LONDON – Paul Griffiths of Firebird Events used 24 of Robe’s new Spikie fixtures -–small, fast LED WashBeams – for a three-day sales conference staged in the Champagne Suite at the Novotel West London. Twenty-four Spikies were installed by Firebird, the three-day event’s technical solutions provider in the suite which served as the main plenary area.
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BALTIMORE — CBS Radio Baltimore turned to LD Brett Angstadt to give a live-venue look for the station’s new UpClose Performance Studio, which is used for webcasts. Angstadt used a variety of Chauvet fixtures supplied by Showtime Sound, including Rogue R1 Spots, COLORdash Accent Quad RGBAs, COLORdash Par-Hex 7s and Ovation F-165WW units. The rig also includes COLORband PiX RGB bars from Chauvet DJ and Trusst truss.
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The A1 DMX Fan from Mega FX, a new line of atmospheric effects products by Mega-Lite, is a professional, DMX-controlled fan that promises to enhance atmospheric effects used in performance environments. Equipped with a powerful motor, the A1 DMX Fan can create high wind speeds. One DMX channel controls the fan speed from slow to fast. The on-board control of this unit includes interval, duration, and timing functions via the digital display. Also, users can set the DMX start address channel directly from the unit. It has PowerCon type Nema 5-15 connections with both 3-pin and 5-pin DMX connections. The A1 DMX Fan makes rigging easy with 2 quick mount release clamps.
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WORLD – MILOS has just released a second video as part of its special 3-month promotion on lifts from Mobiltechlifts, where you receive a free transportation wheel kit with every lift purchased until 30 September. In this video, Area Four Industries R&D Director Marc Hendriks dives into the technical design, testing and certification of Mobiltechlifts products.
Click here to watch the Mobiltechllifts video with Marc Hendriks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPAi5Lu2nd8&feature=youtu.be
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PHILADELPHIA – Advanced AV opted for Barco PGWU-62L laser phosphor projectors for The Franklin Institute science museum in Philadelphia. The new projectors replace older projection technologies that had been used for the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial within the museum’s rotunda near the entrance of the museum.
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JASENICE, Croatia – The 2016 Winnetou Festival, which celebrates a fictional Native American hero of several novels written in German by Karl May, also honored Pierre Brice, the French actor who portrayed the Apache chief in popular German movies. The event took place June 4-11, a year after Brice’s death, at age 86, on June 6, 2015. A memorial service highlighting the Tulove Grede mountain peaks included dramatic visuals from German lighting design company MBLightarts . The multimedia visuals made use of 34 SGM P5 RGBW washes to light up the rocks. The fixtures ran off power generators and relied upon W-DMX for wireless control.
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LAS VEGAS – For the North American Hair Styling Awards (NAHA) event at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Convention Center in late July, Chris Hubbard and his team at Emergency Production used 32 Rogue moving lights from Chauvet Professional, supplied by AMP’D Entertainment.
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BUFFALO, NY — For the recent North American leg of Twenty One Pilots’ (TØP) Emotional Roadshow tour, which ran from May 31 to June 21, VER provided close to 180 Robe fixtures, including 56 BMFL Spots, 12 BMFL Blades, 68 Pointes, 14 LEDWash 1200s and 28 LEDWash 600s. VER also provided video and audio gear for the tour.
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HILLSBOROUGH, NC – Enttec Americas recently announced three staff appointments: Brandon Mitchell, technical sales and support; Roz Dahlie, training and education coordinator; and Kaitlin Gill, event production manager/master electrician. They are pictured here, L-R. The company, which has its headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, is a leading manufacturer and distributor of lighting and lighting control products.
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LAS VEGAS – Station Casinos, which had previously enhanced its sports books at two other properties with NanoLumens screens in Las Vegas, is adding the company’s screens to a third resort in the valley. The screens will now beckon visitors to sports books at Red Rock Resort, Green Valley Ranch and Santa Fe Station. The latter installation was the most recent, taking place just in time for the start of preseason NFL football.
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MILWAUKEE – Billed as the world’s largest music festival, Summerfest drew more than 800,000 people to the Henry Meier Festival Grounds on the shores of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, WI. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. supported Clearwing Productions with MA Lighting consoles and Clay Paky Scenius spot fixtures for the 11-day event. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting and Clay Paky products in North America.
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WOOSTER, OH — For churches around the globe, video has become an integral aspect of connecting with their congregants, providing a powerful medium to share their message while enabling them to expand beyond their walls. When 75-year-old Grace Church of Wooster, Ohio launched its first video initiatives last year, it selected Z-HD5000 HDTV cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) to capture live services and events.
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