CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – The 2014 e-Luminate Festival here netted a second Guinness World Record nod for projection and video artist Ross Ashton. This time it was for the “Largest Card Illusion Reveal.” Ashton collaborated with Italian illusionist Alexis Arts on the project, creating the visuals with a single 17K Panasonic projector rigged onto a specially constructed tower at the end of the lawn in front of the building.
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LOS ANGELES — The 4Wall Los Angeles team named Jeff Mateer vice president of business development. In addition to focusing on new business, Mateer will also lead both the inside and outside rental and sales staffs of 4Wall LA. Mateer brings more than 40 years of industry experience to 4Wall.
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COLUMBIA, MD – Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. has been accepting submissions to the Vectorworks Academic Research Grant program, which funds individuals and teams that develop solutions to global concerns worldwide, since early April. Both individuals and teams can submit proposals for projects using Vectorworks technology to benefit others.
AUSTIN, TX – Following their HedgeHog 4 launch at LDI 2013, High End Systems, has further broadened its Hog 4 family with the HedgeHog 4N andRackHog 4 (pictured here). The products were featured at Prolight+Sound 2014 in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Elation Professional has updated its Emulation DMX lighting control software with new programming features including a Pixel Mapper engine, Timeline Editor and user-friendly Command Line interface.
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PITTSBURGH —NEP Screenworks’ 1-square meter X7-HD LED panels are designed for visual quality and also quick setup and teardown. The road-ready modular units can be used for indoor and outdoor events.
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NORTH BAY, Ontario, Canada — North Bay Memorial Gardens Arena, which first opened in 1955, underwent a $12 million refurbishment before the 2013/2014 ice hockey season. The upgrade expanded the arena’s seating capacity to 4,246 and included a number of other upgrades, inside and out. The visual centerpiece for the Ontario Hockey League’s North Bay Battalion, which had just relocated from Brampton, Ontario with a 15-year contract, is the four-sided video display hoisted into place by Westbury National Show Systems Ltd.
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FRANKFURT — LightGeist is calling the launch of its new product range, which includes fixtures called the LightStick, the Badger and, pictured left, the Splodger, an “unmitigated success.” The new gear was introduced mid-March at the Prolight + Sound show here. The RGB LED fixtures can be operated without cables, allowing for immersive effects with multiple fixtures in various configurations.
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Chauvet Professional’s new Rogue series of moving head fixtures extends features like LED gobo morphing, variable speed scrolling and multi-prism rotation into tight-budget territory. The series currently includes four fixtures: two spots (Rogue R1 Spot, Rogue R2 Spot) and two beam fixtures (Rogue R1 Beam – pictured here – and the Rogue R2 Beam).
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — For this year’s Arnold Sports Festival, Live! Technologies deployed a rig of over 100 Martin lights including 12 Viper Performances, 12 Viper Profiles, six MAC III Performances, 36 MAC Auras, 22 MAC 101s, 12 RUSH MH3 Beams, four Atomic 3000 DMX strobes, 60 EC-10 video panels and one P3-200 Video Processor/Scaler. This is the 20th year that Live! Technologies has worked with the festival.
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As a partner with London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Robe will be supplying technical equipment and resources to the Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, the George Bernard Shaw Theatre and the John Gielgud Theatre, all in RADA’s central London buildings. The equipment includes DLS Profiles, DLF Washes and LEDWash600s, together with two of the new MMX Blades – all from Robe’s ROBIN series.
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