RIVERSIDE, CA – When the University of California, Riverside (UCR) set out to enhance their recently renovated, 55,000 square foot Student Recreation Center, they wanted to incorporate a show-stopping display that could show national and school sporting events, relevant information and signage, and up to 16 CATV channels.
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NEW YORK – Richard Pilbrow will join Stage Lighting Super Saturday this January 9th to speak about his upcoming work on My Fair Lady’s 60th anniversary. Workshop producers Sonny Sonnenfeld and Scott Parker welcomed his participation in the event.
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DALLAS –– Scott Guenther of Full Stage Productions chose Arkaos MediaMaster Pro 4.0 to help create the haunting, atmospheric backdrop to aerial performances from Dallas-based dance academy, Dance Xpress. The production, entitled Smooth Operators, was a tribute to the music and work of English singer-songwriter, Sade.
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LONDON – For a charity fundraising event staged by the City Veterans Network (CVN) at the Imperial War Museum London in Southwark, production company Subfrantic used CORE’s ColourPoint Mk 2 battery powered LED up-lighters.
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Roland designed its V-1HD Video Switcher to serve as an easy-to-use, compact and portable unit that can accommodate up to four HDMI audio/video sources with resolutions up to 1080p. It features a host of professional compositing effects and creative video switching capabilities.
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UPPER DARBY, PA – For My Morning Jacket’s current tour in support of the band’s seventh album, The Waterfall, lighting designer Marc Janowitz used 26 Robe BMFL Spots and 10 Pointe fixtures as the primary moving lights on a rig. VER is supplying the gear.
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For a very long time, lighting controllers have had faders as a key component of the front panel. This is because faders are a very useful tool to manually adjust the level of something. Automated lighting consoles required additional control-ability than conventional desks, and now there are many different things that your faders can do. From controlling intensity to adjusting rate, and even allowing programming, the faders on the front of your console are extremely powerful. Let’s look at some of the more common uses of faders.
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Congrats to all the 2015 Parnelli Award winners, including Lighting Designer of the Year Sooner Routhier for Imagine Dragons, Lighting Director of the Year Cosmo Wilson for AC/DC, Set/Scenic Designer of the Year LeRoy Bennett for Maroon 5 and Video Director of the Year Mike Drew for Rascal Flatts. .
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Lynyrd Skynyrd is a great band to work with, for several reasons — one of which is they get booked on all sorts of different festivals/gigs because of their iconic music. Since I’ve been with them (2010), we have played every type of gig, from southern/classic rock to classic/New Age country and heck, even hard rock and metal festivals like “Hell Fest” in Europe. I mean we just did a gig with Judas Priest last month! It’s great, because it means this band is always working, and that means I am always working.
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PARIS —In what became a real-life Friday the Thirteenth, coordinated terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 at the Bataclan theater (a popular Parisian music venue), and also at a local stadium claimed the lives of 129 innocent people — including the band’s merchandise manager and the venue’s lighting tech. Another 350 were wounded with nearly 100 in critical condition, so the death toll could rise in the days to come. Meanwhile, major stadium concert cancellations by U2 and the Foo Fighters followed in its wake. The incidents mark the worst terror attacks in French history.
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