A New Yorker visiting the Dublin St. James’s Gate Guinness brewery with her Irish fiancé helped celebrate a momentous milestone recently when she became the 20 millionth visitor to Guinness Storehouse, Ireland’s most popular tourist attraction.
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SWITZERLAND – Laser control becomes much easier now: The Laserworld Group integrates the ShowNET interface as mainboard to most of their laser systems. This… Read More »ShowNET becomes mainboard for most laser systems of the Laserworld Group
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SALT LAKE CITY – Gary “Frog” Justesen, founder and owner of Oasis Stage Werks, a theatrical lighting, staging, and rigging company based in Salt Lake City, passed away July 2. Justesen, who founded his company in 1977, was also one of the founding members of the Theatrical Dealers Association, which later became ESTA, and he was a staunch supporter of ESTA’s Standards, Certification, and Safety programs.
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RIO de JANEIRO – Brazilian singer-songwriter Samba Ferrugem, known for his distinctive red hair that inspired the Ferrugem (“Rust”) nickname, which he then adopted as a stage name, recorded a live concert DVD in Rio’s Jeunesse Arena. This spectacle, directed by Anselmo Trancoso, made use of 450 Robe moving light fixtures specified by director of photography Carlinhos “Carlos” Nogueira.
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It was business as usual during the 36th edition of the Glastonbury Festival. But given this event’s penchant for delighting the imagination with joyfully spontaneous eruptions of the outrageous and unexpected, this means that things were anything but “usual” during the five-day free-spirited celebration of music and life.
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LONDON – Creative Technology Group (CT), a Live Events Company of NEP Group and worldwide specialist in audio visual equipment and bespoke staging solutions, announced… Read More »Creative Technology Acquires Ion Solutions
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Analog Way announces that a new software release is now available for its Picturall™ series of media servers.
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LONDON – As hip-hop artist AJ Tracey was wrapping up a recent tour of U.K. venues, LD James Scott used Vari-Lite/Signify’s feature-rich VLZ Profile. Scott, of design studio Suluko, worked with production designer and creative director Bronski and also Amber Rimell, of TawBox on the tour’s design. The VLZ Profiles were used for the artist’s show at Brixton Academy.
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The Eiffel Tower celebrated its 130th Anniversary on May 15th and marked the occasion with a spectacular son et lumière atop the Iron Lady with 60 Elation Proteus Hybrid™ luminaires used in an extraordinary double helix design.
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Rammstein, known for their spectacular pyro and fire-fueled shows, full-force industrial metal sounds, uncompromising sometimes controversial lyrics, their thrilling, hair-raising hi-energy live performances and adversarial commercial success … release their much-anticipated self-titled new album.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand – Auckland Live, a leader in live arts and entertainment, has invested in a new VuePix INFiLED Digital Stage Outdoor Platform. The setup includes a self-contained control room, and hydraulic outriggers allow a truck to drive straight under the container for self-loading and unloading.
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The eXtended Transport System (XTS) from Beckhoff Automation is now available in the U.S. The EtherCAT-enabled XTS offers paradigm-shifting capabilities for motion control and mechatronics by combining the advantages of rotary and linear drive principles into a new modular platform. With its compact and flexible design, the advanced mechatronic system can reduce machine footprint up to 50 percent. The XTS promises to revolutionizes drive technology and promotes innovative, globally competitive machine concepts.
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