SAN FRANCISCO – The golden icon of the San Francisco Bay recently celebrated its 75th birthday with tens of thousands of its closest friends. Lightswitch helped to organize the party for the Golden Gate Bridge — in coordination with event producer Foghorn Creative, lighting vendor Syncrolite and Pyro Spectaculars North.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Dodd Technologies installed Elation Professional’s Platinum Beam 5R units in Bankers Life Fieldhouse as part of a project to upgrade lighting effects at the arena. After trying out a quantity of the fixtures for their season opener in December, Pacers Sports and Entertainment purchased 10 units for permanent installation for the Indiana Pacers’ 2012 run to the NBA playoffs.
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LOS ANGELES — Upstage Video, rental providers of mobile and modular LED video screens, has acquired Thousand Oaks, CA-based LED rental house JumboScreen Co. (JSC), which had been owned and operated by the late David Mann, who died last year in an on-the-job accident. Upstage Video will be shifting JSC’s operating base to a new 10,000-square-foot facility in downtown Los Angeles.
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MIAMI — Mansion, one of four big nightclubs owned by the Opium group here (the others are Opium Garden, Privé and SET) introduced an new LED lighting installation that arcs over the “star of the night” in the center of the club — the guest DJ. AVLI provided the design and install for the elaborate setup, using a Madrix system for control.
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Daktronics partnered with GKD Metal Fabrics on Mediamesh, a stainless steel mesh with thin, horizontal Daktronics LED strips placed at custom vertical intervals. The product, designed for use with architectural applications, can transform a building’s façade into a dynamic communications medium. It can also be mounted over windows without completely blocking the view from within. Shown here, a Mediamesh installation at New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal.
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NAPLES, Italy – Clay Paky illuminated the opening ceremony of the America’s Cup World Series in Naples. LD Emiliano Morgia chose 50 Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500s, 24 Alpha Beam 1500s and 14 Alpha Beam 700s. The ceremony in Piazza del Plebiscito took the form of a spectacular party and played host to a series of live music and dance acts.
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The Philips Selecon PLCyc1 LED builds on the technology of the PL1 Spot and PL3 Wash luminaires. It uses a mixing chamber designed to homogenize the RGBW colors for color washing cycloramas up to 5 meters high. Using LED source technology combined with an asymmetrical reflector, the PLCyc1 LED delivers consistent light distribution without the compromising performance of vertical or horizontal spreader lenses.
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Elektralite introduces eye Kandy fixture, a combination wash and spot fixture, to its Pro Line of LED fixtures. At the heart of eye Kandy is a 200-watt white LED running at 150 watts. Its spot source can be used as a pencil beam of light. Colors are achieved using the 7 dichroic filters. Sixteen 3-watt LEDs surrounding the front lens are formatted and can be controlled in quadrants.
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AUSTIN, TX — Skrillex rocked the house using 16 CHAUVET Professional Legend 412 moving heads at the AM Only Showcase at South By Southwest (SXSW). LD Justin Jenkins specified 12 Legend 412 moving heads for backlighting while the remaining four fixtures created downlighting and audience pixel-mapping effects for the show at Mohawk.
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LAS VEGAS – Sooner Routhier and Robert Long, co-production designers for Mötley Crue, recently had a run of 12 shows at The Joint at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas. For this special gig they specified a mostly Martin rig supplied by Christie Lites which included Martin MAC Aura and MAC 101 wash lights along with MAC III Profiles, MAC 2000 Wash XBs and Atomic 3000 strobes with Atomic Colors scrollers.
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