LOS ANGELES — Scott Barnes and Joshua Thatcher, who often work together as moving light programmers for the motion picture and television industries, were early adopters with the Hog 4 control platform. “We got our Hog 4 consoles in November of last year, and we were fortunate to get some of the first desks on the West Coast,” said Barnes. “From November to March, we used the new desk for commercials and re-shoots, so by April when we started Captain America 2, I was really comfortable with the Hog 4 and ready to go ‘full tilt boogie.’”
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LOS ANGELES — The MDA Show of Strength telethon, which airs on the ABC network in a two-hour prime time slot on Sunday, Sept. 1, will raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association — and it will once again look completely different from the black-and-white memories Baby Boomers might have of the show’s previous incarnation as the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, which ran from 1966 to 2010.
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BERLIN, Germany – For the fourth annual A&P Summer Rave, a music festival sponsored by a grocery company that gets staged in three of the same airport hangars that were used for the Berlin Airlift, LD Martin Kuhn deployed a rig featuring a variety of Clay Paky fixtures, including Sharpys, Alpha Spot QWO 800 STs and Alpha Beam 700s.
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The TS4525 is a 45-watt LED fixture that utilizes 12 Cree LEDs. This unit is particularly well suited for retail applications where a bright, long-lasting source is required. The LE4525 is available in standard black, white, or silver finishes. Custom colors are available upon request. Features include: 45-Watt, 120 Volt light source; 35,000 Hour average life; 25 degree beam; 3000K color temperature; 80 CRI. For non-dimming applications only.
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BROADBEACH, Australia — The ULA Group installed more than 500 Anolis LED fixtures within the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre (GCCEC), including Anolis ArcLine and ArcSource full color spectrum units.
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MIAMI — Life In Color (LIC), founded in 2006 as Dayglow and renamed after its acquisition by Robert F. X. Sillerman’s SFX Entertainment in late 2012, combines EDM music, art, DJs, dancers, aerial acts and fire effects with its trademark paint cannons. The group performed three shows near the end of the 2013 International Champions Cup soccer tournament at Sun Life Stadium here in early August. Collyns Stenzel of Advanced Concert Productions, also an SFX Company, used 102 Elation Platinum Beam 5R fixtures, supplied by The Design Oasis (Davie, FL) and Act Productions (Miami Beach, FL).
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Peter Mumford’s Helpmann Award winning lighting design for King Kong The Musical includes ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ profiles and Vari-Lite VL3500 units, among other gear.
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