LONDON – XL Video supplied full video production and crew for the recent UK arena leg of Biffy Clyro’s ‘Opposites’ world tour. The set design from show designer / director Misty Buckley featured an intricate tree-like structure which could morph into of a pair of lungs, complete with the arterial / branch complexity of both structures. LD Oli Metcalfe provided the integrated lighting design.
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LONDON – Avolites products, including Avolites Media’s Ai media server and the Avolites Sapphire Touch, are helping deliver fast moving evocative visuals on The Script’s sell out arena world tour. Designed by LD Jamie Thompson, in collaboration with content producers Immersive, the show visuals are operated by US-based Jeffrey Brown.
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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional has added to its Rayzor LED moving head series with the Rayzor Q12. Designed for applications requiring a more powerful output, such as the club and stage, the Rayzor Q12 is equipped with 12 x 15-watt 4-in-1 RGBW LEDs, which produce up to 5,840 lux at 5 meters. It also offers some new effects and a sharp 7-degree beam angle, 14-degree field angle.
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SYRACUSE, NY – Three research projects were chosen to receive a total of $26,000 in funding from USITT’s 2013 Fellowship Program, the Institute’s Grants & Fellowship Committee announced. The committee voted to give $12,000 to Helene Siebrits’ Cambodia project, $8,000 to Howard Kurtz’s Federal Theatre Project research and $6,000 to Anita Tripathi Easterling’s study of Indian stage designer Khaled Choudhury.
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Martin’s Rush series of affordably-priced effect lights include the Rush MH 1 Profile (pictured here), an LED profile two gobo wheels and one color wheel; the MH 2 Wash, an RGBW LED wash moving head with a fixed 20° beam angle; the MH 3 Beam, for intense and narrow beam effects; the Rush Strobe 1 5×5, with a 5-by-5 matrix of individually controllable white LEDs; the Rush PAR 1 RGBW, an LED PAR Can with premixed RGBW color mixing; and the Rush Pin 1 CW, a white LED pin spot with two beam options.
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ – Production company Merestone has appointed Brittany Szemerei as its rental manager. An Arizona native and graduate from ASU, Szemerei was most recently… Read More »Merestone Appoints New Rental Manager
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COLUMBIA, MD —Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. has released a new version of the Vectorworks Cloud Services mobile application, Vectorworks Nomad 2.0. The 2.0 version allows users to view, share, measure and annotate files. Enhancements include new redline drawing shapes, a sheet layer sidebar palette, angle and path measurement modes, improved download and upload performance and improved annotation text objects.
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STAMFORD, CT — Stan Miller, chairman of the board for Rosco, pictured right, wrote a memo for internal distribution to all of Rosco employees to explain a little more of the rationale behind Rosco’s acquisition of GAM Products. Rosco then made the memo available to PLSN, Stage Directions and others as a way of clarifying the reasons behind the purchase and how it fits within Rosco’s business objectives. A copy of the memo, written by Miller, is reprinted below. Pictured left is GAM Products founder Joe Tawil.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Reel Video Systems, Dodd Technologies and Tyler Truss Systems teamed up to elevate the experience at Lucas Oil Stadium in March as the 2013 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Midwest Regional rolled into Indianapolis. To enhance the live atmosphere, the three companies developed, fabricated and installed a custom 32 ft x 32 ft structure that included four Reel Video panel-based LED video walls, stadium-sized audio reinforcement, and sanctioned signage.
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COLUMBIA, MD- 4Wall DC is opening the doors of its new Columbia, MD location for the new location’s first Open House and Vendor Showcase on April 18, 3-7 p.m. A full Vendor Showcase will be held inside the building featuring the many of the industry’s top manufacturers displaying their newest products. All are invited to attend.
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NORTH CREEK, NY – Creative Stage Lighting has appointed Robin Lee as Northeast regional sales manager. Lee has extensive experience in entertainment lighting, most recently as PRG’s director of operations of North America.
Read More »Each year, I get a few calls from bands looking for a set or lighting design for their tour. For Imagine Dragons, there was one… Read More »Set in a Bag
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