RED Lighting Quadro C8 Washes McGill University in Red for Xmas
MONTREAL – McGill University used Quadro C8 fixtures from RED Lighting during the 2013 Christmas season.
RED Lighting Quadro C8 Washes McGill University in Red for Xmas
PixMob LED Headgear Used for Super Bowl Visual Effects
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Custom hats equipped with LED lights allowed fans to become part of the Super Bowl Halftime show and other moments during the game. PixMob’s technology used infrared to control these wearable LED devices, producing multicolor video effects in sync with sounds and visuals.
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Elation Lighting Works Magic on Ehrlich Brothers German Tour
LOS ANGELES – Professional Event Solutions choose Elation Professional lighting solutions for Ehrlich Brothers Magic, the biggest tour ever by a magic act in Germany. PES managing partner Carsten Müller said that speed, output, ease of use played key roles in the decision to go with Elation lighting.
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PR Lighting XR 1000 Spot and Beam Moving Heads
PR Lighting’s Spot and Beam versions of its new XR 1000 moving head, set to launch at Prolight+Sound 2014 in Frankfurt, each house an Osram HTI 1000 W/PS 1000W metal halide lamp within an IP20 plastic chassis. Said to be brighter than a conventional 1200W discharge lamp, the compact units weigh just over 68 pounds.
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Pulsar DataSplitter DS5/DS3
Pulsar’s DataSplitter DS5/DS3 is designed for the distribution, splitting, and regeneration of digital data signals from DC to 500KHz such as a single DMX universe or PMX. The compact 1U 19-inch design provides signal-in and -thru ports in addition to the 8 independent and mains-protected outputs.
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Pandoras Box Compact Player from coolux
The Pandoras Box Compact Player from coolux is a hardware-based media player designed to be compact in size but big on reliability and power, with a SSD 120 GB capacity hard drive and maximum playback resolution of 2 x 1920 x 1080p @ 25/30 frames per second.
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David Guetta Shows in Brazil Lit with Robe Fixtures
SAO PAULO, Brazil — For a nine-date tour in Brazil in January 2014, David Guetta LD Jonathan “Leggy” Armstrong worked with Alex ‘Junior’ Cerio of Smash Productions and Sam MacLaren of LightLab. Some of the locally sourced shows, including those supplied by Apple Produções, had a variety of Robe fixtures in the rig. The lighting setups complemented distinctive video looks created via Ben Brett’s Pilot video control system.
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Julie Taymor’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Gets AV Support from WorldStage
BROOKLYN, NY — There’s only a judicious amount of character flying in Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the first production to be staged in the compact but versatile Polonsky Shakespeare Center, which opened here last fall, and, as Taymor wryly noted in an interview in The New York Times, the odds of production snags arising from hastily updated scripts were even less remote. Even so, the production, with set design by Es Devlin, had its own unique challenges and complexities. WorldStage provided a video assist.
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Rig for “A Night with Janis Joplin” Includes Elation Platinum Beams
NEW YORK — Lighting designer Justin Townsend (Here Lies Love and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) specified Elation Platinum Beam 5R moving heads for the Broadway musical A Night with Janis Joplin. The production was staged at the Lyceum Theatre here.
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RAH Christmas Show Cued with Jands Vista T4
LONDON — Royal Albert Hall used their Jands Vista T4 console to control the lighting for the venue’s 2013 Christmas Spectacular – its first holiday show collaboration with classic music promoter Raymond Gubbay.
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Top Gear Live Debuts in Scotland with Assist from PRG
GLASGOW — Top Gear Live made its debut in Scotland with five shows from Jan. 17-19. Based on the British TV show, and featuring presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May along with show character, “The Stig,” the production included a variety of live stunts and challenges. PRG supported the event’s lighting and rigging needs.
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Southern Lighting Solutions Lights Boxing Gala in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG — Southern Lighting Solutions LD Sean Boyce lit a The Floyd Mayweather ‘Reawakening the Giant’ gala dinner. The event was held to boost the profile of boxing in South Africa and to raise funds for the inauguration of the Baby Jake Boxing Academy in Soweto.
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