LOS ANGELES – PixelFLEX is planning a West Coast Open House event to showcase of its LED display technologies. The open house will take place at INVENT (Institute of Venue and Entertainment Technology) in Los Angeles, CA, on May 26-27, 2016. Products featured include the company’s FLEXLite Plus, FLEXLite NXG, reFLEXion, trueFLEX, and FLEXCurtain HD,
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LONDON – d3 Technologies announced a number of global new hires and two new office locations as the company rapidly expands worldwide. Pictured here from left, on top row, are Fleurette Vincent, Desmond Yim, Chrysant Liu and Lars Paape. From left, bottom row, are Christian Dickens, Andy Briggs, Mit Patel, Ryan Sklar.
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AUCKLAND – New Zealand’s theatres, venues and hire companies have embraced the High End Systems Hog platform, with multiple units installed around the country by NW Group. The latest addition, a Road Hog 4 in Auckland’s SKYCITY Theatre, joins a flagship Hog 4 in Tauranga’s Baycourt Theatre, a Road Hog 4 in Auckland’s Bruce Mason Theatre, multiple Hog models across the seven council-run Positively Wellington Venues, and Hogs for hire across the country.
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CANBERRA, Australia – Canberra Theatre Centre (CTC) has three main venues – the 1,244 seat Canberra Theatre; The Playhouse, which holds 614; and The Studio, a black box space with 100 capacity. Last year, the CTC invested in its first moving lights. Head of lighting Andrew Tweedie opted for Robe fixtures, which were delivered by Elite Sound and Lighting. Pictured here is Elite Sound and Lighting’s Darren Russell on the left with Andrew Tweedie, CTC’s Head of Lighting.
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PARIS – After pioneering highly efficient and color accurate Remote Phosphor LED lighting, BBS Lighting applied this technology to create the first Bank LED Remote Phosphor lights. Bank systems have long been popular due to their versatility and convenient form factor. BBS has improved on the classic light bank by adding the benefits of Remote Phosphor technology in the Pipeline 4-Bank, 3’ and 4’ systems.
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LAS VEGAS – Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas celebrated its 10th anniversary on April 23, 2016 with a fireworks and lighting show featuring Syncrolite XL Xenon searchlights that filled the sky over the resort in an eight-minute choreographed lighting, fireworks and audio display. The 45 XL’s were placed in three groups of 15 fixtures around the resort creating a huge stage for the aerial art. Veteran crew chief TJ Benton along with Travis Slater and Travis Braudaway were on hand to set-up and execute a flawless light show. Syncrolite coordinated the performance with Fireworks by Grucci who designed and produced the show, one of the largest fireworks display ever hosted by a single venue in Las Vegas.
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INDIO, CA – For Norwegians Ketil Jansen and Ulrik Denizou Lund, who performed at this year’s Coachella festival, LD Michael Sheck of L7 Productions included Chauvet Professional Nexus Aq 5×5 LED panels in the rig, which was supplied and installed by Kilroys Lighting and Production of Las Vegas.
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NASHVILLE – Panic! at the Disco wrapped their spring tour with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. The American pop/rock band known for their clever lyrics and distinctive sound released their fifth studio album, Death of a Bachelor, earlier this year, and is gearing up for a co-headlining summer tour with Weezer. Lighting designer Alex Specht of Spechtrum Lighting created a multi-layered look using a floor package that symmetrically parted a center drum riser with Martin MAC Vipers and Chauvet RH1 Rogues along the deck, road cases and four 6-foot truss towers with alternately hung Chauvet Nexus 4x4s and Atomic Strobes.
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Harman’s Martin debuted two additions to the P3 System Controller family of LED video processors at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt last month, and in early May announced v4.2.0, a feature-packed software upgrade for the entire line of P3 System Controller, including P3-050/100/150/200/300/PC and P3-on-Hippo.
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FARMINGDALE, NY — Avolites Ltd named Farmingdale, NY-based Group One Ltd as the sole US distributor for its Ai range of media servers. As of May 1t, Group One is now promoting, selling and supporting Avolites’ new Ai R Series media servers, which boast a long list of powerful features and hardware, alongside the manufacturer’s existing lighting control products, all designed and manufactured in the UK.
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NEW ORLEANS – It’s an even-numbered year so it was time for rock band 311 to celebrate their biennial 311 Day with two arena shows in New Orleans on March 11 and 12. Lighting designer Joe Paradise of House Lights Go Inc. and assistant designer/programmer Bobby Grey selected Clay Paky fixtures and a grandMA2 console for the event, which drew 15,000 fans representing every US state and 17 countries. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky and MA Lighting products in North America.
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PR Lighting launched its new ARC LED 1027 (PR-8806, pictured here) outdoor lighting fixture — a companion to the “two head” version, the ARC LED 1054 (PR-8808).
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