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Astera Names Bluebottle Exclusive Australian Distributor

Astera Names Bluebottle Exclusive Australian Distributor

RUDESHEIM, Germany – Astera named Bluebottle as the exclusive distributor of Astera’s wireless event lights in Australasia. Bluebottle is based in Melbourne, Australia, and will serve mainland Australia, New Zealand and other Australasian islands. Bluebottle has been working with Astera since 2010 and this partnership will serve to enhance the sales, distribution and support of Astera’s wireless event lighting range in the Australian market.

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Czech thrash metal band SKWOR performs with TD Promo-supplied Robe lighting fixtures.

TD Promo Lighting Czech Rock Bands with Robe Fixtures

PRAGUE — TD Promo has been supplying Robe moving lights for three Czech rock bands bands this year. All have been performing throughout the Czech Republic, with a few gigs in Slovakia as well. They include Mandrage from Pilzen (LD Tomáš Karban); Divokej Bill from Úvaly near Prague (LD Matej Mantlik) and thrash metal outfit SKWOR (LD Martin Samecky), pictured here.

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Controllux’s Jeroen van Aalst (left) and Bram de Clerck (right) with The Purple Group’s Harry Zinken (centre) and some of his Robe ‘stars’.

More than 200 of The Purple Group’s 900 Moving Lights are Robe Fixtures

SCHIJNDEL, The Netherlands — The Purple Group, founded by Harry Zinken in 1989, has been relying on the Robe brand in recent years for a growing share of its rental inventory. After Robe’s ROBIN series was launched in 2010, The Purple Group’s Robe purchases expanded further. The company can now offer clients more than 900 moving light fixtures, and more than 200 of those are Robe units. Zinken credited Robe and also its distributor, Controllux, for their service and support. Pictured here are Controllux’s Jeroen van Aalst (left) and Bram de Clerck (right) with The Purple Group’s Harry Zinken (center).

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4Wall LA Vendor Showcase Set for July 17

LOS ANGELES — 4Wall Entertainment will be opening the doors to its Los Angeles facility on July 17 for a Vendor Showcase event featuring information and demos involving more than 15 of 4Wall’s manufacturer partners, including adyntech, AC Lighting, ACT Lighting, Altman, Chauvet Pro, Elation, ETC, GLP, Lex Products, Martin, Morpheus Lights, Omez Lighting, Rosco, Spotlight, TMB, Vari-Lite, and UsedLighting.com.

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Glastonbury’s Shangri La Area Gets XL Video Support.

XL Video Provides Projection Gear for Glastonbury’s Shangri La Area

PILTON, U.K. — XL Video supplied creative video projection and control to the Shangri La area at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts here June 25-29, including the Heaven area, which required eight Barco R22 projectors, and the “Pyschotron,” an artwork featuring projections on an 8-meter circular screen mounted in the roof of a geodesic dome.

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NanoLumens Names Gary Feather Executive VP of Operations

NanoLumens Names Gary Feather Executive VP of Operations

ATLANTA — NanoLumens named Gary Feather executive vice president of operations. Feather comes to NanoLumens with senior level management experience at other companies, including Sharp Electronics, where he served as senior vice president of LED Lighting. In addition, Feather is the holder of three U.S. patents, in Networked Video Devices (Number 7,594,245), Method for Processing Saturated Intervals in Video Sequences (Number 6,671,420), and Presence Based Technology (Number 8,356,317).

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