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Calibre plays at FC Porto, Dragão Stadium

Video wall at Dragão Stadium

Calibre plays at FC Porto, Dragão Stadium

BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE, UK, – TAC (The Audiovisual Company) in Portugal has upgraded its media presentation rooms and main stadium LED displays at FC Porto, Dragão Stadium with Calibre LEDView720 and LEDView730 4K scalers. Eduardo Costa, General Technical Manager at TAC said: “We use Calibre to adapt input resolution to the main stadium LED Screens during live games or for digital signage at corporate events. The scalers have multiple output for local monitoring of live output feeds.”

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BMFLs Create Columns of Light

BMFLs Create Columns of Light to Celebrate Cesare Battisti

TRENTO, ITALY – Twelve Robe BMFL WashBeams were utilized by artist and lighting designer Mariano de Tassis in a breath-taking and installation at the mausoleum of Italian patriot and Irredentist Cesare Battisti in Trento, Italy. The installation was produced by Filmwork Factory to celebrate the centenary of the death of Battisti. The original idea of highlighting the mausoleum with 12 powerful beams shooting up into the night sky to match the 12 columns of the monument was Mariano’s himself, pitched to the Municipality of Trento.

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GLP Fixtures used to light Daimler stand in Hannover

RGB GMBH Puts Daimler Stand In The Right Light At IAA Commercial Vehicle Show

HANNOVER, De.  –: the Daimler AG booth was illuminated with the latest fixtures from GLP at the world’s most important trade fair for commercial transport and logistics, which took place in Hannover in late September. The world market leader in commercial vehicles presented 70 trucks, vans and buses from brands Mercedes-Benz, Fuso and Setra. The premieres were brought to life thanks to an impressive 144 GT-1 discharge lamp fixtures from GLP.

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Barco breaks the reality barrier, delivering the ultimate simulation experience in immersive training at I/ITSEC

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. – Barco, a global leader in visualization technology, will reveal its latest innovations in visualization and audio designed to power advanced simulation and training applications at I/ITSEC 2016. Visitors can see Barco’s new solutions in action at the world’s largest modeling, simulation, and training conference from November 28-December 2 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

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Tom Odell on tour

Wrong Crowd for Colour Sound

UK – Colour Sound Experiment is supplying lighting for the current Tom Odell tour, a lively mix of dynamics and style created by Jonny Gaskell who has been on-board with the popular singer / songwriter since April this year. The current touring campaign follows the launch of his second studio album, “Wrong Crowd”. The tour started earlier in the year and included a festival run, with this leg being the first full on production design tour carrying a full lighting rig … for which west London based Colour Sound made some new investments.

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Robert Juliat Merlin followspots focus their beams on the catwalk at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid

Focused Wizardry from Robert Juliat Merlin at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid

MADRID – Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid, is Spain’s biannual style statement for the international fashion stage, and a forum in which Robert Juliat’s Merlin followspots were able to work their magic. Entrusted with its high-profile lighting design, Citylight S.L., a leading Madrid-based rental, sales and installation company, boosted its lighting inventory with the purchase of four Robert Juliat Merlin followspots to ensure the country’s hottest fashion moments were bathed in light of the highest quality.

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ADJ To Hit The Road This Fall With Pop-Up Trade Show

LOS ANGELES – Following a hugely successful launch at LDI in Las Vegas last month, the ADJ team will be hitting the road this fall to give customers across the US the opportunity to see the company’s exciting new products firsthand. The latest leg of ADJ’s Road Tour will run from November 29 to December 15 and take the form of a ‘Pop-up Tradeshow!’ The tour will hit South Texas, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York and New Jersey and the ADJ Team will visit two different locations on each day!

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WSP Halloween 2016

Bandit Brings Lights To Widespread Panic’s Halloween Bash

BROOMFIELD, CO – Southern rock band Widespread Panic returned to the road for their annual Halloween extravaganza with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. The ten day tour treated the jam band’s diehard fan base with both Widespread Panic’s own psychedelic songs and covers including Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” (complete with a confetti cannon) that hadn’t been played by the band since 1987.

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New Zealand Coastline

Chauvet Professional Rogue RH1 Hybrid Illuminates New Zealand Coastline

NELSON, NEW ZEALAND – A prominent rocky outgroup in Tasman Bay, Nelson’s Fifeshire Rock was once feared as a shipping hazard. In years since, it has become one of New Zealand’s treasured national landmarks.  Standing some 14 meters above the high tide mark, it  is often the subject of photography and artworks. Recently, Nelson’s Civic Trust desired to make the rock an round-the-clock attraction by lighting it. To accomplish this, MDR Sound & Lighting supplied AV Architects Ltd with a CHAUVET Professional Rogue RH1 Hybrid fixture.

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Project SPR

Project SSSHH Uses Luminex for Lighting on Movie Sets

MONTREAL– LUMINEX GigaCore 14R PoE switches and GigaCore 12 managed Gigabit Ethernet switches are often the talk on gigs where equipment is supplied by Project SSSHH Inc., Toronto, Ontario. Project SSSHH provides the entertainment industry with sales, rentals, service and design for lighting, rigging and safety.  With backgrounds in theater, corporate production and rock ’n roll, partners Andrew Read, Ken Wiebe and Jeff Archbold have expanded into support of feature films and television. 

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Yehuda Poliker & Shlomi Shabat

A Hit for Yehuda Poliker & Shlomi Shabat

ISRAEL – When two of Israel’s biggest singing stars – Yehuda Poliker and Shlomi Shabat – get together and play onstage live … It’s a BIG deal and a hugely exciting performance spectacle that’s always well received. Needing a big lightshow with lots of power and presence … that’s why lighting designer Eyal Tavory chose a large Robe orientated rig – including 35 x BMFL spots to give the impact that everyone was anticipating at a recent show at the Rishon Lezion Amphitheatre.

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