Making a Good Ballyhoo Great
Once lighting consoles began to integrate built-in effect abilities, a ballyhoo became as easy as pressing a single button on the screen. This sends the… Read More »Making a Good Ballyhoo Great
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President Obama and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel Visit Harting’s Booth at Hannover Trade Fair
HANNOVER, Germany – It might be unusual for the head of a world power to pay a visit to any company’s trade show booth. But Harting Technology Group noted that both U.S. president Barack Obama and Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel paid a visit, at the same time, to the company’s booth during the opening of the world’s largest industrial trade show, which took place April 25-29 at the Hannover Messe exhibition center.
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Sew What? Inc. Provides Digitally Produced Opening Show Drape for Kenny Chesney 2016 Tour
RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA — Stage drapery manufacturer, Sew What? Inc. has produced another unique opening show drape for this year’s Kenny Chesney’s “Spread the Love” Tour, which kicked off April 23 in Auburn, AL. The tour will support the artist’s Noise album, which is due out early this summer.
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Mumford and Sons South Africa Tour Rig Includes Harman Fixtures
PRETORIA, South Africa — For Mumford and Sons’ “Gentlemen of the Road” South African Tour 2016, LD Ed Warren’s rig included 26 Martin MAC Viper Profiles, 12 MAC Viper Washes, 22 MAC Quantum Washes, four JEM ZR44 smoke machines and two JEM K1 hazers.
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Fourleaf Takes Over GLP Distribution in Japan
SUN VALLEY, CA – GLP has appointed the company Fourleaf Inc. to handle its market leading LED and discharge lighting fixtures in Japan. Described by GLP’s Sales Director, Asia, Søren Storm as “young, hungry and with a high energy level” he adds that Fourleaf has further credentials in that the company already has in-depth knowledge of the catalogue, and the existing users in the territory. Michael Muenz, GLP General Manager, Asia, is pictured here shaking hands with Fourleaf president and CEO, Shinichi Kikukawa.
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Bud Light Factory Parties at SXSW with Bandit Lites
AUSTIN, TX – When Bud Light decided to throw a party at South by Southwest Music Festival, they went all out. Working with Mosaic and LiveNation, Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for both the Brazos Event Center and the rousing upstairs party, where musical performances throughout the weekend included Bleachers, A$AP Ferg, Yo Gotti, The Struts, MisterWives, Santigold, and Bloc Party, capping the festivities Saturday night with The Roots SXSW Jam featuring Big Grams (Big Boi and Phantogram) and other special guests.
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Cycling Studio Installs ‘Wave Wall’ Made with Chauvet and Iluminarc LED Fixtures
DELRAY BEACH, FL – The Ride Delray Indoor Cycling Studio turned to Jay Krause and his team at Sound and Lighting Solutions for a ‘wave wall’ made from Chauvet Professional and Iluminarc LED fixtures. The wall consists of 8 COLORdash Batten-Hex 8 linear washes and 12 Ilumipod LOGIC Tri-4 RGB color mixing fixtures.
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Laserworld EL-500RGB KeyTEX Projects Text
Laserworld’s EL-500RGB KeyTEX, the successor of the Laserworld ES-400RGB, has all the features seen previously in the ES-400RGB but also comes with a remote control plus a keyboard for entering text, animating it and doing color changes.
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LED Cube Promotes VERY’s Spring 2016 Fashions with Assist from Avolites Ai S6 Server
LONDON – To promote British retailer VERY’s Spring 2016 fashion collection, Transition Video designed and fabricated a 5m x 5m LED cube clad with LED panels on three sides. Through their ad agency, St Luke’s, VERY turned to PrettyBird for creative content. Working with PrettyBird’s Dori Oskowitz, Mark Calvert from RES used Avolites’ Ai S6 server to pixel map and play back the digital content, which included a fast moving array of dancers surrounding the cube.
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MPH Australia Grows with Robe Inventory
MELBOURNE, Australia – MPH Australia is a busy lighting rental company based in Melbourne, headed by Matt Hansen (pictured here). The company has embraced Robe as an in-house brand, and now offers LEDWash 600s, MMX Spots, LEDBeam 100s and BMFL series fixtures to its clients.
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Elation Platinum Fixtures Light Off-Broadway’s ‘Death for Five Voices’
NEW YORK – LD Susan Nicholson used Elation Professional’s Platinum Spot 35 Pro moving heads for front lighting, backlighting and texturing on a recent Off Broadway production of the new musical drama, Death for Five Voices. Nicholson used the Platinum Spot 35 Pro for front light and highlights for the production, which was staged March 24 through April 17 at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in New Yorky. The production was inspired by the life and work of Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo.
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