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Nationwide Video Opens New Location in Chicago

Nationwide Video Opens New Location in Chicago

DETROIT, MICHIGAN— Nationwide Video, is pleased to announce the opening of its newest major market location. Starting on February 15th, our Chicago location will be up and running, taking orders and ready to support clients in this key event city and its surrounding areas.  The expansion will offer event stagers in the Chicagoland area faster and more convenient access to our diverse inventory of Pro AV equipment including projection, LED, lighting, audio, cameras, digital displays, computers, monitors, switching and routing, media servicers and much more.

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Tom Celner Joins Morpheus Lights as Business Development Manager

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Morpheus Lights, the exclusive distributor of Ayrton LED luminaires in the US market, is pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Celner as Business Development Manager. Tom is based in Chicago, and will assist Morpheus’ sales and management team in expanding and diversifying our clientele.

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WorldStage Supports Massive 4K Video Mapping at Adobe MAX with Christie Boxer 4K Projectors

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NEW YORK – Billed as the world’s leading creativity conference, Adobe MAX 2016 drew more than 10,000 attendees, its biggest general session audience ever, to the San Diego Convention Center. A huge video display took center stage at Adobe MAX 2016 where WorldStage demonstrated its projection mapping expertise for the fifth consecutive year and for the first time in a full-4K environment.  The size and scale of the video mapping element significantly outpaced the previous year’s event where WorldStage’s Christie Boxer 4K projectors made their Adobe MAX debut.

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Nottingham’s Rock City Gets Visual Overhaul with Chauvet Professional

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NOTTINGHAM, UK – Since opening its doors in 1980, Nottingham’s 2,500-capacity Rock City has showcased some of biggest names in music. Last year, the iconic club won its 10th consecutive Kerrang! Award as Venue of the Year. However, even legends need to upgrade their visual presentation. Recognizing this, the club decided to upgrade its lighting system. To accomplish this, its lighting technician Mark Merry specified an array of CHAUVET Professional fixtures, including 24 PVP S5 LED panels, 12 Rogue RH1 Hybrid moving heads, and 8 COLORdash Batten-Quad 6 LED strips.

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Large Array of Claypaky Lighting Fixtures Hits the Road with Brantley Gilbert’s The Devil Don’t Sleep Tour

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LOS ANGELES – Country music star Brantley Gilbert has launched The Devil Don’t Sleep tour playing arenas in North America through early spring in the first leg. The tour supports Gilbert’s new album of the same name. Nathan Alves and Howard Jones co-designed the show, which features Claypaky Scenius, Mythos2, Sharpy and Stormy Strobe fixtures as well as grandMA2 light consoles.

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Dubai City Walk photo by Float4

Dubai’s City Walk Comes to Life with Immersive AV Assist from Float4 and XYZ Cultural Technology

DUBAI — Featuring what has been called the world’s largest multimedia experience within a retail setting, Dubai’s City Walk invites crowds into a 922,500-square-foot area animated with 33 video servers sending 100 million pixels of digital content. Montreal-based XYZ Cultural Technology says it not only served as a technological partner to content designers Float4 for the project, but also played a key role in coordinating the efforts from contractors arriving from 10 different countries around the world.

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Banff Gondola Terminal interior, photo by Tyler Martin

Banff Gondola Terminal Equipped with ETC LED Fixtures

BANFF, Alberta, Canada — To light the recently opened Banff Gondola Terminal for maximum visitor eye appeal while keeping energy consumption to a minimum, LD Josh Starr’s design called for ETC Source Four Mini fixtures and Selador Desire D22 track-mount units. Christie Lites supplied the gear, and Michael Pyatt of GES served as project manager for the design team.

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USITT’s President-Elect, Dan Culhane

USITT 2017 Election Results Announced

SYRACUSE, NY – A new president, secretary, vice presidents of commissions and six directors were chosen in the most recent USITT Board of Directors Election. The board oversees leadership of USITT, the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, the national non-profit for performing arts design and technology professionals. USITT’s President-Elect, Dan Culhane, will begin his three-year term as president beginning June 30, 2018.

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Sergio Vergara

WAGO Names Sergio Vergara Senior Sales and Application Engineer of Eastern Canada

GERMANTOWN, WI —WAGO named Sergio Vergara senior sales and application engineer of Eastern Canada. He has lived in Canada for the past three years and is fluent in French, English and Spanish. An avid learner, he is currently working on his fourth language, Russian. Vergara plans to take his project-based experience and apply it to engineering support and sales for WAGO.

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The Dwight Vredenburg History Pavilion within the lobby of Hy-Vee's new Ron Pearson Center makes use of NanoLumens' 360-degree Nixel Series LED displays.

Hy-Vee Grocery Chain Uses NanoLumens Nixel Series LED Displays in New Conference Center Lobby

WEST DES MOINES, IA — Hy-Vee, Inc., a grocery chain with more than 240 stores throughout the Midwest, is also one of the largest employee-owned companies in the U.S. The company, founded in 1930, used NanoLumens curved Nixel Series LED displays to portray its history in the lobby of Ron Pearson Center, its new confernce and event center in West Des Moines.

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