NASHVILLE — LD Ryan Burton found that a highly portable Jands Vista S1 was still powerful enough to meet his needs while touring with Ben Rector on the artist’s 34-date autumn tour of the U.S. to promote his latest album, The Walking in Between. Jands’ North American distributor, A.C. Lighting Inc., worked with Special Events Systems to supply the Jands Vista S1 for this tour.
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LONDON — ‘Re Present,’ a fashion collective of designers with Scandinavian roots, sponsored a London Fashion Week event at the Danish Embassy here lit by LD Søren Peglau. Peglau used 72 SGM P-5 washlights (recently added to the rental inventory at Hawthorn) and 34 SP-6 SixPack Blinders. Blueprint Event Services also provided nearly 200 SGM LT-200 3D pixel tubes for a chandelier for the main stairwell.
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AMSTERDAM — LD Paul Collison used Clay Paky Alpha Beam 1500s, Alpha Wash 1500s and Alpha Spot HPE 1500s to light Travis Pastrana’s daredevil sports troupe, Nitro Circus, at the Ziggo Dome here. The two-hour show offers spectators a mix of top riders performing stunts in motocross, BMX and Skating.
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HIGH WYCOMBE, U.K. — Dry Hire Lighting, based here, added more Robe fixtures to its rental inventory, pushing the company’s cross-rental inventory of moving lights toward the 1,000 mark. The latest order included a mix of Robe Robin Pointes, LEDWash 600s and LEDBeam 100s. Pictured here, from left, are Merrilees and Nic Tolkien of Dry Hire Lighting with Josef Valchar (CEO Robe s.r.o) and Mick Hannaford (CEO of Robe UK).
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ASPEN, CO — Rental and production house Alchemy Concert Systems, based here, recently purchased Elation Professional EPV9 IP LED panels and put them to work on two events at Aspen Mountain ski resort -the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club’s 2013 Audi Ajax Cup in late December and a corporate event in early February. The panels are IP65-rated for outdoor use.
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LONDON — Geert Alaert’s £10million video-mapped arena spectacular, Peter Pan, The Never Ending Story, used a lighting design from Belgium-based LD Luc Peumans that included Clay Paky’s Alpha Profile 1500s. Peumans describes the challenge of lighting the projection-dominated show as one of “lighting light.”
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LOS ANGELES — Electrosonic noted that March 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding. To help mark the milestone, the company is publishing Electrosonic – 50 Years on the Audio-Visual Front Line, written by co-founder Robert Simpson.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — Bob Barnhart lit Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers during their Feb. 2 Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show performances with a lighting design that included 220 Ayrton MagicPanel602 fixtures.
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LIVERPOOL, U.K. — Stage Technologies has supplied a stage engineering system for the newly reopened Everyman Theatre here. The system is based on a specification designed by Charcoal Blue consultants and the Everyman Trust that focuses on flexibility and future expansion.
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Chauvet Professional added two new PAR-style fixtures to its COLORado family of LED wash lights: the COLORado 2-Quad Zoom Tour (pictured here) and COLORado 2-Quad Zoom VW Tour (pictured below).
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