PARIS — Laurent Chapot, longtime LD for French rocker Bernard Lavilliers, included Clay Paky Sharpys provided by Dushow for the France-based rocker’s concert at the Olympia venue in Paris. Chapot included 24 Sharpys – 12 Sharpy beam fixtures and 12 Sharpy Washes.
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BATON ROUGE, LA – For Parkview Baptist Church here, Elation dealer Advanced Audio & Stage Lighting helped facilitate an energy-efficient lighting upgrade with TVL Series white light LEDs, color changing Opti Par LEDs and Design LED Par lights. Advanced Audio’s Bo Bowen, Ryan Rushing and Blaine Wilkins worked with lighting designer and trainer Zac Crotwell on the project, with an assist from Chris Rowinsky of JROW Electric and Jay Cid with PSLP.
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EMLEY, UK — Lighting designer James Bawn specified Clay Paky Sharpys to crown his colorful lighting design for Kirklees’ Arqiva Tower, known locally as the Emley Mast, during the opening of the Tour de France celebrations in Yorkshire. The ten Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures, supplied by Blackburn based rental company HSL, beamed out from the tower’s 272m high control room, creating dramatic aerial effects across the skies above Yorkshire’s Emley Moor.
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LAS VEGAS — The deadline to nominate regional lighting companies for the 2014 Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year is only days away: July 31. The Parnelli nomination focus for the month of August shifts to the annual Indispensable Technology (“IT”) Awards competition, which recognizes the most innovative, useful and otherwise indispensable Lighting, Staging, Projection and Audio product introduced from mid-2013 to mid-2014.
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The Next NXT-1 moving head LED display from Chauvet is powered by 4-in-1 Osram LEDs, configured in 5 rows of 5, which produce 15,500 lux at 5 meters. It also offers ultra-fast 540° pan and 270° tilt movement.
Read More »SUN VALLEY, CA – GLP US Inc. has announced a new technical training program which will take place at their headquarters here in the Los Angeles area. The purpose of this program is to provide an in depth technical training to moving light technicians of qualified dealers and/or qualified end user customer/owners of GLP moving light fixtures. The bi-monthly program launches Oct. 6-8, 2014 and continues Dec. 8-10, 2014. The program is structured so that participants can attend all three days or just a single day.
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LOS ANGELES – Shockwave Cargo announced several personnel changes along with its new office location near LAX airport here. Noting Keith Mitchell’s departure, Shockwave welcomed Craig Kruger, a 35-year freight forwarding veteran (pictured here), as its new director of operations. The company also named Chris Gratton director of business development and announced that Benny Collins will play a key role on Shockwave Cargo’s sales team.
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HANNOVER, Germany – coolux Pandoras Box technology was used to power the Siemens booth at the HMI 2014 trade fair, a major industry event held here in April. The booth featured a curved 90-by-2.1-meter LED screen supplemented by a 40-square-meter circular LED element.
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