BOSTON — For a realtor motivation event dubbed Re/Max Re/Charge, which took place in the main ballroom within the Boston Convention & Exposition Center on Oct. 13, Chris Hubbard of Emergency Production worked with JDI Productions’ Derek Iorfida and also Mike Gionfrido and Andrew McGuirl on the production’s visuals. The design included 16 Rogue R2 Wash fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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LEXINGTON, KY — The University of Kentucky’s Big Blue Madness is a special kind of event, where a packed crowd at Rupp Arena gear up for another season of Wildcats basketball. With a large lighting package from Bandit Lites, the televised festivities on Oct. 14 included an homage to former players, a flying Wildcat mascot, UK women’s coach Matthew Mitchell’s annual dance routine and the dynamic introduction of the 2016-2017 season’s players.
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AMSTERDAM — The LED specialists at InventDesign built a grid of digital LED profiles with a total length of more than 1,500 meters for the Amsterdam Music Festival, a key part of the five-day Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) held in the Dutch capital in mid-October since 1996. ADE now draws more than 2,200 DJs and electronic music-makes over a five-day span, with close to 450 events staged at 115 clubs and venues.
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LOS ANGELES – Drake and Future wrapped the US leg of their sellout Summer Sixteen Tour dazzling crowds with their artistry and the visual impact of their arena show. The tour featured 780 moving LED spheres, which were previsualized in MA 3D and controlled by grandMA2 consoles to create abstract and figural lighting effects that delighted fans. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America. Glow Motion Technologies and Kinetic Lights were enlisted to provide the LED spheres and the DMX-powered winches, respectively.
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COPENHAGEN – Leading Danish rental company Comtech suppled 68 x Robe BMFL Spots to the main Helveti stage at the 2016 Copenhell Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. Comtech has been a lighting, staging, video and rigging supplier to the popular Live Nation event which has grown year on year since its inception in 2010. Staged in the charismatic old B&W Shipyard (Burmeister & Wain) in Refshaleøen, the former industrial heart of the city, the huge piles of rusting steel and other nautical relics are awakened noisily each year by the very best of heavy, hard and death metal music.
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LAS VEGAS – LDI 2016 was twice as nice for Chauvet Professional, as the company’s new freestanding theatrical lighting demonstration booth drew large and appreciative crowds throughout the three-day show. Located across the aisle from the CHAUVET Professional main booth, the new demo area highlighted the company’s groundbreaking Ovation LED ellipsoidals, Fresnels, battens and cyc lights, as well as its COLORado wash fixtures.
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BELGIUM – Belgian entertainment engineering specialist WIcreations was tasked with creating a neat and novel piece of technical wizardry for Coen Janssen, keyboardist with acclaimed Dutch symphonic rock band Epica … who wanted to be able to move his keyboards up, down, along and around the stage throughout their energetic live performances.
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NASHVILLE – In an effort to offer their clients an even greater understanding of how LED video can transform any environment, the award-winning LED video manufacturer PixelFLEX is proud to announce a new partnership with SpaceView. As an Augmented Reality technology, SpaceView transforms the way commercial construction and renovation design teams collaborate and visualize their creations by providing near-instantaneous and accurate product installation renderings.
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RIO de JANEIRO – LD Durham Marenghi included Robert Juliat followspots in his designs for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games. He used 10 Robert Juliat Lancelot 4000W HMI followspots and four Robert Juliat Cyrano 2500W HMI followspots for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Chris Henry, the spot captain employed by Marenghi, worked alongside Agora, the Italian-based lighting supplier for the Ceremonies, and credited the fixtures for their performance.
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STUTTGART, Germany — Creative Technology (CT) announced changes for its operations in Germany, shifting some work to its bases in the Netherlands, U.K., Spain and beyond but retaining a presence in Stuttgart, Cologne and Berlin. The company also named Mike Dörfling business development director in Stuttgart. Christ Elsten was named managing director for the Netherlands and Germany. He will work alongside commercial director Albert Deltour.
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TORONTO — APG Displays, a leading video wall integrator, launched APG Rentals, a new business unit dedicated to high-end video for the rental and staging industry.
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MURRAY HILL, NJ – It’s not often that science and art meet the live event world. These very diverse fields came together at two unique events in New Jersey where invited guests and the public were treated to impressive interactive experiences. WorldStage helped Nokia Bell Labs and Stevens Institute of Technology supply technology and content integration for the First Shannon Conference on the Future of the Information Age on the Bell Labs campus in Murray Hill.
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