NASHVILLE – For the University of Tennessee’s first ‘State of the University’ event at St. Thomas West Hospital, Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the event at no cost in an ongoing effort to give back to its local community. Bandit provided LED pars and complemented the auditorium’s house rig for the event.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Along with plans to give USITT attendees a close look at product innovations such as the ETC Source 4WRD LED unit, pictured with a Source Four fixture here, ETC has big plans to celebrate their 40th anniversary at USITT with other recent product introductions, such as the company’s latest additions to its ColorSource product line, ETC’s new Irideon FPZ framing projector, and a sneak peek at a forthcoming expansion of the company’s control offerings. The latter brings the company full circle, in a way, because the company got its start with a control product back in 1975.
Read More »ORLANDO – Alcorn McBride, Inc. marked its 30th anniversary by celebrating its position as the leading manufacturer of show control, audio and video equipment for the theme park industry. The company got its start by founder and CEO Steve Alcorn in 1986 after his experiences working on behalf of Disney World’s EPCOT helped inspire the launch of the company. Prior to the company’s launch, Alcorn served as vice president of engineering for Linn Electronics, an electronic musical instrument manufacturer. The company is now based in Orlando, FL.
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MACAU, China – Mojo Barriers supplied a variety of barrier products for the front of stage and front of house production areas, for the European leg and two Asian tour dates of Madonna’s Rebel Heart World Tour. Rebel Heart Tour is the tenth worldwide tour from Madonna and supports the release of her 13th studio album of the same name. The tour kicked off Sept. 9, 20165 in Montreal, Canada and ran for six months, visiting 22 countries worldwide. Mojo Barriers was contracted to ensure audience and artist safety for all of Madonna’s 25 European tour dates, as well as at her shows in Taipei and Macau, which both took place in February 2016.
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TULSA, OK – Tim Ottley, Lighting Director for Asbury United Methodist Church, Tulsa, has been using ArKaos’ MediaMaster PRO on an ArKaos PRO Stadium Server to create immersive projection mapping visuals within the interior of the church. Working with a graphic designer, Jason Yang, of Invisible Element, Ottley created an animated narrative of the Easter story as an introduction to the service that followed.
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UK – American pop-punk fusion band All Time Low toured five of Britain’s biggest arenas in February, stunning fans with a bigger, brighter and more powerful lighting show by Jeff Maker using his Avolites Sapphire Touch console. All Time Low scored a UK number one album in 2015 with Future Hearts, elevating them to arena status with legions of new fans. Their long time lighting designer Maker responded by conceiving a sense of the design ‘being alive, to achieve the ultimate engaging experience for the audience.’
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BOSTON – The band, Lettuce, touring in support of their jazz-and-funk infused Nov. 6, 2015 album release, Crush, are performing with a visual design from production designer Gabe Fraboni and lighting designer Wiley Cutler that includes a collection of Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional. The rig, supplied by 4Wall Entertainment, includes six Rogue R2 Spot fixtures and six Rogue R1 Washes.
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SALT LAKE CITY – City Theatrical will be demonstrating some innovative new technology at USITT in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 17th – 19th, 2014 (Booth 219), including SHoW DMX SHoW Baby 6, QolorStripTM Wireless LED Strip, QPin300TM Wireless Magnetic Pin Spot, QFlood 7500TM Wireless LED Floodlight, QolorFlexTM LED Demo Kit, and a big new product that we can’t announce until the show.
Read More »MIAMI – TOMCAT, the largest truss and support structure manufacturer in the Americas, has established a new office in Miami, Florida responsible for Central and South America – Tomcat / James Thomas Engineering Latin America. The office will be led by 27 year entertainment industry veteran Jose Luis Rosche, President / Owner of Roc-Off Productions.
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AMSTERDAM – Calibre featured its first ever-combined video and audio 4K scaler-switchers at ISE 2016 in Amsterdam last month. The seires includes four new models: HQView620A, HQView625A, HQView630A and HQView670A.
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DETROIT – Burst has moved it’s Detroit-based headquarters to a larger location. The new 30,000 square foot facility features a 20,000 square foot warehouse with a load bearing roof, two levels of sales and administrative offices as well as multiple pre-visualization rooms for pre lighting production and programming. The new location is at 6774 Brandt St., Romulus, MI 48174. Burst also announced the launch of an 8,000 square foot, full production/rental facility in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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LOS ANGELES – At Prelite Studios, the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show got underway long before fans cheered headliners Coldplay and veteran Super Bowl guest performers Beyonce and Bruno Mars. The show’s lighting designer Bob Barnhart, lighting director David Grill and lighting director/programmer Peter Radice used Prelite’s previsualization services – and a special custom solution – to get a jump on working with the actual lighting rig at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The team has used Prelite for the last three Super Bowl Halftime Shows.
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