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GLP impression Spot Ones Tour with Jackson Browne

Jackson Browne

GLP impression Spot Ones Tour with Jackson Browne

LOS ANGELES – Jackson Browne’s lighting director/production designer for four years, Steve Comer, is one who admits, “I had been looking for an LED hard edge light for a long time, and when the Spot One came along it was just the fixture I’d been waiting for.” GLP’s impression Spot One helps on the tour in various ways. Jackson Browne had wanted to go more green the past few years, and as his latest tour grew from a solo acoustic act to an ensemble, the stage called for a hard-edge beam to allow musicians to disappear behind Browne.

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Eric Church’s Tour Features Strictly FX Effects

WOOD DALE, IL – Strictly FX is providing colored lasers, pyrotechnics, flames and custom cryojet effects for Eric Church’s ‘Blood Sweat and Beers’ tour, which is currently touring U.S. arenas until Dec. 15. The concert production was designed by Butch Allen and Church himself. The effects are featured in seven of the 21 songs in the show.

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AFL Footy Show

MAC Viper Makes Its Show Debut in Australia

MELBOURNE, Australia – Resolution X took delivery of the first Martin MAC Viper Profiles in Australia, and gave them their debut appearance on the AFL Footy Show Grand Final Edition. The sports TV show was broadcast live from Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena. The Vipers were positioned on moving trusses upstage and were LD Rohan Thornton’s primary profile light and source light on the stage from behind. “Optically and from an intensity point of view they cut through all the other fixtures that I was using so they had pride of place,” Thornton said.

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Harry Gladow, Business Development Manager coolux, Nabil Bourgeili,  Managing Director TechnoPro, Helmut Protte, Dir. Global Sales & Projects coolux.

coolux Names TechnoPro Middle East Distributor

DUBAI, UAE – The coolux Pandoras Box system is extending its market presence in the Middle East via a new distribution partnership with TechnoPro llc.  As the  exclusive distributor of coolux Media System Products in the Middle East region, TechnoPro will provide sales, support and training for its regional clients.

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Robe MMXs Specified for Theme Park’s ‘Luminosity’ Show

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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Devil's Arse

Colour Sound Illuminates Devil’s Arse Cavern

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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Renegade Helps Design Ultimate 007 After-Show at Tate Modern

LONDON – Nick Gray of lighting and design practice Renegade imagineered an after-show party at the Tate Modern art gallery to celebrate the premier of the new James Bond film, “Skyfall.” Event producers AD Events wanted the party to be as dazzling and memorable as the film, which was screened at the Royal Albert Hall. Fixture placement was crucial as lighting had to enhance massive scenic projections onto the walls of the gallery’s Turbine Hall that transported everyone from the banks of the Thames to the edgy street scenarios of downtown Shanghai.

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Event Live Expo 2013

Event Live Expo Returns to Los Angeles in February 2013

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.

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“Frankenstorm” Shuts Broadway for a Third Day

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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ETC Ion Controls Serbia’s ‘Time of the Gypsies’

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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Torrent F3

Blizzard Lighting Torrent F3

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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Radio City Music Hall

PDO Enhances Radio City Music Hall’s Staging System

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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