Product News, July 2024
New products from König & Meyer, ADJ, Brompton Technology, Elation, JMAZ Professional, Tyler Truss Systems and Unilumin
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Blinders & Audience Lighting
This month’s Buyer’s Guide looks at the various Blinder Lights. The lights in this guide are all LED-based which allow white light along with many color options, some with tungsten emulation for that warm, white light if needed.
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USA Olympic Swim Trials
When the USA Olympic Swim Trials came to Indianapolis this June, Dodd Technologies helped them build a temporary world-class swimming venue inside Lucas Oil Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts.
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Martin Professional MAC Viper XIP
The Martin MAC Viper XIP is an excellent continuation of the Viper line and represents the state of the art of LED-based automated lighting.
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The Rolling Stones ‘Hackney Diamonds Tour ’24’
Creative Director Patrick Woodroffe, Lighting Designer Terry Cook and Associate Lighting Designer/Lighting Director Ethan Weber give us a look at The Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds Tour. Plus we get the vendor views from lighting provider Upstaging and video supplier Nighthawk Video.
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Justin Timberlake ‘The Forget Tomorrow World Tour’
Justin Timberlake’s ‘The Forget Tomorrow World Tour’ features a dynamic and kinetic design from Silent House Productions’ Baz Halpin and Cory FitzGerald, that is a true production technology marvel. The creative team, along with TAIT and Solotech as vendors share how they brought the technically complex design to reality.
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Festivals: Production Support
Across the USA it is festival season. For genres from Country to Alt-Rock, fans are flocking to beaches and fields to enjoy the massive outdoor music parties. And production houses are tasked with creating pop-up venues in those same production barren locations bringing in lights, video and staging to support acts and engage audiences.
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Festivals: Infrastructure Resources
We round-up some of the leading companies suppling core infrastructure production elements to the festival segment by addressing the needs of this unique part of the Live Entertainment Industry.
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Software
Here are some software products to consider for the live event and production industry.
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Eggshell Lighting Celebrates 50 Years
The Eggshell Lighting Company was started in Hawaii in 1974, by a 16 years old Jay Robert Harmon. Today, celebrating 50 years on, Eggshell is the premier lighting company in the islands state handling a range of projects. Harmon tells us how it began and shares some stories of the past 5 decades.
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Saving for your Future Self
What does your post-work future look like? A cottage by the bay, a cabin in the woods, or the freedom to travel without a fixed residence? Maybe the idea of retiring doesn’t resonate, or perhaps it’s something that you haven’t considered yet. Here’s some financial planning from Rachael Bronstein of Life’s Jam. This column is packed with a lot of advice since the music industry adds another layer of complexity to financial planning.
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Strait Video Directing; Lighting Lyle Lovett & Robert Earl Keen
Debi Moen gives us a rundown on who’s up to what and gets a glimpse into the view from the video director on being part of The King of Country: George Strait’s historic, record-breaking Kyle Field performance for the in-the-round stadium event.
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