NASHVILLE — LD Emmanuelle “Gigi” Pedron hit the road with a crew of eight other women for Tegan and Sara’s Love You to Death tour this fall. The Grammy nominated twin sisters are touring in support of their latest album of the same name. 4Wall Nashville worked with Pedron to provide the LD with the gear she needed for the tour.
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GILBERT, AZ – On August 2, 1956, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed papers that enacted “Constitution Week.” Since that time, communities throughout the United States have used the occasion to commemorate and honor the 4,543-word document that has served as the framework for the country’s legal system for the past two-and-a-quarter centuries. In most communities, these celebrations pass in relative obscurity, but not in Gilbert, Arizona.
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PASADENA, CA — A James Thomas Engineering 20.5” SuperTower system was used to construct a test stand at Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) in California for the return mission from Mars. The plates and gates of the tower system were employed to make all connections for the tower’s different levels. The test stand will be used to simulate the speeds of samples that have been jettisoned off Mars by the rover and returned to earth via an ascent rocket for detailed chemical and physical analysis.
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ORLANDO – FL, – In response to consecutive years of major growth and expanding capabilities, Zenith Lighting, Inc has named long time team member Adam Vidaurri as Chief Operating Officer of the nearly 30 year old event and stage lighting company. Vidaurri joined Zenith Lighting in 2010 and quickly moved into a Sales Manager role and then more recently into the role of General Manager for the company’s South Florida location.
UK – Lighting designer, Louisa Smurthwaite utilized the award-winning Jands Vista system to provide an elegant lighting design for hotly tipped Oxford indie rock band, Glass Animals’ recent biggest UK headline show at London’s iconic Roundhouse venue. Their latest album, How To Be A Human Being, was released in August to much critical acclaim, and their debut amassed over 200 million Spotify streams.
LOS ANGELES – The 18 Claypaky Scenius fixtures recently acquired by the Canton, Massachusetts office of High Output Inc. for its rental inventory have hardly spent a moment on the shelves. The moving head spotlights at the top of the Claypaky range experienced a busy general election season and continue to service many national broadcast and corporate projects.
NETHERLANDS – Apropos this November’s supermoon, which had celestial observers bathing in the moonlight of the largest full moon in years, Dutch symphonic metal band Delain is touring Europe this fall on a “Moonbathers” tour and using the versatile effects of Elation Professional’s ACL 360 Bar™ LED battens to complement the big-hook metallic rock show. Lighting designer on the tour is Nick van Balen
BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE, UK, – TAC (The Audiovisual Company) in Portugal has upgraded its media presentation rooms and main stadium LED displays at FC Porto, Dragão Stadium with Calibre LEDView720 and LEDView730 4K scalers. Eduardo Costa, General Technical Manager at TAC said: “We use Calibre to adapt input resolution to the main stadium LED Screens during live games or for digital signage at corporate events. The scalers have multiple output for local monitoring of live output feeds.”
TRENTO, ITALY – Twelve Robe BMFL WashBeams were utilized by artist and lighting designer Mariano de Tassis in a breath-taking and installation at the mausoleum of Italian patriot and Irredentist Cesare Battisti in Trento, Italy. The installation was produced by Filmwork Factory to celebrate the centenary of the death of Battisti. The original idea of highlighting the mausoleum with 12 powerful beams shooting up into the night sky to match the 12 columns of the monument was Mariano’s himself, pitched to the Municipality of Trento.
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HANNOVER, De. –: the Daimler AG booth was illuminated with the latest fixtures from GLP at the world’s most important trade fair for commercial transport and logistics, which took place in Hannover in late September. The world market leader in commercial vehicles presented 70 trucks, vans and buses from brands Mercedes-Benz, Fuso and Setra. The premieres were brought to life thanks to an impressive 144 GT-1 discharge lamp fixtures from GLP.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. – Barco, a global leader in visualization technology, will reveal its latest innovations in visualization and audio designed to power advanced simulation and training applications at I/ITSEC 2016. Visitors can see Barco’s new solutions in action at the world’s largest modeling, simulation, and training conference from November 28-December 2 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
UK – Colour Sound Experiment is supplying lighting for the current Tom Odell tour, a lively mix of dynamics and style created by Jonny Gaskell who has been on-board with the popular singer / songwriter since April this year. The current touring campaign follows the launch of his second studio album, “Wrong Crowd”. The tour started earlier in the year and included a festival run, with this leg being the first full on production design tour carrying a full lighting rig … for which west London based Colour Sound made some new investments.