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Illusionist Hans Klok’s ‘House of Horror’ Tour Includes Visual Assist from Painting with Light

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Illusionist Hans Klok’s ‘House of Horror’ Tour Includes Visual Assist from Painting with Light

AMSTERDAM – Belgium-based show design practice Painting with Light has created innovative and highly effective lighting and video content for the current tour by Hans Klok, the world’s Fastest Illusionist, who is presenting his grisly ‘House of Horror’ show. The spectacle, produced by Stardust Circus International, which combines the drama and theatrical gruesomeness of Gothic horror with quick witted and fantastic illusion art, was launched at the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where it enjoyed a successful seven-week run before going on the road.

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Airstar Expands Crystal Product Line

Airstar Expands Crystal Product Line

LAS VEGAS — Airstar, the France-based manufacturer and provider of inflatable structures and lighting balloons for the event industry, added to its Crystal product line with two new products, the Sunshade and Crystal White 50k lum. Both products were featured at the 2016 LDI Show.

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David Lemmink

David Lemmink Joins Solotech

MONTREAL — Solotech named David Lemmink director of engineering for its Rental division. Lemmink has more than 30 years of industry experience as both a design engineer and touring technician for artists including U2, Paul McCartney, Prince and Bon Jovi.

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REMAX inspired by Chauvet

Emergency Production Lights Re/Max Event with Rogue R2 Wash Fixtures

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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Big Blue Madness Event Shines with Bandit Lites

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 Festival

InventDesign LEDs Brighten Amsterdam Music Festival

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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Drake Sweet 16 Tour

Guy Pavelo Relies on MA 3D to Create Lighting Effects for Drake and Future’s Summer Sixteen Tour

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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Black Sabbath

BMFLs Rock Copenhell 2016

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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