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Avolites Arena console rocks for Dutch rock Giants Kensington

Avolites Arena console rocks for Dutch rock Giants Kensington

[caption id="attachment_278453" align="alignnone" width="800"]Kensington gets aid from Avo[/caption]

NETHERLANDS – An Avolites Arena console was recently used as part of an extensive Avolites lighting control network for Dutch rock giants Kensington, at Pinkpop, the world’s longest-running pop festival, in Landgraaf, Netherlands. The Arena console was supplied by Belgium-based rental company, Phlippo, to the band’s lighting designer Jop Kuipers. Fairlight supplied two Titan Network Processors (TNP) and an Optical Titan Network Switch (TNS), whilst Kuipers brought in his personal Titan Mobile console as backup.

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Curvaceous Solutions from WI for FINA OC

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BUDAPEST – A spectacular Opening Ceremony in downtown Budapest marked the start of the 17th FINA World Aquatic Championships, with 14 days of world class aquatic sports following the elegant, eye-catching event directed by Olivier Feracci from French event production specialist ECA2 and Hungarian film director Csaba Kael, CEO of cultural hub Mupa Budapest. WIcreations was contacted by Guillaume Duflot from EC2A, responsible for delivering full technical production for the event, and asked to provide rigging and structures involving a number of bespoke black-steel elements, together with their extensive expertise and knowledge of working in large scale outdoor environments. 

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Robe Goes with the Flow at FINA World Championships Opening Ceremony

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BUDAPEST – The 17th FINA World Aquatic Championships took place in Budapest, Hungary with 14 days of aquatic sports following a vibrant, colorful, elegant and epic Opening Ceremony directed by Olivier Feracci from French event production specialist ECA2 and Hungarian film director Csaba Kael, CEO of cultural hub Mupa Budapest. Lighting designer Frédéric “Aldo” Fayard from Concept K in Paris specified over 400 moving lights for the event, 80 per cent of which were Robes.

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ESTA Proposed Standards News

Six ESTA Standards in Public Review

NEW YORK – Six standards are available for public review. Five of the six have comment deadlines on Sept. 25, 2017, The deadline for one of the six is a week later, Oct. 2. People materially affected by these standards are invited to review them and to comment on them, saying they are acceptable as they are or are in need of changes.

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The brand-new Source Four drew visitors to ETC's booth at LDI in 1992.

25 Years of the ETC Source Four Fixture

MIDDLETON, WI – This November marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Source Four fixture at ETC. Between now and the 2017 LDI tradeshow, ETC noted that they will be taking a look back at this product that has become such a major part of ETC’s story, the fixture that has made a long-lasting impact on the entertainment lighting industry, and the product that has inspired many additional ETC fixtures.

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Chroma-Q Inspire XT

Chroma-Q Inspire XT

Chroma-Q’s Inspire  XT features fully homogenized beam, theatrical grade dimming and convection cooling more than 9,500 hot lumens output. Homogenized optics allow for a single output beam designed to be clean, pure and uniform. Factory calibration helps ensure that every Inspire’s output is color matched.

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iWeiss' oldest ProPower Rack Power Distribution (RPD) rack has been in continuous service for 17 years

iWeiss Theatrical Solutions Lauds Reliability of ProPower Products

FAIRVIEW, NJ – At iWeiss, ProPower means continuity in more ways than one. Their oldest ProPower Rack Power Distribution (RPD) rack has been in continuous service for 17 years, in the most challenging and hostile theatrical conditions. With over 1,500 ProPower racks in service across North America, the story of this reliable workhorse product is worth telling.

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Claypaky Mythos and other fixtures lit up a Utah alfalfa field. The lights could be seen by passengers in planes flying overhead.

WestJet Sets World Records with 21st Birthday Light Effects Featuring Claypaky Mythos

COLORADO CITY, UT – When WestJet Airlines Ltd., Canada’s second-largest air carrier and the number one international carrier into Las Vegas, wanted to celebrate its 21st birthday, the company decided to go all out and set some Guinness World Records in the process.  WestJet treated passengers on one of its Toronto-Las Vegas flights to a massive light show in southern Utah featuring 126 Claypaky Mythos fixtures.  A.C.T Lighting Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Claypaky products in North America.

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Brandon Baruch Captures Hollywood Fringe Festival Spirit with Chauvet Professional

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LOS ANGELES – A current of emerging creative energy runs through the 1.4 mile (2.3 km) stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard known as Hollywood Theatre Row. Dotted with performance venues of varying sizes, the area has long served as a cauldron of budding talent. George Clooney got his start here – so too did Octavia Spencer, Noah Wyle, and many others. For three weeks every year, Theatre Row and its surrounding environs become the home of The Hollywood Fringe Festival, an open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community.

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Robe Lights Scuttlers at RADA

[caption id="attachment_278427" align="alignnone" width="800"]Scuttlers plays at RADA in London[/caption]

LONDON – The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) staged the London premiere of Scuttlers in its city center GBS Theatre, an intense drama about the struggles and power politics of 19th century Manchester street gangs set against a steaming, grinding industrial revolution backdrop bringing massive social change and great uncertainty. The work was written by Rona Munro in response to the UK’s unsettling spate of urban riots in 2011. Directed by Hannah Eidinow, the production was lit by Declan Randall, a South African theatre lighting specialist living in the UK, who made use of a number of different Robe fixtures available at RADA.

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