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For Domefest Stage, LD Manny Newman Opts for Rogue Spots and Washes
BEDFORD, PA – Jam bands expect their lighting designers to be ready to punt at the drop of a hat and come up with a fresh look for a new guitar riff that just pops up in the middle of a set. At the recent Domefest, however, funk rockers Pigeons Playing Ping Pong asked their LD Manny Newman to go a step (make that many steps!) further. The popular group, which started the annual three-day jam festival in 2010, wanted Manny to create a flexible punt-ready lightshow for an eclectic mix of over 20 bands.
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Ayrton MagicDot-SX
Ayrton extends its SX range of fixures with its MagicDot-SX. The fixture is a compact, hybrid version of Ayrton’s award winning MagicDot-R. It builds on the features of its award-winning cousin, adding a zoom capability and LumenRadio wireless connectivity.
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Hometown Hero Nominations are In, First-Round of Voting for Regional Lighting Companies Begins!
LAS VEGAS — The nominations for the 2016 Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year competition are in. The list of top nominees is posted online, and the first round of the Hometown Hero (HH) voting process, which extends through Aug. 8, 2016, has begun! Follow the jump to find the link to the 2016 ballot for lighting companies vying for Hometown Hero honors.
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Ray LaMontagne’s ‘Ouroboros’ Tour Gets LMG Video Assist
RALEIGH, NC – American Singer-Songwriter Ray LaMontagne is on tour with his sixth studio album, Ouroboros. The new album features the single “No Pressure” and attributes production from Jim James of My Morning Jacket. The 2016 North American Tour travels throughout 45 cities, some including Los Angeles, Nashville, and Brooklyn. LMG Touring is providing LED, AI Media Server package and custom circular structure for the tour.
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Starlite Transforms School Gym Into Multi-Purpose Performance Venue
MOORESTOWN, NJ –The Baldwin School, a prestigious independent all-girls school in Bryn Mawr, PA had big plans for their outdated gymnasium space. The school enlisted the award-winning architectural firm Voith & Mactavish Architects LLP for the design this vast transformation into the The Simpson Center for the Perfoming Arts. VMA enlisted Fisher Dachs Associates for designing the Lighting, Rigging, & Curtains systems, and sought out Marshall-KMK Acoustics for the Acoustic, Audio, & Video systems for this multi-purpose performance space.
LD Giovanni Pinna Uses Sharpys for Tire Company Event at Portugal Race Track
ESTORIL, Portugal — For the rollout of Pirelli’s latest tire offerings, Newtonlab’s Lucio Ferreira turned to LD Giovanni Pinna for a lighting design assist. The event’s lighting, staged at the race track in Estoril, Portugal, included Clay Paky’s bright, sharp and quick Sharpy fixtures. Musical Box VR provided the gear.
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Chroma-Q Space Force LED Honored at Cine Gear Expo
HOLLYWOOD, CA – At last month’s Cine Gear Expo Technical Awards, Chroma-Q’s new Space Force LED fixture got the nod in the Lighting Award category. The list of award-winners, which were selected by a panel of industry experts with an eye toward the latest in technology, were chosen after reviewing and evaluating nearly 100 of the newest technologies submitted and presented at this year’s Cine Gear Expo.
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KUSI-TV Using Hitachi Kokusai Z-HD6000 Cameras for HD News Production
SAN DIEGO — San Diego television station KUSI-TV has deployed five Z-HD6000 HDTV studio production cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. to enhance image quality and operational versatility for the broadcaster’s live news productions. When the first-generation HD cameras used in its news studio became time-consuming and costly to maintain, KUSI-TV Chief Engineer Fred Swift sought replacements that would also improve the visual quality of their news productions.
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Robert Juliat Merlin Followspots Shine During Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in New Zealand
WELLINGTON, NZ – When the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo came to the Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand in February 2016, production supplier, MJF Lighting decided the scale of the production warranted new followspots and invested in four Robert Juliat Merlin 2500W HMI followspots specifically for the spectacular show.
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U.K.’s Key Theatre Unlocks Savings with Philips Selecon RAMA LED Fresnels
PETERBOROUGH, U.K. – Key Theatre replaced its tungsten Fresnels with 36 energy-efficient Philips Selecon RAMA LED Fresnel luminaires to save on power and add functionality to the lighting system. The new fixtures were supplied and fitted by Stage Electrics, whose technical sales consultant, Andy Elsegood, recommended the RAMA LED Fresnels as a crisp, white LED solution for the theatre’s range of stage lighting requirements.
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dbn Supplies Gear for Parklife 2016
MANCHESTER, U.K. – Parklife, formerly known as The Parklife Weekender, is an independent music festival held annually in Manchester. This year’s event saw 140,000 people attend the two day festival held on June 11-12. dbn Lighting were back in Heaton Park, where they supplied lighting, rigging and LED screen to five out of the eight main performance areas – including the Main Stage, Stage 3 (The Rotunda), Stage 5 (Elrow), Stage 6 (The Colonnade) and Stage 8 which was hosted by two pumping club nights MTA and MK.
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