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Claypaky Products Create Award-Winning Light Installation at LiO Awards 2017

Claypaky Products Create Award-Winning Light Installation at LiO Awards 2017

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MUNICH, GERMANY – The new Claypaky SharBar and other Claypaky products were used by a trio of young artists at the annual artistic lighting awards “LiO (Light is OSRAM) Awards 2017” in their winning installation ‘The 5th Dimension’, hosted at Munich’s historic event space, the Praterinsel, by German lighting manufacturer OSRAM.

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Litec designed its MyT Folding Steroid Roof System to let users build colossal structures, with extreme loading capacities.

Litec MyT Folding Steroid Roof System

Litec says its recently-introduced MyT Folding Steroid Roof System is a new concept in heavy-duty portable roofs specifically designed for live events. It is designed to serve as a modular, self-contained roof that makes use of EN AW-7003 T6 folding aluminum mother grid truss sections, 85 x 85cm EN AW-6082 T6 aluminum towers and key structural elements in S355 steel, such as modular ballast bases, sleeve block and safety block.

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Becky Koester Accepts Role as General Manager of High End Systems

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MIDDLETON, WI – On June 1st, Becky Koester will officially begin in her new role as general manager for High End Systems. Earlier this year, ETC acquired High End Systems from Barco Lighting Systems, Inc. and has been working diligently to build support for the team in the Austin, TX based headquarters. “Koester was a supporter of the acquisition by ETC throughout the process,” says Dick Titus, President of ETC. “She brings with her a deep understanding of the culture that made High End a market leader and will be instrumental in blending the cultures of ETC and High End Systems.”

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Rockin Road to Dublin’s First National Tour Lit with 4Wall-Supplied Rig

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NEW YORK – The Rockin’ Road to Dublin combines an Irish dance spectacle with rock ‘n’ roll music. Presented as a cross between a concert and a stage show, the touring production features a lighting design from LD Carolyn Wong that makes use of fixtures supplied by 4Wall New York.

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PixelFLEX is the ideal LED video solution for Piranha Productions

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NASHVILLE– Located in Weatherford, Texas, Piranha Productions is a full-service production company specializing in all the design elements needed to create a powerful, live event production designs. With LED video becoming a consistent component to many of their most successful designs, the decision was made to make an investment in the technology for their rental inventory. Needing a high-resolution and durable solution from a trusted provider, they called upon Nashville-based PixelFLEX and made an investment in FLEXLite Plus 8.9mm LED video.

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Chauvet Professional Holds Fourth Annual Student Lighting Showcase

LOS ANGELES – The historic Ricardo Montalban Theatre glowed with the latest in lighting technology and new design ideas on April 1 when it hosted the fourth annual CHAUVET Professional Student Lighting Showcase. An interactive educational event, the showcase has students from college theatre programs collaborate on lighting projects, then have their work evaluated by noted lighting designers.

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Hughie’s Event Production Services Hires Director of Video Services

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CLEVELAND – Hughie’s Event Production Services is thrilled to announce the hiring of Travis Kelly, a well-known Video Veteran in the large scale LED wall industry in the Midwest region. His skills in both technical direction and producing events as well as knowledge in large LED walls, digital HD video switching, cameras, recording solutions and components will be a welcome addition to the current staff.

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Accounting for All the Production Details

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WALES – Accounting specialists, Tax Assist asked CPL to provide full technical design and production – sound, lighting, video, staging and rigging – plus crew for their 2017 annual conference staged in the Caernarfon Suite at Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales. CPL has serviced the event for the last few years. It’s grown steadily in size over that time, and with that has come a commitment by the client to keep increasing the production values.

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Bandit Adds Elation Colour Chorus Battens to Touring Inventory

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – Bandit Lites continues to invest in new gear, this time adding Elation Colour Chorus 48 and 72 battens to its already extensive touring inventory. The Elation Colour Chorus Series is a robust versatile LED series that can be used to illuminate scrims and backdrops in addition to being utilized for up lighting artist from the front. The Colour Chorus collection boasts over 100,000 hours of LED life, individual hue, saturation and intensity control, along with variable dimming curve modes and strobe and chase effects for eye candy looks.

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ETC Welcomes Chris Patton as Marketing Product Manager For Architectural Luminaires

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MIDDLETON, WI – On May 1st, Chris Patton officially joined ETC as the Marketing product manager for architectural luminaires. Patton has been an unofficial part of the ETC family since 2014, when ETC and GDS formed a partnership for the American production and distribution of ArcSystem, BluesSystem and CueSystem families. As a GDS employee, Patton contracted with ETC to serve as the marketing product manager for GDS by ETC products. In his new role, Patton will continue to oversee these marketing efforts, while also working to bring ETC’s unique fixture technologies into the commercial sector.

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About the Technical Standards Program

NYC – What would our industry look like without the TSP? Imagine an industry with no vehicle to create safety and interoperability standards which are free from anti-trust concerns in a decidedly regulatory-compliant environment. Without the TSP, even maintaining current ANSI standards would not be possible and they would cease to exist. This is an unimaginable situation that as an industry, we simply cannot allow to happen! Everyone in the industry benefits from the TSP and everyone needs to step forward and fund this critical program to keep it alive.

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