NASHVILLE – Japanese alt-rock back One OK Rock recently wrapped a January run in North America promoting their new album Ambitions with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites and designed by Jesse Henke. The band, comprised of Takahiro Moriuchi, Toru Yamashita, Ryota Kohama and Tomoya Kanki are known for their stellar vocals, energetic performances and diehard fans who turn out in incredible numbers.
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HELIOS, Tx. – The Axis XTRA 17R is the newest addition to the Mega-Lite Axis family. Housing a 350 watt 17R lamp, the fixture has a very strong output for long throw applications. The unit is equipped with 14 gobos plus open and 14 colors plus open. Additional effects include a 16-facet rotating prism in both directions, electronic focus, a frost filter, and an easy to navigate touch screen LCD display.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN— Nationwide Video, is pleased to announce the opening of its newest major market location. Starting on February 15th, our Chicago location will be up and running, taking orders and ready to support clients in this key event city and its surrounding areas. The expansion will offer event stagers in the Chicagoland area faster and more convenient access to our diverse inventory of Pro AV equipment including projection, LED, lighting, audio, cameras, digital displays, computers, monitors, switching and routing, media servicers and much more.
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LAS VEGAS, NV – Morpheus Lights, the exclusive distributor of Ayrton LED luminaires in the US market, is pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Celner as Business Development Manager. Tom is based in Chicago, and will assist Morpheus’ sales and management team in expanding and diversifying our clientele.
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NEW YORK – Billed as the world’s leading creativity conference, Adobe MAX 2016 drew more than 10,000 attendees, its biggest general session audience ever, to the San Diego Convention Center. A huge video display took center stage at Adobe MAX 2016 where WorldStage demonstrated its projection mapping expertise for the fifth consecutive year and for the first time in a full-4K environment. The size and scale of the video mapping element significantly outpaced the previous year’s event where WorldStage’s Christie Boxer 4K projectors made their Adobe MAX debut.
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NOTTINGHAM, UK – Since opening its doors in 1980, Nottingham’s 2,500-capacity Rock City has showcased some of biggest names in music. Last year, the iconic club won its 10th consecutive Kerrang! Award as Venue of the Year. However, even legends need to upgrade their visual presentation. Recognizing this, the club decided to upgrade its lighting system. To accomplish this, its lighting technician Mark Merry specified an array of CHAUVET Professional fixtures, including 24 PVP S5 LED panels, 12 Rogue RH1 Hybrid moving heads, and 8 COLORdash Batten-Quad 6 LED strips.
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LOS ANGELES – Country music star Brantley Gilbert has launched The Devil Don’t Sleep tour playing arenas in North America through early spring in the first leg. The tour supports Gilbert’s new album of the same name. Nathan Alves and Howard Jones co-designed the show, which features Claypaky Scenius, Mythos2, Sharpy and Stormy Strobe fixtures as well as grandMA2 light consoles.
Bittree’s new 12G+ BNC Coaxial Bulkhead Patch Panel series and 12G+ Mini-WECO (Midsize) Coaxial Patchbay products promise high-bandwidth performance for SD-SDI, HD-SDI, UHD-SDI, HDR, 4K and 8K single-link video applications. The new 12G+ offerings will be showcased alongside other Bittree products at NAB 2017, booth SU6221.
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PRETORIA, South Africa — For Afrikaans is Groot, a multi-artist music spectacular, Joshua Cutts of Visual Frontier and Chris Bolton of Keystone Productions teamed up for a lighting design that made use of close to 160 Robe moving lights, including the company’s new Spiider and Spikie fixtures..
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DUBAI — Featuring what has been called the world’s largest multimedia experience within a retail setting, Dubai’s City Walk invites crowds into a 922,500-square-foot area animated with 33 video servers sending 100 million pixels of digital content. Montreal-based XYZ Cultural Technology says it not only served as a technological partner to content designers Float4 for the project, but also played a key role in coordinating the efforts from contractors arriving from 10 different countries around the world.
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BANFF, Alberta, Canada — To light the recently opened Banff Gondola Terminal for maximum visitor eye appeal while keeping energy consumption to a minimum, LD Josh Starr’s design called for ETC Source Four Mini fixtures and Selador Desire D22 track-mount units. Christie Lites supplied the gear, and Michael Pyatt of GES served as project manager for the design team.
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SYRACUSE, NY – A new president, secretary, vice presidents of commissions and six directors were chosen in the most recent USITT Board of Directors Election. The board oversees leadership of USITT, the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, the national non-profit for performing arts design and technology professionals. USITT’s President-Elect, Dan Culhane, will begin his three-year term as president beginning June 30, 2018.
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