LONDON – Live event production specialists PR Live supplied all technical elements – lighting, sound and AV – to the recent Friends Fest event, a five day expo-style extravaganza staged at the Boiler House in Brick Lane, east London which celebrated the hugely popular landmark American sitcom, ‘Friends’.
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IPSWITCH, U.K. – HSL supplied ten Robe 600E Spots for a recent production of he classic Cy Coleman musical, Sweet Charity. Along with the moving lights, which were used extensively, the production also featured video scenery using Martin’s EC20 LED video panels.
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TAMPA, FL – For St. Mark The Evangelist Catholic Church, Magnum Audio Group, Inc. provided two Eiki LC-HDT700 7000 lumen ANSI projectors. Magnum Audio president Randi Crooks credited the projectors’ 3LCD+One technology as a key advantage in terms of color saturation for a wide range of applications.
Read More »ATLANTA, GA – This Wednesday is Veterans Day, and for most Americans it’s just another holiday on a calendar filled with holidays that have little or no meaning. But for Rick Cope, CEO of Atlanta, Georgia based NanoLumens Veteran’s Day is celebrated every day of the year.
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NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites announced that it has again been nominated for ‘Lighting Company of the Year’ by Pollstar.
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RICHARDSON, TX – Bobby Dennis, technical director of The Heights Baptist Church, has had success using multi-tasking Rogue RH1 Hybrid fixtures from Chauvet Professional, and not just for the musical performaces staged there. He’s also found the fixtures to be useful for worship services.
WAUKESHA, WI – Blizzard Lighting has expanded into a larger facility in Waukesha, WI in early November. Measuring more than 40,000 square feet, the new facility’s address is: Blizzard Lighting, LLC, N24 W23750 Watertown Rd., Suite B, Waukesha, WI 53188.
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The Luxmax 2HD from Luxmax U.S.A. is a new super high resolution (2.4mm pixel pitch) LED display panel that is engineered to impress. This 4K ready LED solution promises to serve as a superior alternative to traditional projection systems and LCD video walls for many applications, including those where ambient light or glare is an issue. Each lightweight panel is designed and manufactured to the highest standards, ensuring reliable functionality, precision alignment and ease-of-use.
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LONDON – For American Nile Rodgers’ U.K. performances earlier this year, LD Massimo Tomasino was pleased to discover that the Clay Paky fixtures that he specified – which originated in Italy, just like the LD himself – were readily available in the British Isles. He noted that, on the rare occasion where the Alpha Spot HPE 1200s he requested were not available, other Clay Paky fixtures, like the Alpha Spot HPE 700, usually were, and they served as a fitting substitute.
REGGIO EMILIA, Italy — Campovolo 2015 was a 3.5-hour musical celebration of Luciano Ligabue’s 25-year career. Staged at the Reggio Emilia Airport on Sept. 19, the celebration featured a lighting design by Jo Campana. The 150,000 tickets sold for the single-day event had a collective valuation of more than 7 million Euros, setting a record. Agorà Service provided the lighting equipment for the event, which included 220 Sharpys and 60 Alpha Beam 1500s from Clay Paky, the Osram-owned, Italy-based lighting manufacturer.
LAS VEGAS – When a worldwide audience tuned into the CNN Democratic Party presidential debate in Las Vegas, not only were they seeing possibly the next American president, they also saw over 320 Christie MicroTiles displaying graphics behind each presidential hopeful.
Read More »For British band Mumford & Sons’ Wilder Mind tour, lighting and production designer Ed Warren used Robe BMFLs, Martin VDO Sceptron 10s and MAC Quantum… Read More »“Halo64s” Jazz Up the PAR Can for Mumford & Sons
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