LONDON – LD Steven Bewley chose Claypaky’s Mythos2 luminaire for British Grime artist Stormzy’s recent U.K. tour. Bewley, who has worked with rap artists such as Dizzee Rascal and Tinie Tempah, was head-hunted by Stormzy after the rapper saw the designer’s work for fellow artist Wretch 32.
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LONDON – For Shawn Mendes’ “Illuminate” tour leg through Europe from late April to early June, production design firm Okulus worked with creative director Paul Caslin and 24/7 Productions on a visual design that included the use of Hippotizer Boreals and Taigas to feed imagery to a 1920 x 640 curved, 9mm LED wall. The visuals were triggered via timecode, and the team also integrated the video director’s live camera feeds into the content. The tour resumes for a series of North American dates from July 6 (Portland, OR) to Aug. 23 (Boston).
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LANCING, U.K. – The Wild Life Festival, staged June 9-10 at Shoreham Airport (AKA Brighton City Airport) on the U.K.’s south coast, was one of more than 50 events that lighting and video rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment will be supporting this year. Wild Life, organized by SJM and curated by dance artists Rudimental and Disclosure, is now in its third year.
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SKANDERBORG, Denmark – For Danish singer songwriter Rasmus Walter’s 2017 tour, which includes Smukfest 2017 in Skanderborg, Denmark in early August, LD Martin Holst designed a floor-based and cost-effective lighting / set package that includes 24 Robe picklePATT fixtures and six BMFL Blades.
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ROME – British EDM act Clean Bandit are touring the U.K. and Europe this summer with a lighting design that includes 18 Solaris Flare Q+ fixtures. LD/programmer Liam Griffiths is using diffusers to hide the LED sources for a smoother look for the cameras.
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LONDON – Charlotte Lockyer, head of controls for rentals at Tait, was named Technician of the Year at the ABTT Theatre Show, which took place June 6-7 at Alexandra Palace in north London.
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LOS ANGELES – For Nintendo’s 2017 booth at E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017, organized by the Entertainment Software Association and held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 13-15), Ralph Miller Productions and lighting and visual design studio Lightswitch once again turned to 4Wall LA for an extensive lighting package consisting of more than 500 fixtures.
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NEWARK, DE — The University of Delaware recently upgraded its main auditorium, 650-capacity Mitchell Hall, with Martin fixtures. Stephen Litterst, technical operations supervisor, chose the MAC Quantum Profile for its reliability, versatility and low-noise operation.
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Blackmagic Design’s Blackmagic Camera Control, a free iPad app that lets customers remotely control their URSA Mini Pro cameras via Bluetooth, is now available, along with Camera 4.4 Update for URSA Mini Pro cameras. The new Blackmagic Camera Control app is based on the open protocol for URSA Mini Pro cameras that Blackmagic Design demonstrated at NAB earlier this year.
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NASHVILLE – For Jason Aldean’s current 33-city “They Don’t Know” road show, Chris Lisle’s brawny and colorful lighting design gets a big assist from Chauvet Professional fixtures. The gear list includes 118 Rogue RH1 Hybrid moving fixtures supplied by Bandit Lites. The Rogues, along with a collection of over 150 other luminaires, are all used to accent the hexagonal-shaped theme of Lisle’s design.
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RIMINI, Italy – An example of “calm before the storm” can be found on the Rimini beach in Italy, where Litec is constructing their Libera series Alusfera II roof for upcoming concerts to be held during the Summer Beach Arena event. Running from June 24-30, the Summer Beach Arena concert series features live and DJ sets by national and international artists from sunset until late in the evening.
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ROUGE, Estonia – To illuminate the 30-meter-high Pesapuu (Nest Tree) Watchtower in Rõuge, Estonia, the company that built the structure designed by Tallinn based architect Karmo Tõra, Roadservice, specified Robe fixtures, including 12 LEDForce 18 LED PARs and six Anolis ArcSource Outdoor 4MCs. Tallinn-based E&T, Robe’s Estonian distributor, handled the order.
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