AUBURN, WA — For LD Brock Hogan’s lighting design for Train’s 2013 “Mermaids of Alcatraz” tour, LMG Touring provided 16 Philips Vari-Lite VL3015LT Spot luminaires and 15 Showline SL BAR 640 LED luminaires. Along with Train, the 25-stop U.S. summer tour featured performances from The Script, Gavin DeGraw and Ashley Monroe.
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NEW YORK — Equipped with new LED gear receptive to pixel-mapped programming, the Empire State Building featured an elaborate lighting design synching the artistry of LD Marc Brickman, music chosen by Usher and the finale of the annual Macy’s Fireworks Spectacular. Brickman relied upon a grandMA2 lighting console and MA VPU plus video processing unit for control for the event. The light show was also synched with radio broadcasts and featured during a two-hour special on NBC.
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INDIO, CA — Fantasy Springs Casino, which is owned and operated by Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, is expecting to save 291,000 kWh and receive a $32,000 rebate after switching to LED lighting for the casino/hotel’s parking structure. LEDtronics provided 41-watt LED luminaires to replace 150W HPS lights for the resort’s parking garage structure and T8 tubelights for uplighting outside the structure.
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LOS ANGELES — Scott Barnes and Joshua Thatcher, who often work together as moving light programmers for the motion picture and television industries, were early adopters with the Hog 4 control platform. “We got our Hog 4 consoles in November of last year, and we were fortunate to get some of the first desks on the West Coast,” said Barnes. “From November to March, we used the new desk for commercials and re-shoots, so by April when we started Captain America 2, I was really comfortable with the Hog 4 and ready to go ‘full tilt boogie.’”
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LOS ANGELES — The MDA Show of Strength telethon, which airs on the ABC network in a two-hour prime time slot on Sunday, Sept. 1, will raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association — and it will once again look completely different from the black-and-white memories Baby Boomers might have of the show’s previous incarnation as the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, which ran from 1966 to 2010.
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BERLIN, Germany – For the fourth annual A&P Summer Rave, a music festival sponsored by a grocery company that gets staged in three of the same airport hangars that were used for the Berlin Airlift, LD Martin Kuhn deployed a rig featuring a variety of Clay Paky fixtures, including Sharpys, Alpha Spot QWO 800 STs and Alpha Beam 700s.
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