JOHANNESBURG – For the new 3,000 capacity auditorium at Rivers Church’s Sandton Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, technical manager Ed Helliwell opted to install a Robe-centered rig. There are now 18 LEDWash 1200s, 10 Pointes, eight DL4S Profiles and eight miniPointes. They join 26 LEDBeam 100s purchased a few months earlier from Robe’s South African distributor, DWR.
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SANTA CLARA, CA – At Super Bowl 50, there was no shortage of temporary broadcast studios and stage structures to accommodate all the sports media covering the big game. Filmwerks International, based in Rocky Point, NC, handled the design, construction, and power for many of the studios. Filmwerks used nearly 1,000 pieces of ModTruss to erect seven broadcast structures including multiple NFL Network Super Bowl structures in the Media Center, field location, and at the Super Bowl City main entrance. Filmwerks also built the CBS Sports’ Stadium location and provided additional support for the flying camera systems.
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SALT LAKE CITY – USITT’s 2016 Annual Conference & Stage Expo comes to Salt Lake City March 16-19. More than 5,000 members of the production industry are expected to attend the event, which promises to turn the Salt Palace Convention Center into a spectacle of lights, projection, costumes, props, sound and special effects from fog to flying.
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Blizzard Lighting expands its TOURnado family with the IP 65 rated TOURnado CSI COB. The fixture lets users add very bright Ultra Violet light with a wide 60° beam angle thanks to its installed 100W UV color COB LED. COB technology provides very intense light, which is produced via multiple small LED chips that are packaged together into one tiny, yet very powerful module.
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FARMINGDALE, NY — Group One Limited tapped Sound Vision Marketing to serve as the latest independent sales representative for its elektraLite division. Tyler Wise, Group One’s national sales manager for the brand, made the announcement. Sound Vision Marketing Managing Partners Tim Dykes (left) and Victor Clites (right), who are now servicing the elektraLite brand in Florida and Puerto Rico, are pictured here.
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MARBURG, Germany – Every year, during Marburg b(u)y Night, Marburg city center lights up: more than sixty public and private buildings become the stars of the show, and the shops stay open until midnight. The centerpiece of the event this year was the “Blickpunkt Schloss” project: the medieval landgraves’ castle was lit up on the hour and half hour starting from 6 pm with a time coded light and music show. Flashlight Veranstaltungstechnik GmbH saw to the event’s lighting needs. LD/programmer/operator Sebastian Haffer used 39 Clay Paky Mythos units with a grandMA light and onPC command wing for control.
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TRENTO, Italy – Singer/songwriter Nek toured through his native Italy in October, November and December on his “Prima di Parlare” (Before You Talk) tour. Sponsored by Radio Italia, the shows featured a set by Giò Forma’s Claudio Santucci that included a large LED wall and a lighting design by Francesco De Cave. The LD chose Clay Paky fixtures in the rig, including Sharpys and Alpha Spot HPE 700s, supplied by Agora.
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FRANKFURT – Philips Entertainment Lighting noted Pro Light + Sound highlights for 2016 that include the first Platinum lamp-based luminaire in the company’s formerly LED-only Showline group – the SL HYDRUS 350. The SL HYDRUS 350 will be joined by some of the latest Philips Showline products, including the SL PUNCHLITE 220, the SL STRIP 10IP, SL BAR 510 and the SL BEAM 300 FX.
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NASHVILLE – For country act Maddie & Tae, LD Larry Foote is providing a multitude of distinctive lighting looks with one fixture: the Nexus 4×4 COB LED panel from Chauvet Professional. Foote positioned the Nexus panels on upstage pipe and base stands. The ability to light individual cells on each fixture in different configurations allows for the same fixtures to provide many different looks and effects.
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Exalux adds to its line of professional LED lights for filmmaking or television studio set, the ROCK – a squared LED panel. Designed in collaboration with filmmakers, gaffers and directors of photography, the company calls the ROCK an “all-terrain lighting system.”
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WEST MIDLANDS, U.K. – Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) supplied full technical production – video, sound and LED lighting – to the 2016 SEMTA Awards, staged in the Ballroom at the Park Lane Hilton hotel in London. The Senior Skills Council for Science, Engineering & Manufacturing Technologies (SEMTA) is a not-for-profit organization specializing in engineering training in the UK, and this prestigious annual Awards event recognizes excellence within their various nationwide apprenticeship schemes.
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WASHINGTON, DC – John Farr, president and CEO of John Farr Lighting Design, oversees event design and production services for events at Washington DC’s most prominent venues. He was impressed with the Ovation E-910FC RGBA-Lime color mixing ellipsoidal from Chauvet Professional and opted to add it to his company’s inventory. The fixtures can be seen here lighting the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC
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