LAS VEGAS, NV – Morpheus Lights, the exclusive U.S distributor of Ayrton LED luminaires, announced the appointment of Rich Dale as Eastern Regional Sales Manager. In his new role, Dale, a 23-year industry veteran, will be responsible sales and promotion of the Ayrton product line in the Eastern U.S.
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WEST BABYLON, NY – Bestek Lighting and Staging noted that Abott Finkel (pictured here), who had been serving as Bestek’s executive vice president after Bestek and Abott Audio merged in 2015, has been running the company as president & CEO since earlier this year, when Bestek founder Van Allen Rice retired. The company, founded by Van Allen Rice in 1974, provides a full range of project management and technical services relating to lighting and staging for events held in the New York City area.
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NASHVILLE – The American Cancer Society recently held RelayLIVE, a musical festival which advocates “fighting cancer at every stage.” Bandit Lites donated a lighting package for the inaugural concert. With the concert taking place in a park with little to no lighting, it was crucial for lighting designer Carter Fulghum to build a look that would both translate from day to night seamlessly and be visible to those in attendance across the park. With truss towers filling the stage, he used Bandit’s exclusive LED GRNLite Battens, GRNLite Moving Washes, GLP X4S and Martin MAC Auras for flashy effects.
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AUSTIN, TX – Foam Wonderland’s Southwest Regional shows are inviting revelers to get doused with foam shot by cannons as they listen to the beat of EDM music. To provide visuals to complement the party atmosphere, Creative Production and Design used 48 PVP X6IP panels and 84 MVP 18 panels from Chauvet Professional.
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VICTORVILLE, CA – High Desert Church is a multi-site house of worship with four campuses that serve a total congregation of over 8,000 people. Looking for a switcher that enabled them to live stream sermons from their main campus to their other sites, High Desert turned to FOR-A. The church recently purchased the company’s HVS-2000 video switcher to fulfill all of the growing congregation’s video production needs.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Visual production company FIX8Group was part of the team operating the video content for all 43 competing acts as well as pop megastar Justin Timberlake’s performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 (ESC 2016). The 61st edition themed ‘Come Together’ was held at Stockholm’s Globe arena and hosted by last year’s Swedish champion Måns Zelmerlöf alongside returning host Petra Mede. Reports noted that more than 200 million viewers around the world tuned in to watch the grand final on May 14. This total included the U.S., where the show was broadcast via Logo TV.
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LAS VEGAS – d3 Technologies will be showcasing the 4x4pro and industry first Video Format Conversion cards, as well as the latest r13 software, at InfoComm 2016 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, June 8-10, 2016. d3 will be exhibiting at stand #C6248.
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DEVON, U.K. – S+H Technical, which specializes in providing LED, visual effects, drapes and starcloth for various clients, has added to its stock of LED screens with 182 panels of Glux’s 10mm outdoor BAtn product. The company stocked up to support a busy summer events season. S+H already has a substantial stock of LED video with more than 1,000 panels of Glux LED including 12mm, 3.9 indoor and both 10 & 20 mm floor tiles. Having a wide range of LED screen stock – plus several other LED technologies – ensures that S+H has the flexibility to service its wide and eclectic range of projects.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Staging Concepts has improved its SC90 Platform to meet higher loading requirements. As the International Building Code and customer requirements have made higher loading more important, the enhanced SC90 Platform will now accommodate a load of 150 pounds per square foot (psf) in a 4-by-8-foot size, without any additional reinforcement. The 2012 International Building Code includes new requirements for performance staging, changing the minimum loading requirement from 125 psf (610 kg/sq meter) to 150 psf (732 kg/sq meter). Platforms incorporated into seating risers must support 100 psf (488 kg/sq meter) per the 2012 International Building Code.
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WISCONSIN DELLS, WI – The Career and Community Leaders of America held its three-day Wisconsin conferene at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells, WI this past April. Lighting designer Glenn Ottenbacher of AGS Event Productions used six Rogue R2 Wash RGBW LED washes, six Legend 230SR Beams and two Hurricane foggers to transform the convention center room into a teen-oriented club.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Rob Koenig, lighting designer and director for Ignition Show Design, who has been working with Metallica since 2008, is getting an assist illuminating the power and passion Metallica’s audiences expect with Martin’s Atomic 3000 LED fixtures in the rig. He used 48 Martin Atomic 3000 LED Strobes for the band’s show at San Francisco’s AT&T Park on Super Bowl Weekend.
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ANNANDALE, VA – The Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center is a state-run facility on the campus of Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC). It regularly hosts a wide variety of events, from local and touring shows to dance recitals and theatrical performances. Installed in 1990, the venue’s original rigging system eventually wore down over time. After years of exhaustive research, Pook Deimont & Ohl, Inc. (PDO) helped the venue replace the aging system with 12 variable-speed and two fixed-speed Prodigy EXO hoists, three external E-stops, a Foundation controller and a Foundation Handheld Remote (FHHR).
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