MILL VALLEY, CA — Benny Collins, production and tour manager and 2014 recipient of the Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award, died Jan. 27. He was 68. The long list of acts and artists he worked with include Journey, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna, Lionel Richie and U2.
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AARHUS, DENMARK—An array of creative video panels from Martin by HARMAN provide a visually dazzling backdrop for Danish rock band Superloader’s video for the song “City Light.” Award-winning Croatian cinematographer, Vedran Rapo, who is well-versed in capturing the full potential of lighting fixtures on camera, deployed Martin by HARMAN solutions because of seamless integration between video, lighting and control products.
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LOS ANGELES – Wonderama, a revival of the popular ‘60s kids variety show, rolled out this month on Tribune Broadcasting’s cable network, with a set featuring Solaris Mozart LED fixtures. Hosted by David Osmond (of the well-known Osmond family), 13 weekly episodes are in the can with 30 more scheduled. The show was lit by LD Herrick Goldman of HG Lighting Design Inc., New York.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. — Schwarzkopf, a maker of hair care products, turned to Evans Audio Visual Stage for the set, stage, video, lighting and sound for a two-day re-launch event for their Blond Me hair care products. The event took place at the Principal Manchester, a luxury hotel and event hosting complex.
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LAS VEGAS – The International Association of Fairs and Expositions (IAFE) held its annual meeting in late November at the Paris Resort in Las Vegas. The convention theme focused on creating and moving forward with Revolution/Evolution in the fair industry. The convention’s overall general session technology was designed by Dale Kivimaki of Freestyle Productions out of Minneapolis. Freestyle teamed up with in-House provider Encore to provide projection and LED screens along with Martin MAC 700 movers and Coemar Parlites for uplighting accents to light up the stage and the room for the attendees.
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BOGOTA, Colombia — The Maloka Centro Interactivo planetarium in Bogotá, Colombia upgraded with an 8K 3D projection system and opened to audiences in Dec. 2016. U.K.-based GBvi Technology helped provide a seamless viewing experience.
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LOS ANGELES — Elation Professional announced that it now offers, and is stocking, the entire High End Systems Hog range of lighting control products to its U.S. dealer base. Elation has distributed the High End HedgeHog 4™ and Nano Hog 4™ lighting consoles since November of 2013 in the U.S., South America and parts of Europe.
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Christie’s Boxer line of projectors exands with the company’s new 3DLP Christie Boxer 4K20 model. The Boxer 4K20 features full native 4K resolution, a wide selection of 4K connectivity and the same small, rugged, reliable design as the rest of the Boxer product line. Suitable for users who don’t need the 30K brightness that comes with the Boxer 4K30 model for their projects, the Boxer 4K20 features 20,000 lumens of output and an updated and simplified GUI.
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MEXICO CITY — Osvaldo “Chicho” Giuliano Ipictured here), Juan Carlos “Charly” Zamudio and Fulkas Camacho, the three partners who formed the PRO3 lighting design collective based in Mexico City’s Condesa neighborhood, have some of their own lighting gear on hand to facilitate projects that range from corporate events and architectural lighting to theatre work and concert show design. Their inventory includes 36 Robe Pointes.
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MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Canada — AV integrator Advanced named Ibrahim Saad director of design engineering. Saad comes to Advanced after serving as a technology consultant/projects lead for ET Group and, prior to that, he spend more than 13 years at Techno Q.
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PixelFLEX’s TrueFLEX 1.9mm flexible LED video panels are well suited for fixed installations that require require an ultra fine pixel pitch and a high-resolution LED video palette in a flexible format. The 1.9mm panel joins the TrueFLEX product line, which also includes panels with pixel pitch resolutions of 2.5mm, 3.0mm, 4.0mm, 6mm and 10mm.
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RAS AL-KHAIMAH, UAE — Every year on Dec. 2, the UAE celebrates National Day. At Ras al-Khaimah, one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, Dubai-based Lighthouse Productions provided a visual assist for the FakhrakYaWatan (The Pride of the Nation) event, where some 800 singers, dancers and actors perform 15 different acts on an 88-by-12-meter stage. To handle 18 million pixels of custom video and graphic content, Lighthouse Productions used three Avolites Ai T Series media servers.
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