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Protec Lights Up the Autism Rocks Celebration In Dubai

Protec LD Aaron Russ lit Flo Rida and Tyga. Photo from Kathy Beer.

Protec Lights Up the Autism Rocks Celebration In Dubai

DUBAI, UAE –  On April 1, the day before the UN-designated World Autism Awareness Day (April 2), Protec LD Aaron Russ lit Flo Rida and Tyga on a temporary stage dubbed the “Autism Rocks Arena.” Kicking off Autism Awareness Month, Austism Rocks awareness-and-fundraising concerts were launched by British born businessman and philanthropist Sanjay Shah, whose young son, Nikhil, was diagnosed with autism in 2011. Since Autism Rocks concerts began, performers have included Lenny Kravitz, Joss Stone, Drake and Prince.

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Empire Pro Hosts Training Program on May 5

Empire Pro Hosts Training Program on May 5

LOS ANGELES — Empire Pro’s EPU (Empire Pro University) training program continues with an Educational Training and Product Workshop set for the company’s facility at 5675 Mansfield Way, Bell CA in the Los Angeles area. The event is the company’s 18th in-house event workshop, and it is open to AV and Lighting professionals. It will take place May 5, 2016 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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Kramer K-Touch 3.2

Kramer K-Touch 3.2

Kramer Electronics USA’s K-Touch 3.2 is the latest software upgrade for the K-Touch Control Platform. K-Touch 3.2 promises ot further simplify the system design process and reduce the time it takes to build advanced, user-friendly room control systems over Ethernet for lights, screens, sound, any AV equipment, HVAC, thermostats, and more. K-Touch 3.2 is designed to save time on both new installations and upgrades of existing installations with support for Kramer’s new FC-28 Ethernet Gateway.

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Blizzard wiCICLE AnyFi

Blizzard wiCICLE AnyFi

Blizzard Lighting calls its wiCICLE AnyFi a “teeny-tiny yet mighty powerful DMX receiver with no cords attached,” and notes that it will help users free themselves of the burden of untangling DMX cables.

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Abbas Ritscher of The Design Oasis positioned over 200 COLORado fixtures throughout the festival grounds

Tortuga Music Festival Grounds Lit with Chauvet Professional COLORado Fixtures

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Beach Park in Florida’s famous spring break city is 893 miles from Ryman Auditorium, birthplace of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. But for three days this April, the eyes of the country music world were on Fort Lauderdale, as the Tortuga Music Festival welcomed Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Joe Nichols and Dierks Bentley and a host of other hot country artists to its main stage.

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TJ Benton served as Crew Chief for Syncrolite and worked alongside Jason Robinson, the WWE Production Designer and Jason Shaw, the Senior Manager of Lighting.

WrestleMania 32 Lighting Design Makes Use of 40 SyncroMITE Beam Fixtures from Syncrolite

ARLINGTON, TX – For WWE’s WrestleMania 32, held at AT&T Stadium (home of the Dallas Cowboys) on April 3, Syncrolite provided an arsenal of luminous firepower including MX4, SXL and XL fixtures. The setup for the 101,763 fans packing the stadium (a WrestleMania record) also included 40 of Syncrolite’s newest fixture, the SyncroMITE Beam. Introduced at LDI last October, the SyncroMITE Beam is now in full production and available for immediate rental and sale.

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The team from RES used Avolites Ai S4 servers.

Eric Prydz EPIC 4.0 USA Tour Visuals Unleashed by Avolites Ai S4 Servers

NEW YORK – For Eric Prydz’ EPIC 4.0 shows in the U.S. this spring, the DJ got visual support from longtime collaborators RES, who created a colossal visual show driven by Avolites Ai S4 servers. The team includes Mark Calvert of RES (production director), Liam Tomaszewski (creative director and VJ), Ross Chapple (lighting designer), Ian Gotts (tour production manager) and Dave Green (Ai programmer). Also supporting the shows are production companies PRG, PRG Nocturne USA and Lightware USA.

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Laserworld Showeditor Simulator

Laserworld Showeditor FREE Software

Laserworld Showeditor FREE was presented at Prolight+Sound 2016 for the first time. It is a free ILDA laser show control software, that incorporates the features of the Laserworld Showeditor full version except the direct output to a hardware interface. It can be used for creating logos, text, animations and aerial effects and exporting them to the standard *.ild file format. This file format is compatible to all ILDA standard SD-card playback systems for show laser lights, so the Laserworld Showeditor FREE can be used with SD-card lasers of almost any brand.

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Just Lite's John McGuinness and LD Andrew Harris used Robe fixtures for the mixed martial arts tournament in Dublin.

Just Lite Relies on Robe Fixtures for MMA Event in Ireland

DUBLIN – Irish rental and production specialist Just Lite delivered full technical production, including lighting equipment and design, for BAMMA 24 working for production manager Sven Knight and his team from KRS. The mixed martial arts tournament was staged in 3 Arena, Dublin, and broadcast live on Spike (UK) Channel 5 in the UK and Ireland, ESPN 3 in the US plus numerous others worldwide as well as streamed live via main sponsor Lonsdale’s Facebook.

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Blake Shelton tour photo by Brian Levine

GLP Helps Take Blake Shelton Back to his Okie Roots

PITTSBURGH, PA – Four years after masterminding the set design for Blake Shelton’s first major tour, creative director Steve Cohen has been brought in again to unite lighting and video into a fluid stage set redolent of the artist’s Oklahoma roots. And once again he has relied heavily upon GLP’s LED fixtures, sourcing more than 200 of the German company’s X4 Series units from his regular vendor, Beame (formerly Atomic Lighting).

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