AUSTIN, TX -– Production designer Tobias Rylander created a dynamic and versatile light show for Texas post-rock five-piece, Explosions in the Sky, using 16 of GLP’s X4 Bar 20 LED battens. Knowing these could be used to create big fields of light from an economical package, the designer sourced the fixtures from vendors, VER.
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BANGKOK, Thailand – The Road to Ultra Festival took place in Thailand for the third consecutive summer in 2016. A Milos roof was used to cover a 52 meter wide stage for the EDM festival, which is affliated with the Ultra Music Festival in Florida. The project used M390L (QTL) truss, which supported hundreds of video tiles, two 4x4x2 meter video screens, two 4x2x2 meter video screens, one 5 x 3 meter video screen, as well as additional lights and P.A.
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MDG’s Me8, featured at LDI last month, is the “monster” of the Me Series, with eight nozzles that can pump out a massive 800 cubic meters of fog per minute.
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LAS VEGAS and DUBAI – Within a two week window, Area Four Industries was present at two important exhibitions on two continents – LDI in Las Vegas and Prolight & Sound Middle East in Dubai. When LDI opened its doors on Oct. 21, 2016, the Lighting and Sound Industry was introduced to the newest force in truss and support structures: Area Four Industries America. In addition to MILOS and LITEC truss being represented at the Area Four Industries America booth, the new 8:1 EXE-RISE hoists and EXE Load Cell from EXE Technology were on display.
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LAS VEGAS – Sponsored by High End Systems, the 2016 Hog Factor National Collegiate Lighting Show Programming Competition was held at the recent LDI exhibition in Las Vegas. The contest was very close this year, with Webster University’s team The Fauxtons ultimately winning the competition on Friday, October 21st. The Fauxtons team of Josh Murphy, Natali Arco and Jon Ontiveros competed against The HOG Hushers from Carnegie Mellon University and Los Monos de Muerte from Southern Methodist University in the second annual contest.
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AMHERST, NY – Calibre named Stampede as its distribution partner for Calibre HQView switchers, LEDView switcher-scalers for LED displays and HQUltra scaler-switchers for rental staging.
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BURBANK, CA – ARRI promoted Sebastien Laffoux to director of sales, camera systems. In this new role, Laffoux will oversee the camera sales team for North America with regional representatives based in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto. Laffoux reports to Glenn Kennel, president of ARRI Inc.
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Chauvet Professional’s Rogue R3 Wash features 37 15-watt RGBW LEDS which can produce 21,000 lux at 5 meters when operating at 12⁰ zoom.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan- For a three-month showcase starting Dec. 7, 2016 in Taipei City, Avatar: Discover Pandora touring exhibition is based around the science and technology of the creatures and environments of James Cameron’s hit film. Zanim8tion provided the playback and programming using AV Stumpfl®’s Wings Vioso software suite. The project was fully supported by distribution partner, VIOSO.
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WOODBURY, NY, — For outside broadcast (OB) and mobile production companies, the ultimate quality of their projects starts with the cameras they use. With a goal of cost-effectively producing first-class results for a diverse international clientele, television service provider FlipTV Mobile is using six SK-HD1300 cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) to provide pristine video acquisition with exceptional price/performance value.
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WINDHOEK, Namibia – Robe BMFLs, LEDBeam 1000s, Pointes and other moving lights provided by leading Namibian technical production specialist dB Audio illuminated the Namibia Breweries Ltd (NBL) site in Namibian capital Windhoek for the launch of the country’s first biomass boiler. The boiler was inaugurated by Namibian Vice President Dr Nickey Iyambo in a high profile ceremony for which dB Audio provided full technical production for Sindana Communications who delivered the project to end client, NBL owners Ohlthaver & List (O&L) Group.
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WORLD – “Behind the Scenes brings help and hope to individuals in our industry in times of great need. Individuals, organizations, and businesses in the industry continue to help us help our own by donating funds to the charity, but in addition to those generous contributions they are looking for something else. Something that won’t cost you a cent.