MENDOZA, Argentina – Merino Producciones added lighting to its audio production duties for the Fiesta de la Vendimia (Grape Harvest Festival) at Frank Romero Day Greek Theater, located in Mendoza’s General San Martin Park. Merino Producciones’ Mariano Velasco looked after the lighting rig, which included an assortment of lighting fixtures from PR Lighting.
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NASHVILLE—For Alan Jackson’s 2016 “Still Keepin’ it Country” tour, Craig Rutherford of Blueshift Design is serving as production and lighting designer. He was looking for something with more versatility than a standard beam light fixture. He found it in Elation Professional’s Platinum FLX. Nashville-based Elite Multimedia Productions is supplying the gear, along with the rest of the show’s lighting and video elements. “Still Keepin’ it Country” started in April and will play festival and arena dates until November.
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LEOPOLDSBURG, Belgium — For a large scale promenade theatrical spectacle, titled De Groote Rappel, freelance LD Michel Jacobs worked with Timothy Haesevoets from Leopoldsburg City Theatre on a unique lighting setup that included Robe fixtures.
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LONDON – Corporate and event lighting specialists, Blinding Light Ltd., recently expanded their wash light inventory by making a substantial investment in Martin MAC Aura XB LED wash light fixtures. Pictured here is the Blinding Light team with the new fixtures.
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Blizzard says its “True” main power and extension cables are built with thicker wire gauges, better jackets, shields and connectors. They are compatible with Neutrik powerCON TRUE1 locking, IP65-rated connectors. The connectors feature a simple, yet rugged locking device to guarantee safe power connections. Blizzard also notes that these connectors have breaking capacity, allowting “True” power connections to be connected or disconnected safely under load.
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NEW YORK – Continuing its Rigging Safety Initiative (RSI) program, which USITT launched five years ago, the association recently approved free stage rigging inspections and safety training for 11 more schools, located in Natick, MA; Woodbury, MN; Medford, NJ; Chazy and Fredonia, NY; Elyria, OH; Greendale, WI; and in Houston and Wayland, TX. Since its launch, USITT has accepted more than 120 schools into the RSI program. The schools get a free rigging inspection and safety training performed by USITT’s partner rigging companies, which charge USITT a reduced rate.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – LD Fredrik Jönsson used a large number of Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpy, Sharpy Wash 330 and brand new Scenius fixtures for the 2016 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. The semi-finals and final performances were staged and broadcast live from the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden on May 10, 12 and 14.
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MUNICH, Germany – Lighting Designer Thomas Gerdon of gerdon MEDIADESIGN used an Elation Professional lighting package to light artist performances on the German RV program Verstehen Sie Spass. Broadcast on the ARD television network, the show offers both music performances and Candid Camera-style pranks. The rig includes Platinum SBX moving heads, Satura Spot CMY Pro LED moving heads, Platinum Wash ZFX Pro XL LED wash lights and ACL 360 Roller effect lights.
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AMSTERDAM – For DJ Armin van Buuren’s new ‘Armin Only’ mega-show at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome, titled ‘Armin Only – Embrace,’ the same technical and creative team backing the ‘Armin Only – Intense’ world tour in 2014 used 162 Robe moving lights. A blend of Pointes, LEDWash 600s and LEDBeam 100s were unleashed for the four-hour trance event.
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LAS VEGAS – Pitbull performed at the Axis in Planet Hollywood on the LED-video-drenched Las Vegas Strip with a visual twist – Chauvet’s 4×4 COB LED panels instead of LED video displays. Michael Smalley and Gabe Fraboni of Twin Designs positioned 138 Nexus 4×4 panels on the fascia of tri-level band and dancer risers.
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TOUR dates: Jan. 12 to April 1 (U.S.); April 23-30 (Australia)
THE DESIGN: “Vance Joy is a dynamic pop act, but it’s also a very intimate one. At either end of the dynamic spectrum, his music lends itself to a warm blanket of incandescence. The next step was choosing instruments to provide punch and textures to accentuate larger moments without overriding the intimate, storyteller vibe intrinsic in the show. I’m also a drummer, and I’ve found my most valuable lighting tool to be timing. I look at it as playing drums with colors.”
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LAS VEGAS — Screen Innovations, an AV company that created the first screen to orbit in space aboard the International Space Station, will be exhibiting the company’s new “levitating” Zero-G screen and a curved, 8K, 30 foot wide rear projection display.at InfoComm 2016 in Las Vegas at booth C4815.
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