4Wall handled the entire lighting experience for the celebration of the first V6 engine for the Toyota Highlander produced at Toyota’s Alabama plant. The equipment list included Martin MAC Auras, Vari-Lite VL2500 and VL3500 Spots, and Color Kinetics ColorBlast TRX fixtures.
Read More »HONG KONG – More than 18,000 buyers from 112 countries attended the HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair. The four-day exhibition (April 6-9) drew nearly 1,100 exhibitors from 14 countries and regions, a new exhibitor record for the fair.
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Often overlooked, LED tape offers a visually important – and highly cost effective – decorative element. LD Demfis Fyssicopulos used hefty amounts of Elation Flex LED Tape to outline the multi-tiered stage for Jon Secada’s show at the Wynn Resort’s Encore Theater in Las Vegas.
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UK – Stage Electrics recently delivered the lighting, audio and video systems to Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s state-of-the-art facility. Stage Electrics supplied, installed and commissioned the lighting, audio and video infrastructure venue-wide which includes dimmer racks, data distribution, paging and show relay, plus custom-manufactured stage management desks, facility panels, lighting bars, ‘raceways’ and loose equipment.
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SAN REMO, Italy — The Sanremo Music Festival, broadcast live by Italian TV station Rai 1 since the mid-1950s, is widely considered to be the precursor to Eurovision Song Contest. It has also launched the career of a long roster of internationally known vocalists including Andrea Bocelli.
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LONDON – XL Video supplied projection and Catalyst control for the recent UK tour by indie rock band Bombay Bicycle Club. Incorporating video into their live tour for the first time, LD Squib took visual influences from the work of photographer Eadweard Muybridge and utilized early stop-motion animation techniques and stylization. With projection being central to the show, two Panasonic PT-DZ21K 20K projectors were utilized, overlaid to optimize the brightness, with the set circles treated as one large surface, and all the content programed in to one of XLs Catalyst media servers.
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Ayrton’s new Radical Series promises to combine a honed and streamlined appearance with a very narrow and intense beam, advanced thermal management and impressive output suited for use in arenas and stadiums as well as smaller venues. Most of the fixtures in the line (except for the WildBeam-R and IntelliPix-R) were kept under wraps until their launch at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany. The other models in the R Series include the MagicPanel-R, MagicBlade-R and the MagicRing-R9.
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LONDON – For American punk pop band All Time Low’s recent U.K. tour, Boston-based LD Jeff Maker specified more than 80 moving lights from Robe. The rig included 54 Pointes, 12 LEDWash 600s and 12 LEDBeam 100s, all from Robe’s Robin range. Maker credited the gear for helping meet the challenge of scaling the light show to different-sized venues.
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OXFORD, U.K. – An evolution of their summer festival floor lighting package, the design for The Foals current world tour relied exclusively on lighting and lasers. The starting point for the design was the entwined cobra / Buddha backdrop created by Leif Podhaksky. HSL supplied the equipment to bring LD Davy Sherwin’s vision to life.
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Chauvet Professional’s COLORdash Par-Hex 12 light contains 12 10-watt “Hex” LEDs, each with six colors – red, green, blue, amber, white and UV. The addition of UV lets the light to function as a straight ultraviolet light or, alternately, be used to produce an iridescent sheen.
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LAS VEGAS – Christie has joined HDBaseT Alliance and integrated the technology into its Q series projectors allowing for all-in-one connectivity between HD video sources and remote displays through a single cable. Powered by the Valens chipset, HDBaseT has become a global digital connectivity standard with a large and varied product ecosystem that includes video distribution equipment, displays, projectors and AV receivers from more than 90 manufacturers.
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NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — ProTapes & Specialties promoted Dennis Mirabella to director of the company’s Arts & Entertainment Business Unit. Mirabella, a 32-year company veteran, has served the company in a variety of roles, most recently as business unit manager. In his new role, Mirabella will oversee the A&E business unit and also serve on the company’s Operations Management Team (OMT).
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