FRANKFURT — LightGeist is calling the launch of its new product range, which includes fixtures called the LightStick, the Badger and, pictured left, the Splodger, an “unmitigated success.” The new gear was introduced mid-March at the Prolight + Sound show here. The RGB LED fixtures can be operated without cables, allowing for immersive effects with multiple fixtures in various configurations.
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Chauvet Professional’s new Rogue series of moving head fixtures extends features like LED gobo morphing, variable speed scrolling and multi-prism rotation into tight-budget territory. The series currently includes four fixtures: two spots (Rogue R1 Spot, Rogue R2 Spot) and two beam fixtures (Rogue R1 Beam – pictured here – and the Rogue R2 Beam).
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — For this year’s Arnold Sports Festival, Live! Technologies deployed a rig of over 100 Martin lights including 12 Viper Performances, 12 Viper Profiles, six MAC III Performances, 36 MAC Auras, 22 MAC 101s, 12 RUSH MH3 Beams, four Atomic 3000 DMX strobes, 60 EC-10 video panels and one P3-200 Video Processor/Scaler. This is the 20th year that Live! Technologies has worked with the festival.
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As a partner with London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Robe will be supplying technical equipment and resources to the Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, the George Bernard Shaw Theatre and the John Gielgud Theatre, all in RADA’s central London buildings. The equipment includes DLS Profiles, DLF Washes and LEDWash600s, together with two of the new MMX Blades – all from Robe’s ROBIN series.
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4Wall handled the entire lighting experience for the celebration of the first V6 engine for the Toyota Highlander produced at Toyota’s Alabama plant. The equipment list included Martin MAC Auras, Vari-Lite VL2500 and VL3500 Spots, and Color Kinetics ColorBlast TRX fixtures.
Read More »HONG KONG – More than 18,000 buyers from 112 countries attended the HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair. The four-day exhibition (April 6-9) drew nearly 1,100 exhibitors from 14 countries and regions, a new exhibitor record for the fair.
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Often overlooked, LED tape offers a visually important – and highly cost effective – decorative element. LD Demfis Fyssicopulos used hefty amounts of Elation Flex LED Tape to outline the multi-tiered stage for Jon Secada’s show at the Wynn Resort’s Encore Theater in Las Vegas.
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UK – Stage Electrics recently delivered the lighting, audio and video systems to Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s state-of-the-art facility. Stage Electrics supplied, installed and commissioned the lighting, audio and video infrastructure venue-wide which includes dimmer racks, data distribution, paging and show relay, plus custom-manufactured stage management desks, facility panels, lighting bars, ‘raceways’ and loose equipment.
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SAN REMO, Italy — The Sanremo Music Festival, broadcast live by Italian TV station Rai 1 since the mid-1950s, is widely considered to be the precursor to Eurovision Song Contest. It has also launched the career of a long roster of internationally known vocalists including Andrea Bocelli.
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LONDON – XL Video supplied projection and Catalyst control for the recent UK tour by indie rock band Bombay Bicycle Club. Incorporating video into their live tour for the first time, LD Squib took visual influences from the work of photographer Eadweard Muybridge and utilized early stop-motion animation techniques and stylization. With projection being central to the show, two Panasonic PT-DZ21K 20K projectors were utilized, overlaid to optimize the brightness, with the set circles treated as one large surface, and all the content programed in to one of XLs Catalyst media servers.
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Ayrton’s new Radical Series promises to combine a honed and streamlined appearance with a very narrow and intense beam, advanced thermal management and impressive output suited for use in arenas and stadiums as well as smaller venues. Most of the fixtures in the line (except for the WildBeam-R and IntelliPix-R) were kept under wraps until their launch at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany. The other models in the R Series include the MagicPanel-R, MagicBlade-R and the MagicRing-R9.
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LONDON – For American punk pop band All Time Low’s recent U.K. tour, Boston-based LD Jeff Maker specified more than 80 moving lights from Robe. The rig included 54 Pointes, 12 LEDWash 600s and 12 LEDBeam 100s, all from Robe’s Robin range. Maker credited the gear for helping meet the challenge of scaling the light show to different-sized venues.
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