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2013 NFL Season Starts with a Bang in Baltimore

Strictly FX NFL Kickoff photo by Tim Shahan

2013 NFL Season Starts with a Bang in Baltimore

BALTIMORE — Strictly FX returned as pyro provider for the NFL football season’s kickoff celebration. This year’s event, led by Ricky Kirshner of Touchdown Entertainment and Doug ‘Spike’ Brant of Performance Environment Design Group, featured a performance by country music star Keith Urban on a specially constructed barge in the Baltimore harbor. Comets, mines, lasers, flames and other effects from Strictly FX lit up the water near the home of the 2013 Super Bowl champions, the Baltimore Ravens.

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Avolites Titan V7.0 Available for Download

UK — Avolites announced that its latest version of Titan, v7.0, is now available for download from the company’s website. Avolites cautions users, however, to follow instructions carefully, noting the importance that the console has been fully upgraded to V6 before attempting to install V7.

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For the Sirius XM-sponsored side stage, Boots and Hearts Festival organizers provided a PixelFlex LED Curtain as a backdrop.

Boots and Hearts Festival Featured PixelFlex LED Imagery

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario, Canada — The Boots and Hearts Music Festival drew thousands this summer with a roster of country headliners including Jason Aldean, The Band Perry, Rascal Flatts, Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert. For the event’s Sirius XM-sponsored side stage, festival organizers provided a PixelFlex LED Curtain as a backdrop. It was used for both static and video images during the course of the event, which was held Aug. 1-4, 2013.

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Kareena Bakhsh

Active Production and Design Names Kareena Bakhsh to Marketing Post

ATLANTA — Active Production and Design, Inc. named Kareena Bakhsh sales and marketing director. Bakhsh, who has been designing events for more than 10 years, will work to uphold the company’s stated mission to “create and maintain relationships and go the extra mile to ensure client satisfaction,” according to Active Production president Matt Clouser. “Kareena embellishes the true spirit of Active,” Clouser said. “We founded the company on relationships and a superior level of customer service. She exhibits those traits with every client interaction. We look forward to her doing great things within the industry and are proud to call her our teammate and friend.”

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After Acquiring R&R Lighting, Shadowstone Plans Open House in DC Area

SILVER SPRING, MD — Shadowstone Inc., a lighting rental provider based in Clifton, NJ, acquired R&R Lighting, based here, earlier this year, accelerating its expansion from the New York area to the mid-Atlantic region and Washington, DC. Shadowstone is planning an Open House event at 813 Silver Spring Ave. here to “introduce and re-introduce” its rentals, sales and service teams to existing and potential new customers.

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