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Blizzard Cloud Cases

Blizzard Cloud Cases

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Blizzard Lighting’s Cloud Cases have a rugged and lightweight design. They are made from 600-denier black ballistic nylon material to protect and transport Blizzard fixtures. The PACK-MH Cloud Case™ is a padded carry case designed to hold two small or one mid-sized moving head fixture. The company’s PACK-MH Cloud Case™ and PACK-Stick Cloud Cases™ both have an MSRP of $69.99.

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High End Systems Unveils TM-30/Cri Correction Filter For White LED Automated Luminaires

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AUSTIN – Automated lighting manufacturer High End Systems announced today that they have created the world’s first TMI/CRI Correction Filter for White LED automated luminaires. TM-30 is a new quality metric that was recently adopted by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) to supplement and eventually replace the old CRI (CIE) Metric for measuring fidelity of a light source. 

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ADJ’s New myDMX 3.0 Introduces Multiple Scene Playback and Other Advanced Features

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LOS ANGELES – ADJ is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the latest version of its immensely popular software-based DMX control package, myDMX. The new version 3.0 release offers the same easy-to-use interface and powerful lightshow creation features that have made myDMX so popular in the past, but enhanced with exciting new features that allow users to take greater command of their lightshows.

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Solaris Flares on Flume World Tour

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VANCOUVER, BC – On the heels of his highly acclaimed second album release “Skin,” Flume is taking his electronic genre on a world tour. The Australian producer has had a successful year of festival performances alongside an extensive headline tour of North America, Europe, and Australia.“The current leg of the tour uses 26 Solaris Flares,” says tour LD Stu Dingley. “We use eight on the floor upstage to push color through the stage, and 18 overhead to melt the audience at key moments throughout the set”

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Rogue R1 FX-B Reflects Epica’s Eclectic Sound

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SUNRISE, FL – A metal band that’s recorded hits with names like “Cry For The Moon” doesn’t normally cover music written by the likes of Antonio Vivaldi, Antonín Dvořák and Giuseppe Verdi, but then again, nothing about Dutch sensation Epica can be described as “ordinary.” In addition to performing the works of these and other classical composers, the six-member band has put its own fresh, original and totally captivating metallic symphonic spin on music from films like Star Wars, Spider-Man and Pirates of the Caribbean.

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Avolites helps out in Indy

Avolites Kindles the Christmas Spirit at Indy’s “Circle of Lights” Switch-On Event

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INDIANAPOLIS — Every year, the event known as “Downtown Indy, Inc.’s Circle of Lights presented by IBEW #481” kicks off the holiday season with a spectacle that lights up the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Monument like a giant Christmas tree. The annual switch-on ceremony in late November made use of a roof, lights and stages provided by Mid-America Sound, with a video assist from Dodd Technologies. Mid-America Sound’s Bob Williams and John “Robo” Robison used an Avolites Sapphire Touch console to design, program and run the lighting show for the event.

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Elation Offers Zoomable 6-Color and White-Light Pars with IP Rating

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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional’s range of flexible LED Par lights is expanding with the launch of the 6-color SixPar Z19 IP™ and the variable white DW Par Z19 IP™, both IP-rated and with motorized zoom. Useful for production applications or installations as a wash light, uplight, wall wash, truss warmer and more, both Par luminaires are easy-to-use, top-quality solutions for adding high-impact colored or white light to shows indoors or out.

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‘Shahrazad’ Lit with Robe Fixtures

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AMSTERDAM – LD Aaron Copp’s lighting desing for the new production of Shahrazad, choreographed by Jonah Bokaer for the Royal Ballet of Flanders (whose Artistic Director is Olivier Award winning Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui) included 34 Robe CycFX 8 fixtures. The production finished its run at the Opera Vlaanderen in Ghent on Oct. 30 2016 and subsequently played in Antwerp, Amsterdam and several other European cities.

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GLP Bars Line Up For Carlsberg’s Green Door Project

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SWEDEN – GLP’s award-winning X4 Bar 20s recently had a starring role in Carlsberg’s perennial Green Door Project in Stockholm, created and produced by Grandin’s Flying Circus. Designed to explore the future of Swedish pop culture and the club scene, by featuring some of the country’s progressive artists and DJs, the venue is always kept secret until the day before the event.

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Grand Stage Chicago: Stronger in Partnership

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MIDDLETON, WI– When companies join forces, the outcome is never certain. In the case of Chicago’s Grand Stage Lighting and Chicago Spotlight’s merger, everything points to an unqualified success. When we caught up with them at ETC’s Rep and Dealer Workshop this summer in Madison, Marty Lazarus, the previous owner of Chicago Spotlight, called it the “smoothest transition I have ever seen.” New company president Greg Becker added: “If there are problems, we have been too busy to notice them.”

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Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K used on Panic! At the Disco and Weezer Concert Tour

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FREMONT, CA – Blackmagic Design today announced that Illinois production company Upstaging Inc. built a complete IMAG and AV production using the Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K and a large number of other Blackmagic Design products during this year’s sold out Weezer and Panic! At the Disco summer concert tour. Included in the workflow were four Teranex Expresses and 24 Teranex Minis used throughout each venue to convert various camera signals.

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CAM designed by Cour Design with lights from Elite Multimedia

Elite Multimedia Helps Launch the CAM ‘Burning House’ tour with Cour Design

NASHVILLE – Embarking on her first headlining tour, Grammy, ACM and CMA Award nominee CAM is quickly becoming one of country music’s hottest young stars today. With her Platinum-certified hit “’Burning House” and her first major label album release, the Huntington Beach native is proving to have her own unique style on her inaugural tour. Needing a design that would provide this atmosphere of creativity, with the ability to be managed by a small crew, the artist’s management turned to Cour Design (www.courdesign.com).

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