NORTH AMERICA – Seven standards are posted for public review on the PLASA North America’s TSP website. Some are reaffirmations of existing standards, some are withdrawals of existing standards, and some (the BSRs) are drafts of new standards. Comments are due before the end of the day on the date shown.
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NASHVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites noted that some of its clients, including Little Big Town and Miranda Lambert, made it to the winner’s circle at the recent 49th Annual CMA Awards. The ceremony was staged at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Pictured here is a recent tour photo of Miranda Lambert from her 2015 Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars Tour, lit by LD Chris Lisle.
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FRANCE – The curtains have reopened in style at Paris’s legendary Le Lido cabaret venue carried by Triple E tracks and motors. The famous Lido on the Champs-Élysées closed at the end of 2014 for renovation, which included remodeling the ceiling and installing new track systems. The venue now boasts a brand new show created by Dragone, the cultural creation company founded by Italian-Belgian theatre director Franco Dragone, who also directed the show.
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AUSTRIA – At this year’s Lake Festival in Austria, Laserfabrik used four RTI NANO RGB 30 laser systems together with Lasergraph DSP controllers for covering the whole venue and creating spectacularly colored effects.
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USA – There are many variations of extreme sports, and they fascinate fans all over the globe. However, there’s another facet to this industry and that’s the individuals that actually film these athletes in some of the most inhospitable environments. Such is the case for Darklight, a film by director Mike Brown and producer Zac Ramras of Sweetgrass Productions
Read More »FREMONT, CA – Geek&Sundry is using Blackmagic Studio Camera HDs, Pocket Cinema Cameras and ATEM switcher technology to broadcast all of its daily Twitch programs. Geek&Sundry’s weekly broadcast schedule includes the multi camera live broadcast of 10 different shows, which are streamed live over Twitch to hundreds of thousands of followers and subscribers Monday through Friday.
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NASHVILLE– As event organizers for the 2015 Miss Florida and Miss Teen Florida pageant prepared to host the annual competition, Trenton Dick was asked to help give the show a fresh look. Since the pageant had been using the same set pieces over previous competitions, Dick suggested the introduction of an HD LED video wall. With everyone on board, Dick turned to Nashville-based PixelFLEX and decided to bring the FLEXCurtain HD video wall into the Mahaffey Theater.
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TORONTO – LumenRadio presented A.C. Lighting Inc. with its Distributor of the Year Award for outstanding performance in 2015. A.C. Lighting Inc. is the exclusive LumenRadio distributor to the North American market and provides the full product portfolio to its extensive customer base. Since being appointed in August 2014, the company has firmly established LumenRadio in its sales territory.
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WALLERN, Austria, – AV Stumpfl, a leading manufacturer of show control, multimedia and screen technology, opend a new headquarters facility recently and also named Tobias Stumpfl, pictured here (right) CEO.
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WILMINGTON, DE – One of the largest rental houses in the United States, Main Light Industries of Wilmington, Delaware, has added a large quantity of Elation Professional lighting equipment to its inventory, a purchase that includes the award-winning Platinum FLX™ hybrid moving head and products in Elation’s new ACL Series™ of narrow-beam LED effect lights.
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NIGMEGEN, The Netherlands – Doornroosje (Sleeping Beauty), a live music venue in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, has performance spaces with capacities for 1,100 and 400 revelers. Director of Lighting Robbie van Reen, who has worked full time for the venue since 2009, oversaw the installation of Robe fixtures in both spaces. The main room added 12 MMX Wash Beams, 16 MMX Spots, 14 LEDWash 800s and two more LEDWash 300s to the six already there, for a total of eight. The smaller room has been equipped with LED fixtures, including 8 DLF Washes, 14 DLX Spots and six LEDWash 600s. van Reen is pictured here, at right, with Jeroen van Aalst from Robe’s Benelux distributor Controllux on the left.
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NEW YORK – The Mallorca, Spain-based company, Airstage, which has a production facility near Stuttgart, Germany, says its radio-controlled, helium-based Airstage AirOrbs are taking flight in venues around the world, including Radio City Music Hall as part of this year’s Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Flight control for the lighter-than-air orbs can be programmed or manual, and a soft propeller design lets event organizers use them without a net.