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Bandit Lites Named Lighting Company Of The Year

Strickland Accepts Award

Bandit Lites Named Lighting Company Of The Year

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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – Bandit Lites is celebrating another remarkable year as it was once again named Lighting Company of the Year at the 16th Annual Parnelli Awards. Hosted by Grammy nominated composer/guitarist Andrew Below, the yearly gala took place October 22 at the Rio Resort and Casino in Las Vegas during LDI. In addition to being nominated every year since the awards inception in 2001, this year’s win marks the sixth time Bandit has been awarded the Parnelli and the 25th overall Lighting Company of the Year award for the company.

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Rose Brand Inc. Posts Blog Article on How to Clean Curtains, Cycs and Nettings

SECAUCUS, NJ– Our customers often wonder how to clean their curtains, cycs and nettings, and so we created a blog article to instruct them. The article describes how cleaning is important to maintain the look of soft goods products, but also to maintain their flame retardancy. When dealing with natural fiber fabrics (cotton, cotton/poly blends, linen, jute, silk) dry cleaning is a good option since it will help preserve the flame resistant qualities of treated fabric. However, the effectiveness of the FR chemical may diminish with each session of dry cleaning.

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Christie Projectors Light Up QUANTUM: The Exhibition at THEMUSEUM in Downtown Kitchener

KITCHENER, Ontario – Christie® projectors are bringing quantum science to life in a new exhibit at THEMUSEUM in downtown Kitchener, Ontario. QUANTUM shares the wonders of the quantum world and emerging quantum technologies with attendees. Part of the exhibition, the introductory experience, features six Christie Captiva 1DLP® laser phosphor projectors, which set the stage for visitors entering the exhibition by providing an immersive space that reminds them that the world is not as it seems. QUANTUM: The Exhibition will run from October 14, 2016 – January 1, 2017, and then depart on a Canada-wide tour throughout 2017.

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Robe wins Parnelli for Indispensable Technology

Robe Enjoys Busy Award Winning LDI

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LAS VEGAS – Robe enjoyed an action-packed LDI expo in Las Vegas, this year all the more memorable for collecting a coveted 2016 Parnelli award in the ‘Indispensable Lighting Technology’ category for the hugely successful BMFL WashBeam luminaire. Robe highlighted two brand new products for the first time at a U.S. exhibition – the Spiider LED wash beam – “the next big thing” from the Czech manufacturer, and Halo, an ingenious new LED ‘pixel technology’ device. Also new was the Spikie, a small, super-fast LED wash beam.

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Insomniac's Dreamstate event in Melbourn, Australia used Hog 4-driven Shapeshifters

Insomniac’s Dreamstate in Melbourne, Australia Makes Use of HES Shapeshifters with Hog 4 Control

MELBOURNE, Australia – American dance promoter Insomniac Events, the company behind the enormous Electric Daisy Carnival, teamed up with locals Symbiotic to bring its trance brand Dreamstate to Melbourne’s Hisense Arena on October 1 for a night of deep grooves and euphoric melodies, served up by Paul van Dyk, John O’Callaghan, Rank 1, Sneijder, Genix B2B Sunny Lax, and Mark Sixma. At the heart of Matt Chromatic’s design were High End Systems Shapeshifters.

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Clark Williams

Christie Forms Content Management and Processing (CMP) Group, Names Clark Williams Executive VP

CYPRESS, CA – Christie announced the formation of a new Content Management and Processing (CMP) led by newly named executive vice president Clark Williams. The new group encompasses the company’s content management and processing products, including Christie Spyder, Christie Phoenix, Christie Brio and Christie Pandoras Box. Williams will oversee CMP engineering and product management staff in Kitchener, Ontario; Phoenix, AZ and Cologne, Germany. He rejoins Christie after working as an industry consultant. Prior to that, he was president of Vista Controls Systems, which was acquired by Christie in 2007 and which Williams headed for several years at Christie. Also part of Williams’s team is Victor Vettorello, who has experience at both Christie and Vista Controls Systems.  He rejoins Christie as senior applications specialist for the upcoming Christie Spyder X80 debut.

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Roscolux #359 – the Color that Keeps on Giving

LAS VEGAS – On the show floor at LDI today, Rosco Laboratories presented a check for $4,500 from the sales of Roscolux #359 Medium Violet to Behind the Scenes, the charity that assists entertainment technology professionals in need due to serious illness or injury. This year’s contribution brings the total contributions from Roscolux #359 to BTS to $21,000.

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Blizzard Lighting Skybox Chroma

Blizzard Lighting’s SkyBox Chroma features dual-layered, separately controlled, six-in-one LEDs. The fixture has three 15W RGBAW+UV LEDs on the bottom and six 15W RGBAW+UV LEDs up top — nine 15W RGBAW+UV LEDs in all. The fixtures also come with a 2.4Ghz built-in wireless DMX receiver, long-life, Intelion lithium ion battery system with three user selectable power output modes and quiet variable-speed internal fan for cooling.

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From left, Elation's Proteus Beam and Proteus Hybrid fixtures

Elation’s Proteus Series Brings it Outside

Elation Professional’s new Proteus line of IP-rated moving lights, featured at LDI 2016 in Las Vegas, incorporate years of R&D to help LDs bring their designs outside into the elements. The line of moving lights will include compact, robust and budget-friendly moving fixtures. Pictured here, from left, are the Proteus Beam and Proteus Hybrid fixtures. The Beam has a 14R arc lamp and the Hybrid has a 21R bulb. Both are IP 65 rated for water resistance. They are expected to start shipping in January.

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