ELK RIVER, MN – Each Sunday, River of Life Church draws some 500-600 congregants with two Sunday morning services. To address concerns about the sound system, the church brought in Kevin Crow, owner of Excel AV Group of Maple Grove, MN. While offering a sound solution, he also enhanced the church’s lighting with new fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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The new Platinum FLX from Elation Professional enters into a new class of multi-functional lighting fixtures offering a 3-in-1 hybrid luminaire with exceptional power that has flexible use as a spot, beam, or wash light. Designed for a wide variety of professional stage and special event applications, its 470W Philips™ MSD Platinum 20R lamp can emit up to 23,000 lumens, an output comparable to 1200W fixtures and powerful enough to cut through bright LED displays and sizable rigs full of lights. It performs exceptionally well in a variety of lighting applications thanks to its full-feature design including CMY and variable CTO color mixing.
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DUBAI, UAE – Dubai-based Prolyte distributor, Provision AVL, has recently completed its ProLyft Service Point training.
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BLACKBURN, UK – Tenor Alfie Boe’s career has only gained strong momentum ever since he was famously discovered polishing cars at Blackpool’s TVR Factory at age 17. He recently undertook a major UK tour, where HARMAN Martin Professional’s newest MAC Quantum Profile fixtures proved that they are perfectly at home in live arena-sized productions.
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APTOS, CA – Radius Group announces Scott Dell will head up its Previsualization department based in Aptos, 10 miles south of Santa Cruz CA.
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Blizzard Lighting’s LB-Par Hex is a 6-in-1 LED PAR can that uses 12 15-watt RGBAW+UV 6-in-1 LEDs for just about any color, even UV light for an eerie hue.
Read More »At the camera position, you’re an integral part of the event. In a multi-camera show such as a baseball game or a concert, you’re part… Read More »Pursuing a Career as a Cameraman
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Chauvet Professional’s COLORdash Accent Quad promises a punch of evenly mixed light from tight locations. Powered by a 10 quad color (RGBA) LED, this palm-sized fixture offers saturated colors and pastels with a soft, even glow. An onboard OLED display controls and addresses the fixture via DMX or in a stand-alone mode.
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BROOKINGS, SD — Daktronics co-founders Al Kurtenbach and Duane Sander, along with the Kurtenbach’s son (and current CEO) Reece Kurtenbach, may be more accustomed to working in behind-the-scenes roles. But all three were front and center on CBS News Sunday Morning on Feb. 1, 2015. That’s when the 7.5 minute TV report detailed how their company has grown from humble beginnings in a town four hours away from the nearest NFL franchise to a video powerhouse providing football fans with some of the biggest stadium screens ever produced.
Read More »NORTH CHARLESTON, SC – David Gibson Swain, 54, died Jan. 28 in an accidental fall at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center. Swain had served as technical director at the PAC, which adjoins the North Charleston Coliseum and Charleston Area Convention Center since the facility opened in 1999.
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