ARRI expands its range of SkyPanel LED soft lights with the new S120-C, the biggest member of the SkyPanel family, joining other products in the line, including S60 and S30 products. The S120 is twice as long as the S60, but weighs nearly the same. Its larger light aperture also promises to benefits for users.
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MADRID, Spain – For the inaugural Mad Cool Festival, which features headliners including Neil Young, The Who and The Prodigy at the Caja Magica tennis grounds in Madrid on June 16-18, PRG Spain supplied lighting for three main stages. At Stage Three, a 10,000-capacity performance space located inside the main tennis court arena, the setup included Elation Professional’s Cuepix Panel LED matrix fixtures.
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FRANCE – Award winning French theme park Puy du Fou located in the Vendée region of western France has invested in Robe’s DL series LED moving lights, with 8 x DL7Ss and 18 x DL4Ss, which are being utilized to light their innovative new show “Le Dernier Panache” an immersive fusion of theatre and cinema being staged in their new 19-million Euro Le Théâtre des Géants (Giants Theatre).
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LONDON – Live event and technical solutions specialist PR Live continues to expand its video division with an investment in d3 server technology. With a large amount of LED screen and high powered projection already in the rental inventory, the capacity for doing widescreen, HD, large-format projections and mapped projects required a powerful control solution to handle super high resolution quality video, and d3 was chosen as the best, most flexible and stable option.
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AUCKLAND – August 30th 2016 was a significant date in the twenty-six year history of Show Technology, Australia’s leading solution provider for entertainment and architectural lighting applications. The date was the official opening of the Show Technology New Zealand office in Auckland with managing director Emmanuel Ziino welcomed officially onto the land in a Pōwhiri – a Māori welcoming ceremony involving speeches, dancing, and singing performed by a local school ‘Kapa Haka’ group.
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SHAKOPEE, MN — Control and automation manufacturer RTI named SFM as its distributor in Canada.
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HALLE, Germany — German rock band, Silbermond, has embarked on a live tour in support of its fifth studio album, Leichtes Gepäck (Light Luggage). LD Stephan Aue’s design makes use of Ayrton IntelliPix-R and MagicRing-R9 fixtures supplied by VisionStage of Germany. These fixtures have been playing a central role Aue’s lighting looks as the band travels to major arenas across Germany, Switzerland and Austria, with technical provision from Bottrop, Germany-based TDA Rental.
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NASHVILLE — Bandit Lites has once again increased its touring inventory, this time adding Elation’s ACL 360i fixtures. These compact fixtures combine bright LED illumination, continuous 360° pan and tilt rotation, strobe effects and selectable dimming curve effects. The fixtures were recently out with American rock band Shinedown’s “Carnival of Madness” tour, pictured here. For those shows, LD Sooner Routhier used them for accent and back lighting, placed behind Plexiglas.
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Mega-Lite’s Medusa 4x5R is designed to offer four moving heads on one base that rotates infinitely in both directions. Each head has one 5R lamp and 104-degree tilt. Featuring rotating gobos, color wheel, and 8 facet prism, the Medusa 4x5R promises to give LDs the ultimate in eye- candy effects.
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LA GRANADA, CA – Gothenburg, Sweden-based LumenRadio, a wireless technologies manufacturer, announced an OEM partnership with California based Cineo Lighting, a leader in the production of lighting systems available for the motion picture, television and photography industries.
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Christie’s Phoenix product line expands with the Phoenix EP (Embedded Processor). Launched at ASIS 2016, the Phoenix AP is designed to serve as a compact, highly scalable solution for managing content on single or multiple panels. The Phoenix EP units install directly into compatible Christie displays – which also provide power – and the units can connect directly to networks using CATx cable.
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NASHVILLE – PixelFLEX noted that Crescent Events, a live event production company based in Charlotte, NC and Oxnard, CA, has expanded its video production capabilities with the order of FLEXCurve 6mm LED video panels.
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