CINCINNATI, OH — The Long Reach Long Riders and the PLASA Foundation will host their annual raffle to benefit Behind the Scenes at the USITT Conference taking place in Cincinnati March 19-21. This year’s raffle will also bring attention to the 12th Long Reach Long Riders motorcycle ride. The Riders have raised more than $450,000 for charity in their 11 years of two-wheeled touring.
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LONDON – Bring Me The Horizon performed a big one off show in Dec. 2014 at Wembley Arena, wrapping up their 18-month world tour in support of their Sempiternal album cycle. The band’s LD, Ben Inskip, needed multi-purpose lights in the rig and chose 70 Robe moving lights for the show, which also served as a 10-year celebration for the band. The Robe fixtures included 39 LEDBeam 100s, 14 Pointes, 11 MMX Spots and six LEDWash 600s.
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LAS VEGAS – Tech Launchpad, which established an on-site studio at the CES show in Las Vegas this year, produced more than 140 segments featuring brand new brands in consumer technology. To produce the segments, Tech Launchpad used the Roland VR-50HD – an all-in-one audio and video live production switcher with USB 3.0 output for web streaming or recording.
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Christie and Euromet are jointly offering a new ceiling mount and rigging solutions for Christie 1DLP projectors, including ceiling mount hardware for Christie H Series and a rigging frame that works with both Christie H Series and Christie Q Series.
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DUBAI, UAE – Luminex GigaCore 16RFO and BlackTrax tracking systems have been used to support entertainment productions, events, and award shows around the world. A recent case in point was a government awards show in Dubai.
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Blackmagic Design’s Intensity Pro 4K is a new PCIe card designed to allow capture and playback of high quality SD, HD and Ultra HD video on Windows, Mac and Linux PCI Express computers.
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ARLINGTON, TX – Dall Brown Lighting, with the support of Chroma Designs, turned to Syncrolite for an assist with the task of lighting the exterior of the University of Phoenix Stadium for this year’s Super Bowl. The project bathed the aluminum skin of the stadium in color for the NFL’s annual week-long celebration and season finale.
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MUNICH, Germany – Acrobatic performances and the play of light and shadows are the ingredients for the tour of Shadowland – a performance piece from the Connecticut-based dance company Piobolus. With their bodies, the performers create shadow silhouettes including those of elephants, faces, buildings and cars. Assisting with this shadow play are several ETC Source Four incandescent fixtures, as well as Gio and Ion lighting control systems.
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CINCINATTI, OH – USITT announced that 280 exhibitors are confirmed for its 2015 trade event in Cincinnati, setting a new record for the exhibition. The exhibitors list also includes 60 first-time exhibitors.The exhibition takes place March 19-21; the event including conferences runs March 18-21.
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CZECH REPUBLIC – Robe is sponsoring the team of tennis players who will be representing the Czech Republic in the 2015 Fed Cup women’s tennis championships. Competition runs from Feb. through Nov. 2015; the finals are set for Nov. 14-15, 2015.
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Blizzard Lighting’s G-Max 150 LED moving head fixture features a bright 150-watt LED light source, fast pan and tilt, crisp aerial effects, a 7-color +open color wheel and two gobo wheels, each with 7 gobos, including 7 that are rotating, indexing and interchangeable.
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LONDON – For a recent concert at Alexandra Palace, LD Ed Warren’s design for genre-defying music act Metronomy made use of Clay Paky’s Stormy CC. Warren’s concept was to engage the audience with a disco atmosphere that included strobe-heavy moments and glitteringly vibrant looks.
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