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C3 Presents and Bandit Lites Illuminate NFL Draft Town

NFL Draft Town, lit with Bandit-supplied gear

C3 Presents and Bandit Lites Illuminate NFL Draft Town

CHICAGO – The 81st NFL Draft returned to the Second City’s Grant Park to create Draft Town, a 900,000 square foot mini metropolis. C3 Presents commissioned Bandit Lites to provide lighting, crew and logistics for more than a dozen areas of Draft Town, including the NFL Autograph Stage, NFL Photo Op Stage, The Ferris Wheel, The NFL Lombardi Trophy, The NFL Museum, The NFL Draft Tavern, site lighting, two SL-100 stages, The Draft Town Entrance, The Buckingham Fountain and the outside of the Selection Square structure.

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d3 Technologies Announces r13 Software Release

d3 Technologies Announces r13 Software Release

d3 Technologies announced r13, the company’s latest software release. r13 has a mix of new and improved features including a new user interface and new HMSF timeline designed to enhance workflow. Other improvements were made to the software’s matrix control and time code readout module, and there is an upgraded web module as well.

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DoPchoice Self-tightening Softbox

DoPchoice Self-tightening Softbox

DoPchoice has redesigned the classic softbox into the quick-deploying Snapbag, a lightweight, elegant solution for LED lights. Softboxes have become popular with LED lights to soften the light emitted and give DPs and gaffers more control. But the classic softbox becomes a project each time it has to be deployed and re-stored due to its complicated assembly.

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"Madame Butterfly" in Los Angeles Lit with GLP Fixtures

“Madame Butterfly” in Los Angeles Lit with GLP Fixtures

LOS ANGELES – For a well-received production of Madame Butterfly that was staged at the 3,000-plus capacity Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at Los Angeles this spring, lighting designer Rick Fisher used GLP’s impression X4 Bar 20 battens. Fisher had lit the same opera before, in 2010, at the Santa Fe Opera. The Los Angeles production, however, was in a significantly bigger venue. The fixtures helped him scale up the production to meet the needs of the larger space.

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SXS Events used 16 Rogue R2 Washes

London Mayor’s Office Lit with Chauvet Professional Rogue Fixtures

LONDON – Leading up to the historic election that would choose Sadiq Khan, London’s first Muslim mayor, SXS Events used 16 Rogue R2 Washes to illuminate the London Mayor’s office, located near the Thames and Tower Bridge. The RGBW LED fixtures were used to wash the entire edifice and draw attention to an HD-projected image displaying the words: “5 May: Have your say.” Khan assumed office May 8.

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The event took place in San Carlos, CA

WorldStage SF Hosts Spring Technology Open House

SAN CARLOS, CA – WorldStage San Francisco, formerly Tekamaki, hosted the spring edition of its Technology Open House in its San Carlos, CA location.  The semi-annual event brought together the top technical minds from all five WorldStage locations.  They demonstrated a cross-section of new off-the-shelf technology, custom technology, and R&D projects from the WorldStage Inventions and Lab teams.

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