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Fineline Provides Lighting and Video Support for Eden Sessions in Cornwall, U.K.

Fineline Provides Lighting and Video Support for Eden Sessions in Cornwall, U.K.

Fineline Provides Lighting and Video Support for Eden Sessions in Cornwall, U.K.

CORNWALL, U.K. – Fineline supplied lighting, LED screen, rigging and crew to the 2014 Eden Sessions, a diverse series of music performances staged at the Eden Project, based here. The sessions ran over a 5+ week period and featured a line up including Skrillex, Dizzee Rascal, Katy B, Ellie Goulding, Elbow, The Pixies and others. For the second year, Fineline worked closely with Andy Cotton of TAO Productions, who production managed the events and coordinated all technical aspects.

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Elation EZ Kling

Elation EZ Kling

Elation’s new EZ Kling is an RJ45 to DMX, Kling-Net and Art-Net interface that lets users pixel map Kling-Net fixtures through the Kling-Net mapper, which is included in ArKaos’s LED Master, Media Master Express and Media Master Pro software. EZ Kling also works via ArtNet, which allows for pixel mapping of any LED pixel-controllable DMX fixture.

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elektraLite Audience Blinder

elektraLite Audience Blinder

elektraLite’s new Audience Blinder is powered by 144 5-watt LEDs. It is available in two versions: “Warm White” with a 3,200K color temperature and CRI of 94, and “Cool White,” with a 6,500K white with CRI of 78. Providing 128 potential combinations of optics and color, the fixture is designed to accommodate a full range of floodlight/wash light requirements.

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Elation LED Panels and Platinum Beams Used for Electrisize Festival

Elation LED Panels and Platinum Beams Used for Electrisize Festival

ERKLENZ, Germany – Century-old monastery buildings provided a distinctive backdrop for the Electrisize Open Air Festival. LD Frank Zander used 24 Elation EVLED 256 panels to create four large LED screen columns to anchor the stage and then placed 12 EVLED 1024 LED panels in front of the DJ to present high-res graphics and logos. Further lighting was provided by eight Elation Platinum Beam 5R fixtures for bright aerial effects.

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d3 Technologies Names Sarah Cox Sales Manager

LONDON – d3 Technologies named Sarah Cox as the new Sales Manager EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Cox joins the company at its head office in Borough, London. Cox brings previous experience with project and production management, architectural and events installation as well as sales distribution in the AV industry.

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Creative Technology Provides Video for Wimbledon

LONDON – For this year’s Wimbledon Championships, Creative Technology provided nine new Electronic Information Displays on the front façade of Centre Court and various other strategic locations around the facility. The purpose-built housings will remain in place on a permanent basis while the AOTO M8C display technology is installed and removed on an annual basis. All displays are controlled from a central location via a dedicated fibre network. Creative Technology was also involved in the production facility located within the broadcast centre which feeds live content, highlights packages and other entertainment to the large screen and other locations.

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Colour Sound Lights Creamfields Outdoor Stages. Photo by Louise Stickland

Colour Sound Lights Creamfields Outdoor Stages

WARRINGTON, UK – Colour Sound Experiment supplied more than 550 moving lights plus hundreds of other lighting fixtures along with rigging and trussing for two stages at the 2014 Creamfields EDM festival, staged at Daresbury Estate, near Warrington. Colour Sound’s team was again led by crew chief Jon Rickets, and they all worked with creative and technical production specialists LarMac LIVE on the project.

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Three Bye Intermedia Delivers Custom Control Software for New Interactive Tuning Chamber in Clear Channel Lobby

Three Byte Intermedia Delivers Control Software for Interactive Tuning Chamber

NEW YORK – Three Byte Intermedia wrote custom control software to orchestrate the interactive experience in the new tuning chamber in Clear Channel’s lobby here.  The corridor leads visitors from the elevator through a fog screen with video display and down a hallway lined with interactive LED lights and the sound of live streamed radio programming triggered by the visitors’ movements.

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Christie 4K Technology Sharpens Focus at 2014 Toronto International Film Festival

Christie 4K Technology Put to Use at Toronto International Film Festival

TORONTO, Canada – Christie provided 4K screening capability at five venues during the 39th Toronto International Film Festival, held here from Sept. 4-14, 2014. With 4K submissions to the festival having doubled from 2013, Christie, the official projection sponsor for 14 consecutive years, will offer 4K screening capability at Roy Thomson Hall, Princess of Wales Theatre, The Elgin Theatre’s Visa Screening Room (exterior of the building pictured here) and Ryerson Theatre.  All TIFF Bell Lightbox cinemas also feature Christie 4K projection.

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Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Visuals Get Barco/High End Support

NANJING, China – Barco and High End System provided projection and video processing for the Summer Youth Olympic Games, held in Nanjing, China. Using 112 Barco HDF-series high-brightness projectors and 56 High End Axon HD Pro media servers, Lighting and video master Sha Xiaolan created one of the world’s largest stage projections, presenting a visual feast to those watching around the world.

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Godiva Festival Main Stage Gets the Avolites Sapphire Touch

Godiva Festival Main Stage Gets the Avolites Sapphire Touch

UK – Lighting designer Yenz Nyholm ran the Main Stage lighting at Coventry’s Godiva Festival this year from an Avolites Sapphire Touch, with a host of visiting LDs using the console as their acts performed. “The Sapphire Touch works well on a festival due to the many faders and easy to read touch screens,” says Nyholm. “It’s very intuitive, so any LD can use it within a few minutes of turning up. The many faders work well on a festival/busking situation, where you need to be able to grab anything very quickly.”

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