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LD Travis Shirley Lights Main Stage of Electric Forest Festival

Electric Forest Festival Main Stage

LD Travis Shirley Lights Main Stage of Electric Forest Festival

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ROTHBURY, MI – The annual Electric Forest Festival features jam band/EDM music on five stages at the Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, MI. But more than that, Electric Forest Festival has an experience mission: it’s to enhance the music with a multi-sensory fan experience by locating art installations throughout the (actual) forest in which the fest takes place. Lighting Designer Travis Shirley was tasked this summer (his fifth year with the festival) with lighting the festival’s Main Stage – called the Ranch Arena

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Eagle Brook Church

Eagle Brook Church Chooses ACL 360 Bar™ for Latest Design at Six Campuses

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MINNESOTA – In a unique example of an EDM-style lighting fixture in a House of Worship, Nate Nohling, Lead Lighting Designer at Eagle Brook Church, a large ministry with six campuses across Minnesota, chose 156 ACL 360 Bar™ LED battens as the staple of a new lighting design. “The number one thing I was shooting for when designing this set was impact,” Nohling explains. “I wanted to have a large quantity of fixtures that had the ability to create the impact we were looking for.”

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Gary Numan UK tour

Avolites delivers ‘full creative control’ for Gary Numan UK tour

UK – Electropop pioneer Gary Numan has completed a critically-acclaimed UK tour, with lighting designer Luke Edwards of Cue Design Ltd selecting the compact yet versatile Tiger Touch II to control the show’s stand-out visuals. “All my Gary Numan shows are very dynamic,” says Edwards. “I find Avolites products allow me to achieve that very easily. The Tiger Touch II’s intuitive functionality meant I could create a high-impact show with minimal programming time.”

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WIcreations Celebrates 10 years in Style

WIcreations Celebrates 10 years in Style

BELGIUM – Entertainment engineering specialist WIcreations celebrated its 10th birthday in style over the weekend with a large party for its many fans, friends, clients and acquaintances in home town Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium. The company was founded by Hans Willems in 2006 to tackle all those challenging, crazy and innovative projects that occur in the industry … with style, flair and imagination.

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Ghent Floralien

BMFLs for Ghent Floralien

GHENT, BE. It’s not every day that the opportunity presents itself to light something completely different, so when Belgian LD Thomas Boets was asked to light four sites across the city of Ghent for their 2016 Floralien (Flower Show), a quadrennial 10 day exhibition and extravaganza of floral and plant artistry and life organized by The Ghent Royal Society of Agriculture and Botany … he jumped at the opportunity!

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SmallHD Monitors

Firmware Upgrade Adds Functionality to SmallHD Production & Studio Monitors

LOS ANGELES – SmallHD announces a free firmware update that adds an array of new features to increase the functionality of its groundbreaking line of 13”, 17”, 24” and 32” production monitors, including the HDR (high dynamic range) displays. To provide a better viewing experience, the Firmware 1.3 update adds De-Interlacer to view interlaced video in a progressive mode. It also adds V-Log and S-Log 3 DeLOG and HDR Preview support. 

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Wet

Erich Meitzner Sets Scene For Wet With CHAUVET Professional

NEW YORK – Few indie bands have broken through the buzz like Wet has. The Brooklyn-based synth pop trio had its self-titled debut EP streamed 928,000 times on Soundcloud, saw one of its songs “Don’t Want to Be Your Girl” streamed 20 million times on Spotify, and toured to sellout crowds.  Described by Billboard as “the toast of the tastemakers,” the group was pursued by a plethora of major record labels, sparking a highly publicized bidding war, before ultimately signing with Columbia.

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International Cultural Tour in Germany

Claypaky Lights Up International Cultural Tour

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POLAND – It’s been an eventful year for EVENTPRODUCTION Poland as the company took the International Festival of Language and Culture on the road to 17 different countries. Charged with handling technical production for all events, EVENTPRODUCTION’s lighting designers, Michał Mazurkiewicz and Piotr Pońsko, deployed a large number of Claypaky fixtures, chosen for their wide ranging creative options and reliability.

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tvONE Invites you to visit them at NAB Show New York at booth #645

NYC – tvONE invites you to the upcoming NAB Show New York on November 9th and 10th at Javits Convention Center in NYC. NAB Show New York exhibits the latest in next-generation technology in the media, entertainment, and telecom industries. This two-day tailored trade event features conferences and workshops concentrated in television, film, satellite, online video, live events, corporate A/V, production and post.Doors open both Wednesday and Thursday at 10:00 a.m. and close at 6:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. respectively.

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SolaTheatre

100% Fanless Operation With The New SolaTheatre From High End Systems

AUSTIN – Introduced at the 2016 LDI Exhibition, the SolaTheatre is the first lighting instrument in High End Systems’ SolaRange family to feature completely fanless operation. Perfect for studio and theatrical applications that require virtually silent performance, SolaTheatre brings the power of High End’s white light LED engine to television, film and theatre LDs worldwide.

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2016 Touring Career Workshop Kicks off Wednesday in Nashville

NASHVILLE -Kicking off our 6th year of the Touring Career Workshop we asked ourselves “How can we make this event truly more beneficial to attendees?” Following last year’s event, we received a fair amount of feedback from you all and one thing that stuck out to us was that many people said there were sessions we offered that they didn’t want to miss out on. So, this year we’ve decided to focus more on quality of sessions rather than offering more options.

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