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Lex Products Names Leonard Miller VP of Sales

Leonard Miller

Lex Products Names Leonard Miller VP of Sales

SHELTON, CT — Lex Products named Leonard Miller vice president of sales. Miller comes to Lex Products after 12 years with Philips Entertainment’s Vari-Lite and Strand Lighting divisions. He has also served as a sales manager for Barbizon Lighting in Dallas and a regional manager for Kohler Rental Power Services. Prior to that, he worked for Paramount Pictures/Viacom, Walt Disney World, and a number of cruise ship lines. Leonard also serves on the board of directors as a member of the faculty of the non-profit Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas (SILV) and has been a past Director at Large for USITT.

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ADJ's AV6X Panel

ADJ Launches LED Video Panel with Improved Color Consistency and Higher Contrast

LOS ANGELES – Following the huge success of the original AV6 LED video panel, ADJ has launched a new and improved model, the AV6X. The new and improved AV6X is now poised to continue ADJ’s success in the world of LED video. This version retains the affordable price and high resolution quality of the original, but also offers improved color consistency and higher contrast.

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Blizzard Lighting Lo-Pro Flux

Blizzard Lighting Lo-Pro Flux

Blizzard Lighting’s Lo-Pro Flux LED fixture with white strobe effects groups 288 half-watt white Samsung SMD5050 LEDs into 8-pixel slice segments that can be individually controlled via DMX, standalone, master/slave and sound active programs. The product’s MSRP is $499.99.

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Steve Thurkettle selected the Titan lighting and media control interface

U.K.’s Insomnia Gaming Festival Uses Avolites for Lighting and Video Control

BIRMINGHAM U.K. – Gaming event lighting guru Steve Thurkettle selected the Titan lighting and media control interface from British manufacturer Avolites to drive his complex audio-visual design for the 58th Insomnia Gaming Festival (Insomnia58), the UK’s biggest ever celebration of gaming culture. The event took place at the NEC in Birmingham over the U.K.’s bank holiday weekend Aug. 26-29.

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WIcreations supported Pinkpop 2016 and other events in Europe this past summer. Photo by Rene Bradwolff

WIcreations Supports Wide Array of Summer Festivals and Events in Europe

THE NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM and FRANCE – Belgian engineering, animation and rigging specialists WIcreations had a busy summer supplying a selection of their standard rental products like WI Towers and WI Touring Track to a diverse variety of music festivals and live events, including Dominator 2016 (Strand Eersel, Netherlands), 2 Meisjes op het strand (2 Girls on the Beach, Little Beach in Ostend, Belgium), Decibel 2016 (Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands), EMF, Electro Beach Music Festival (Le Bacarès in France), the Nassau Festival (Amsterdam), Indian Summer (Geestmerambacht, Langedijk, Netherlands) and Pinkpop (Landgraaf in the Netherlands, pictured here.)

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Kacey Musgraves

Bandit Lites Adds GLP X4 Atom Fixtures to Inventory

KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites recently added GLP X4 Atom fixtures to the company’s growing inventory. The X4 Atom features an interlocking system that lets users build the light into various configurations. This will allow it to be used for all of Bandit’s various lighting applications including corporate events, touring and special events.

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Theatre Projects worked on the new Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City, IA.

Eight Years After Historic Iowa Flooding, New Hancher Auditorium Opens

IOWA CITY, IA – In 2008, when the Iowa River flooded and destroyed Hancher Auditorium and 12 other buildings at the University of Iowa, the loss to the community was far greater than the physical loss of those structures. Hancher Auditorium was one of the most popular venues for touring groups in the region, and the flood forced the student and traveling groups that normally used the venue to move into nearby facilities. But this week, with the grand opening of the new Hancher Auditorium, the University of Iowa and the people of Iowa City once again have a magnetic cultural center to call their own.

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LD Zach Bunner used Chauvet fixtures at MSG

Zach Bunner Creates Club Feel on Louis C.K. Arena Tour with Chauvet Professional Fixtures

NEW YORK – Lighting designer Zach Bunner admits that some of his LD brethren might think that designing an arena tour for a two-time Grammy winner “without a rig full of beams and profile fixtures” would limit the looks of a show. However, Bunner proved otherwise by creating an intimate and immersive club-like feeling at venues from The Forum in Los Angeles to Madison Square Garden with a rig that relied heavily on the Rogue R2 Wash and STRIKE 4 multi formatted fixture from Chauvet Professional.

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