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Milos safety workshop

Milos Runs 2012 Safety Workshop in China

GUANGZHOU, China – Trussing manufacturer Milos hosted a two-day product seminar and safety awareness workshop at its facility in Guangzhou, China. Milos’ most current products were examined in depth, with focus on new products introduced to China this year: the T12 modular display system and x.Truss range.

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Hippotizer 3.2 Beta

Hippotizer 3.2 BETA

LONDON – Green Hippo’s Hippotizer media server 3.2 beta software is now available as a public download from the website. It’s Green Hippo’s biggest release in terms of features and fixes since v3. New features include RegionMapper, X-Fade on Layer, Muti-Select, Mackie, Presets2, MaNet, Time Code On-A-Layer and Watch Folders along with smaller features and bug fixes.

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Muse tour photo by Oli Metcalfe

Oli Metcalfe Design for Muse Includes Transformable Video Pyramid

LONDON — Oli Metcalfe’s design for Muse’s current tour, Second Law, which moves from Europe to North America in early 2013, features a fusion of lighting, video and automation effects with a transformable pyramid-shaped array of overhead video panels. They hang inverted above the stage, and can also descend to conceal the band. Collaborators include lighting, video and staging suppliers Neg Earth, XL Video and Brilliant Stages, with a Kinesys system and Hog 4 from High End Systems used for control.

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TobyMac

4Wall Nashville Tours with TobyMac

NASHVILLE – 4Wall Nashville is providing lighting and labor for TobyMac’s fall tour. Recently named American Music Awards’ ‘Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist,’ TobyMac’s tour starts Nov. 29 and makes 10 stops until its Dec. 15 finale.

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Brilliant Stages was involved in the overhead LED video pyramid and other set elements for the Muse Second Law tour

Brilliant Stages Updates Muse Touring Set with Transformable Pyramid of Video Panels

LONDON — Brilliant Stages has designed and constructed the staging and suspended pyramid feature made from LED video panels for Muse’s current tour, Second Law, which tours Europe until Christmas before moving to North America in January 2013. Brilliant has worked on several stages for Muse including the 2009 Resistance tour and subsequent 2010 stadium tour, and the band’s inspirational stage design for their Reading and Leeds anniversary shows in 2011.

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Berlin Festival

Robe for Berlin Festival

BERLIN – Robe moving lights – including 30 MMX Spots and 44 ColorWash 700E ATs – were in action on the Main Stage at the 2012 Berlin Festival, taking place over two days at the former US military base, Tempelhof Airfield. Tilman Schumacher, production lighting designer for the main stage, specified the Robe fixtures, although the rig was based heavily on Steven Douglas’s festival design for headlining act The Killers.

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Stuart Burdett, Roelof Bouwman, Winnie Meijer, Peter Butler, Alistair Smyth

AC-ET Appointed Exclusive UK LedGo Disributor

LONDON – A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd.’s Video division has been appointed as the exclusive UK distributor for LedGo’s range of modular LED video solutions. Netherlands-based LedGo BV have been providing the theatre and television production industry with a variety of LED video screens and innovative solutions for a number of years.

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Evanescence

Hardiman Specs Vari-Lite for Evanescence

LONDON – LD Dan Hardiman has specified Philips Vari-Lite fixtures for four British arena concerts by Evanescence. “I’ve specified Vari-Lite fixtures for all Evanescence shows in the past 14 months because they’re the only fixtures that can deliver the same effect regardless of venue, which was essential for a tour that has ranged from clubs to stadiums, and everything in between,” says Hardiman.

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