LOS ANGELES – Lighting designer Robb Jibson of So Midwest, Inc., is using Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures on the latest Fall Out Boy tour in an unconventional way – as spotlights on the band’s tour of the U.S. and Canada. Using the Sharpys as spotlights lets him fit lights into venues that normally wouldn’t have room to accommodate traditional, and much bigger, FOH spotlights.
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ROME – Italian rock singer Vasco Rossi played seven sold out stadium shows recently, with highlights from his 35-year career. LD Giovanni Pinna’s lighting design included a back wall feature incorporating 76 Robe Robin 100 LEDBeams. Pinna, who has designed Rossi’s shows since 1993, also included Robe’s new Robin Pointe fixtures.
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HORNCASTLE, LINCOLNSHIRE, UK – Enchanted Town is an innovative collaboration between leading outdoor arts producer and festival director Robin Morley from Magnetic Events, internationally renowned large format projection and digital artist Ross Ashton and sound artist/audio designer Karen Monid. The first pilot event was staged recently at Horncastle, Lincolnshire, pulling 4,000 visitors into the town center for the evening, boosting local businesses and creating a brilliant vibe.
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VAN NUYS, CA — When cinematographer Todd A. Dos Reis took over the USA Network series Necessary Roughness, more than the storyline changed. He also made radical changes in the show’s lighting looks with Litepanels LED lighting. “What I like about Litepanels is that I can think about them at the last minute and throw them in anywhere,” he says.
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TORONTO – Cast Software has released the full, market-ready version of wysiwyg R31, the new and significantly updated edition of its lighting design and previsualization suite. R31 is available for download now from the members area of the website.
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KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites is going full throttle into the second half of the year with the purchase of 200 GLP impression X4S fixtures. The latest product from GLP, the impression X4S will make its worldwide debut with Bandit Lites as almost 100 illuminate Toby Keith’s “Hammer Down” tour. LD Seth Jackson selected the GLP X4S as his work horse for this year’s design, and admits there was some initial concern, but any worries he had disappeared as soon as he walked into Bandit’s programming facility and saw the X4S in action.
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LOS ANGELES – The Inno Spot LED from ADJ is a compact moving head designed for nightclub effects. Powered by a 50-watt LED source, the fixture projects hard-edge beams and gobo/color effects on walls, ceilings and dance floors for a lightshow at any nightclub or venue.
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Read More »NEW YORK — SFX Entertainment, the company that media executive Robert Sillerman formed in June 2012, is looking to raise up to $175 million through an IPO, according to reports. SFX Entertainment filed an S-1 form with the SEC on June 25.
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MANNHEIM, Germany – Heidelberg-based set designer Valentin Ludicke of Atelier Kontrast used 112 Robe moving lights to illuminate Floor 2 of the 2013 Time Warp EDM event at the Maimarkt-Areal Arena in Mannheim, Germany.
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LONDON – Green Hippo has designed a Hippotizer overlay for the Mackie MCU controller, giving the user ease of use when working with Hippotizer media servers. The hardware provides motorized faders making navigation between layers and observing changes during Timeline playback easy.
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LIVERPOOL, UK – UK rental specialist Adlib is supplying lighting, sound, rigging equipment and crew for the current Elvis Costello and The Imposters ‘Revolver’ UK and European tour. It’s the first time that the Liverpool based company has worked with Costello. There’s no formal set list in the show. Songs are chosen – enough to fill nearly three hours of performance – largely by audience members invited onstage to spin a giant wheel bearing different song titles, with a pool of more than 100 potential numbers.
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