SHELTON, CT and ROYAL OAK, MI — Lex Products, a supplier of power distros for 25+ years, and TM3 Systems Inc., a developer of “smart” power applications such as microgrids and hybrid power systems, are merging to form a new company, LexTM3 LLC. Bob Luther, founder of Lex Products, will serve as CEO.
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PHILADELPHIA – All around the Philadelphia area, organizations prepared for the largest and most historic event of the decade, The World Meeting of Families. One person, Pope Francis, took the stage in front of one million people to talk about faith, hope and prayer. Attendees gathered along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and surrounding areas that extended from City Hall to The Philadelphia Art Museum.
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EDINBURGH – Edinburgh based rental and event production specialists Blue Parrot have continued their investment in world class equipment across a busy summer. The company has now added a grandMA2 Light as the flagship desk for its lighting rental customers.
NASHVILLE – Keith Hoagland, lighting designer and director for Jason Aldean’s Burn It Down tour, included Rogue RH1 Hybrid fixtures from Chauvet Professional in the rig. The 90 Rogue fixtures are supplied by Bandit Lites.
MEXICO – The Premium Staff Group is a large rental and production facility based in Mexico City, founded 7 years ago and owned by Francisco Estrada, who is also a prolific Mexican music show promoter. Estrada started purchasing sound, lighting and video kit when he realized that his own concerts could benefit from higher production values – at more cost-efficient prices. Premium Staff has recently invested in 84 Robe Pointes, delivered by Robe’s very proactive Mexican distributor, Vari Internacional.
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ANN ARBOR, MI — On Friday Sept. 25, entertainment professionals gathered at TLS Productions, Inc. in Ann Arbor, Mich. for their second annual open house. Pictured here, from left, are attendees Doug Brown, president of DNJ Pro; Bryan Austwick, product specialist at DNJ Pro; Aaron Kashmer, purchasing at TLS Productions, and John Van Fange, customer development at The Light Source.
Read More »WINSTON-SALEM, NC – SES (Special Event Services) of Winston-Salem, NC and Nashville, TN has recently strengthened its Integration department through a complete overhaul. Formerly known as Design Build, SES Integration has taken on a new focus with a nationwide expansion. SES Integration is now based in Charlotte, NC with a West Coast office in Sacramento, CA. Support will continue to come from SES Live Production Headquarters in Winston-Salem, NC as well as SES’ Live Production service hub in Nashville, TN.
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – Impact Youth Camp is a two-week long church retreat that attracts high school and middle school students from churches from all over Texas. Over 1200 students attend, participating in seminars, group meals and praise and worship. The organizers of the event turned to DiTech A.V. of El Campo, TX to do the lighting, audio and video design and production.
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LONDON – West London based Entec Sound & Light supplied lighting, sound equipment, crew, plus their extensive knowledge and expertise of working in one of the UK’s best known venues – Wembley Arena – for a gig shot by the BBC for the third series of ‘Brian Pern : A Life In Rock’. The tongue-in-cheek tribute to aging rockers will be broadcast in Jan. 2016.
PARIS, France – Paris-based multimedia design collective, Danny Rose has won Silver in the Live Event VFX & Animation category at the AEAF Awards 2015 for their multimedia content created for Mechanized Color Assemblage, a work of project light art seen during Vivid Sydney earlier this year. Mechanized Color Assemblage was created in conjunction with Australian artist, Rebecca Baumann to transform the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia into a series of color and sound machines.
RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA — Iconic rock band Motley Crue is in the last leg of their two-year Final Tour, with fans enjoying many farewell appearances around the world. The band’s touring career will conclude for good in less than six months on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2015. Appropriately they’ll say their final goodbyes at Staples Center in Los Angeles — the city where the band’s career began some 34 years ago.
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