SAN FERNANDO, CA – Artistic Licence named TMB as its exclusive distributor in the U.S. for nanoScope, the pocket-sized tester for DMX512 and RDM. Following its launch last year, nanoScope has quickly become a much-coveted gadget for professional lighting technicians.
ATLANTA – Active Production and Design has recently added several dozen Elation Professional Platinum Series moving heads to its inventory. The addition of Platinum Profile 35 Pro and Platinum Spot 15R Pro moving heads complements Active’s expansive lighting inventory. Pictured here is Matt Clouser, Active Production and Design’s owner, with the new fixtures.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – PT. Prima Global Indomedia’s D’Six Studio upgraded recently with more than 40 SGM P-5 TW (tunable white wash lights) and 40 Q-7 W (white flood, blind and strobe) fixtures fitted with eight-way barn doors and accessory holders.
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MOONACHIE, NJ- If you’re a DJ or event professional in the New York area, you’ll want to attend next month’s event geared towards helping you create the right setting for wild parties, upscale weddings, black-tie socials, and more.
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ArKaos Pro, CORE Lighting, JB Lighting, Sennheiser & Wireless Solution gear on stand EG37 at the Event Production Show in London.
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SYRACUSE, NY – Entertainment artists who like designing on the fly – or watching a Chopped-style real-life challenge – will get their chance at USITT 2015 in Cincinnati. Among the 275 sessions, events, and activities at the Duke Energy Convention Center March 18-21 are several “game show” competitions asking designers to create on deadline.
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TAMPA, FL – Usher kicked off his current “The UR Experience” tour in November with Elation Professional’s award-winning Sniper multi-effect light used extensively throughout the show as a key accent element including laser simulation. The Sniper, Elation’s new beam, scanner and laser simulator in one, has been used on a growing number of shows and special events since its launch last October, both in the U.S. and abroad.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany — Riedel Communications named Cameron O’Neill as the company’s director for the Asia-Pacific region. O’Neill will be based in Tokyo, working to build the Riedel presence there into a robust East Asian hub for Riedel design, sales, support, and service.
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SOESTERBERG, The Netherlands – For The Netherlands’ National Military Museum (NMM), Amsterdam-based agency Rapenburg Plaza was in charge of the lighting design, AV and control systems. The agency opted for 42 Philips Selecon PLcyc1 fixtures, 12 PLprofile1 RGBW fixtures and 269 PLfresnel1 RGBW luminaires for key lighting in six of the museum’s themed halls.
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UK – Lighting designer, Ben Inskip selected Jands’ flagship Vista L5 console to control his technically ambitious design for British metalcore band, Bring Me the Horizon, who recently played London’s iconic SSE Arena, Wembley.
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MIDDLETON, WI – If your DOB (date of birth) is prior to 1990, you may not know that EDM stands for Electronic Dance Music – the offspring of a musical orgy attended by disco, techno, house and reggae sometime in the late Eighties. In an act of revenge for those who declared disco to be dead, EDM has emerged as the fastest growing sector of the live-entertainment industry. EDM will be around long after the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac wrap up their very last (they promise) reunion tours. If you don’t believe this, you should hack your kid’s Twitter account. Like the social media that fuels this musical form, widespread acceptance is a danger-signal and a cue to move on to something new.
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