TEMPE, AZ – Arizona’s Sound Wave festival is appropriately named for its location: inside a wave pool at the Big Surf Waterpark in Tempe. Creative Backstage handled the video and stage design, choosing EVLED 1024SMD panels from Elation to create a 3D-like effect.
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MADRID, Spain – A Spanish bullfighting arena served as the location for Coldplay’s one-off performance Oct. 26 to promote their new album, Mylo Xyloto. Stageco provided five trucks of equipment for the show, which was challenged when bad weather turned the sandy floor into mud. Anton Corbijn filmed the gig and streamed it live on YouTube.
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Chroma-Q’s Color Charge Plus, a higher-output version, offers 50 percent more output (900 lumens) than the original Color Charge (600 lumens). Its nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) power cell delivers up to 30 hours from a single charge. The unit features wireless DMX control. Up 170 fixtures can be connected on a single network. The wireless range is 100-200 meters.
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FORT LEE, NJ – FOR-A Corporation of America named Austin, TX-based ProVideo Solutions as its sales representative for customers and dealers throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. FOR-A also works with Dan Weaver & Associates in the Midwest (OH, IN, KY, IL, MI, MN, WI, IA, MO, KS, NE, ND, SD).
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NEW YORK – Visual Acuity, batwin+robin, Digital Projection and 7thSense Design kicked up the visuals at this year’s Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the Rockettes. The concept was to provide a more immersive experience for audiences through the use of large-scale video projection mapped to architectural features of Radio City Music Hall — including the venue’s iconic proscenium arch. The project was one year in the making.
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GOTHENBURG, Sweden – LumenRadio’s CRMX wireless DMX/RDM technology was used in the film production of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise’s fourth installment, On Stranger Tides. Josh Thatcher operated the system on a lighting rig on the California set.
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BERLIN, NJ — Craig Dains, 26, an account executive at The Healy Group, a representative of American DJ, Elation Professional, Acclaim Lighting and other brands, died Nov. 13 from complications of heart disease. Remembered for his “energy, enthusiasm and wonderful personality,” American DJ noted that Dains “will be missed by all of us who knew him.”
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LONDON – London -based Blackout rigged and draped a curvacious set for the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards held Nov. 6 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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