KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites recently added GLP X4 Atom fixtures to the company’s growing inventory. The X4 Atom features an interlocking system that lets users build the light into various configurations. This will allow it to be used for all of Bandit’s various lighting applications including corporate events, touring and special events.
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IOWA CITY, IA – In 2008, when the Iowa River flooded and destroyed Hancher Auditorium and 12 other buildings at the University of Iowa, the loss to the community was far greater than the physical loss of those structures. Hancher Auditorium was one of the most popular venues for touring groups in the region, and the flood forced the student and traveling groups that normally used the venue to move into nearby facilities. But this week, with the grand opening of the new Hancher Auditorium, the University of Iowa and the people of Iowa City once again have a magnetic cultural center to call their own.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Tway Lifting Products, founded in 1945, has been supplying its steel cables to other companies in the entertainment sector in recent years. This year, veteran rigger Albert West has been overseeing the company’s new push with a new line of products aimed at meeting the needs of entertainment production and rigging companies.
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NEW YORK – Lighting designer Zach Bunner admits that some of his LD brethren might think that designing an arena tour for a two-time Grammy winner “without a rig full of beams and profile fixtures” would limit the looks of a show. However, Bunner proved otherwise by creating an intimate and immersive club-like feeling at venues from The Forum in Los Angeles to Madison Square Garden with a rig that relied heavily on the Rogue R2 Wash and STRIKE 4 multi formatted fixture from Chauvet Professional.
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NYC– 2016 has seen rapid growth for d3 in America, with it becoming the media server of choice for many of its high profile events. Credits include the GRAMMYs, Seattle Opera, Beyonce’s Formation World Tour and the MTV Video Music Awards. Growth is set to continue for d3 Technologies in the USA; the New York team at d3NY is expanding with a wealth of talent and experience, our training sessions have increased, and we’re now awaiting the anticipated opening of d3LA, which will take place in early 2017.
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FONTANA, CA — Held July 30 and 31 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, the Hard Summer Music Festival attracted thousands of hip-hop and dance music fans, who this year congregated around the racetrack to experience headliners Ice Cube and Major Lazer, as well as many other EDM acts, in its new home. Production company and Elation dealer Stage-Tech delivered a large Elation lighting package for the Hard Stage (the festival’s main stage) and the Pink Stage.
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LONDON – Robe noted that its stand at PLASA 2016 relied on the company’s new Spiider LED wash beam luminaire for its visual impact. The company deployed 42 of its Spiiders on a “super-web” that served as a key focal point. Other fixtures put to work at PLASA included Robe’s new Halo pixel ring, LED DL series and BMFL WashBeams.
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LONDON – Artistic Licence, inventor of the Art-Net ethernet lighting control protocol, noted that the company’s Art-Net 4 was honored at the 2016 PLASA Awards for Innovation ceremony.
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NASHVILLE – As football season is in full swing and NFL players hit the fields, Nashville-based Harbor Entertainment’s Drew Dedo and Kasey Lowry are watching some of their hard work pay off. While Harbor is known in the events industry for planning and executing elaborate meetings and events, the CO2 Frogger’s rise in popularity also has them producing this piece of special effects equipment for events across the country.
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LONDON – Pio Nahum, Clay Paky CEO, lauded the recent PLASA trade event and the company’s latest technologies at the show, including Clay Paky’s Scenius Profile fixtures, the new the Shar-Bar moving multi-effect bar, Clay Paky’s recent acquisition of ADB and the company’s Odeon line of architectural lighting fixtures. The company’s Scenius Profile fixture (pictured here), which was developed with input from parent company Osram’s R&D department, was honored for innovation at the show.
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BINGHAMTON, NY – Nine Christie Roadster HD20K-J 3DLP projectors showcased local artists and their creations – including the area’s own Johnny Hart, creator of the BC comic strip – onto five historic buildings at the annual LUMA Projection Arts Festival earlier this month. The brainchild of Tice Lerner, Nick Rubenstein and Joshua Bernard Ludzki, the event, now in its second year, featured animation by noted motion design firm Favorite Color, and included work from other animators including the winner of a juried competition. New City Video & Staging handled the installation.
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UTRECHT, The Netherlands – Marc van der Wel, longstanding director of business development for Ampco Flashlight Group and also director of sales and marketing for XLNT CyberMotion, announced that he is stepping down from both positions. He will be joining broadcast and media solutions provider NEP The Netherlands (part of NEP Group Inc.) as director of sales. His new role will commence on Oct. 1.
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