CHAMPAIGN, IL — LD Tobias Rylander is using GLP’s impression X4 Bar 20 LED battens to light a variety of acts including British indie band The 1975. The Manchester, U.K. based group, currently touring in support of their latest album, I Like It When You Sleep, has been growing in popularity, scaling up from theatre-sized venues to full-size arenas on its 2016 gigs.
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MIDDLETON, WI– Like the Cavaliers and the Browns, Vincent Lighting Systems is a Cleveland institution. Unlike those franchises, Vincent has taken the straight – but still long – path to success. Founder Paul Vincent guides the company (commonly known as VLS) using a set of principles he is not afraid to publish: “We have always concentrated on lighting and have not shifted into audio, AV or staging. We have, however, lit an amazing number of bridges!” When, for the opening of football season, VLS changed the classic blue and white of the downtown high-level bridge to the orange of the Cleveland Browns, they got panicked phone calls telling them the bridge was on fire. Today the bridge is back to blue and white.
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OPA-LOCKA, FL – ADJ and DuraTruss/Global Truss America products will be featured at an open house event set for Nov. 17 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at ADJ Miami’s facilities in Opa-Locka in the Miami area. The event follows the recent launch of 13 new products at the LDI 2016 tradeshow in Las Vegas. Along with the opportunity to see the latest equipment firsthand, the event will feature a series of educational sessions as well as the debut of a new lightshow at ADJ’s Miami showroom.
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ElektraLite’s ML-902, which made its debut at the recent LDI 2016 show in Las Vegas, is a full-featured moving head profile spot fixture powered by a 120-watt cool white (6,500K) COB LED that promises an output equal to that of a 250-watt HMI discharge lamp. The brighter version of elektraLite’s ML-602 responds to customer feedback. It has an indexable seven-color wheel; two wheels (one fixed) each holding up to seven interchangeable gobos; a rotating three-way prism; a wide-range strobe with various features; and zoom, focus control, and fine (16-bit) pan and tilt along with digital dimming features. MSRPis $1,079.
INDIO, CA – Musical events like Desert Trip – back-to-back weekend concerts held October 7, 8, 9 and 14, 15, 16 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA, featuring classic rock music royalty – don’t happen every day. Promoted as “the concert of the century,” it generated ticket orders from every continent except Antarctica, with attendees travelling far and wide for a chance to see many of their favorite musicians play live together.
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CORBY, UK – The Illusive Festival, held in the rolling fields outside the Northamptonshire town of Corby in September, featured a main stage design by Simon Wallwork with visuals that included a giant, gyrating robot with a DJ booth in its belly. Over each shoulder of the robot and along its sides was an asymmetrically arranged collection of Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures from Chauvet Professional. Lighting designers Toby Lovegrove and Doug Alan Coppell used the Rogues to shoot rapidly moving and rotating beams of brightly colored light.
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AMSTERDAM – Belgium-based show design practice Painting with Light has created innovative and highly effective lighting and video content for the current tour by Hans Klok, the world’s Fastest Illusionist, who is presenting his grisly ‘House of Horror’ show. The spectacle, produced by Stardust Circus International, which combines the drama and theatrical gruesomeness of Gothic horror with quick witted and fantastic illusion art, was launched at the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where it enjoyed a successful seven-week run before going on the road.
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LONDON – Based in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Dream Laser has become the latest d3 Studio Partner. It joins partner studios around the world offering project advice, support, demos and visualization facilities to fulfil the needs of d3 clients.
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SAN BERNARDINO, CA — For the Nocturnal Wonderland music festival at the San Manuel Amphitheater and Grounds over Labor Day Weekend Sept. 2-4, SJ Lighting handled production design on four of the five stages using Elation fixtures supplied by Visions Lighting, AG Light & Sound and Felix Lighting.
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LAS VEGAS — Airstar, the France-based manufacturer and provider of inflatable structures and lighting balloons for the event industry, added to its Crystal product line with two new products, the Sunshade and Crystal White 50k lum. Both products were featured at the 2016 LDI Show.
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KOLDING, Denmark — Seeking an alternative to costlier, higher-maintenance and less flexible conventional lighting alternatives, the Danish town of Kolding hired ÅF Lighting, which provided a solution that included 38 of SGM’s IP65-rated P-2 LED fixtures to light the Koldinghus, a 700-year-old Danish castle.
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MONTREAL — Solotech named David Lemmink director of engineering for its Rental division. Lemmink has more than 30 years of industry experience as both a design engineer and touring technician for artists including U2, Paul McCartney, Prince and Bon Jovi.
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