INDIO, CA – Empire of the Sun performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival’s Sahara Stage with artistic flourishes that included glowing pyramids and a six-pronged stage element cradling a white orb. The light show featured a blend of bright white light and vivid colors, programmed and controlled by Dave Taylor, who used a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium console.
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NEW YORK – Bon Jovi’s “This House Is Not For Sale” tour opened with select dates in the U.S. Canada and the U.K. last fall, and recently completed another leg earlier this year from Feb. 8 (Greenville, SC) to mid-April, finishing with two shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden. PRG supplied the tour rig, which included 36 Claypaky Scenius Spots, controlled by Joe Bay, lighting director and programmer, who used a grandMA2 Full lighting console for control.
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VAN NUYS, CA – Joshua Harris, longtime webmaster for PLSN.com, died April 19, 2017 after suffering a heart attack. He was 42.
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MIAMI – Blackmagic Design noted that its URSA Mini 4.6K and URSA Mini Pro cameras were used to produce a live YouTube broadcast during this year’s Ultra Music Festival (UMF). For the first time at the UMF, DJs on the Main Stage were captured and broadcast in 4K.
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MA Lighting released its latest software for grandMA2 lighting consoles, version 3.3, which offers significant updates to the help and fixture library systems along with hundreds of other smaller tweaks.
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Barco added a 7mm pixel pitch model to its R-Series range of “digital media canvases. The product will be featured at Barco’s booth 3601.at InfoComm in Orlando, set for June 14-16.
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NEW YORK – The tour manager for Animals as Leaders, an instrumental progressive metal band that formed in Washington DC in 2007, asked if Squeek Lights owner and LD Victor Zeiser could create big lighting looks for the band while keeping their floor package to a minimum. Zeiser got it down to a single pallet of gear, focusing on fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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SURREY, UK – Robe co-hosted a ground breaking LED Theatrical event staged by staff and students on the Theatre Production course at Guildford School of Acting (GSA), part of the University of Surrey in the UK. The Czech Republic based manufacturer supplied around 50 LED luminaires to the event and to GSA’s 2017 gala musical production staged at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in central Guildford, Surrey, including its groundbreaking DL7 theatrical range – plus the new Spiider LED wash beam, CycFX 8s, Spikies and VIVAs – plus technical support.
SELMA, CA — Steve White, a veteran production manager who ran Avalon Attraction’s San Diego operations in the 1980s, then worked at Screenworks for more than two decades before retiring last fall, was found dead in his home in Selma, CA on April 30. He was 61.
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PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA — Global Scenic Services worked with 5 Wits Productions on “Espionage,” a 40-by-60-foot entertainment attraction at the Plymouth Meeting Mall near Philadelphia.
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NEW ORLEANS — Raven Production Management Group (PMG) used Blackmagic Design components to support an elaborate AV installation on behalf of client Mountain Dew for events linked with the NBA All-Star Game in Feb. 2017.
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COLUMBUS, GA – Cascade Hills Church updated their architectural house lighting system with Chalice LED Pendant and Recessed LED downlights from Altman Lighting. Church officials turned to longtime partner Morris to design and install the new house lighting system.
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