ASHEVILLE, NC – Pulse Lighting and Bandit Lites joined forces to light the 26th Christmas Jam hosted by Warren Haynes at U.S. Cellular Center on Dec. 13, 2014. With access to Bandit’s entire inventory, LD Preston Hoffman used 56 GLP X4s, 14 Martin MAC Vipers, six Robe BMFLs, 12 Clay Paky Sharpys, 30 Elation CuePix Panels, 17 2-cell LED blinders, 12 GRN Pars and two grandMA2 consoles for control.
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TURIN, Italy – LD Walter Lutzun used Robe’s new Bright Multi-Functional Luminaire (BMFL) Spots for the main stage at the two-day C2C (Club2Club) International Festival of Music & Arts. Lutzun also used 16 Pointes, 12 MMX Spots and 12 LEDWash 600s for his design, which supported a variety of DJs and artists, each requiring their own distinctive visual styling and settings.
Read More »PITTSBURG, KS – When the Bicknell Family Center for the Arts at Pittsburg State University opened its doors Dec. 7, those in attendance may have been surprised to know that, despite the stunning glass edifice, or setting foot in the beautiful wood-trimmed auditorium, and exploring its numerous versatile facilities, that the entire building was completed at the cost of $33 million.
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SUN VALLEY, CA – Pacific Coast Entertainment (PCE) provided lighting designer Jean-Yves Tessier with 12 of their GLP impression X4 LED fixtures to light 3-D Theatricals’ stage production of E.L. Doctorow’s classic book, Ragtime, at the Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton, CA. It marked the latest stage in a long partnership between PCE and GLP, both of which have taken root in the Los Angeles area.
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Flex Mobile 1.0 is a new iOS app from Flex Rental Solutions. It promises Flex Rental Solutions customers the ability to leverage the company’s warehouse inventory tracking software on their iPhone or iPad devices.
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Chauvet Professional’s Rogue RH1 Hybrid promises to combine a powerful beam and spot effect in one compact unit. It can produce a tight beam angle of 1°-4.5° in the Beam Mode, and a Zoom angle of 5°-19° in Spot Mode, for an array of beam size options. Equipped with a 330W, 8000K Osram Sirius lamp, the Rogue RH1 Hybrid emits a 111,000 lux at 15 meters. Features include two prisms – a 5-facet and an 8-facet – which are independently controllable and can be overlapped.
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RALEIGH, NC – Available Light, a lighting design firm with offices in Boston and New York, announced that it is opening an office in Raleigh, NC to be led by senior associate Derek Barnwell, who is returning to his southern roots after serving Available Light for nine years in New England. The Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area is home to more than 200 AIA Architects, the company notes.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey – Asimetrik hosted a open day on Nov. 5, featuring Clay Paky, DiGiCo and Meyer Sound gear. The event was held at Asimetrik’s HQ and Kucukciftlik Park (an outdoor culture and entertainment center). Brand representatives included Clay Paky’s Alberico D’Amato, DiGiCo’s James Bradley and Meyer Sound’s Scott Gledhill.
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ADJ extends its Inno Series of LED lighting fixtures with two new compact mirror scanners – the Inno Pocket Scan and Inno Pocket Roll. Both are highly portable versions of their larger, costlier counterparts – the Inno Scan and the Inno Roll – but these “pocket-sized” versions make the same impressive mirror effects available to small bars and clubs, stage acts and bands, as well as the DJ-on-the-road.
Read More »WARSAW, Poland – For the Verva Street Racing event held at National Stadium in Warsaw Sept. 20, LD Jacek Chojczak specified 32 Clay Paky SuperSharpys from lighting rental company Transcolor and rigged them on the crown of the stadium, making them a “huge part of the show.” The gear was sourced via Prolight Sp. z o.o., the distributor for Clay Paky products in Poland.
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