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PixMob LED Headgear Used for Super Bowl Visual Effects

PixMob LED Headgear Used for Super Bowl Visual Effects. This YouTube screen grab freezes a moment as waves of darkness and light swept through the stadium seating areas.

PixMob LED Headgear Used for Super Bowl Visual Effects

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Custom hats equipped with LED lights allowed fans to become part of the Super Bowl Halftime show and other moments during the game. PixMob’s technology used infrared to control these wearable LED devices, producing multicolor video effects in sync with sounds and visuals.

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PR Lighting XR 1000 Spot and Beam Moving Heads

PR Lighting XR 1000 Spot and Beam Moving Heads

PR Lighting’s Spot and Beam versions of its new XR 1000 moving head, set to launch at Prolight+Sound 2014 in Frankfurt, each house an Osram HTI 1000 W/PS 1000W metal halide lamp within an IP20 plastic chassis. Said to be brighter than a conventional 1200W discharge lamp, the compact units weigh just over 68 pounds.

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Pulsar DataSplitter DS5/DS3

Pulsar DataSplitter DS5/DS3

Pulsar’s DataSplitter DS5/DS3 is designed for the distribution, splitting, and regeneration of digital data signals from DC to 500KHz such as a single DMX universe or PMX. The compact 1U 19-inch design provides signal-in and -thru ports in addition to the 8 independent and mains-protected outputs.

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David Guetta Shows in Brazil Lit with Robe Fixtures

David Guetta Shows in Brazil Lit with Robe Fixtures

SAO PAULO, Brazil — For a nine-date tour in Brazil in January 2014, David Guetta LD Jonathan “Leggy” Armstrong worked with Alex ‘Junior’ Cerio of Smash Productions and Sam MacLaren of LightLab. Some of the locally sourced shows, including those supplied by Apple Produções, had a variety of Robe fixtures in the rig. The lighting setups complemented distinctive video looks created via Ben Brett’s Pilot video control system.

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Julie Taymors A Midsummer Night’s Dream Gets AV Support from WorldStage.

Julie Taymor’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Gets AV Support from WorldStage

BROOKLYN, NY — There’s only a judicious amount of character flying in Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the first production to be staged in the compact but versatile Polonsky Shakespeare Center, which opened here last fall, and, as Taymor wryly noted in an interview in The New York Times, the odds of production snags arising from hastily updated scripts were even less remote. Even so, the production, with set design by Es Devlin, had its own unique challenges and complexities. WorldStage provided a video assist.

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Image courtesy of Top Gear Live.

Top Gear Live Debuts in Scotland with Assist from PRG

GLASGOW — Top Gear Live made its debut in Scotland with five shows from Jan. 17-19. Based on the British TV show, and featuring presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May along with show character, “The Stig,” the production included a variety of live stunts and challenges. PRG supported the event’s lighting and rigging needs.

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