LOS ANGELES – Intelligent Lighting Creations (ILC) has become the first member of the dot2 Preferred Stocking Dealer program launched by A.C.T Lighting, Inc. The new program is open to select dealerships, which stock MA Lighting’s dot2 family of consoles and offer training and support on the systems. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America.
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ANTWERP, Belgium – For the annual Reverze hard dance music event, which drew close to 20,000 to Antwerp’s Sportpaleis and Lotto Arena on Feb. 27, Kristof van Mensel, Patrick Bellens and others from TCF collaborated on a visual design to tie in with the event’s main theme, Deception. Close to 250 Robe moving lights were in the rig, supplied by Phlippo Showlight.
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FRANKFURT – Zero 88 will be exhibiting at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt – Stand B50 in Hall 3. Featured products include the FLX8, part of the company’s FLX family of lighting consoles. Also showcased will be new Remote and Monitor apps for all ZerOS consoles on iOS and Android (pictured here). These new free apps deliver more accessible remote operation of ZerOS consoles via mobile devices, with each app having a specific function.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Morpheus Lights, exclusive U.S. distributor of Ayrton LED products, will exhibit at USITT 2016 Conference and Stage Expo at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City on March 17 thru 19. Morpheus is featuring the Ayrton NandoBeam S line of automated wash lights, along with the new DreamPanel Twin, CosmoPix R and MagicDot R fixtures.
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WASHINGTON, DC – For the 17th annual National ShamrockFest, held March 12 in RFK Stadium, more than 40,000 took part for a day filled with carnival rides, food, beer and music from 50 acts performing on seven stages. LD Zach Bunner of Show Time Sound (Frederick, MD) built his design for the festival’s two main stages around Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
Read More »LONDON – The National Event Lifting Certificate (NELC), a recent initiative from PLASA’s U.K.-based National Rigging Advisory Group (NRAG), was launched March 3 at the International Live Music Conference Production Meeting at the Copthorne Hotel, Kensington, London. Industry supporters of the NELC program including the BBC, White Light and Britannia Row.
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SANTIAGO, Chile — Iron Maiden’s Boeing 747 was grounded after the plane’s connection with towing vehicles failed and it collided with the support vehicles. The accident happened early on March 12. Band, crew and gear were not aboard the plane during the accident. Two airport employees were injured.
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BERLIN, Germany – Creative Technology (CT) named Michael Grabinski New Business Development Manager for Broadcast, Event, Sport and Live Entertainment. Grabinski will take responsibility for CT’s new office in Berlin-Brandenburg which is located on the Filmpark Babelsberg site in the Babelsberg FX Center.
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NASHVILLE – Guitarist and singer-songwriter Peter Frampton stripped down his rock sound for an acoustic recording session taped for an Audience Music Special, which aired March 4 on DirecTV and U-Verse. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the production which featured performances of “Show Me the Way,” “Baby I Love Your Way” and “Lines on My Face.”
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SINGAPORE – Singapore-based AIMS Productions (SG) Pte Ltd. has joined the growing roster of d3 Studios, boosting the number in the APAC region to three. As a d3 Studio AIMS offers a full d3 workflow as its in-house solution for pre-production and production of experiential multimedia for live events. d3 Technologies maintains a network of partner studios worldwide dedicated to helping fulfill customers’ d3 requirements, from consultation and support to client demos and more.
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