NEW YORK — Production designer Butch Allen opted for fixtures much newer than the decades-old hits being performed with NKOTBSB, this year’s reunion with 1990s boy bands New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys. Allen is using 79 GLP Volkslicht Zoom LED Spots to line the 155-foot-long staging elements designed by Tait Towers, which include a 91-foot-long catwalk.
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KNOXVILLE, TN — Bandit Lites is supporting the needs of green-minded LDs with recent purchases of LED gear and other energy-efficient light sources for tours (and designers) including Keith Urban (Marc Brickman), Owl City (Paul Holst), Selena Gomez (Seth Jackson), Buffalo Springfield/Neil Young (Keith Wissmar) and Jackson Browne (Steve Comer).
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DALLAS — GoVision provided a 12 by 20.5 foot Barco I6 high resolution LED screen as a backdrop for the Big 12 Football Media Days media days, held July 25-26 at the Westin Galleria. Coaches, players and the soon-to-be-launched Longhorn Network (LHN) all took turns in the media spotlight.
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Chauvet’s Q-Wash 260-LED LED moving head is designed to be fast and compact, with 37 high-power RGB LEDs and a narrow 6° beam angle that promises to punch through almost any environment. It can be used as a wash light or mid-air effect fixture. It offers electronic dimming and strobe with no moving parts, and users can program and store a scene into the 255-step onboard memory to run a show without an external DMX controller. User-selectable pan and tilt ranges help keep light where it’s needed, and built-in effect macros and move-in-black features help minimize programming time. The fixture offers sound-activated functionality and user-selectable basic or advanced operating modes.
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MIAMI — The feel-good songs — “That’s the Way” and “Shake Your Booty” — may bring audiences all the way back to the 1970s, but KC and the Sunshine Band founder and namesake, Harry Wayne “KC” Casey, wanted a lighting rig that was a little less retro.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — 4Wall Entertainment recently added a large quantity of Martin Professional EC-20and LC Series LED panels to its lighting inventory, a purchase that also includes multiple Martin P3 System Controller video processors.
Read More »COPPELL, TX — The International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM) named Vicki Hawarden, CMP, as its president and CEO. Hawarden replaces Dexter King, CFE, who is retiring. The appointment becomes effective August 15, 2011.
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LONDON — Artistic Licence Engineering announced the release of Art-Net 3. Fully backward-compatible with previous versions, this free-of-charge Ethernet protocol is now capable of handling a 32,768 universes (32 “Kiloverses”) of DMX lighting control. Art-Net II, by contrast, had a data capacity of 256 universes.
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