NEW YORK – The deadline for ordering 2015 Behind the Scenes Holiday Cards is Sept. 14, 2015. These unique cards were created especially for Behind the Scenes by designers William Ivey Long, Robert Mendoza, Bruce Rodgers, Court Watson, Paul Weimer, and Paige Weintraut.
CHICAGO – Zac Brown Band’s Jekyll + Hyde North American Stadium Tour presented by Bai is the band’s largest tour to date and features a production design created by James Scott and Louis Oliver, of UK-based creative specialist Okulus. The design includes several moving elements with a Kinesys control system at its core.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Auerbach Pollock Friedlander noted that Steve Pollock has been with the design firm for 30 years. He joined the company’s San Francisco office in 1985 and was named Vice President in 1993. He has been responsible for the planning, programming, design and management of hundreds of national and international projects during his tenure.
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IBIZA – The high-profile team behind Heart, a recent addition to Ibiza’s thriving summer nightlife scene, turned to Belgium-based Arf & Yes for the nightspot’s lighting design, which needed to be flexible for a variety of performances staged there. Featured fixtures include 112 Rogue R1 Washes from Chauvet Professional, supplied by Stonex Show Lighting.
EUGENE, OR – Sublime with Rome hit the road for a North American summer tour featuring 37 concerts coast to coast. Lighting designer Scott Warner of Karate Pinky Visual Design, LLC, Pittsburgh, selected Clay Paky Sharpys, Sharpy Washes and A.leda B-EYE K20s for the tour.
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CHESHIRE, U.K. – Euroscreens Ltd. recently added Calibre LEDView530 to its inventory to support productions requiring big screens and video switcher-scalers. Pictured here is one such production, Sky TV’s BoxNation.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — For a one-off show featuring Blood Brothers, a supergroup of popular South Africa-based artists, Magz Schoeman, head of lighting at Johannesburg’s Carnival City Big Top venue, put together a rig centered on Robe fixtures that included Pointes, MMX Spots, LEDWash 600s and 300s, LEDBeam 100s and PARFect 100s.
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LAHTI, Finland – A light art installation, Valokaivo (Light Well), invites passersby to activate lighting changes by stepping on the artwork’s protective glass panel. Studiotec supplied the Martin VC-Dots for the media surface and the reActor Media server used for the installation, which was designed by Studio Lux Nova and Marjut Kauppinen. The Invisible developed the interactive digital content and installed the IP camera motion tracking.
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VORDINGBORG, Denmark — LD Kasper Lange included Ayrton MagicBlade-R fixtures for the recent Dizzy Mizz Lizzy tour of Denmark, which kicked off with six shows in April and May and continued to take in the majority of this summer’s festivals. Lange specified 65 MagicBlade-R units, sourced via Ayrton’s Danish distributor, Bico Professionel A/S, and supplied by LiteCom A/S.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – The U.K.’s big Parklife festival was staged June 6-7 at Manchester’s 600-acre Heaton Park by The Warehouse Project. Clay Paky fixtures were well-represented at the event. Event production house Audile supplied 12 Mythos, 16 Stormy CC strobes, 96 Sharpys, 12 Alpha Spot HPE 700 and eight Alpha Beam 700 fixtures. The fixtures were rigged on The Temple outdoor stage and several of the Big Top arenas and used to light artists such as Nas and Brit and FKA Twigs.
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BOSTON – Visionary Light & Media (VLM), led by LD Michael Creason, recently turned to 4Wall New York for the lighting gear needed for LPL Focus at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. 4Wall supplied Martin MAC Auras, Martin MAC Vipers and ETC Source Four Ellipsoidals and Pars.
NORTHRIDGE, CA — Harman announced three new strategic business units (SBUs) and named the people in charge. They are, respectively, the Entertainment SBU (Bryan Bradley), the Enterprise SBU (Kevin Morrison) and the Products SBU (Mark Ureda).
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