BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Slovakia’s leading rental and technical production company, Q-99, headed by TV LD Martin Kubanka, has added Robe’s new multi-functional Robin Pointes to its rental stock, bringing their full stock of Robe moving lights to nearly 500 fixtures. The new gear was quickly put into use to light two children’s charity fundraisers.
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NEW YORK — For its new flagship store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, which opened May 1, Oakley offers customers a visual feast for the eyes — 27 LCD screens arranged in rows of three that are incorporated in fragmented forms suspended across the length of the ceiling. Moment Factory provided a key visual assist.
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HOUSTON — Kevin Rigdon wears two hats, as a faculty member at the University of Houston and also as Associate Director/Design for Houston’s Alley Theatre. So when the Alley Theatre underwent a renovation, he proposed the shared use of the university’s two theatre spaces — and the university’s decision to upgrade their lighting system. Rigdon worked with Stagelight on the project, which included PL Series LED luminaires from Philips Selecon.
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BRUSSELS — Luc Peumans of Belgian creative design practice Painting With Light produced the full visual design — set, lighting and video — for Music Hall Events’ new production of Grease, which recently played shows in Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium.
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ATLANTA, GA — Spectrum Productions, Inc. named Greg Gardner president. Gardner will be responsible for sales team management, operations management and back office management as well as general management responsibilities. Prior to Spectrum Productions, Gardner had been with XL Video since 2010, serving most recently as COO, where he had been responsible for U.S. operations.
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JOHANNESBURG — The 2014 Ghoema Afrikaans Music Awards, staged at the Big Top Arena in Carnival City here April 13, was the latest in a string of high profile events in South Africa where Robe fixtures played a key role. The show, named for a barrel-shaped drum, was lit by LD Mauritz Jacobs from Dream Sets for a live audience of close to 3,000. The production was also taped for broadcast a week later on Afrikaans channel Kyknet.
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LONDON — For their 2014 tour in Europe, under the eminently cringe-worthy title, “Spreading the Disease (S.T.D.),” retro mock-rockers Steel Panther got support for their infectious brand of parody from PRG and PRG Nocturne.
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ABU DHABI, UAE — To support Bill Fontana’s “Acoustical Visions & Desert Soundings” exhibition here from March 21-April 20, coolux distributor TechnoPro provided Pandoras Box Compact Player technology. Along with work by Fontana, art created by regional students and established artists was featured during the month-long event.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Okay, it wasn’t exactly Pink Floyd, or Stonehenge. But in terms of production values, it certainly went beyond that scene with the dwarves and 18-inch-high stones in This is Spinal Tap. And to support the over-the-top looks for Eclipse’s Pink Floyd tribute down under, at Stonehenge Aotearoa near here, LD Nic Cave-Lynch really did use a wide array of gear from Chauvet Professional, provided by the company’s New Zealand distributor, MDR Sound and Lighting.
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Tulsa, OK – Recently remodeled, the Church on the Move’s (COTM) main auditorium is an updated performance space that now rivals many concert venues. For this year’s Seeds Conference, Lighting Designer Daniel Connell turned to 4Wall Nashville to provide lighting equipment. Drawing inspiration from Roy Bennett’s design for Nine Inch Nails Tension tour, Connell put together a rig that could give a variety of unique looks over the three-day conference.
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SINGAPORE — Looking for a way to make its convention space as flexible as possible, Suntec Singapore Convention Centre incorporated an advanced LED lighting solution into the center’s fourth level ceiling. As part of the innovative ceiling design, Martin’s LED VC-Dot 1’s allows the convention center’s clients to add logos, messaging and graphics to their event. The new design is centrally programmed and controlled, eliminating the need for staff to climb the ceiling in order to make adjustments.
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