EL PASO, TX – Each year, Fred Loya’s Christmas light show in El Paso, Texas, is one of the holiday season’s can’t miss spectacles and each year he uses Elation lighting to give his light show extra impact. This year Fred was approached by ABC Television to take part in “The Great Christmas Light Fight,” ABC’s Christmas lights competition, and came away the winner!
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Copenhagen Central Station was recently equipped with 24 SGM P-5 wash lights with the goal of making it more welcoming for its approximately 100,000 daily visitors. The contractor on the project was Matrix Sales ApS with Urs Friis-Alstrup as the project manager responsible for budgeting, product selection and programming.
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LONDON — Technical manager Nick Charalampidis detailed three high-profile events that Fix8Group has supported recently: the The MTV European Music Awards (Nov. 9 in Glasgow, Scotland), the Victoria Secret Fashion Show (Dec. 2, London) and the inaugural BBC Music Awards (Dec. 11, London). The company supported the visual needs at each event with Hippotizer media formatting, outputting and programming; Hippotizer HDs for a “video catwalk” and Hippotizer HDs for a 3D mapped LED cube centerpiece of the stage.
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DUBAI, UAE – Eclipse Staging Services and Delta Sound both unveiled new equipment as Lady Gaga made her Middle East debut in Dubai. Promoted locally by AMI Live and ATW Live in association with Live Nation Global Touring, artRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball took place at Meydan Racecourse. Eclipse provided the lighting, video and primary and secondary power distribution, while audio was supplied by Delta Sound. The main stage lighting featured many fixtures, including 67 Clay Paky Sharpys, 11 Clay Paky Alpha Wash 1500s and 24 Clay Paky Sharpy Washs.
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BEIJING – PR Lighting was given an opportunity to showcase its products in the lighting design for the APEC Welcome Banquet, which was held at the Water Cube in Beijing. The Welcome Pathway consisted of 21 floor beams, a wave lighting belt and a large illuminated pillar. For the live performance in front of the Bird’s Nest, 500 pieces of PR Lighting’s ARC LED 3216 were used to create the colour changing effects on the outside of the wall. Finally, 260 spot and framing moving heads, 140 beam lights, 160 LED effects, as well as some stage follow spots and a full laser were programmed to project highly creative effects onto the centre of the Water Cube stage.
LONDON – British entertainers Ant and Dec hit the road with a live touring version of their TV show Saturday Night Takeaway. LD Adam Bassett of Woodroffe Bassett Design specified more than a hundred Clay Paky fixtures. They included 57 Clay Paky Alpha Wash 1500s, 32 Alpha Profile 1500s, four Alpha Spot QWO 800s, 20 Sharpys and 12 Sharpy Wash 330s, all supplied by Neg Earth. Bassett also collaborated with lighting director and programmer Roland Greil of Einstein and Sons for the run of the tour.
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WASHINGTON DC — NASA headquarters has upgraded its main auditorium with a Vista Systems Spyder image processor. Spyder gives the auditorium eight inputs so it can source from DVD players, Blu-ray players, NASA TV feeds and multiple laptops and display their images on the screen.
Read More »AUSTIN, TX – LD Alastair Watson chose High End Systems’ new Shapeshifter automated luminaire for Joe Satriani’s latest tour. The LD first became acquainted with the C1 and W1 via its inital promo clip, saying “I saw the video, you know the one. And then I flew to Austin because I wanted to have a look at it, face to face. I knew immediately that this was a light that was going to add an extra dimension to my show. I will be spec’ing these for some time to come. I would have a space on my plot to use these in any market.”
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LOS ANGELES – VER (Video Equipment Rentals), one of the top A/V rental companies in North America, with locations in North America and Europe, recently purchased an extensive Optocore fibre optic audio system in its ongoing commitment to provide their customers with leading edge technological solutions. The first use of the system was for the recent MTV Video Music Awards, staged in Los Angeles at the Forum in conjunction with ATK Audiotek, the incumbent audio production company supplying PA and broadcast feeds to the recording mobiles. Jeff Peterson, VMA Project Manager for ATK, is pictured here.
HONG KONG – Taking audience participation to the next level, Mandylights has used more than 15,000 Ghostbands at Chinese singer G.E.M.’s concerts. Ghostbands can communicate with each other, can be controlled via DMX and can be bitmapped, allowing audience members to become an integral part of the lighting design.
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LOS ANGELES – Adobe MAX 2014, a conference for users of Adobe software products, included general sessions at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live. PIX Productions and Worldstage supported the most recent event by combining state-of-the-art pixel mapping technologies with one of the world’s oldest staging techniques: periaktoi, which are triangular-shaped devices used for displaying, and rapidly changing, theater scenes. Periaktoi techniques date back to the times of ancient Greece.
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