LOS ANGELES – Alice In Chains are in the midst of a five-week national tour, and Clay Paky Sharpy Washes are shedding light on 22 dates coast-to-coast as the band plays festivals, theaters and small clubs. LD and lighting director Marty Postma originally spec’d 10 units, then added four more as the tour got underway. Main Light is the supplier.
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AUSTRALIA – In February, Concert & Corporate Productions in Western Australia took delivery of 24 VL3000 Spots and eight VL2500 Washes, which have seen action on a wide variety of events from Celtic Thunder, Neil Finn & Paul Kelly to the West Coast Blues’n’Roots Festival and Future Music Festival.
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LANDSDOWNE, PA – Sapsis Rigging, in its continuing mission to help make the entertainment workplace as safe as possible, has just completed fall arrest equipment… Read More »Sapsis Rigging Installs Lifelines at Two Theatres
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AUSTIN, TX – Since its release at LDI 2012, the Hog 4 console range has become one of the most successful lighting control platforms that High End Systems ever introduced. A landmark number of Hog 4 sales was recently announced at the Pro Light + Sound trade show in Frankfurt.
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – Mega-Lite launches the Target Q190, a new color changing LED wash fixture with three rings of control creating a bull’s-eye effect.
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SYDNEY – Sir Cliff Richard returned to Australia earlier this year with his “Still Reelin’ and A-Rockin’ ” tour. Longtime LD Derek Jones brought a rig of close to 90 moving lights. To control the rig, he brought his own Vista S3 and Vista M1, part of a larger family of Vista consoles that he owns.
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LONDON – Green Hippo, developers of the Hippotizer media server, has established a new beta testing program and is now recruiting field test candidates. Once registered and accepted, beta testers will be given access to all the latest builds and tools for the media server. An internal forum will also allow participants to engage in discussion with fellow testers and share new ideas.
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LONDON – Avolites Media’s Ai server has been powering the fast-paced visuals for Sky TV’s spring series of “Got to Dance.” With the help of Ai, the visual team was able to see the entire TV studio as one giant canvas, using Ai’s ability to scale the outputs to compensate for the varying pixel pitches of the different LED fixtures. Ai is equipped to play back to video canvasses up to 8x HD1080 and this was a significant benefit to the production.
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DONALDSONVILLE, LA — Doug Thorpe of Wyndchaser Lighting was looking to update the house lighting for 110-year-old Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church. He opted for Mega-Lite UniColor fixtures with warm white LEDs to replace the building’s old halogen lighting.
Read More »LOS ANGELES – Christie Lites recently purchased more than 200 onPC command wings from MA Lighting to add to the lighting company’s rental inventory. The onPC command wings extend usage of the grandMA2 control system to customers working on location or those who find it physically difficult to fit a full grandMA2 console at their venue. Christie Lites’ latest investment brings its total onPC command wing inventory past the 250 mark.
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NEW CASTLE, DE – Video equipment rental company Pete’s Big TVs is supplying the “Super Why Live: You’ve Got the Power” children’s tour across the U.S. with the same type of high resolution LED video screens that they are supplying on Bruce Springsteen’s “Wrecking Ball” world tour.
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LOS ANGELES – The Mark Taper Forum has been lit by an ETC Eos lighting system since the venue was a beta-test site for the board in 2007. Then this spring, the Forum’s chief electrician decided to purchase a Ti – becoming one of the first venues in the world to install the new desk. Their original Eos desk – still well loved – was transferred for use in the Ahmanson Theatre, another venue in the Center Theatre Group.
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