COLUMBUS, OH — A load-out accident following the Jan. 16 Luke Bryan concert at Ohio State University’s Schottenstein Center sent four crew members to the hospital with minor injuries. Reports noted a chain of events involving a forklift, video gear and stage structure elements, with both crew and gear falling in the partial structural collapse.
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LOS ANGELES — One of the hallmarks of a holiday Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) production is glorious excess. But the 2013 tours actually scaled back a bit from previous years, a feat made possible in part by the luminous firepower emitted from compact-yet-bright LED fixtures from Robe — Robin Pointes, LEDBeam 100s and LEDWash 1200s — all provided by VER.
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LOS ANGELES — Fall Out Boy’s recent tour included support for their album, Pax Am Days, with a lighting design by LD Robb Jibson and a Jands Vista L5 for control, with a Mac Mini based S3 as a system back up.
Read More »ADDISON, TX — Pyrotecnico FX, based here, noted that its proprietary laser technology is touring with Justin Timberlake’s 20/20 Experience tour. Pyrotecnico worked lighting/video/audio supplier Solotech and LD/production designer Nick Whitehouse on the laser system’s design and use for the tour.
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LightParts is celebrating 10 years of business this year. Don Pugh and Robert Mokry (pictured here, L-R) founded the company in Jan. 2004 as a support center for High End Systems’ legacy products such as Intellabeam and Emulator. It then expanded into circuit board repairs and parts sales for High End, Martin, Flying Pig, Jands, Vari-Lite, Element Labs, Strong, Coemar, Wybron, Elation and Clay Paky products.
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SOCHI, Russia — The hand-held torch wasn’t the only source of illumination lighting a path from Moscow to Sochi, Russia over the course of 123 days prior to the Feb. 7, 2014 start for the XXII Olympic Winter Games. RED Lighting’s Quadro 24 fixture, sourced via Art Performance Technology, was also used for torch-related ceremonies.
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BREDA, The Netherlands — Rental house Looijmans Showequipment supplied Clay Paky Sharpys for a dance festival at the 2,500-capacity Chasse Theater here that featured Dutch DJs Funkerman and Gregor Salto. LD Joep van Oosterhout rigged 14 Sharpys to an electronic flybar system surrounding the DJ booth to give the indoor event an outdoor festival vibe.
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LONDON — Ross Ashton and the Projection Studio (TPS) worked as consultants to Jack Morton Worldwide, producers of the Mayor of London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks display for the 10th consecutive year. TPS provided the large format video projections system, augmenting the visual component of a multi-sensory celebration that included color-changing LED wristbands, floating bubbles and clouds packing fruit-scented mist and edible banana-flavored confetti particles that dissolve in rain to limit cleanup requirements.
Read More »ERLANGER, KY — tvONE, a manufacturer of video and multimedia processing equipment based here, noted that its CORIOmaster mini will be an integral part of a “Real-Time Video Windmill” to be featured at ISE 2014 in Amsterdam Feb. 4-6. It consists of a rotating array of four 46″ flat panel displays showing video that maintains a stable horizon even as the displays rotate 360° in real-time.
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