Blizzard Lighting’s mini cube-shaped moving head, Snake Eyes Mini, brings the features of Blizzard’s larger Snake Eyes fixtures into a more compact package. Features include six 10-Watt CREE RGBW 4-in-1 LEDs with a 9° beam angle. The Snake Eyes Mini is also lined with 12 controllable RGB strips, and the compact fixture moves with 630°/540° pan and infinite tilt.
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TITUSVILLE, FL – The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex decked the halls last Christmas with a Holidays in Space theme from December 2015 through January 2016. The 223-foot long Saturn 1B rocket located in the open air Rocket Garden served as a giant 6,528 by 1,050-pixel projection surface. AV Stumpfl gear was included in the setup, which made use of 80,000 lumens of projected light.
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BUFORD, GA – Analog Way opened its new headquarters for the Americas in Buford, GA, which is in Gwinnett County outside Atlanta. The 15,000 square-foot facility, located at 3047 Summer Oak Place in Buford, will house operations for the company’s staff devoted to sales, administration, finance, IT, technical support and product repair, and also includes a warehouse for the company’s products. The company’s new HQ for the Americas comes after 13 years of focusing its U.S. operations in NYC.
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LONDON – Singer / songwriter Foxes (Louisa Rose Allen), whose vocals were featured on “Clarity” by Zedd, recently toured the U.K. with a new lighting design created by Jake Vernum. Working with LD Cate Carter of Bryte Design, the lighting looks relied upon Robe fixtures included five LEDWash 1200s, six Pointes and six LEDBeam 100s. At larger venues such as London’s Roundhouse, the tour rig was complemented by house-supplied lighting including additional Robe moving lights.
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HOUSTON -– The 2016 NCAA March Madness Music Festival, offering three days of music April 1-3 to Houston’s Discovery Green just prior to the April 4 final matchup between Villanova and North Carolina, drew huge crowds with a roster of headliners that included Maroon 5, Fall Out Boy and Pitbull, among others. John Dickson of LD Systems in Houston worked with Turner Live Events to create the rig with programming done by individual band LDs. Throughout the festival, the high-impact show gained energy from the rapid movements of the rig’s 32 Next NXT-1 moving LED panels from Chauvet Professional.
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LONDON – For the annual Classical Spectacular at London’s Royal Albert Hall March 17-20, LD Durham Marenghi used a symphony of Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpy, Sharpy Wash, Alpha Spot HPE 1500 and Alpha Spot HPE 700 fixtures to create a dynamic lighting show. Put on by the legendary classic music promoter Raymond Gubbay, the dramatic overtures were complemented by cannons, guns and 2,000 indoor fireworks, which brought the show to a thundering finale.
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LOS ANGELES – The MAC Axiom Hybrid U.S. Launch Tour will bring new gear from Martin Professional to eight U.S. cities in May and June. Starting in Los Angeles, the tour continues to Las Vegas, Dallas, Nashville, TN, Atlanta, Chicago, Wilmington, DE and ends in New York City. Featured products include Martin’s MAC Axiom Hybrid, which was also showcased at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany earlier this month.
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NORWALK, CT – Tony Award-winning production manager and founder of Aurora Productions, Gene O’Donovan, joined Theatre Projects’ staff recently as part of the company’s ongoing guest speaker series. Theatre Projects’ speaker series invites accomplished performing arts professionals to share their insights, history, and philosophy, and engage in a back-and-forth conversation with staff in order to better understand the challenges they’ve faced, the facilities they operate in, and the trajectory of the performing arts.
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TORONTO – Robe North America named John Bilyk as its Canadian Sales Manager, effective immediately. Bilyk has enjoyed a long and successful career in the entertainment lighting market working for numerous leading companies including most recently a 15 year stint as the Canadian Sales Manager for Dallas-based Vari-Lite. Pictured here, from left, are Josef Valchar, Robe s.r.o. CEO & Founder; John Bilyk; Bob Schacherl, CEO, Robe North America; and Harry von den Stemmen, Robe s.r.o. Sales Director.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – Visual production expert FIX8Group has been adding to its rental inventory under the direction of the company’s Technical Director, Nick Charalampidis. Charalampidis, who has been with FIX8Group since early 2013, is now responsible for enhancing the division’s dry hire inventory with industry-leading products, carefully selected to suit almost all requirements.
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KORTRIJK, Belgium – Barco noted April 28, 2016 that Eric Van Zele, CEO, plans to retire later this year and that Jan De Witte, a former corporate officer of the General Electric Company, will serve as CEO of Barco. De Witte will join Barco’s Core Leadership Team in June 2016 to effectively take over as CEO on Oct. 1, 2016. Van Zele will continue to serve on the Board of Directors to ensure continuity of leadership and strategic focus for the company.
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INDIO, CA – Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting added an extra dimension to the DJ booth at the Yuma tent during the 17th Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival by using Geyser RGB LED foggers from CHAUVET DJ. The DMX-controlled foggers released their jet-like plumes at critical times during performances by the likes of DJ Koze, John Digweed, George Fitzgerald, Black Coffee and The Black Madonna.
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