Making Do with What’s On the Shelf
I’m a firm believer that just about any light fixture is worth something to a show. I like old conventional fixtures, especially weird stuff that… Read More »Making Do with What’s On the Shelf
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Syncrolite Gearing Up for Frankfurt with SyncroMITE Beam, Blue Box Ballast (B3) Offerings
[caption id="attachment_268539" align="alignnone" width="800"]Syncrolite's SyncroMITE Beam fixture[/caption]
DALLAS – Syncrolite will be featuring its SyncroMITE Beam fixture (pictured here) at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt along with its first new Strong product, the Blue Box Ballast (B3). Designed to be compatible with all past followspots, the B3 is a road ready upgrade for thousands for Strong followspots around the world. It is the first product to be developed since Syncrolite purchased the assets associated with Ballantyne Strong’s lighting business late last year.
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d3 4x4pro Media Servers Used for Large Format Projection on Island near Rio de Janeiro
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – For Ernst & Young Brasil’s lavish Entrepreneur of the Year award ceremony, staged on Ilha Fiscal, an island in Rio’s Guanabara Bay, organizers turned to Brazil-based Hoffmann for projection-mapped imagery that set the small island’s main structure, a Gothic Revival building, aglow. Hoffmann utilized a pair of d3 Technologies’ 4x4pro media servers to manage the projected digital content.
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Morris Offers 2016 Integration Roadshow for H.O.W. AVL Pros Across Southeast U.S.
NASHVILLE – Morris’ 2016 Integration Roadshow, targeting AVL professionals in the House of Worship market, will be making three stops in the Southeast this spring and summer: Birmingham, AL; Memphis, TN; and Jackson, MS. The Roadshow is free to attend and offers participants a day-long class featuring hands-on learning opportunities, a roundtable discussion, Morris’ preferred brands and a condensed version of one of Morris’ most popular courses, “Art and Science of Mixing,” taught by John Mills, Morris Education and Development Manager.
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Cole Swindell Tour Backed by Elite Multimedia Lighting, Video and Custom Cart Setup
NASHVILLE – James “Mo” Butts once again designed the looks for rising country star Cole Swindell, this time for the artist’s first big headlining tour. Butts turned to Elite Multimedia for a high-impact show with lighting, video and a custom set cart designed to fit within a single truck for travel. The video setup includes 32 FLEXLite 6.9mm LED Panels and two PixelFLEX SU-401 master controllers.
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Ultra Music Festival Kicks Off 2016 Outdoor Festival Season
MIAMI — Financial backers for some EDM festival organizers may not be in a mood to celebrate this year. (SFX Entertainment, now operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, was delisted from NASDAQ on Feb. 10.) But interest in EDM among festivalgoers still appears to be robust. General admission tickets for the Ultra Music Festival, held March 18-20 in Miami, sold out by late January. The event once again kicked off the warm-weather outdoor festival season and kept production crews busy fielding new gear. Pictured here, Ultra’s Main Stage, with BMFL and Pointe fixtures from Robe.
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Behind the Scenes Gets Charitable Boost at USITT
SALT LAKE CITY — At the 2016 USITT Show, held March 16-19, Rosco Laboratories presented their eighth annual royalty check from the sales of Roscolux #359 Medium Violet to Behind the Scenes (BTS). This year’s $3,200 brought the total contribution since this program began to $21,548. Pictured here, from left, are Todd Spencer, Rick Rudolph, Rosco’s Stan Miller, Lori Rubinstein and Mark Heiser. Others supporting BTS during the show included the Long Reach Long Riders ($15K) and A.C.T Lighting ($5K).
Read More »Attendee at Adele Concert in Scotland Injured in Rigging Accident
GLASGOW, Scotland — A woman attending the March 25 Adele concert at the 13,000-capacity SSE Hydro arena in Scotland was hit and injured by a length of chain that dropped from above during the show. The injured attendee was taken to the hospital “as a precaution,” according to a spokesperson for the venue. The chain that dropped appeared to be still hanging from the rigging after the accident, according to Facebook photos. Adele, who kept performing her two-hour set, unaware of the accident, found out about the mishap after the show.
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‘Love Is Red’ Christian Youth Conference Features Nexus 4×4 from Chauvet Professional
CANTON, OH – For the annual ‘Love Is Red’ Christian youth conference, held at Faith Family Church March 3-5, 2016, Aaron Cole, the church’s lighting designer and director, leveraged the pixel-mapping capabilities of Nexus 4×4 fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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Hitachi Kokusai SK-UHD8060 Super Hi-Vision Camera
Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) will exhibit at the 2016 NAB Show April 18-21 in Las Vegas. Exhibiting in booth C4309 at the show, Hitachi Kokusai will provide working demonstrations of their SK-UHD8060 Super Hi-Vision camera. The world’s first dockable 8K camera, the SK-UHD8060 is Hitachi Kokusai’s fourth-generation 8K production solution and is ideal for studio and outside broadcast (OB) applications.
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Toronto School of Circus Arts Relies on BroadWeigh Wireless System
TORONTO – Decker LaDouceur, owner and director of the Toronto School of Circus Arts, relied upon BroadWeigh wireless load cell monitoring system to determine the maximum dynamic loads placed on a structure during a bounce for a bungee act. Using BroadWeigh load cell monitoring, the school was able to get accurate readings of the weight load that the performer placed on their rigging hardware and support structure overhead.
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