IRVINE, CA — For Blink-182’s 2016 return to the road, in support of the band’s mid-2016 album release, California, the production design by Dominic Smith from Neon Black featured 40 BMFL Blades supplied by VER. Twelve of the BMFL Blades are used as key lights on the front of the band, and the rest as high-impact back lighting and effects.
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BOSTON – There was no shortage of star power on stage at Boston’s House of Blues on Monday December 5, as the legendary venue, hosted Electric Bounce House. The 2,500 capacity concert hall welcomed an Electric Bounce House lineup of artists who often would be playing at an arena or amphitheater. Opening the evening was Grammy-nominated teenage sensation Daya. As the evening progressed, the music grew electronic with the progressive house dance group Cash Cash, followed by Grammy-nominated The Chainsmokers.
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USA – My Morning Jacket (MMJ) founder and front man Jim James embarked on a solo tour this fall, opening on the West Coast and closing Dec. 18 at Iron City, Birmingham, Alabama. Veteran MMJ Designer Marc Janowitz conceived a “forest” of 57 Solaris Mozarts as a main design feature for the tour. “The Mozarts are used as stand-alone fixtures,” explains Janowitz, “each one mounted at the end of goosenecks, LP claws, mic stand boom arms, and other lightweight audio accessories.”
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OAKLAND, CA — Jonathan Bernbaum, a prominent VJ and video artist affiliated with Circuit 5 Visuals, Knife Party and V Squared Labs, was among the 36 victims trapped in the Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse fire on Dec. 2, 2016. He was 34.
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The Eos family of consoles just got bigger – by going smaller. After a successful preview at LDI, ETC has officially launched the Gio @5 console, which brings the acclaimed, professional-grade control of the Eos Ti and Gio consoles within reach of users with tighter spaces – and tighter budgets.
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Blizzard’s HotStik™ 5 COB Mini is a is a smaller, half-meter version of the oriinal Blizzard HotStik™ 5 COB 5-in-1 LED batten. It features six 25W RGBAW COB LEDs, PowerCON compatible power in/out connectors, 3-pin DMX connectors and an array of built-in color macros, automated programs, sound active mode via master/slave, and 4/5/6/8 or 11-channel DMX modes.
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CHICAGO – ILC has hired Nick Vitogiannes as a business development and production manager. Nick has been in the entertainment industry for more than 10 years designing and selling, live shows, events, and tours. Throughout that time, he worked for various companies as the Director of Production companies like: PSAV, Meetinghouse, and RGB Lights.
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KERKRADE, The Netherlands — Elation Professional named lighting industry veteran Frank Schotman technical sales representative and product specialist for the company’s European sales team. Schotman, who has 25 years of industry experience, comes to Elation from the AED Group, where he served as a senior product specialist supporting High End Systems’s fixtures and Hog 4 consoles. He also worked for Eclipse Staging Services in Dubai as head of lighting.
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MUNICH, Germany – Leading Croatian artists Gibonni & Oliver are on an extensive European tour campaign supporting their collaborative new album “Familija” (Family) with a brand new lighting design by Gibonni’s long term LD Sven Kučnić based around 88 Robe moving lights – a combination of Pointes, MMX Spots and MMX WashBeams. Sven’s design is adaptable to be able to fit into the wide variety of different venue sizes on the itinerary.
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NEW ORLEANS – Lighting Designer and touring technician Cody Stoltz passed away at his home in New Orleans last Monday evening after losing his battle with depression. Cody had spent the last couple of years working with the Toby Keith tours and working for lighting vendor Bandit Lites while not playing DJ at clubs around hs hometown. He was working his way up the ladder to his dream job of being a lighting designer for concert tours.
LOS ANGELES – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is pleased to announce the promotion of Chris Lamb to Director of Fixture Service and Support. Lamb assumes his new role after previously joining the company in a technical services capacity.
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SAN DIEGO – LD Matt Collier included six Rogue R1 Washes and four Rogue R1 Spots from Chauvet Professional in the rig for the Brothers Gow as the California jam band underwent its most recent tour leg. The autumn trek took the San Diego-based quintet on a tour of the American West, from Los Angeles to Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and back down the Coast from Washington to Oregon and back to California.
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