AUSTIN, TX. High End Systems’ Hog Factor 2016 competition is open for enrollment to all qualifying college and university students, and Phase One of the contest will close on June 30, 2016.
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NASHVILLE – At Summer NAMM 2016, Brooklyn, NY-based Gig Gear LLC’s Gig Gloves line will expand to include a new cold weather glove called Thermo-Gig Gloves. These new gloves will include all of the same features that made the Original Gig Gloves a favorite, but also include an internal fleece lining to provide warmth for outdoor, cold weather gigs and events.
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LAS VEGAS — Morpheus Lights, the exclusive U.S. distributor of Ayrton LED products, will exhibit at InfoComm 2016 at the Las Vegas Convention Center June 8 through 10 in Booth #C4750. The company will be featuring new products including Ayrton’s video-equipped DreamPanel Twin, the CosmoPix R, NandoBeam S and MagicDot R. The company is also debuting the MagicDot XT (pictured here) and IntelliPix XT.
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RALEIGH, NC – For Art 2 Wear, an annual fashion show featuring the work of North Carolina State Design School students, LD Daniel Thibault of Alpha Production Group used Ovation E-190WW fixtures, Rogue R2 Wash moving lights and COLORado 2-Quad Zoom Tours, all from Chauvet Professional.
Read More »NEW YORK – Kevin Mignone of KM Productions teamed up with Al Crawford and Arc 3 Designs to provide light, sound and video for Edible Schoolyard NYC’s fourth annual spring benefit. The setup featured an array of brands including Chauvet, Vari*Lite, GLP and D&B Audiotechnik that were used to create an event ambience that was reminiscent of an outdoor, lush garden.
Read More »Osprey Video recently announced three new devices to complement its flagship video-capture cards: the Talon G1 H.264 hardware decoder and two SDI-to-HDMI converters.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Digital design agency INJOZI worked with Gearhouse Group on an idea for their Consol Glass campaign for Grey Advertising Johannesburg. The brief was to create a projection surface using the client’s product, in this case glass bottles. The result (pictured here) was used as a backdrop for a variety of performance scenarios. The campaign incorporated a video shoot as well as various activations around the country, so the surface needed to be able display patterns and text effectively as well as be assembled and dissembled quickly and safely for touring purposes.
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LONDON – Dostoevsky’s classic novel, Crime and Punishment, recently made its debut as a rock opera at the Moscow Musical Theatre with innovative staging by renowned director Andrei Konchalovsky. Technical partner Polymedia integrated CAST BlackTrax real-time motion tracking system with a d3 media server. Together they accomplish 6D video mapping on the show’s scenic elements.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Philips Lighting noted that Eurovision 2016 lighting designer Fredrik Jönsson used 40 Philips Vari-Lite VL3500 Wash luminaires to light the audience for the big Euro music competition’s finals. The Eurovision Song Contest 2016 was held at Stockholm’s Globe Arena and saw a live audience of 15,000 international fans, journalists and celebrities. Also, Eurovision announced official global viewing figures for the grand final reached 204 million.
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ETS Ethernet Cable Clamp Testers (CC-101/102/109) are designed to let users inject a common mode current into CAT5e, CAT6A and CAT7 cables to test gigabit Ethernet for the common mode noise. The CC-101 and CC-102 have (6) thumb-bolts allowing the release of the unit halves for cable insertion for testing purposes. The CC-109 has 4 spring latches for quick and easy test set ups.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Sets, Drapes, Screen (SDS) took delivery of an additional 14 AV Stumpfl screens (a mixture of the manufacturer-patented FullWhite borderless screens and wide-format screens), this May. The new stock will be evenly deployed between the Cape Town and Johannesburg branches to ensure a mirrored stock holding in both centers. The busy set company has also invested in the same make of borderless screens tailor-made for the Cape Town International Convention Centre, where sister Company INHOUSE Venue Technical Management is the venue’s in-house supplier. SDS has also increased their Gerriets screen stock with a range of screens.
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BREA, CA – Southern California-based Visions Lighting is one of the busiest production and lighting companies on the U.S. West Coast with an ever-growing client list that includes some of our industry’s most influential events and artists. Serving major promotion companies like Insomniac Events, AEG and Goldenvoice, Visions has consistently turned to Elation lighting gear to fulfill lighting briefs and 2016 has been no exception with Elation products lighting this year’s Coachella, StageCoach and Wango Tango festivals among other events.
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