PARIS — A major pyro blast injured crew members prior to doors for the staging of a musical about the French revolution, 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille, at Palais des Sports de Paris. The show’s technical director, Marcus Toledano, 41, had a heart attack and later died.
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NEW YORK CITY – Video equipment rental company Pete’s Big TVs went to Wall Street to help Twitter open the New York Stock Exchange and launch its IPO offering on Nov. 7, 2013. Says Pete’s Big TVs VP Guy Benjamin, “We were contacted by production manager Michael Ahern with a week’s notice to supply LED video display of Twitter’s logo and Twitter feed for their big IPO launch day, when they began publicly trading on the stock market.”
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NASHVILLE, TN – On Sept. 6, Keith Urban launched his seventh album, Fuse, with a live performance that was streamed across the globe. The concert was a part of the Yahoo! Music’s Ram Country and took place in downtown Nashville. Lit by LD Victor Fable and programmed by Susan Rose with support from Mark Carver, Andy York and Buddy Lunn, the team worked with Bandit Lites to transform Cumberland Park into the appearance of a full tour production.
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The Mega-Lite N-E Color FX18 is the latest LED wall wash unit from the company. It features 18 3-watt LEDs and offers individual control of each LED. The lenses of the fixture are set to a narrow to medium beam angle of 25?. The fixture is 40″ long and weighs in at 8 pounds with no fans for silent operation. There are 3 modes of DMX operation for any level of control desired as well as built-in presets. It comes with 3-pin XLR for data and a PowerCon in and pass through for power.
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MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO — The owners of the newly renovated Crabby Joe’s at 276 Dundas St. in London, Ontario knew they needed to go big with their AV system to draw guests from local competition. A videowall was their top choice for displaying major events and multiple events at once, so they went to the AV professionals at Advanced to design and install the biggest videowall that would fit.
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GLIC’s P6mm LED panel has a 6mm pixel pitch of RGB LEDs. Sized at 22.67 by 22.67 inch squares (576 x 576mm), the panels are 2.95 inches (75mm) thick. They run on AC 220V/110V power with a frame frequency of 60Hz and the size of each pixel is 3.5mm. The P6mm panels join GLIC’s other panel offerings with pixel pitches ranging from 3mm to 10mm and more. The panels are suitable for use at venues ranging from churches to nightclubs.
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NEW CASTLE, DE – Video equipment rental company Pete’s Big TVs again supplied the high resolution LED video panels for the BET Network’s “Black Girls Rock!” For the new location, longtime set designer Anne Brahic created a new design which took full advantage of the bigger stage and the power of LED equipment.
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DALLAS – Nearly 90 contemporary works of light, sound, performance and projection art recently transformed the downtown Dallas Arts District into a new media art exhibition called Dallas Aurora 2013. Dallas-based Syncrolite played a key role in the 19-square-block event with 10 of the company’s 8000W XL xenon lighting fixtures illuminating the 250-foot-hight building at 1 Arts Plaza.
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LAS VEGAS — With an extra hour courtesy of Daylight Saving Time, there’s more than enough extra time this week for anyone who hasn’t yet reserved their seat at the 2013 Parnelli Awards dinner, set for the Mirage in Las Vegas Nov. 23, to do so. But hurry — when all the seats are taken, it will be difficult to persuade anyone to let you sit on their lap for the duration of the show.
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