GLASGOW, Scotland – American singer and songwriter Halsey kicked off the European section of her Badlands tour at Glasgow’s O2 Academy earlier this year. Creative Directors of production design company Okulus, Louis Oliver and James Scott, turned to Ayrton once again when creating an adaptable lighting design which could be modified to suit all of the venues in the European tour dates.
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NASHVILLE – PixelFLEX named Intellasound Productions as its newest production rental partner. With its headquarters in Verona, WI, Intellasound Productions has been supplying audio, lighting, staging, backline and touring support for a wide variety of live events, and they have now added FLEXCurve 6mm LED video technology from PixelFLEX to their rental inventory to strengthen their client support nationwide. Pictured here, from left, are Bryan Schalburg, Declan Dwyer, David Maier, Tim Woodworth, and Matt Naselli.
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UTRECHT, The Netherlands – Rigging Box, a Dutch rigging supplies rental companyh that is part of Ampco Flashlight Group, added to its inventory of Prolyte Truss by using that company’s Truss Exchange Program. The program encourages Prolyte truss end users to exchange their older, well-used inventory items for brand-new gear. Rigging Box’s staff and new Prolyte truss are pictured here.
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TekVox’s TekFlex-12 seamless high definition switcher promises to replace all inputs and outputs with 12 individual slots that can be independently populated. The product will debut at InfoComm 2016, June 8-10, at the Las Vegas Convention Center (Booth #N1715).
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NEW YORK — Three draft standards have been added to the ESTA public review page. People materially affected by the standards are invited to review them and to offer comments, if they chose, before the reviews end on June 27.
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LONDON — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis recently completed their 2016 European/U.K. jaunt with more than 30 gigs scheduled from early March to late April. The lighting and visuals design by Paul “Arlo” Guthrie included Robe BMFL Spots and PATT 2013 fixtures. The duo are set to kick off their North American tour in Vancouver, BC later this month.
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AMSTERDAM — Philips, which split its business operations into medical and lighting entities back in Sept. 2014, with the hopes of spinning off its lighting business, has not been able to find a buyer willing to pay what it wants for the whole lighting entity, which analysts now value at about $5.8 billion.
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Blizzard Lighting’s Stiletto Glo19 beam and wash luminaire promises both sharp beams and wash capabilities. It is an 11° to 58° zoomable wash moving-head with under-the-lens “Glo” effects. This moving head fixture is equipped with 19 15-Watt Osram 4-in-1 RGBW LEDs with RGB color mixing Glo control on a secondary LED array underneath the lens plate for the background glow effect.
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LAS VEGAS, NV – Upstage Video’s West Coast team and local California entertainment design company, Tractor Vision, collaborated on the deployment of a curved, 3mm LED screen and scenic surround structure for NAB Show exhibitor, edelkrone. The end client used the 10’ x 35’ LED wall and scenic structure to display video content showcasing their new products and innovation.
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ATLANTA – Active Production and Design, Inc. was awarded three Allie Awards on March 6: Best Audio Visual Design, Best Event Innovation and Best Use of Media and Technology. The event took place at the Georgia Aquarium. The Allie Awards were founded in 1991 to honor those in the catering and special event industries in the Atlanta area. They were conceived by Tim Lundy, CSEP, who was on the boards of the Atlanta regional chapters of National Association of Catering Executives (NACE) and the International Special Events Society (ISES).
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SAN ANGELO, TX – For country artist Aaron Watson’s current tour in support of last year’s album, The Underdog, production designer LD Erich Meitzner is working with a rig that includes Rogue R1 Wash and R1 Spot fixtures from Chauvet Professional. 4Wall Entertainment Lighting is supplying the gear.
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KORTRIJK, Belgium — Barco NV has acquired all shares of Medialon Inc., according to a joint letter to Medialon customers from both George Stromeyer at Barco and Alex Carru at Medialon. The announcement follows several other big M&A deals among companies in the AV technology sector recently, including H.I.G. Capital’s acquisition of AVI-SPL, Diversified Systems’ acquisitions of Technical Innovation and The Systems Group and Mitel’s acquistion of Polycom.
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