. The company reported record crowds at its booth during the 2017 event.
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FALCON, MO — Le Maitre noted the opening of a facility in rural Missouri where it will be making pyrotechnics and special effects including 150’ and 200’ Comets, as well as Flames and Gun Shot products. The U.S. facility expands on the company’s U.K.-based manufacturing operations.
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MAASTRICHT, The Netherlands – Nearly 100 Claypaky Sharpys were used for an eight-hour light show to 2,000 partygoers at an underground club hosted by Dutch techno music agency Claydrum at Complex nightclub, Maastricht for New Year’s Eve. Dutch production designer Joël Lemmerling, from Maastricht-based production company, Stöd, selected 96 of the multi-award winning Sharpy fixtures to create a fastidious design formulated by gridded white, colored and UV light beams and clever manipulation of angles.
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ABU DHABI, UAE — The 2017 International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) took place in Abu Dhabi Feb. 19-23, including an elaborate combination of musical and military spectacles with a performance stage measuring 250 by 60 meters used for a dramatic portrayal of live combat. Protec and various subcontractors supported the event for a third time.
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LIVERPOOL, U.K. – Adlib continues its work with top comedians having just supplied full production – sound, lighting and video – for Jack Whitehall’s sold out, three week ‘At Large’ UK arena tour. The Liverpool based company was delighted to be on the road with one of the UK’s most exciting and successful talents having previously supplied production for his ground-breaking 2014 arena tour which was staged in the round.
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KANNOT JUNCTION, Israel — The wedding industry in Israel is a highly competitive sector with rivalry among the top venues to offer the best facilities, making good technical production in the main reception rooms an absolute key to ensuring each event is trending. So when Nesher Edri launched his new enterprise Lara, he specified 60 Robe VIVA LED spots. For this venture he has used his experience, knowledge and enthusiasm from running another leading wedding venue, Signal – where he originally started as the sound and light jockey – to ensure LARA would be a premium choice for The Big Day.
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LD Bob Barnhart on the Long Path to Lighting the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Super Bowl LI took place in Houston on Feb. 5, 2017, and while the world will never really know if the halftime show’s patriotic themes gave the team from New England the edge they needed for their come-from-behind second half victory, the general consensus was that the show itself was a marvel.
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PLSN Checks In with the PMs Running the Top Tours of 2016.
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Three Industry Pros Define their Role on the Road
Road manager. Tour manager. Sometimes the titles are interchangeable. Above all, it means this: Make your artist happy. And make the show happen. Whatever it takes.
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PLSN caught a look at Twenty One Pilots’ ongoing “Emotional Roadshow” tour, the band’s biggest tour to date. With a design that started just two short years ago, playing in club/theater size venues, the band has grown to play to sold out arenas, and their design has grown with it. We spoke to production, lighting and set designer Daniel Slezinger and lighting director/co-designer Tyler “Shap” Shapard about the current trek.
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LD Kendall Clark Keeps the Beat on the EDM Duo’s “Spring Tour”
In 2015, the EDM track, “It’s Strange,” from Chicago-based EDM duo Louis the Child scored 10 million SoundCloud plays, spurred in part by a fortuitously timed shout-out from Taylor Swift.
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