LONDON — The iTunes festival returned to London’s Roundhouse for the 31 days of July, 2011, with performances by more than 60 artists from around the world including Adele, Arctic Monkeys, Bruno Mars, Coldplay, the Foo Fighters, Linkin’ Park, Moby, My Chemical Romance, Paul Simon, The Script, White Lies and others.
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LONDON — Take That’s Progress Live 2011 Tour reunited the band’s five original performers for the first time in over 15 years, and they played to packed stadiums in the band’s biggest tour to date. But if the tour was big, so was the giant figure of “OM”, a 20m high animated man, brought to “life” as a primitive god-like figure during the on-stage action. In reality, OM was designed and engineered by Brilliant Stages with the expert help of mechanical engineer Andy Edwards.
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SYRACUSE, NY and LAS VEGAS — J. R. Clancy, Inc. and 4Wall Entertainment both qualified once again for Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5000 list. JR Clancy ranked as #3498, up 393 spots from its 2010 ranking of #3891. Among the manufacturing companies on the Inc 5000 list, J.R. Clancy ranks at #125 out of a total of 233. 4Wall was ranked #402 in the Business Products & Services Category, up from its ranking of #596 in the same category in 2010.
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ZLIN, Czech Republic — The Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth attracts over 100,000 visitors to see nearly 600 films from more than 50 countries screened over eight days. Along with movie screenings, the festival features concerts, live performances, seminars and lectures, and Robe and Anolis lighting fixtures played a key role in illuminating many of these gatherings.
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SYDNEY — “Immersion,” a light sculpture designed by Martin Bevz and Kathryn Clifton, was part of this year’s Vivid Sydney outdoor light festival. Consisting of LED tubes in a semi-circle, the sculpture invited viewers to “play” with them by reflecting their movement through the installation via a live video relay of still and dynamic images. The tubes are pixel-mapped to form what is essentially a very low-res video screen measuring 18 by 2 meters.
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COSTA MESA, CA — The annual Orange County Fair took place this year from July 15-Aug. 14 in multiple venues. Production manager/show designer Ray Woodbury of RK Diversified Entertainment used GLP Volkslicht Zooms and impression Spot One LED moving heads for two of the performance venues, the Pacific Amphitheatre and The Hangar.
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