LAS VEGAS – Doughty Engineering, based in Ringwood, Hampshire, U.K> and Mount Juliet, TN, will be featuring its new Articulated Carriage at the LDI show this week. Visitors to stand 1946 will see the new product which Doughty has added to its Studio Rail 60 range and which has been designed with film, tv and theater in mind.
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INDIO, CA –– Desert Trip, a two-weekend, six-day extravaganza that ran from Oct. 7-9 and 14-16, featured top rockers including the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger Waters, and the Who. The event was produced by Goldenvoice, the company that runs Coachella and is owned by AEG, and took place on the same festival grounds, making the festival’s nickname, “Oldchella,” all but inevitable, given the average age of the rock legends performing there, most of whom started their careers in music more than 50 years ago. Syncrolite noted how its fixtures were used for Roger Waters’ visual design.
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IRVINE, CA — Jimmy Buffett’s “I Don’t Know Tour” ran from April 16 to Oct. 22 and featured a lighting design from LD Steve Hoover, who had designed and directed Buffett’s shows for years. On this trek, Bandit Lites supplied a rig that included Martin MAC 2000 Washes and MAC Auras, Vari*Lite VL 3000 and VL2500 Spots, Philips Showline SL Nitro LED strobes and GLP impression X4 S LED fixtures, with a grandMA1 Full for control.
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MINNEAPOLIS – On Sept. 18, the Minnesota Vikings kicked off their first home game of the 2016 NFL season at their newly constructed home field, the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. To honor the groundbreaking season opener, a special Minnesota themed halftime event was orchestrated to invigorate fans and bolster hometown pride. The plan was to pay tribute to late hometown popstar and lifelong Vikings fan, Prince. The halftime show tribute would include a visual montage of Prince’s career highlights projected digitally across the stadium field as the Minnesota Orchestra and gospel group, The Steeles performed Prince’s iconic hit, Purple Rain. Quince Imaging provided the in-stadium projections.
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LAS VEGAS – Zylight, a provider of LED lighting solutions, was named the exclusive distributor of the LDDE line of theatrical and specialty lighting in North and South America. Manufactured in Austria and known for high output and pinpoint control, LDDE lighting instruments are used at many of Europe’s theaters and opera houses. Co-exhibiting with distribution partner USHIO, Zylight will showcase the LDDE product line during LDI 2016 at booth 2329.
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DALLAS, TX – RMG is launching its MAX series of customizable LED display solutions for indoor and outdoor use. The new MAX series extends the company’s heritage in visual display solutions, which began more than 35 years ago when the company launched its first LCD display screens.
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LAVEEN, AZ — For the World Classic Rockers’ recent show performing hits from the late 1960s through the 1980s at the Corona Ranch and Rodeo Grounds outside of Phoenix, John Garberson, owners of Creative BackStage, deployed fixtures from Chauvet Professional including Rogue R2 washes, Maverick MK2 Spots and Strike 4 fixtures. The band performed on a Stageline 260 stage.
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LAS VEGAS — At LDI booth 1115, Philips Lighting will feature the new Showline SL LEDSpot 300 and Philips SL Hydrus 350 along with the new Philips Strand Lighting Softlight 150S and 300S television panels.
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LAS VEGAS —Christie is participating at LDI (Oct. 21-23) with presentations at its LDI booth on the exhibition floor. The company also sponsored the “Pixel & Projection Mapping Summit,” a seminar that took place Oct. 19-20 and focused on the difference between pixel and projection mapping techniques.
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LOS ANGELES – In order to adapt to a growing and changing Mexican market for entertainment technology, the ADJ Group is proud to announce the opening of a new distribution center facility near Mexico City that will serve all ADJ Group brands: ADJ, Elation Professional, Acclaim Lighting, Global Truss America/Duratruss and American Audio.
LAS VEGAS — The first of two big shows featuring the Rolling Stones at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena has been canceled, according to a statement on the band’s website. The show was to be staged the same night as the final debate between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on the campus of UNLV three miles away.
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LONDON – Spotrack, a new system that turns moving lights into followspots under the control of a human operator, is now appearing nightly as a key element of the lighting design for the acclaimed Shakespeare Trilogy, produced by Donmar Warehouse at a new temporary theatre in London’s King’s Cross. Four Spotrack systems are in use on the show, allowing four performers to be individually followed by four operators.
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