LD Martin Thomas of Relentless Entertainment Design LLC informed us of a new DVD/Blu-ray release of the Alan Parsons Symphonic Project, Live in Colombia, which was originally performed in Medellín in the late Aug. 2013. While Thomas designed and directed the show, video director David Davidian directed the cameras and cuts live.
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Checking e-mails: a few days after another successful corporate awards show. Okay, maybe there were a few minor goofs, but I’ve always been taught to just forget about those and move on. Don’t worry about stuff you can’t do anything about, right?
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HEUVELLAND, Belgium – Clouseau, the maverick pop / rock band from Belgium, hit the road this summer with a new album Clouseau Danst (Clouseau Dances); a new sonic dynamic with the addition of a four-piece horn section; plus a vibrant new set and lighting design from leading European creative design practice, Painting with Light. Coruna Lights is providing Chauvet Professional fixtures for the tour, including Chauvet’s Rogue R2 Wash and RH1 Hybrid Spot fixtures.
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LAS VEGAS – 4Wall Entertainment Lighting named Jeanette Farmer National Operations Manager for its Systems and Design Division, a new position. Farmer will oversee 4Wall’s nationwide project management and after-sales technical support for the company’s rapidly growing System Integration division.
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AUSTIN, TX – LD and event designer Sohail E. Najafi used FLEXCurve 8mm curved LED video panels from PixelFLEX to transform Austin’s Scoot Inn for Cleft Clips, which was setting the stage for Funny or Die, the Emmy-winning comedy video website and film/TV production company founded by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy. The Funny or Die Junction event took place during SXSW in mid-March.
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LAS VEGAS – At InfoComm 16, Calibre is launching a streaming video input option for the company’s 7th-generation HQView600 series presentation scaler-switchers, LEDView700 series LED scaler-switchers and HQUltra700 series live events scaler-switchers. Pictured here is Tim Brooksbank, CEO.
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LIBERTY, MO — Pleasant Valley Church has installed 120 Chroma-Q Inspire color-mixing LED house lights. Stark Raving Solutions worked with Chroma-Q distributor A.C. Lighting on an LED house light “shoot out” before replacing the church’s existing 500W incandescent house lights. The goal was to provide an immersive worship environment for its congregation and to dramatically reduce the venue’s ongoing operating costs.
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LAS VEGAS — Underscoring the growing number of ways for ProAV resellers to profit by incorporating unmanned aerial vehicles into their immediate business development programs, Stampede hosted eight subject-specific seminars at InfoComm 2016 at Booth #N-168, beginning Wednesday, June 8th and running through Friday, June 10th. The seminars were co-hosted by Unmanned Vehicle University.
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LONDON – The Deftones, whose tour last fall was disrupted by the Paris attacks, arrived at Wembley’s SSE Arena at the beginning of June to play a large scale one-off show. The London show kicked off a series of European festival dates including Germany’s Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park, Greenfield in Switzerland, Download in the UK and France, and Iceland’s Secret Solstice, with lighting support from Entec throughout the run. Entec’s full production lighting for the Wembley show included Ayrton Magicblade-R LED battens, Clay Paky Sharpy moving beams, Martin MAC Aura XB compact LED wash lights and MAC Viper Performance and Profile models, a large array of Atomic 3000 Strobes with colors and copious amounts of generic light sources.
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The Laserworld Group started distributing Lasergraph DSP in April 2016, making the high-end DSP show control systems more affordable through a new licensing model. Due to “Master-Slave” licensing it is possible to combine several low priced slave-units with one master unit only. Along with the pricing structure, the user interface has changed with the latest release of the LG-Remote remote control software for the DSP. Laserworld notes that the redesign and partial rearrangement of features dramatically improved the look and feel of the software itself.
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DALLAS – Dallas and San Francisco based production company Casadonte Productions has been hired to live stream the National Xball League (NXL) paintball events for GoSports.com. To accomplish their tasks they chose to use a variety of Blackmagic Design products, including three Blackmagic Studio Camera 4Ks, ATEM production switchers and a Smart Videohub router.
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SAN FRANCISCO – For Nada Surf’s ongoing “20 year tour” (as referenced, tongue-in-cheek, by frontman Matthew Caws), LD Dinah Miller turned to Squeek Lights for a lighting rig that includes a collection of Rogue and Nexus fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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