LONDON – White Light, production service partner to Central Hall Westminster, a major conference center in central London, is in the process of helping the center upgrade its lighting, AV and rigging systems. As part of this long-term upgrade, which is continuing for several more months, White Light recently added a new motorized rigging system to the Great Hall.
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LOS ANGELES – For the new season of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew (ABDC), which premiered on July 29, LD Victor Fable turning to a lighting rig centering on fixtures from Elation Professional to light the recently revived dance reality show competition. The reality dance show was lit with Elation Platinum SBX hybrid moving heads, Sniper 2R multi-effect lights, Pixel Bar LED strip lights, Colour 5 Profile ellipsoidal spots and Protron 3K LED strobes.
Read More »FRANKFURT – Christopher Sparkes has been named director of marketing communication for Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound. The appointment is effective Nov. 1.
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LAS VEGAS — LDI’s annual conference and exhibition returned to the Las Vegas Convention Center Oct. 19-25, drawing close to 10,000 from 88 countries to view the latest in lighting, staging and video technologies. Chauvet Professional (booth pictured here) and more than 350 other companies exhibited, and new features with this year’s show including a full-scale exhibition of rock ‘n’ roll photographer Neal Preston’s artwork.
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CLARK, NJ – For the Rock Carnival, staged Sept. 18-20 at Oak Ridge Park in Clark, NJ, Pulse Stage Lighting provided an Avolites console for every stage. The acts included Godsmack, Slash, Stone Temple Pilots, Anthrax, Sevendust and dozens of other hard rock bands; the Avo lineup included a Pearl Expert with Touch Wing (Stage A), a Sapphire Touch (Stage B) and a Tiger Touch on a smaller stage featuring mostly rock tribute acts.
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HECHTEL-EKSEL, Belgium— Luminex Network Intelligence announced that it has joined other major manufacturers in the Ravenna partner community under the leadership of ALC NetworX GmbH, Munich.
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CUMBRIA, U.K. Triple E has supplied a 12″ ModTruss Rigging Structure to Cumbria, U.K.-based Work at Height specialist Lyon Equipment for use as a platform for its Work at Height and rescue training. As well as being the UK and Ireland distributors for Petzl Equipment and many other leading brands, Lyon Equipment’s premises offer a large purpose-built training center from where it provides a wide variety of training courses
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WOLFSBURG, Germany – Andreas “Mini” Mertens used grandMA2 consoles to control the visuals once again at this year’s Wassershow at the Autostadt. The French themed show featured a combination of fire, water, video, lights, lasers and music. A total of four grandMA2 light consoles, 3 grandMA2 full-size consoles and 1 grandMA2 fader wing were used to control the lights, pyrotechnics and fountain effects. The moving lights included 50 Clay Paky Sharpy Wash 330s and 20 Clay Paky Mythos units.
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NASHVILLE – At The Fellowship Ministries’ Two Rivers Campus, LD C. Andrew Dunning of Landru Design specified a Jands Vista system to provide simple yet powerful control for the worship services within the church campus’ 400-seat worship space. Dunning sourced the Jands Vista system via Josh Holowicki of lighting sales and production company E2i Design.
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LONDON – Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting and rigging for the most recent Rudimental UK tour, renewing their long-term working relationship with designer Jonny Gaskell. His multi-layered scenic and lighting design has been delighting audiences throughout the year, taking several Hackney, London E8 landmarks around the world … culminating in a show at Alexandra Palace.
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LONDON and MANCHESTER, U.K. – For recent gigs in London and Manchester, Offspring performed with a light show created by longtime LD Lawrence Upton, who is based in Chicago. Leeds-based Zig Zag Lighting provided 68 Robe moving lights, including 16 BMFLs, 20 Pointes, 22 LEDWash 600s and 10 600E Spots.
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SEATTLE – Video technician John Cocci has invested in a second UDC button panel event controller from High Resolution Systems (HRS) to use for live corporate shows. Cocci added the UDC-400 to his equipment inventory, which already features a UDC-210 he purchased earlier. He has provided video support for the producers of corporate events for Google, Cisco, Microsoft, Boeing, Starbucks, Burger King, Discovery Network and others.
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