LOS ANGELES – Following the huge success of the original AV6 LED video panel, ADJ has launched a new and improved model, the AV6X. The new and improved AV6X is now poised to continue ADJ’s success in the world of LED video. This version retains the affordable price and high resolution quality of the original, but also offers improved color consistency and higher contrast.
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Blizzard Lighting’s Lo-Pro Flux LED fixture with white strobe effects groups 288 half-watt white Samsung SMD5050 LEDs into 8-pixel slice segments that can be individually controlled via DMX, standalone, master/slave and sound active programs. The product’s MSRP is $499.99.
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BIRMINGHAM U.K. – Gaming event lighting guru Steve Thurkettle selected the Titan lighting and media control interface from British manufacturer Avolites to drive his complex audio-visual design for the 58th Insomnia Gaming Festival (Insomnia58), the UK’s biggest ever celebration of gaming culture. The event took place at the NEC in Birmingham over the U.K.’s bank holiday weekend Aug. 26-29.
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THE NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM and FRANCE – Belgian engineering, animation and rigging specialists WIcreations had a busy summer supplying a selection of their standard rental products like WI Towers and WI Touring Track to a diverse variety of music festivals and live events, including Dominator 2016 (Strand Eersel, Netherlands), 2 Meisjes op het strand (2 Girls on the Beach, Little Beach in Ostend, Belgium), Decibel 2016 (Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands), EMF, Electro Beach Music Festival (Le Bacarès in France), the Nassau Festival (Amsterdam), Indian Summer (Geestmerambacht, Langedijk, Netherlands) and Pinkpop (Landgraaf in the Netherlands, pictured here.)
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GLASTONBURY, U.K. — Arcadia Spectacular’s 50-ton spider sculpture, which has been impressing festival attendees since it appeared in Glastonbury in 2010, now makes use of 16 Robe BMFL WashBeams. The sculpture measures 55 by 60 feet (HxW).
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MIRAMAR, FL — Barbizon Lighting Florida, DeSisti and Coemar Lighting are hosting an Open House Event on Wednesday, Sept. 28 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the company’s Miramar showroom. The DeSisti and Coemar Lighting “pop up” showroom will also be open from Monday to Friday, Sept. 26-30, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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SEOUL – For the production of Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute, at the Seoul Arts Center (SAC), the visual design includes viideo projection using Christie Roadster WU20K-J 3DLP units. Christie Korea and Christie’s Korean partner IMTEC supported the technical needs of the opera, which runs until Sept. 27, 2016.
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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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