BIRMINGHAM, UK – For the second year, Creative Technology (CT) supplied the AV services used on the catwalk at the week-long Clothes Show Live event. The annual Clothes Show Live exhibition provides five days’ worth of all things fashion and beauty with up to six shows a day.
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HELSINKI, Finland – Eero Helle and Mikko Linnavuori from visual design company Visual45 used an array of Clay Paky fixtures to add power and reliability to their bold design for a sold-out show featuring Finnish rapper Cheek at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki
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NEW YORK, NY – Liverpool’s Cavern Club, the iconic venue that gave the Beatles their first taste of fame, began life as a cellar warehouse and later served as an air raid shelter during World War II. So, it’s only fitting that the world’s first interactive Beatles Tribute Show, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah (Y3), made its New York appearance at 42West, a venue that served as a mid-town Manhattan parking garage, before being transformed into one of the city’s hippest nightspots.
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Blackmagic Design’s latest update for its Teranex 2D, 3D and Express converters, Teranex 3.1, adds a new software application that lets customers remotely set up and change settings on their Teranex converters from a central location, as well as adding a new 12G-SDI to quad HD-SDI conversions to Teranex Express.
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TAMPA, FL — Close to 175 COLORado 1-Quad Tour par-style LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional provided by Barbizon Lighting Company were used to help illuminate and enhance Busch Gardens Tampa’s Christmas Town, lit with more than one million lights in all. Most of the fixtures provided external lighting for the attraction’s 50-foot-tall tree.
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LONDON – A stage design with multiple curtain reveals and a massive 22×12 meter LED wall requires a massive amount of planning and visualization. For Helene Fischers Farbenspiel Tournee 2014, Pixway used d3 provide visualisations, pre-programming and sequencing for the show as well as supplying the d3 servers to control the show.
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NEW YORK CITY – Ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is an honor that puts companies in the spotlight. However, on December 11, when it was the Lending Club Corporation’s turn to launch their initial public offering and first day of trading on the NYSE, they wanted something extra. Michael Ahern Productions brought in video equipment rental company Pete’s Big TVs to help.
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WELLS, UK – The BBC Children in Need annual marathon TV spectacular is vigorously supported each year by local outside broadcasts spanning the breadth of the British Isles. This year, wanting to stand out with extra pizzazz, BBC Bristol appointed TV Lighting Director, Paul Middleton, to bring the ‘wow factor’ to the outside broadcast from the West Country’s Wookey Hole Circus School, near Wells. The well-known LD did just that with help from a collection of intense fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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ARRI has provide a new light engine, dubbed Light Engine 2, for its L7-C LED Fresnel. ARRI says the change makes the fixture 25 percent brighter. The fixture achieves its luminous output while consuming only 160 watts, and is tunable for color temperatures ranging from 2800K to 10000K. Other features include green/magenta correction, hue and saturation control and more.
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LOS ANGELES – For the Coldplay music video, “Magic”, cinematographer Par Ekberg used BBS Area 48 LED interchangeable remote phosphor soft lights. The video topped 53 million views on YouTube and Ekberg was recognized with a Best Cinematographer nomination for a music video at the Cameraimage festival.
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BUCHAREST – Instead of 555 candles on a cake, the city celebrated by lighting up the expansive facade of the Palace of Parliament with large-format video projection. Hungarian videomapping specialist Maxin1osity took on the large-scale challenge, relying upon image processing technology from Germany-based coolux to get the job done.
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