ADJ Inno Pocket Spot Twins
ADJ’s new Inno Pocket Spot Twins offers users two independently-controlled moving heads, separate color/GOBO wheels and a capacity for innovative dual-beam effects with one fixture.
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Prolyte Group Launches New Website
LEEK, The Netherlands – Experience the new website from Prolyte Group Prolyte is proud to announce the launch of its new website. Setting out to create a modern, full functional online platform to offer not only product information, but also inspiration and technical support, Prolyte aimed to reach out to its users by offering diverse yet relevant information for product as well as technical aspects.
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Blizzard Lighting LB-Par Quad RGBW
Blizzard Lighting’s RGBW 4-in-1 LED PAR can is designed to meet the needs of mobile DJs, working bands or for permanent installation within a variety of venues. The fixture has 12 10W LEDs with features including scratch resistant composite housing with dual mounting brackets for flexible positioning.
Read More »Super Bowl Halftime Show Features GLP X4 Bar 20, X4 XL Fixtures
GLENDALE, AZ – GLP’s X4 Bar 20 LED batten made an auspicious debut – at the Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show Feb. 1, 2015. For the duration of the 12 minute segment, at which Katy Perry headlined, LD Bob Barnhart (of Full Flood) used 12 of the new X4 Bar 20 fixtures along with 16 GLP impression X4 XL fixtures.
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Solomon Group Supports “AT&T Playoff Playlist Live” in Dallas
DALLAS – During the inaugural College Football Playoff in North Texas, Solomon Group was tasked with producing championship weekend’s premier concert series. AT&T Playoff Playlist Live was staged at American Airlines Center in Dallas and featured back-to-back nights of entertainment headlined by Lenny Kravitz Jan. 10 and Sting Jan. 11, just prior to the big game itself on Jan. 12 in AT&T Stadium, home to the Dallas Cowboys. The Ohio State Buckeyes beat the Oregon Ducks 42-20.
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Solotech Provides New Scoreboard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal
MONTREAL, Canada – Solotech provided the new scoreboard for Olympic Park stadium here. The new scoreboard features a 16mm pixel pitch LED display measuring 33.4 by 9.4 meters (WxH) – 3,380 square feet in all. The new screen, one of the largest in Canada, replaces two smaller screens installed in 1992. Along with the scoreboard, Solotech supplied and installed an electrical distribution system, a fiber video distribution system, image processors and a sports scoring system.
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Visions of Austria Projected Onto Opera House “Sails” near Sydney Harbor
SYDNEY, Australia – Technical Direction Company (TDC) did its part to bring together the similar-sounding (but wildly differing) nations of Austria and Australia with Visions of Vienna – a large-format projection of imagery from Vienna on the “sails” of the iconic Sydney Opera House. The multi-media artistic project was a collaboration between the Vienna Tourist Board and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
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LDs Taking Broadway’s “Cinderella” On Tour Get Assist from FocusTrack
NEW YORK – Following a successful run on Broadway, a touring version of Rodgers+Hammerstein’s Cinderella is hitting the road. LD Kenneth Posner and associate lighting designer John Viesta made some changes to the New York design for the road, switching the side ladder moving lights from Martin MAC 2000s to Vari*Lite VL3500s and replacing the overhead VL2500 Wash lights with LED par cans. They got an assist with that transition from FocusTrack.
Read More »LD Patrick Kramer Lights BLØF Show in Amsterdam with Robe Fixtures
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – For Dutch rock act BLØF’s recent show at Amsterdam’s 17,000 capacity Ziggo Dome, LD Patrick Kramer used more than 200 Robe moving lights. Included in the rig: 26 of Robe’s new BMFL Spots.
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WorldStage Gears Up for 4K Clients with d3 Technologies Media Servers, Barco E2 System
NEW YORK – WorldStage continues to expand its equipment inventory with the purchase of several new d3 Technologies media servers. The company now has d3 4×4 PRO servers and d3 4×2 PRO servers to supplement their existing d3 4U v2.5 units. Along with these recent acquisitions, WorldStage has been gearing up to support clients’ 4K needs with a Barco E2 presentation system.
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Elation Sponsors One-Day Entertainment Electrics Course Led by Richard Cadena
LOS ANGELES – Elation is offering a course in entertainment electrics led by Richard Cadena. Part of the company’s Elation Educational Experience (E3) program, the course will cover basic and advanced topics relating to entertainment stage lighting and video electrics, power distribution and control systems. It will be held March 24 at the Elation’s Los Angeles-area headquarters.
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LD James Schipper Uses Nexus 4x4s for NBC Comcast Conference After Party
GLENDALE, CA – For an after-party accompanying a recent NBC Comcast conference on the future of television titled “What’s Next,” James Schipper of Kinetic Lighting wanted something special to draw attention to the stage. Schipper got the look he was seeking with a massive diagonally slanted overhang array of high-output Nexus 4×4 LED panels from Chauvet Professional.
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