LONDON – Avolites announced more of its free weekly one-hour GoToMeeting online training sessions originating from the company’s headquarters here. The online seminars cover various topics related to Avolites and Avolites Media products. The latest announcement covers Thursday meetings set from March 20 through April 24.
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NEW YORK — The Rolling Stones postponed seven shows in Australia and New Zealand and flew back to New York after the sudden death of L’Wren Scott, Mick Jagger’s longtime girlfriend, on March 17. The shows had been set to run from March 19 to April 5. The band’s 2014 “14 on Fire” tour, a follow-up to 2013’s “50 and Counting,” pictured here, began in late February with shows in the Middle East and Asia. The tour is set to resume in Europe in late May.
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CLEVELAND, OH — The Cleveland Cavaliers honored the career of former player Zydrunas “The Z” Ilgauskas, retiring his #11 during a March 8, 2014 ceremony at the Quicken Loans Arena here. Quince Imaging worked with the Cavs’ QTV team and Think Media. The project involved mapped projections and a 3600×1878 pixel space using 16 HD projectors. The creative team used Pandoras Box v5.5 and the latest version of Warper. Fans could live-tweet comments to two 16-by-28-foot projection screens hanging high atop the arena.
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ARLINGTON, TX – Staging Concepts is working with the Colonnade Group entertainment and sports production company to get Cowboys Stadium (now called AT&T Stadium) ready for the 70,000 attending the 2014 NCAA basketball semifinals and championship April 5 and April 7. Crews will bring in more than 6,000 staging platforms spanning more than 106,000 square feet. The transformation, starting March 20, will take about 10 days to complete.
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The Mega-Lite Axis QD7 from Mega Systems Inc. is a compact moving head beam with pixel control allowing for unique visual looks. The unit’s seven 12W RGBW quad color LED modules are individually programmable. Compared with RGB LED fixtures, the RGBW design is sait to allow for smoother color washing and improved pastel shades. Each LED has a relatively narrow 8° beam, making the fixture’s effects punchy and bold.
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ETC adds to its LED offerings with two new products: the Source Four LED Series 2, which promises to serve as a powerful spotlight with the most expansive color spectrum possible from an LED luminaire (pictured here); and the Source Four Mini LED, an energy-efficient version of ETC’s tiniest fixture.
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LONDON – For a recent tour of U.K. arenas, LDs Cate Carter and Pablo Beckett of Bryte Design expanded their video-centered set design to include some of XL Video’s newer LED products – the Radiant MC-18 Hybrid, Radiant MC-7T, Radiant MC-18T and Pixled F-12 screens. XL Video also supplied cameras, a Catalyst media server for playback and PPU and crew for the tour, which brought Goulding’s ongoing Halcyon Days trek from the earlier theatre-sized production to a larger version for arena-sized venues.
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LONDON – LD Jonny Gaskell included Robe moving lights for the latest UK leg of Rudimental’s ongoing tour. The rig for the tour, which visited both theatre- and arena-sized venues, included 28 Robe Robin MMX Spots and 34 Robin LEDWash 600s. The fixtures worked with a key visual element for the shows – a backdrop inspired by the Hackney Peace Memorial mural, created for the stage by Hangman. Colour Sound Experiment provided the gear.
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WILTSHIRE, U.K. – An installation at Stonehenge’s visitor center got an AV assist from Electrosonic to help newcomers experience the ancient stone formation. One of the main highlights is the ‘Standing in the Stones’ exhibit, a 360-degree virtual experience. Installed by Electrosonic, the exhibit lets visitors stand in a virtual Stonehenge as it is today and in the past. The three-minute film, based on state-of-the-art laser scan images of the stone circle, transports viewers back in time, experiencing the summer and winter solstices of long ago.
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FRANKFURT – German Light Products celebrated 20 years at the recent Prolight+Sound Show here earlier this month. Udo Künzler, who founded the company in 1994, hosted a get-together attended by the company’s distributors and members of the press. The event, also attended by Kasper Gissel and Mark Ravenhill, featured some of the company’s products hits (and misses) along with observations by industry-leading LDs who have relied upon the gear.
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