KINGSTON, Ontario, Canada — The Caravan Stage Company, based here, has been looking to Neutrik for all its connectivity requirements for audio and lighting aboard a custom-built, flat-keeled vessel that serves as both a unique floating performance venue and residence for the touring cast members and crew.
Read More »SYDNEY – Christie is featuring its lighting and projection mapping products at the annual designEX event in Sydney. Among the highlights is a demonstration of the Christie MicroTiles, renowned for their ability to maintain color depth, high contrast and high brightness in high ambient light settings. Also on display is the Christie Brio, designed for effortless meeting, sharing of information and work across multiple sites.
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LONDON – This year’s We Are FSTVL upped the ante on several fronts, expanding the event to two days, increasing the level of production and securing an action-packed line-up with main stage headliners Richie Hawtin and Fatboy Slim. Providing the visual spectacle for this EDM event, Colour Sound Experiment deployed five trucks of kit, 26 crew, around 500 square metres of their proprietary BT LED screen, over 350 moving lights and a shed-pile of strobes, blinders and atmospheric effects to the site, where all their elements were co-ordinated by Crew Chief Andy Melleney.
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LAS VEGAS — Specially designed for those tricky applications that fall somewhere in between permanent architectural installations and temporary entertainment lighting, Iluminarc has introduced the Colorist Series, a new series of IP65-rated fixtures with Quad-Color red, green, blue and amber LEDs. All Colorist models come standard with IP-rated DMX tails that can be permanently installed in a covered structure or used for chaining together fixtures at temporary outdoor events like festivals. They also offer flexibility in the area of control, featuring standalone operation via an easy-touch LED display, as well as multiple DMX personalities for programming versatility. The two linear units provide individual pixel control, allowing for color fades and wipes in addition to straight color washes.
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Challenged to create a fully flexible rig that looks fabulous in a wide variety of venues, is quick and easy to rig and de-rig and will fit into one truck, LD Luc Peumans from Painting With Light designed a rig that includes eight DMX controllable electric ribbon lifts fitted with lights. Divided into eight fabric columns flown at the back, the eight letters of C-L-O-U-S-E-A-U are spelt out along the bottom of the strips.
Read More »CYPRESS, Calif. – Christie has published The Book of Transformations – a “coffee table” style book that explores and celebrates how artists and technicians are using powerful projection display technologies to visually transform familiar structures and objects. The tablet version of The Book of Transformations includes images, embedded video and detailed narratives of how various structures and surfaces were mapped, recreated in software, and then given entirely new appearances using powerful projected light. The Book of Transformations also traces the history of the art form, provides an extensive primer on how projects are conceived and executed, and looks at the future of the technology and medium.
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Portland, OR – Just released by Audinate, Dante HC, the industry’s highest-capacity networked audio solution for professional AV systems, supports up to 512 x 512 redundant bi-directional uncompressed audio channels on a single Xilinx FPGA. Suitable for live broadcast, commercial installation and live sound, Dante offers virtually perfect synchronization, ultra-low deterministic latency and plug-and-play configuration management.
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Following success of the “27 Club” at the St. Pauli theatre in Hamburg, the show has packed up and hit the road, taking along its nine Clay Paky Sharpy Washes. According to LD Roland Greil, adapting the lighting rig to various theaters is eased by the compact design of the Sharpies. “… the Clay Paky Sharpy Washes, are unbeatable precisely because of their extraordinary power packed into such a compact body.”
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SPRINGFIELD, OH – The Spacemaster SX is the first wire rope hoist platform to receive the HMI-Certified License from the Hoist Manufacturers Institute.
NEW YORK — The 2014 NFL Draft, staged at Radio City Music Hall here, was the highest rated ESPN Draft telecast in more than two decades. Christie Lites provided the rig to the specifications of LD Micheal Franks, who included Harman’s Martin Professional fixtures to provide light for the entire venue.
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LONDON – Equipped with 12 chrome GLP impression 90’s, The Hospital Club, a private members’ club and creative arts venue, has unveiled the Oak Room, a new 100-capacity live performance and showcase space. LD Gemma Jaques choose GLP impression 90’s “Because of the room’s low ceiling height the units needed to be LED and relatively small. We were free to use whatever fixtures we thought were the most appropriate in our inventory — and that was clearly our special chrome impression 90. The RGB heads were originally commissioned specifically for television use — but the aesthetic was perfect for the Oak Room.”
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NEW YORK – Looking to keep one of New York’s hottest clubs on the cutting edge, the owners of Mamajuana revamped the club’s look recently, giving the chic nightspot a new color palette with 12 Legend 412 fixtures along two 20-foot I-Beams (six on each) that run along either side of the Mamajuana dance floor. On nights when there isn’t a concert, six additional Legend 412 fixtures will also flood the dance floor. “We like to bathe the floor with very rich colors using a GrandMA to program some dynamic shows. We rely on the intensity of our color beams to touch the crowd without using patterns or gobos. The dance floor is so packed, no one will see any of the patterns you create, so it’s all about the colors and intensity of the beams,” said LD Jason Ayala.
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