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Clay Paky Goes for Gold at Mediterranean Games

Mediterranean Games

Clay Paky Goes for Gold at Mediterranean Games

ISTANBUL, Turkey  – Istanbul-based event engineering company Phantom has supplied a team of Clay Paky Alpha, A.Leda, and Sharpy fixtures to light the 2013 Mediterranean Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Eighteen months of preparation culminated in the June 20 Opening Ceremony of the 17th Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey. LD Jean-François Bonnement from Paris-based visual arts company Concept K specified more than 400 Clay Paky fixtures in his design.

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UEP's Chilfest

UEP Produces Chilfest to Celebrate 15 Years in Business

TRING, UK – The first music festival to be promoted by an industry technical production company – Chilfest by Universal Event Productions (UEP) – was declared a success. UEP’s Steve Butcher – who came up with the idea to celebrate the company’s 15th birthday – was “completely blown away” with the response and the outcome. They supplied sound, lighting and video equipment and design for the two-day show.

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‘Neon Boneyard’ Shines Light on Classic Vegas with 4Wall

LAS VEGAS – The Neon Museum, founded in 1996, displays neon sign relics of the city’s past in an outdoor exhibition space known as the “Neon Boneyard.” Tourists and locals alike have long been able to visit the downtown exhibit, albeit during the day. That changed this spring when the 4Wall Systems team added lighting to the signs to transform the Boneyard into a space fitting of its Vegas nightlife heritage.

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Portishead.

Entec Supplies Portishead Tour Lighting

LONDON – London rental company Entec Sound & Light supplied a ‘specials’ package to LD Tony Austin for the latest tour by Portishead, which followed up on shows earlier in the year by the Bristol band. This most recent series of gigs culminated with their Friday night headline slot on The Other Stage at the 2013 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, a performance preceded by warm-up shows in Scandinavia and The Netherlands.

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Onstage Systems projection mapped nature scenes at the Perot Museum in Dallas. Photo: Carrie Fedewa

Onstage Systems Leads Projection Mapping Event at Dallas’ Perot Museum

DALLAS – Onstage Systems led a projection mapping project recently at the nationally-recognized $185 million Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas for a social event. The June 8 celebration marked a founding member’s birthday – and the first event held outdoors on the main patio at the new facility. The Dallas-based concert and special events production company provided lighting and sound design, with a nature-themed projection mapping and animation as the event highlight.

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Stan Schwartz

Rosco’s Stan Schwartz Sends Goodbye Message

STAMFORD, CT – “Thanks for the memories,” writes Stan Schwartz, Rosco’s executive vice president for more than three decades. Now approaching retirement and taking on the role as VP/marketing-emeritus, Schwartz sent out a thank you letter to customers with a look back at his career highlights.

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Chris Patton

Chris Patton Joins A.C.T Lighting Sales Team

LOS ANGELES – Lighting distributor A.C.T Lighting has announced that Chris Patton has joined the company’s sales team, and will concentrate in permanent installations and system sales. Most recently, Patton worked at Global Design Solutions (GDS). He was also a lead follow spot operator for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic games in London.

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Latin Grammy Awards 2013 featuring Showline products from Philips Entertainment Lighting

Philips Notes Recent Applications, Videos for Showline Products

DALLAS — Philips Entertainment has announced a variety of applications along with videos featuring its expanded Showline range of LED luminaires, including use of the company’s products for the Latin Grammy Awards, pictured here. All Showline products are designed to work together with uniform color, dimming, and operating characteristics for concert touring, theatre, television, motion pictures and corporate events.

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ETC Source Four LED CYC

ETC Source Four LED CYC

The Source Four LED CYC, an adapter that affixes to any Source Four LED luminaire, promises to transform it into a powerful tool to illuminate cycloramas. With the same optics and strong beam that the Source Four family is known for, the Source Four LED CYC evenly distributes light across the cyclorama, so scallops or gaps aren’t visible between the luminaires. The Source Four LED CYC also promises to serve as a convenient and budget-friendly addition to fixture inventories, because of the Source Four LED’s multipurpose functionality.

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HES and CSL Announce New Hog Console Partnership

AUSTIN, TX — Barco’s High End Systems (HES), based here, and Creative Stage Lighting (CSL) announced a partnership agreement designating CSL as a Major Hog Controls Reseller in the U.S. The full range of Hog4 consoles is now available to CSL dealers and rental clients from the distributor’s North Creek, NY home base.

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