Martin’s RUSH Gobo Projector 1, designed for club, bar, restaurant and shopping mall applications, is now shipping. Users can easily adjust the gobo focus, speed and position. The compact unit, measuring 215 x 135 x 152 mm and weighing 11 lbs. (2 kg), is also designed for non-intrusive silent operation.
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LONDON – London based events production company PR Live supported the visual needs for Warner Music’s 2015 Brits After-party, which drew close to 1,100 guests to Freemason’s Hall in Covent Garden. PR Live supplied all elements of the design and technical production – sound, lighting, video, rigging, set and staging, assorted custom built props – complete with lighting and sound design and custom video content.
Read More »LONDON – Artistic Licence launched Art-Osc, an open domain, free-of-charge protocol that enables the transport of DALI lighting control data over an Ethernet network. The DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) standard provides a popular means of controlling ballasts that do not require fast special effects. It operates over low cost and simple wiring, but is limited to 64 devices per circuit. Prior to the Artistic Licence announcement, DALI has lacked a standardized and open method of integration into larger networks.
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NEW YORK – Pete’s Big TVs provided LED video tiles, playback, cameras, media servers, recording and crew for Nickelodeon’s Upfront, an event that previews the upcoming season for potential advertisers. The Feb. 25 event took place at Moynihan Station, formerly the historic James A. Farley Post office, in New York City.
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PALM SPRINGS, CA–– Modernism Week is an annual Palm Springs event celebrating the architecture and lifestyle that characterized this SoCal enclave of the rich and famous back in the 1950s and 1960s. For a VIP event held by Land Rover, KM Productions provided the sound and lighting, including LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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VAIL, CO – Beaver Creek and Vail hosted FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2015, which drew athletes representing 68 nations and viewership from around the world. TMS supported related events with lighting, truss, staging and LED video elements. The lighting design included 37 Q-7 flood/blind/strobes and 16 P-5 wash lights from SGM.
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PR Lighting’s XRLED 700 Spot, added to the company’s XRLED series, is due to start shipping in March 2015.
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LONDON – XL Video supplied projection, LED screens and a camera / PPU package to the Paolo Nutini U.K. arena tour, which completed a busy year of touring and live performances from the artist following the release of his album Caustic Love.
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BRADFORD, Yorkshire, U.K. – Germany-based Nachtstark toured the U.K. and used Calibre’s LEDView400 scaler-switcher not just for its LED video backdrop but to also handle text, social media feeds, sponsor advertising, logos and agency information. The band’s bass guitarist, Alexander Funk, also has IT experience and served as the band’s programmer.
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LONDON – White Light named Alicia Earls business development manager for events. Earls joins White Light after more than seven years as communications manager for the Science Museum Group.
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DETROIT – For Garth Brooks’ current U.S. tour, LD Dave Butzler included 48 Robe LEDWash 1200s, supplied by Bandit Lites, which purchased the fixtures specially for the tour. Brooks’ 2014 and 2015 shows are in support of the country artist’s first studio album in 13 years, Man Against Machine.
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DOHA, Qatar – At the Sheraton Doha Hotel & Resort, Griven LED architectural fixtures are painting distinctive looks on the building’s exterior. The new lighting design, coinciding with the resort’s 30th year, includes a W-DMX wireless control system.
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