LONDON — YouTube needed an assist with three studios — two which were double height — where YouTubers with more than 10,000 subscribers could book free studio time for content creation. The company turned to lighting consultant Peter Daffarn, who worked with Photon Beard and Doughty for a rigging assist.
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BUCHAREST, Romania – The Bucharest Ladies Orchestra performed with Romanian jazz singer and TV personality, Ozana Barabancea, recently at Bucharest’s Aqua Parc Crangasi for an audience of 2,000. The European Cultural Center (Sector), promoters of the event, once again enlisted Temple Media, PR Lighting distributors, to provide the technical infrastructure. Sergiu Ardelean, Lighting Designer and DP at Romanian Television, came up with the imaginative lighting plot, working with Temple Media.
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WEST MIDLANDS, U.K. — Production specialists CPL (Central Presentations Ltd) added a d3 4×4 media server to its visual arsenal and held a two-day on-site training course at the company’s headquarters in the west Midlands, UK, for CPL’s staff and key freelancers. Core members of CPL’s video division and the company’s regular freelance designers, programmers and video technicians took part.
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The new Dubai Water Canal, inaugurated Nov. 9, is a $550 million project extending Deira Creek, linking Business Bay to the Arabic Gulf. It also includes a shopping center, four hotels, 450 restaurants, luxury housing, bridges, walkways and bicycle paths — and a cascade of water lit with Helios Bronze FC underwater LED fixgtures from DTS.
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OWATONNA, MN – Wenger Corporation acquired the assets of Secoa, Inc. of Champlin, MN. The company says the acquisition will expand the products and services now offered for the performing arts market by Wenger and its subsidiary J.R. Clancy.
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LEWISBURG, PA — For Bucknell University’s Harvey M. Powers Theatre and the Tustin Studio Theatre, lighting designer Heath Hansum worked with Starlite Productions on a lighting upgrade that included PHX LED ellipsoidals from Altman Lighting. With zoom ranges from 15-35 or 30-55 degrees, a 360-degree rotating barrel, and its die cast aluminum fabrication, the PHX LED is available in a diverse line of LED choices including RGBA, RGBW, 3000K, 5600K, and tunable white versions as well.
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NASHVILLE – Singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw recently wrapped a tour with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. The Grammy nominated artist traveled across the country on a three month, 50+ show excursion that showcased both his popular hits and newest album, Something Worth Saving. Lighting designer Mat Gass built a look that saved on space put still offered a great output with a functional floor package.
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NEW YORK – For an October event promoting the relaunch of Reebok’s Pump shoes at an Insta Fury Pop Up Shop space in midtown Manhattan, Ben Danielowski of Boum Creative of New York used eight Rogue R2 Wash and six Rogue R1 Spot fixtures from Chauvet Professional. The event also made use of four Next NXT-1 panels and eight Nexus 4X1 linear fixtures.
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LOS ANGELES – Stevie Nicks has gone solo for the “24 Karat Gold Tour” playing more than two dozen arena dates in North America before the end of the year. The tour launched in Phoenix on Oct. 25 and concludes at the Forum in Los Angeles on Dec. 18. Production designer Paul Guthrie of Toss Film & Design Inc. in Minneapolis chose 88 Claypaky Mythos fixtures for the lighting rig and a grandMA2 console for show control.
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DUBAI – Maestra Dubai’s operation is moving to a warehouse facility in the Dubai Investment Park (DIP) area, more than doubling their workspace. The team is pictured here in the new facility.
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LERMA, Mexico – Elation Professional opened a new distribution center facility near Mexico City The facility, located near ransportation services in the town of Lerma, just outside of Mexico City, is headed by Abraham Levit and John Lopez, who will manage Elation Professional’s sales rep network in Mexico as international sales manager.
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NETHERLANDS – Belgium-based Painting with Light supplied lighting and video design for the current Stage Entertainment revival of the 1970s musical ‘Hair’ which is currently touring the Netherlands. Luc Peumans and his team provided a visual complement to Carla Janssen-Höfelt’s scaffolding-based set design
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