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Phish Makes it Rain to Ring in the New Year at Madison Square Garden

Phish Makes it Rain to Ring in the New Year at Madison Square Garden

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NYC – (Notorious for their musical improvisation, extended jams and surprise gags, Phish returned to the stage for their annual New Year’s Run at the famed Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, New York. On December 31st, after performing for three hours, Phish began revealing their surprise New Year’s gag at 11:30 pm with a musical production of “Petrichor,” a track from their latest album Big Boat, accompanied by choreographed dancers, sixteen kinetic LED umbrellas that floated above the stage and synthetic rain, made of small crystals, which fell from the ceiling of The Garden.

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Chauvet Professional Conveys Passion At Daddy Yankee and Nicky Jam’s Los Cangris Concerts

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SAN JUAN, PR – Daddy Yankee and Nicky Jam closed 2016 on a high and very emotional note, bringing down the house for four electrifying sold-out Cangris concerts at the famed Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot. The two Reggaeton icons had a lot to celebrate, having collectively garnered six nominations for Univision’s upcoming Premios Lo Nuestro awards.

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Bluewater Opens Sixth Office in Farmington Hills, Michigan

SOUTHFIELD, MI, – ​​​​​Bluewater Technologies Group, Inc. is pleased to announce the opening of its sixth facility. In order to accommodate the continued growth and forecast of new employees required to support increased demand, Bluewater has moved part of its audio visual integration operations to a newly renovated 26,000 sq. ft. space in Farmington Hills, Michigan. This move will support Bluewater’s on-going growth plans.

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ETC Response 4 Port Gateway

ETC Response 4 Port Gateway

ETC’s new Response 4 Port Gateway is now shipping. This product is available as a table-top, rack-mount, DIN rail, or pipe-mounted device. It uses bidirectional Ethernet communication with other network devices to send or receive up to 2048 channels of DMX512 data and RDM messages. Using ACN and streaming ACN protocols, the Response 4 Port supports up to four DMX wiring connections and distributes up to 2048 channels over Ethernet. The 4 Port uses the same integrated LCD screen as ETC’s other gateways for status display and configuration information.

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The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture is an initiative of Saudi Aramco, the Kingdom’s major oil company

King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Saudi Arabia Stages Grand Opening with d3 Projection Mapping

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has officially inaugurated the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, whose debut was marked by stunning video projection mapping across the streamlined, modernist façade.  Belgium-based Visual Solutions crafted the week-long, nighttime display powered by 52 projectors and six 4x4pro media servers with VFC cards from d3 Technologies. Filmmaster MEA Events, produced the grand opening with technical director, Julien Poncelet, heading the team.  VER supplied all the video equipment and serviced the event on site.

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Three Z-HD6000s are deployed in the SMAD studio for hands-on instruction

James Madison University Enhances Hands-On Media Production Education with Hitachi Z-HD6000 Cameras

WOODBURY, NY — At James Madison University in Virginia, the vision of the School of Media Arts and Design (SMAD) includes delivering innovative media education programs that integrate traditional concepts, values, and skills with new and evolving technologies. When the university undertook a major upgrade and refresh of the equipment in its television studio last year, it selected Z‑HD6000 HDTV cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) to give students valuable, practical experience.

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StageSafe is matt black and disappears into back-stage rigging, sets and lighting.

Straightpoint Launches StageSafe Load Cell for Entertainment Industry

Entertainment rigging professionals have welcomed the launch of Straightpoint’s latest innovation, StageSafe, a 3t load cell dedicated to the theatre and live events industry. Straightpoint products are already used in entertainment applications—its Wireless Load Shackle and Loadlink plus are commonplace—but StageSafe is the first product the manufacturer of force measurement, load monitoring and suspended weighing load cell equipment has dedicated to the sector.

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Mall of Africa photo by Peter Hassall

A Thousand Anolis LED Fixtures Illuminate Mall of Africa

MIDRAND, Gauteng, South Africa —Over a thousand Anolis LED lighting fixtures are lighting three major areas of the Mall of Africa in Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa as part of a collaboration between architectural lighting designer Deryl Jan, European LED manufacturer Anolis and South African distributor DWR Distribution, who also took on the exacting specialist installation of this high profile project.

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Gaining Citizenship with Agnes Obel

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BERLIN – It’s always exciting and interesting to be working with rising stars, and LD Luke Edwards is currently touring with the highly talented Berlin based Danish singer, songwriter and keyboardist Agnes Obel, whose mellow, mystical electronica and dynamic vocals are as unique as they are becoming acclaimed as she steadily builds her alt. fan base.The live touring  campaign for the newly released “Citizen of Glass”, Obel’s third album, started gently with a 6-week bus-and-trailer tour around Europe.

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GIS AG LP Series Hoists

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Swiss electric chain hoist manufacturer GIS AG is replacing its LCH series with their LP series. The LP series includes the newly developed LP500, which is designed for a 60 percent boost in lifting capacity, IP65 rating as standard and very quiet running at a maximum 65 dB. Other features of the LP500 (pictured here) well suited for theatre and live events include increased capacity in one fall operation, low dead weight, low noise emission and suitability for outdoor use.

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