NEW YORK – Josh and Jason Diamond from VR company SuperSphere used nine Blackmagic Design Micro Studio Camera 4Ks and nine Video Assists for fashion brand Chromat’s Fall/Winter 2016 runway show during New York Fashion Week. The Blackmagic Design gear was used for SuperSphere’s 360Design “Diamond EYE” setup to capture 360-degree shots of the models walking down the runway.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany — Riedel Communications announced that Jeremy Lommori has been promoted to serve as head of technical sales and support for Riedel North America. Lommori is a production professional with extensive experience in technical design, broadcast engineering, live event production and postproduction, as well as comprehensive knowledge in design, integration, and maintenance of television production systems, professional audio and lighting equipment, and integrated control systems.
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GLASGOW, Scotland — Lighting designer Phil Supple (of Light Refreshment) has again turned to SGM’s P-5 IP65-rated wash light to create a mesmerising lighting ‘trail’ at the Rouken Glen Park in Glasgow for East Renfrewshire Council’s Electric Glen Festival.
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MOSCOW — Lighting rental house Global Show Trade (GST) has set up a new showroom at its headquarters in Moscow, enabling many manufacturers, including PR Lighting, to demonstrate their products. Initially, GST began with a standard showroom for lighting equipment, but this developed into a full production area for some of the best practitioners in the city.
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Elation Professional’s TVL CYC RGBW is a theatre-style cyclorama wall wash luminaire that promises a smooth and even field of seamlessly blended colors onto cycloramas, backcloths, scenery or any surface. Well suited for use as a color-changing floodlight for TV, film, theatre and broadcast applications, the TVL CYC RGBW features a 150W RGBW LED engine for floods of uniform light in virtually any color while linear variable white color temperature presets (7200K – 3200K) make it a convenient white light luminaire.
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LONDON – Bristol, U.K.-base band Coasts rocked London’s Roundhouse in February with an atmospheric lighting show created by Tom Campbell using an Avolites Sapphire Touch and networked Tiger Touch II. Campbell’s consoles are loaded with Titan v9 for the tour, and he’s using an array of the new and powerful features available in the software. The Avolites consoles were supplied by Siyan.
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ANTWERP, Belgium – For the annual Reverze hard-style dance indoor extravaganza, staged by Bass Events in the 20,000 capacity Antwerp Sportpalais on Feb. 27, engineering specialists WIcreations automated large scenic objects to tie in with the theme of this year’s event, “Deception.” The title alone presented the opportunity for visual fun. WI was commissioned by Bass Events under the technical production management of Kristof Devriese, to move and rotate two large trussing ‘cubes’ onstage, fly nine other objects above the stage and also fly nine other large scale lighting pods … over the audience.
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Martin’s VDO Sceptron 20 and VDO Sceptron 40 are the newest additions to the Harman owned company’s series of linear, outdoor-rated LED video and lighting fixtures, joining the previously introduced VDO Sceptron 10, pixtured here. Well suited for the rental and installed markets, these fixtures are available with 20 mm and 40 mm pixel pitches, with an extensive range of optical accessories for a wide variety of video and lighting looks. The VDO Sceptron 20 and VDO Sceptron 40 are driven by the Martin P3 System controller for easy configuration, mapping and setup. No external components required. These fixtures are also backward compatible with DMX controllers for smaller setups.
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GLENCOE, IL – After operating out of two separate leased spaces for the past 23 years, Writers Theatre now has a new home to call their own, featuring the 250-seat Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols Theatre and the 99-seat black box Gillian Theatre in the Chicago area. Auerbach Pollock Friedlander played a key role in the development of the new venue.
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A new addition to Blizzard Lighting’s pixel mapping LED effects fixtures, the Pixellicious Mini is a ½ meter fixture that features 80 (tri-color) SMD 5050 LEDs with a projected life span of more than 50,000 hours of use. Users can also control each of the 80 LED lights with Art-Net (3.0 compliant), ArKaos Kling-Net and DMX protocols.
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KANSAS CITY, MO – Christian artist Toby Mac, who can jump from hip hop to rock to EDM and funk music stylings, likes to refer to his style of music as “musical gumbo.” For his current “Hits Deep” tour, LD Jason Norris is using gear from 4Wall Nashville. The rig includes Vari*Lite VL4000 BeamWash fixtures, Martin MAC Quantum LED Profiles, Clay Paky Stormy Strobes and Elation Platinum Beam 5R Extremes.
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MIAMI—Harman’s lighting and audio technologies are being featured at Icon Nightclub during Miami Music Week 2016. The AV advances also reflect Harman’s renewed commitment to the nightclub entertainment sector, including the appointment of Bradley Drummond as Nightlife Solutions Manager in October 2015. The system for Miami Music Week was designed by Drummond and Tony Perez, Manager, Cruise Lines & Nightlife, Harman Professional Solutions, in collaboration with Icon Hospitality. All of the audio and lighting equipment and technologies come from the Harman Professional Solutions family of products.
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