SANDUSKY, OH – Robe’s ROBIN MMX Spots were an integral part of the new ‘Luminosity: Ignite the Night. Powered by Pepsi’ visual extravaganza at the Cedar Point Amusement Park on the Lake Erie peninsula in Sandusky, OH. LD Al Crawford of Arc3design specified the Robes, working alongside Lighting Director/EOS console programmer Zakaria M Al-Alami (Zak) on the project. The Luminosity show – combining lighting, sound, fireworks, lasers, DJs, singers and dancers and lots of energy – ran every night at the park through the summer months.
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LONDON – Haydn Cruickshank of Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) designed and supplied lighting for a showcase celebrating the birthday of Tennessee whiskey Jack Daniels at a cavern called Devil’s Arse in the Peak District, UK. One of the many challenges facing the production team was the 600-meter (656-yard) push from the truck drop through the treacherous terrain of the Castleton Village pathways and up the hill into the first cave. Access to the second cavern entailed the lighting crew crawling on their bellies along a passage less than a meter (39 ft) high with all the kit, negotiating rocks, walls and dripping water and dank odors.
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LOS ANGELES — The Event Live Expo (ELX) host sits 3rd annual event in Los Angeles on Feb. 5-7, 2013 as part of Live Music Industry Week. ELX is a free event attracting industry leaders from around the world to participate in panels, networking sessions and educational seminars that explore the cutting edge techniques and tools currently shaping the live event and festival business. During this event, the Event Safety Alliance plans to unveil excerpts from its upcoming American edition – a guide featuring the best practices in the event production industry.
Read More »NEW YORK — With mass transit still snarled by the surge of seawater inundating neighborhoods and train tunnels, the Broadway League, representing 40 theaters in the city, opted to pull the plug on performances Tuesday, Oct. 30, extending the storm-related shutdown that kept stages dark Sunday, Oct. 28 and Monday, Oct. 29. Among the cancelled productions for all three days: Broadway’s The Book of Mormon, Once and Mama Mia! and off-Broadway shows including Stomp, Bad Jews, Disgraced and Golden Child. At Carnegie Hall, appearances by the Tokyo String Quartet on Oct. 28 and Jadranka Jovanovic Oct. 29 were also canceled.
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BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbian lighting director Viktor Trifu recently used an ETC Ion console to run the lighting for “Time of the Gypsies” at Belgrade’s Sava Center. Described as “punk opera” or “how Monty Pyton would have imagined opera,” the show presented challenges for Trifu, but the Ion console made it easy to control, he says. I have used Ions before and am always impressed by how much fine control I have of intelligent fixtures.”
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WAUKESHA, WI – The Torrent F3 is the latest addition to Blizzard Lighting’s Torrent series of LED moving heads. Equipped with a 50-watt LED light source, Blizzard designed the fixture based on feature requests from their mobile DJ, club install and small-to-midsize production users. The Torrent F3 features a rotating gobo wheel with seven new rotating, interchangeable gobos plus open, and a static gobo wheel with eight gobos plus open. There are seven dichroic colors and a 3-facet rotating prism fitted as standard.
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NEW YORK – Pook Diemont & Ohl, Inc. (PDO) integrated truss, hoist and control system manufacturers and engineers to enhance staging and lighting elements at Radio City Music Hall’s storied stage over a six-day period in September. PDO’s project partners were James Thomas Engineering, Stagemaker, Niscon Controls and Geiger Engineering, who worked closely with the Radio City staff to provide the best options to meet production needs.
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LAGOS, Nigeria – Solution Media and InfoTech Ltd recently staged an evening of live entertainment to demonstrate Robe technology along with other brands in their inventory. Five hundred guests enjoyed the “Memoirs and Wine” event, including visual and show designers, event planners, brand managers and ambassadors, media managers of telecommunication and oil companies together with film and TV stars, and of course, the press.
Read More »Anyone in the business for a number of years knows Phay MacMahon. After all, he’s “Phaymous” — his nickname for the past 32 years or… Read More »Signing Off for Safety
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