NEW YORK — The Long Reach Long Riders, who completed their 10th annual outing with an eight-day ride around the Great Lakes in late June and July 2013, announced the route for their 11th annual charity motorcycle ride. The next event is set for July 12-19, 2014, starting in Baltimore and including the hill country in West Virginia, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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FAIRMONT, WV — South Ridge Church here recently installed a new lighting and video system in their 450-seat sanctuary with the help of a team of architects, installers, and gear provided by Northern Sound & Light.
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WAKEFIELD, West Yorkshire, UK — Le Maitre rented LS-Live’s production rehearsal arena here to shoot close to 50 promotional videos for its various pyro products.
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LONDON – The shortlists of lighting designers nominated for a 2013 Knight of Illumination (KOI) Award have been announced, culled from a record number of submissions in sectors ranging from Theatre, Television and Concert Touring and Events.
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Nemetschek Vectorworks announced that its mobile application, Vectorworks Nomad, will support the new iOS 7 mobile operating system, matching the new user interface look and feel.
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LOS ANGELES — Having used GLP’s impression X4 LED heads in the design of Fleetwood Mac’s current touring set, production designer Paul ‘Arlo’ Guthrie has turned to 16 of the small impression X4S for recent theatre (and festival) shows by veteran rock singer, Chris Isaak. These were mounted on five vertical pipes — four on the center bar and three each on the others.
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FORT WAYNE, IN — Blue Pony, a company affiliated with Apollo Design Technology, promoted Karey Davis to sales director, a new position. Davis will be responsible for leading the sales team in its efforts to generate new business, cultivate existing relationships and refine current sales processes with an eye toward efficiency.
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PRATO, Italy — This Tuscany hotspot may be called Naïf which, in Italian, means “naïve,” but its lighting design is anything but unsophisticated. With a combination of LED moving head fixtures, LED bars, LED strobes and a RED MX desk, the lighting system helps the space transform for uses ranging from dining to disco.
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RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA – Little Big Town (pictured here, touring in support of their album, Tornado), Death Cab for Cutie and Emblem are three of the music acts now using flame-retardant digitally-printed backdrops made from a new cotton canvas print substrate offered by Sew What?, Inc. The new substrate can be digitally printed while retaining its flame-retardancy, reducing production time and meeting fire regulations.
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