STOCKHOLM, Sweden – The massive live Eurovision Song Contest 2016 (ESC 2016) production relied upon XLNT Advanced Technologies’ CyberHoist II automation system. LiteCom specified the automation system for the semi-finals and finals, which took place at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm on May 10, 12 and 14.
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LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Board of Advisors announced that Danny O’Bryen, a concert touring video pioneer who co-founded Screenworks, will receive this year’s Visionary award at the annual ceremony, which is set for Oct. 22, 2016. Note: PLSN inadvertently ran “November 22” instead of “October 22” in the current May issue, page 60. The correct date is Saturday, Oct. 22. PLSN regrets the error -ed.)
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HANNOVER, Germany -– German creative director, JoJo Tillman, brought all his vast experience to bear on the recent tour by Lena Meyer-Landrut, the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest winner. After working with the artist last year, the TV and concert lighting specialist decided on a new approach when the club tour resumed in early 2016, enlisting the help of GLP (and its market-leading LED portfolio) to achieve a unique solution. Knowing that Lena is one of the faces of L’Oréal, and that the light should be concentrated on haloing this feature, he had the Karlsbad manufacturer produce special versions of the X4 atom, replacing the high output quad color purely with cold and warm white LEDs.
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LOS ANGELES – Zylight, a leading manufacturer of innovative LED lighting solutions, recently announced it has been named the exclusive distributor of Aladdin professional LED lighting instruments throughout North, Central and South America. Aladdin’s product line includes the Bi-Flex family of flexible LED panels, which are available in three sizes up to 200 watts.
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ADJ’s Vizi Beam RXONE joins the company’s Vizi range of professional moving head lighting fixtures. The compact, agile and budget-friendly Vizi Beam RXONE features a 6,000-hour Osram Sirius HRI 1R discharge lamp as its light source. Other features include a sharp 3-degree beam that travels up to 100 meters with a white color temperature of 8,000˚K and illuminance measurements of 99,250 lux at 10m and 70,030 lux at 15m.
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SANTIAGO, Chile – Clay Paky’s Chilean distributor, Valook, showcased more than 80 units of the company’s latest fixtures as part of an Open Day event for local rental and production companies, theatres, lighting designers and TV representatives. Organized by Valook – which has been a Clay Paky distributor since 2014 – the event was held on the rooftop of Santiago’s 64-storey Costanera Center Tower. Featured fixtures included Clay Paky’s Mythos, Glow Up, Scenius Spot, Sharpy, Sharpy Wash, B-EYE K10 and K20, Stormy and Stormy CC fixtures.
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Ayrton’s WildSun-S25 is the color-mixing cousin of Ayrton’s WildSun-K25 wash light. The new full color model packs 217 highly efficient single RGBW LED emitters into a compact moving head and punches out 60,000 lumens of light. Ayrton notes that this output rivals that of 4000W HMI luminaires fitted with color filters, but with far greater flexibility of use and lower maintenance.
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NASHVILLE – American rock band Kansas is about to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the multi-platinum album, Leftoverture, right on the heels of the release of a brand new album, Prelude Implicit, which is their first album since 2000. The “Dust in the Wind” super group is currently gearing up for the celebratory fall tour (which will feature the entirety of Leftoverture performed in sequence, in addition to other hits and new songs) with a spring tour that included a lighting package from Bandit Lites.
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ORLANDO – Asserting that the market demand for replacement projector lamps will be sustained for years to come, Projector Lamp Experts (PLE), an industry leading distributor of OEM and Platinum projector lamps, recently announced that it will be making its official commercial market introduction to dealers, resellers and distributors at InfoComm 2016. The introduction will take place at Projector Lamp Experts Booth #C9436 at the Las Vegas Convention Center from June 4 – 10, 2016.
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LONDON and BRISTOL, U.K. – Utopium has invested in new lighting and rigging equipment to bolster the production company’s already extensive inventory. Utopium now stocks SGM P-2s (LED RGBW Floods), Martin MAC Quantum Profile LED moving lights, Chauvet Rogue R1 LED moving wash lights, Robert Juliat Roxie LED followspots, SGM G-Spots (LED IP65 moving profiles), SGM Q-7s (LED IP65 strobe / flood / blinders) and ProLights Z8 LED IP65 wireless battery battens. Pictured here is Utopium’s Colin Bodenham.
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