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Three-Day Dragonland Festival in Hong Kong Lit with Rig Including GLP X4 LED Fixtures

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Three-Day Dragonland Festival in Hong Kong Lit with Rig Including GLP X4 LED Fixtures

HONG KONG – A new three-day music festival, Dragonland, made its debut on the Hong Kong event scene recently. Billed as the region’s first outdoor festival to combine pop with EDM, it joins Clockenflap as the only large-scale event of its kind in Hong Kong. Promoted by Playerone, a crowd of 15,000 people per day had been estimated, and in terms of production AHM Engineering supplied 20 of GLP’s award-winning X4 Bar 10 battens and 90 impression X4, as one of the mainstays of the stage set.

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LD Björn Hermann used 60 Claypaky Mythos2 and 20 Claypaky Supersharpy2 fixtures at the Crystal Worlds attraction.

Swarovski Crystal World Festival of Light Lit with Claypaky Fixtures

WATTENS, Austria – LD Björn Hermann used 60 Claypaky Mythos2 and 20 Claypaky Supersharpy2 fixtures to deliver two large light sculptures as part of global crystal producer Swarovski’s Festival of Light, hosted at their 17-acre fantasy park Swarovski Kristallwelten (Crystal Worlds) in Wattens, Austria. Lead creative agency for Festival of Light was Berlin-based international creative production company StudioNOW, who originated the project’s concept.

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Rafael Adame and Tony Linares

ARRI Rental Opens Boutique Offices In Los Angeles and Vancouver, Adds Two to Burbank, CA Office

LOS ANGELES – ARRI Rental opened new “boutique” offices in Los Angeles and Vancouver, BC, Canada. Sarah Mather will oversee the Vancouver facility as Operations Manager. The company also announced that Rafael Adame and Tony Linares, pictured here, L-R, are joining the company’s Burbank, CA office. Both bring over 20 years of experience to ARRI Rental. As Technical Marketing Executive Rafael will be a key member of the ALEXA 65 support team for North America. Tony will manage key operational departments including prep, warehouse, logistics and inventory control in the role of Operations Manager.

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DTS Lighting Takes Stratosphere Theater To New Heights

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LAS VEGAS — The Stratosphere Theater, within the Stratosphere hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, is a busy place, with up to three different productions a day, all of which feature unique lighting requirements. Director of entertainment Chris Townsend credited DTS for the performance of 28 new Max L moving lights that have been installed in the venue since January.

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Staging Concepts' new Uplift Stage features a drill operated design.

Staging Concepts Updates its Uplift Stage with Drill-Operated Design

Staging Concepts, a provider of custom staging solutions based in Minneapolis, launched its second generation Uplift® Stage. Reconstructed with a new design, the product now requires no manual lifting and is 100 percent drill operated. The platform is a scissor stage that is raised and lowered with an electric drill, allowing users to setup quickly, efficiently, and with the least amount of effort.

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Advanced Absorbs APG Displays To Create New Videowall Division That Offers Full Integration Services

ORLANDO — After spinning off APG Displays’ rental business into APG Rentals in 2016 to provide a more dedicated rental service, Advanced, a leading North American systems integration firm, announced on March 21 that all of its APG Displays sales and installation sectors will be integrated into a new division of Advanced, the Advanced Videowall Group.

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St. George Leagues Club Casino in Sydney

Sydney Casino Redesigns Video Content Distribution with Gefen Solution

SYDNEY – Gary Garr, executive manager of the St. George Leagues Club Casino in Sydney, Australia worked with WED Group services & integration manager Matthew Joyce on a video upgrade that included a redesign of the casino’s content distribution system. It now includes Gefen’s 1080p Video Over IP solutions to distribute video graphics to the casino’s 100 displays.

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Elation Professional Proteus Hybrid and Proteus Beam fixtures are now available.

Elation to Feature Proteus Line at 2017 Prolight+Sound

Elation Professional will feature its new Proteus line of IP-rated arc-source moving heads at this year’s Prolight + Sound exhibition, set to take place at Messe Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany from April 4-7 at Hall 4 Stand F60/61. Both the Proteus Hybrid and Proteus Beam (pictured here, L-R), are now available.  Proteus is a next-tier product line of IP-rated moving lights built specifically to empower designer creativity. Compact, robust and budget-friendly, Proteus fixtures are designed to unleash creative vision and excel under any conditions. Proteus will debut alongside other Elation innovations like the new Artiste DaVinci, a full-featured and high-output theatrical-grade LED moving head spot luminaire. A number of other cutting-edge products are set to impress as well including the new Platinum 1200 Wash, Elation’s brightest LED wash to date, and the flexible 7-color Platinum Seven LED wash luminaire.

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Bonobo tours to support new album

Migrating with Bonobo

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LONDON – Colour Sound Experiment supplied a lighting and video floor package for the latest run of live shows by talented music producer Bonobo (Simon Green), with a brand new lighting look for the stage designed by Will Thomas.The tour is in support of Bonobo’s recent UK Top 5 album, “Migration”, released in January on independent label Ninja Tune Records. Will Thomas has previously worked on Bonobo’s extensive “Black Sands” and ‘The North Borders” tours, which culminated at the end of 2014 with a sellout show at London’s Alexandra Palace.

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