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PR Live Generates Large Format Projection for Private U.K. Event

PR Live lights the Party

PR Live Generates Large Format Projection for Private U.K. Event

UK – Event technical production solution specialist PR Live supplied an impressive large format projection on the side of a large house as the finale for an exclusive private party in the UK. The PR Live crew used a combination of their new d3 server and six Christie 20K high powered projectors for this project. PR Live’s Dave Gillett led the team, designed the projection system and applied his experience in the specialist area of projection mapping which caught guest’s attention as they exited a big marquee that was erected in the garden for the event.

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ENTTEC Phero 33

Enttec Phero 33 RGB Pixel Bar

Enttec’s Phero 33 RGB Pixel Bar is a linear LED fixture that consumes only 18 watts but produces impressive luminous output using 33 independent RGB pixels that promises uniform color.  While some LED units struggle with the warm color palette, the Phero 33 is touted for giving designers dynamic deep reds, ambers and yellows.

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From top left to bottom right - Ben Clark, Wylder Cooper, Jessica Ann Drayton, Alyssa Glenn, Alex Stevens and Nils Voerste

Meet This Year’s Recipients of ETC’s LDI Student Sponsorship

MIDDLETON, WI – In its continuing support of arts education, ETC is once again giving six students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the fields of lighting design and stage technology an exclusive opportunity for professional development. As recipients of ETC’s annual LDI Student Sponsorship, the students will enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to the LDI tradeshow, a full conference pass to experience the newest technology and benefit from LDI seminars and trainings. 

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Chris Prosio

DWP Live Adds Chris Prosio as Director of Sales

NASHVILLE, TN  – Chris Prosio, A 25-year veteran of the audiovisual and media production industries, has joined video and projection mapping company, DWP Live, as director of sales. Prosio will promote the DWP Live brand while expanding the company’s equipment rental, event production, and 3D laser scanning divisions.

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Electric Zoo 2016

Electric Zoo Festival Returns to NYC with Pyrotecnico Special Effects

NEW YORK – Helping to transform New York’s Randall’s Island into the “Wild Island” for the 2016 Electric Zoo Festival from Sept. 2-4, Pyrotecnico brought special effects that included the laser beams emitting from the eyes of the giant cobra structure that served as a visual focal point for EDM revelers. Pyrotecnico also provided pyrotechnics, flames and confetti, impressing close to 100,000 who attended the three-day event.

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Christie Teams with Evans & Sutherland on First True8K Digital Dome Demo in Toronto Oct. 7

TORONTO – Christie and Evans & Sutherland are key sponsors of the annual Giant Screen Cinema Association trade show (GSCA), now taking place (Oct. 4-7) in Toronto. On Friday, Oct. 7, from 9 a.m. until noon, Christie and Evans & Sutherland will hold the first True8K Digital Dome Demo at the Ontario Science Center. The demo will light up the venue’s 24-meter dome with Christie’s Digistar 6 planetarium/dome cinema system, making use of 10 Christie Mirage 304K projectors.

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Japan Expo in Paris

Analog Way’s Eikos2 Raises the Game at the Japan Expo in Paris

PARIS – In July, Paris hosted the Japan Expo, a full-scale video game show dedicated to the Japanese culture. Square Enix, a Japanese video game company best known for developing role-playing video games such as Final Fantasy was one of the major exhibitors. For the audiovisual design of the booth, Square Enix contracted NEXXT France, a young French company that provides audiovisual services through innovative solutions.

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Stampede President & COO Kevin Kelly

Hitachi Europe Names Stampede Europe UK Distributor

UK —After years of forging a successful distribution partnership in North America, Hitachi Europe has appointed Stampede Europe to serve as a distributor of its full range of ProAV display products in the UK. Effective immediately, the new agreement includes Hitachi Europe’s line of interactive large format display panels and its range of 2,500 through to 13,000 ANSI Lumens projectors.

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Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band Celebrate 25 Years; Annual Summer Trek Includes Robe Fixtures

OMAHA – The Dave Matthews Band performed its 25th anniversary tour in the U.S. and Canada this summer. The annual DMB summer tours have acquired legendary status and are known for improvised renditions of their regular songs as much as for their impressive visual shows which have been designed by Fenton Williams since the early 1990s. Fenton and his Charlottesville-based design company, Filament Productions, are still responsible for the production design, and this year he and co-lighting designer Aaron Stinebrink specified Robe BMFL Spots and PATT 2013 fixtures.

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