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Rockstar’s Taste Of Chaos Tour Lit with High End Systems Fixtures

Taste of Chaos

Rockstar’s Taste Of Chaos Tour Lit with High End Systems Fixtures

SAN BERNARDINO, CA – The 2016 RockStar Taste Of Chaos Tour recently wrapped a six week run across the U.S., giving live music fans high energy festival performances from headliners Dashboard Confessional as well as Taking Back Sunday, Saosin and The Early November. With lighting and video production supplied by Gemini Light Sound Video, the touring package included an ample assortment of High End Systems equipment, including 16 ShapeShifter C1’s, 17 SolaSpot 2000’s, Hog 4 control, Catalyst media servers and FQ100 fog generator.

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Rose Brand Melt Out Fabric

Rose Brand “Melt Out” Fabric

Rose Brand Inc. now offers “Melt Out” fabric, touted as a more economical and fire-safe ceiling fabric used to diffuse light over trade show booths, displays and exhibits. Melt Out has meltable seams, which appear every 12 inches along its length. In the event of fire, the seams open, allowing smoke to escape and water from sprinklers to come through. Melt Out is 96” wide, inherently flame retardant, stretchable, and comes in black, white, red, blue, as well as dark and light grey.

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Blackmagic Design Announces Camera 4.0 Public Beta Release

Blackmagic Design Announces Camera 4.0 Public Beta Release

FREMONT, CA – Blackmagic Design today announced the availability of Blackmagic Camera 4.0 Public Beta. This public beta lets customers install and test Blackmagic’s major new camera operating system and user interface for URSA Mini. Blackmagic Camera 4.0 Public Beta is available for download free of charge from the Blackmagic Design website for all Blackmagic URSA Mini customers.

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Nordlite has expanded its rental fleet to include 60 impression X4 Bar 20 fixtures from GLP.

Nordlite Invests In GLP Impression X4 Bars

HAMBURG, Germany – Event technology service provider Nordlite has expanded its rental fleet to include 60 impression X4 Bar 20 fixtures from GLP. Nordlite, one of the leading full service technology service providers in northern Germany, provides its customers with technical design as well as consulting and planning for various events. Its services include CAD and 3D visualization and design, décor and technical equipment. In all, the company has 35 employees, its own fleet and 2,000 sqm of storage space.

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Gaiam at Macy's Store of the Future

PixelFLEX LED Video Display Panels Part of Macy’s “Store of the Future”

COLUMBUS, OH — On Aug. 11, 2016, Macy’s followed up a previous announcement in late 2015 that it would be shedding 35 to 40 stores with plans to shutter 100 additional locations, or about 15 percent of the remaining 769 retail locations. But in late June, the company also made clear that it was intent upon retooling those that remain, unveiling its “Store of the Future” concept at a Macy’s location in Columbus, OH. Macy’s turned to Gaiam, the yoga and fitness brand, for a design assist, and also introduced Gaiam to Dallas-based Reflect, who has been working with Macy’s for a number of years as their instore digital media partner. Reflect’s Matt Schmitt and Chas Thornhill worked with Gaiam visual merchandising manager Hannah Gilmore on a visual solution that included PixelFLEX’s 3.9mm FLEXLite NXG LED video panels, which are serviceable from front and rear.

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Brit Floyd 'Space and Time Continuum' Tour features new Elation fixtures

Brit Floyd ‘Space and Time Continuum’ Tour Adds New Elation Fixtures to the Rig

LOS ANGELES — Jake Whittingham and Dave Hill collaborated on the looks for Brit Floyd, a prominent Pink Floyd tribute band. For the band’s 2016 “Space and Time Continuum” tour legs in North America and Europe, The band relied on an extensive array of Elation Professional fixtures in 2015, and Whittingham and Hill opted to add Elation’s hybrid Platinum FLX and ACL Series fixtures to the rig for the 2016 shows.

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Microsoft's 2016 E3 press briefing event

Microsoft E3 2016 Press Briefing Visuals Rely on d3 4x4pro Media Servers

LOS ANGELES – At this year’s E3 video game expo, Microsoft unveiled a launch version of its Xbox One S, a more compact version of Xbox One, which will soon be joined by more powerful Xbox One S units. The company also outlined plans for its Project Scorpio consoles, to be launched further down the road. To optimize the visuals for the press briefing at the Los Angeles Convention Center, VER LA supplied four d3 4x4pros to production company Zed Ink.

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Joe Bonamassa at the Greenwich Music Time festival in London

Joe Bonamassa Tour Gets Adlib Assist

LONDON – Adlib again delivered lighting, sound, rigging and crew for the recent UK and European tour by  blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa and his band, which culminated with a headline show – recorded for DVD – at the ‘Greenwich Music Time’ festival staged in the grounds of London’s historic Old Royal Naval College. 

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DJ Snake at Red Rocks. Photo by Paul Garcia (Merc Photography)

LD Steve Brody Lights DJ Snake at GDF/Red Rocks with Robe BMFLs

MORRISON, CO – French DJ and music producer DJ Snake fired up the crowds at the recent Global Dance Festival staged in the breathtaking Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver, Colorado, while his lighting designer Steve Brody (known industry wide as ‘Brody’) took full advantage of Robe BMFL Spots,  which were prominent among other fixtures on a ‘house’ lighting rig for the event supplied by DSI Event Group, also based in Denver.

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