MIAMI – ADJ’s 2016 Nightclub Expo event, to be held at the ADJ Miami location, is set for Thursday, May 12, 2016 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The facility is located at 13185 NW 47th Ave., Opa-locka, Florida 33054. This free event is aimed at venue owners of nightclubs, bars, lounges and restaurants with nighttime entertainment, as well as, nightclub DJs, lighting designers, tastemakers, nightlife influences, and party planners.
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LINGEN, Germany – Andreas Bourani is currently out on an arena tour of his native Germany in support of his latest album, Hey, with a lighting design by Nik Evers. The setup includes Clay Paky Mythos and A.leda B-EYE K20 fixtures. Evers, who also designed the staging and video content alongside Timo Marten and Philip Hillers, specified the hybrid Mythos and the LED wash and effects light B-EYE from Black Box Music.
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CYPRESS, CA – Christie chairman, president and CEO Jack Kline detailed progress that the company and its corporate parent, Ushio, have made in the 10 years since the launch of their Environmental Management System (EMS). The system, based on ISO 14001, focuses on building and continually improving Christie’s environmental performance. The EMS encompasses numerous environmental programs including waste reduction, recycling, water and electricity reduction, facility and operational improvements, with a significant net CO2 reduction.
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MINNEAPOLIS — When Minneapolis’ Skyway Theatre hosted punk-turned-EDM duo Adventure Club, LD Ryan Warffuel and others at Antic Studios filled the cavernous 2,000-capacity former cinema with big video and lighting looks using gear from Chauvet Professional. Warffuel, VJ/content creator Max Koehler and the rest of the Antic Studios team (Derrick Koehler, Brandon Rathke, and JD Vanderwiel) deployed 41 PVP S5 LED video panels, 12 Rogue R1 Beam fixtures and four Q-Wash 260-LED washes.
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ABU DHABI, UAE – The United Arab Emirates celebrated the 44th UAE National Day on Dec. 2, 2015 with fireworks, concerts, heritage attractions, regattas, and art and theater festivals across the country. In Abu Dhabi’s Zayed Sports City, the official National Day show made use of A.C.T Lighting distributed brands including Clay Paky and Robert Juliat lighting fixtures, MDG atmospheric generators and grandMA2 consoles. The show was produced by Five Current with lighting and video design by 4U2C.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – At Prolight + Sound earlier this month, MDG’s new stand featured atmosphere generation products that included demos for the company’s new Atmosphere range, the Me Family, the IceFog Series of low-fog generators and their award-winning product, theOne. The booth also featured videos showing how to unleash the full potential of some of the larger generators that the environs of a trade show were not able to accommodate. The highlight of the show was the intro for the company’s “8-nozzled monster,” the Me8.
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VENICE, FL – Coastlife Church recently added a new 400+ seat auditorium to its property. AVL integration company Crown Design Group outfitted the space with 33 Elation Colour Pendant color-changing LED luminaires. Opened in time for Easter services, the new house lighting system is both white-light functional and creatively full-color immersive when required.
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PR Lighting’s new XR 440 Beam, featured at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany earlier this month, houses the new Osram Sirius HRI 440W discharge lamp, outputting 22,000 lumens. As such it promises to serve as a powerful powerful beam light, with a superbly designed optical path, excellent color and comprehensive and number of effects.
Read More »PR Lighting’s XR 440 BWS joins last year’s XR 330 BWS in the BWS (Beam Wash Spot) hybrid category. The fixture was featured at both the recent GET Show in Guangzhou and Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany. The XR 440 BWS’s many features start with Osram’s Sirius HRI 440W lamp as the light source.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Laserworld Group detailed some of the new laser gear and technologies deployed at the Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt earlier this month including the twelve RTI NEO SIX RGB units on the PRG/LEA Stage. With 12 beam arrays, LD Jerry P. Appelt was able to control a total of 72 individual laser beams via DMX in 16bit fine positioning mode. Along with the new RTI units, Laserworld-owned tarm lasers were featured. The laser show was controlled through Lasergraph DSP laser control software and hardware, in combination with grandMA2 consoles.
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia —Ljubljana Castle, a tourist attraction in the Slovenian capital, also draws crowds with multiple venues that are used for a variety of conferences, meetings, presentations and theatre and music productions. These are now equipped with Robe fixtures, including CycFX 8s, LEDBeam 100s and six Robe LightWare HO battery powered up-lighting LED units.
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OXFORDSHIRE, U.K. – Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) provided a widescreen projection system plus lighting and sound production for ‘Big Day Out’, an event for ITV Commercial sales teams staged at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire. The event, which included series of motivational talks and presentations interspersed with choreographed entertainment and magicians, took place in the venue’s Lecture Theatre. CPL supplied a 12 by 4 meter (WxH) projection screen, fed by Panasonic 12K laser projectors.
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