LONDON – XL Video is supplying nearly 400 square meters (4,305 sq. ft) of LED screen, plus 72 VersaTUBE LED battens and crew to Blink TV for the UK and European legs of One Direction’s ‘Take Me Home’ world tour. The stage area is 84 ft wide and so production designer Paul Normandale needed a large surface at the back to emphasize the show’s epic proportions.
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MIAMI – Returning for the third straight year to Ultra, Elements Krypton 25s were more prominently featured at the festival than ever before. They were designed into use with the Main Stage, the UMF Radio Stage, the Live Stage and in the AG Mega Arch by various designers working on the festival.
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BREA, CA – Visions Lighting has launch its new website featuring new photos, complete inventory lists and more. Sign up for the company blog to… Read More »Visions Lighting Launches New Website
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MELBOURNE – Clay Paky Sharpy Wash fixtures debuted at the 55th Annual TV Week Logie Awards. The event was held April 7 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne and broadcast live on the Nine Network. LD Rohan Thornton positioned the Sharpy Washes above the host set from where they could wash the stage. During the musical acts they, along with Clay Paky Alpha Beam 700s, were the essence of the moving light rig.
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SEOUL – During a midnight concert April 11 at Seoul’s World Cup Stadium, pop sensation Psy soared across the venue at 8.2m (27 feet) per second, amidst the glow of light sticks being waved by 80,000 fans below. Tait/FTSI was at the helm of the feat, which was achieved with three days of programming and one day of rehearsals, leading up to opening night.
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CARLSTADT, NJ – City Theatrical has redesigned its website to make it more user-friendly and accessible with news, videos and product information for its theatrical,… Read More »City Theatrical Launches New Website
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DALLAS – In the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, the Tom Hunt Energy Hall’s 4D Theater experience, “Shale Voyager,” is controlled by Alcorn McBride’s V4 Pro show controller and 8-channel Digital Binloop HD player. Video and motion chairs give visitors the sense of what it would be like to shrink to the size of a grape, travel vertically down a 6,500-foot borehole, come out horizontally through the black rock of North Texas’s Barnett Shale and whoosh back to the surface when the gas is released.
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LOS ANGELES – Schnick Schnack Systems LED accent lighting literally spins with the hot seats on NBC’s ‘The Voice.’ Chosen by designer Oscar Dominguez of Darkfire Lighting Design, Schnick Schnack Systems’ camera-friendly, calibrated colors light the triangular podium on the front of each judge’s chair. Whenever a critical red decision button is pushed, the LEDs behind the Plexiglas podium change colors and the chair spins around.
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WALES – Ross Ashton and The Projection Studio have designed and coordinated a permanent 270 degree video projection installation featuring an adaptation of their successful work ‘Illuminata’ at Caerphilly Castle in Wales for CADW, the official guardian of the built heritage of Wales. The installed looped show with accompanying soundtrack is 10 minutes long.
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STOCKHOLM – Södra Teatern (Southern Theatre) located in Stockholm’s lively Söder district, is one of Sweden’s best known privately run theatres and the oldest such venue in Stockholm, established in 1859. The newest Robe fixtures in the house as part of a general lighting upgrade are six LEDWash 600s and four LEDWash 300s, specified by Head of Lighting Lars Ekdahl.
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SURREY, UK – The Pixel Depot opened last autumn at displayLED’s headquarters in Surrey (UK), designed as one of Europe’s most comprehensive collection of innovative… Read More »A Virtual Look Inside Pixel Depot
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LAS VEGAS – Barten Production Services recently provided technology reinforcement for the 2013 MOD Awards at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, with the set design depending on GLP’s Volkslicht Zoom and Impression Spot One LED fixtures. The MOD Awards honor the best in the modular exhibit industry.
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