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Bandit Brings Light To Largest Global Finals Competition

Bandit Brings Light To Largest Global Finals Competition

KNOXVILLE, TENN. – Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the Global Finals of Destination Imagination, where teams from around the world gathered to compete in challenges created to stretch their creativity and logical skills. Using 24 hexagonal truss structures to ensure every inch of the stage was covered, LD Giff Swart utilized Bandit’s GRNLite moving head wash for lighting that would ‘punch’ even in color washes. Two Vari-Lite 3000 Spots were used to project custom-made gobos 135’ clear across the arena, and Bandit tech Shawn Beaulieu added color in them, resulting in the crowd of 16,000 being able to see the intricate designs from that throw distance. Furthermore, GRN pars were used as truss toners, and crazy chase effects with saturated colors created for excitement.

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Christie Demonstrates Advanced Visual Solutions At designEX

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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Colour Sound For We Are FSTVL

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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Colorist Quad Color Fixtures Bridge Gap Between Installed Architectural and Temporary Entertainment

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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Clouseau Are Painted With Light

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.

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Christie’s Book Of Transformations Celebrates And Explores Projection Mapping Work From Around World

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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Audinate Announces Dante HC Networking Solution

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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Clay Paky On Tour With The “27 Club” And The History Of Music

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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GLP Impressions Selected For New Hospital Live Room

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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