LOS ANGELES – Deciding it was time for football to pay music back for entertaining crowds at the Super Bowl every year, The Grammy Half Time Show Pepsi commercial featured football greats such as Terry Bradshaw, Mike Ditka, Deion Sanders and Shannon Sharpe. Visions Lighting was the provider of all lighting, video and staging for the 2:36 minute ad.
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YouTube is known for the spontaneous creativity of the artists and fans who post their videos to the site, and it was in that spirit that the inaugural YouTube Music Awards (YTMA) streamed live on Sunday, Nov. 3. The awards honoring the songs and artists that were viral hits globally this year were presented live at Pier 36 in New York City, and the 90-minute show lived up to YouTube’s promise of an untraditional event. Several of the winning artists, including Arcade Fire; Avicii; CDZA; Earl Sweatshirt; Tyler, the Creator; Eminem; Lady Gaga; Lindsey Stirling; and M.I.A., created live music videos on sets placed throughout the venue.
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YORK, PA — Lighting integrator Production Express, Inc. used 20 Martin Exterior 100 fixtures to light trees throughout the property of a local Pennsylvania homeowner. The homeowner is using the fixtures to light 80-foot-high trees on the property. The lights are programmed to run by themselves, but the homeowner can also manipulate the colors and brightness from a mobile device.
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It’s no secret that many houses of worship have gone high-tech in order to amplify their message and provide dazzling services for their congregations. Northview Church in Carmel, IN certainly had that in mind when they built a $16 million auditorium that boasts plenty of cutting edge sound and lighting. What they did not bank on (but can now) was the fact that many Christian music acts would regularly play there, even luring people away from a major secular venue in the Indianapolis area. It seems that the means for delivering their message appeals to others as well.
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MIAMI – For Univision News’ recently-opened 150,000-square-foot Newsport TV production facility here, Los Angeles-based ROCA Video installed Vista Systems Spyder image processors. ROCA Video selected Spyder for its ability to run multiple outputs.
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LINCOLN, IL – Lincoln College’s Lincoln Heritage Museum underwent a comprehensive upgrade with AV support from Alcorn McBride. Eidson Studios handled the AV design and installation, working with Taylor Studios, the exhibit design, fabrication and lighting firm for the entire project.
The week-long press event to launch Sony’s PlayStation 4 (PS4) console, held a trendy boutique hotel in lower Manhattan known as The Standard, High Line last fall, was a virtual feast for the eyes, meshing elements of high- and low-tech, including ad hoc and supersized video projection, an “interactive” LED walkway, hundreds of LED lighting fixtures simultaneously blasting color into the night and outdoor guerrilla gaming zones.
Read More »BILLERICA, MA – massAV, a live event AV staging and production company based here, recently purchased a new FiberPlex Technologies optical snake. With FiberPlex’s WDM-8 active wave division multiplexer, massAV can multiplex eight discrete signals at 3 Gb/s each for transporting video, audio, lighting and control feeds onto one fiber pair.
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LOS ANGELES – The Event Safety Alliance (ESA) has announced the creation of its Individual Gold Donor Membership program. Participating donors receive one free digital or printed copy of the Event Safety Guide and get included in the ESA’s online professional database. They also gain access to tools and content on the ESA website, get discounts on ESA programs and events and get one “I Support the ESA” T-shirt.
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The Marquee Nightclub & Dayclub at Las Vegas’ Cosmopolitan casino resort, which opened in late 2010, quickly vaulted to the top of Nightclub & Bar’s rankings of top U.S. nightclubs by annual revenue, tying XS at Steve Wynn’s Encore casino resort, also in Las Vegas, with annual revenues estimated to be in the $80 to $90 million range for 2012. But don’t let those Las Vegas palm trees fool you.
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BERLIN, Germany – Robe moving lights were once again specified by LD Manuel da Costa for the most recent series of the TV singing contest, The Voice of Germany (VOG). The series was recorded at Studio Berlin and produced jointly by a Dutch German collaboration between Taipa and Schwartzkopff TV. It was broadcast on Pro7 and Sat 1 channels. A total of 188 Robes were supplied by Magic Lighting & Sound from Cologne.
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SECAUCUS, NJ – ARRI CSC, the largest full service equipment rental group in the U.S., added Rich Joneleit to its camera rental office here. As Camera Rental Agent he will report to Camera Rental Manager Lynn “Gus” Gustafson and will be responsible for establishing an maintaining strong client relationships.
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