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Sasquatch Festival Celebrates 15 Years

The Cure at Sasquatch

Sasquatch Festival Celebrates 15 Years

QUINCY, WA – The Sasquatch! Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheater celebrated its 15th year with headlining sets from Disclosure, Major Lazer, The Cure (pictured here), Sufjan Stevens (pictured below), and Florence and the Machine. Stageworks Seattle provided lighting design and production on the main stage. The flown lighting rig was used by almost all of the headlining bands with minimal augmentation. The rig featured Martin MAC Viper Wash DX, Viper Profiles, Elation Platinum Beams, LED strobes, and 93,600 watts of DWE blinders. The gear was provided by Christie Lites’ Seattle office.

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2016 Hog Factor Competition Deadline is June 30

2016 Hog Factor Competition Deadline is June 30

AUSTIN, TX. – High End Systems notes that its Hog Factor 2016 competition is still open for enrollment to all qualifying college and university students, but that Phase One of the contest will close on June 30, 2016. Following Phase 1 of the competition, three teams will be whisked away to the Live Finals, set for Friday Oct. 21 at 5pm on the High End Systems booth at LDI in Las Vegas. The finalists will compete to win a $20,000 scholarship and Hog 4 for their University as well as each a HedgeHog 4X for themselves.

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Bryan Azar and designers Adam Crankshaw and Alex Soto of ILIOS Lighting Design used 300 Epix Strip 2.0 units with domes.

For Samsung Fest, Ilios Uses Epix Fixtures from Chauvet Professional

AUSTIN, TX — Although it has rarely been praised before for its aesthetic appeal, the abandoned Austin Downtown Post Office generated more than a few double-takes after Bryan Azar and designers Adam Crankshaw and Alex Soto of ILIOS Lighting Design used 300 ÉPIX Strip 2.0 units with domes to add visual interest for the Samsung Galaxy Life Fest, which took place during SXSW 2016. Most of the 1-meter strips were mounted on the ceiling to form a chevron pattern over the dance floor. The remaining strips were used to created lines and borders around the on-stage truss lines.

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The control setup included Avolites' Sapphire Touch, Tiger Touch II and Fader Wing, Quartz, Ai Infinity media server and ART2000 48" Dimmer racks.

Avolites Controls Fast-Paced Rave Lighting for Cream Tours at T13 Warehouse

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — More than 3,500 revelers partied ’til the small hours at for the legendary dance event Cream Tours at Belfast’s T13 warehouse on Saturday, April 30. Event promoter Notorious Parties welcomed the return of the iconic night with its cast of DJing elite including; dance music giant John O’Callaghan, Bryan Kearney, Will Atkinson, Standerwick, Agnelli and Nelson and Anthony Probyn. Event lighting designer John McGuinness of Just Lite Productions looked after the lighting for the event. The control setup included Avolites’ Sapphire Touch, Tiger Touch II and Fader Wing, Quartz, Ai Infinity media server and ART2000 48″ Dimmer racks.

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Jaguars Select Nanolumens For New Video Installation

JACKSONVILLE, FL – The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars recently announced that NanoLumens, a manufacturer of LED displays, has been selected to outfit the newly renovated US Assure Clubs inside EverBank Field with new video gear. NanoLumens will be installing six 2.5mm NanoSlim Engage displays across both the East and West US Assure Clubs, including a screen in each lower club area measuring 19 feet by 11 feet.

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The 13th Download Festival featured headline performances from Rammstein, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden

Download Festival Gets Serious Stages

[caption id="attachment_270207" align="alignnone" width="800"]The 13th Download Festival featured headline performances from Rammstein, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden[/caption]

LEICESTERSHIRE, U.K. – More than 100 bands performed on Serious Stages in front of 80,000 rock fans, as Serious supplied staging and ancillary structures to Download Festival, which was held in Leicestershire from June 10-12. The 13th Download Festival featured headline performances from Rammstein, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden, with Serious providing the stages for rock royalty and structures to house their production equipment.

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The 2016 Duftstars Awards were held May 12 at Kraftwerk Berlin. Photo by Jonas Janczyk

Perfume Industry’s Awards Show in Berlin Lit with Elation Platinum FLX Fixtures

BERLIN – Full service production company satis&fy provided the entertainment technology and decorative atmosphere for the 2016 Duftstars Awards in Berlin, the German perfume industry’s premier accolade, and used their new stock of Elation Professional Platinum FLX™ hybrid moving heads on the event. The Fragrance Foundation of Germany announced the winners of the awards at a presentation ceremony held on May 12th at Kraftwerk Berlin.

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The lighting rig included lighting rig featured 86 Robe moving lights, including 52 Pointes, 30 LEDWash 800s and four LEDWash 300s. Photo by Louise Stickland

Arf & Yes Uses 86 Robe Fixtures for ‘Voice in Flanders’

GHENT, Belgium — Arf & Yes provided the design for the Voice van Vlaanderan (Voice of Flanders), which was staged in Hall 8 of the Ghent Expo center with a live audience of 3,000. Led owner and founder, Ignace D’Haese, the Arf & Yes design team provided stage, set, lighting and video. The lighting rig included lighting rig featured 86 Robe moving lights, including 52 Pointes, 30 LEDWash 800s and four LEDWash 300s.

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The multi-beam, mirrored displays generated by the Ninja 5RX make it an ideal centerpiece effect for mobile DJs working parties and events.

ADJ Ninja 5RX

ADJ’s Ninja 5RX is a new multi-beam effect fixture with four independently tilting mirrors and a range of color/GOBO effects. It makes use of the Philips MSD Platinum 5R discharge lamp, co-engineered with ADJ. The fixture promises to give users the ability to scatter slicing beams of light around the room, stage or dance-floor, for an eye-catching, crowd-pleasing display.

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EDC 2016

EDC Fatality Reported

LAS VEGAS — No fatalities had been reported immediately after this year’s Electric Daisy Carnival festival held at Las Vegas Motor Speedway June 17-19. But one attendee who collapsed from suspected heat stroke at about 6 a.m. after the event’s third night of revelry was hospitalized and did not recover. Kenani Kaimuloa, 20, from the San Diego area, was declared brain-dead and taken off life support.

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The festival, which was staged once again in London's Victoria Park, took place June 11-12, 2016

London’s Field Day Turns to Colour Sound Experiment for 10th Year of Support

LONDON – Leading UK Lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment celebrated 10 years of being a main technical supplier to Field Day – one of London’s premier and most popular urban music events, staged in Victoria Park, Hackney. Lighting was designed to be as flexible as possible to deal with the dynamic line-up of DJs and live acts which included legendary French electronica duo Air headlining on the Sunday.

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