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Robe Welcomes Chinese New Year in London

Robe Welcomes Chinese New Year in London

As Chinese New Year celebrations kicked off around the world, Robe Lighting was involved in some of the highest profiles shows around the world including the massive celebrations in London’s Trafalgar Square. The event featured an afternoon of onstage entertainment culminating in a massive son et lumière extravaganza finale show to welcome the Year of the Horse. Three straight trusses were dead-hung below the roof of the 15 metre wide Star Events Alpha Stage to provide all the onstage lighting positions, to which were added eight each of Robe’s ROBIN Pointes, ROBIN MMX Spots and ROBIN LEDWash 600s and 16 x ROBIN LEDBeam 100s. For general washes, they added in some 2K fresnels.

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Tim Kohlmeyer

In Memoriam: Timothy L. Kohlmeyer, 60

LOUISVILLE, NE— Tim Kohlmeyer, co-founder of Theatrical Media Services, Inc. (TMS), died Dec. 25, 2013. He was 60. Raised by farming parents, Ted and Vi, in Fairbury, NE, Tim was remembered for a relentless work ethic and the pursuit of perfection along with professionalism and integrity.

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Immersive Creates EPIC 2.0 Experience for Eric Prydz US Dates

Raising the stakes of EDM visuals, Eric Prydz’s EPIC 2.0 tour features an enormous set incorporating LED screens rather than projection surfaces, lasers, holograms, smoke machines and other visual effects. Influenced by Immersive’s creative director John Munro’s passion for brutalist and minimalist architecture, the set situated Prydz in a giant structure that overlapped the audience, made from LED screens onto which visual content was displayed. Munro drew from a visual concept, The Manmade In Nature in parallel with How Nature Influences the Manmade, to create the sublimely striking, dark images that accompanied the show.

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Le Maitre Salamander Quad Pro

Le Maitre Salamander Quad Pro

Le Maitre calls its new Salamander Quad Pro the “big brother” to the Salamander flame units introduced last year. A four-canister system, the Salamander Quad Pro can be operated with each canister firing independently. Operators can also choose multiple colors, allowing for a variety of visual effects from a single machine — either sequentially (for increased effect duration) or at the same time (for a much bigger single flame). There are up to 120 hits in total, with flames reaching 4 meters in height.

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