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Lighting Display at Morton Arboretum Includes Clay Paky Mythos Fixtures

Illumination - The Lights at The Morton Arboretum photo by Benjamin Roy

Lighting Display at Morton Arboretum Includes Clay Paky Mythos Fixtures

LISLE, IL – The lighting setup for the annual display, Illumination: The Lights at The Morton Arboretum in suburban Chicago, included a new fixture this year: the recently-introduced Mythos from Clay Paky. The fixtures are mounted in Igloo domes and illuminate custom water features in the arboretum’s Meadow Lake.  “They have more punch and more functionality for the show, including the ability to zoom in and out and go even bigger with the prism effect,” noted Matt Pearlman, senior account executive with Intelligent Lighting Creations (ILC).

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Light Night Leeds Projections Include Visuals Processed by d3 Technologies Gear

Light Night Leeds Includes Visuals Processed by d3 Technologies Gear

LEEDS, UK – Omni Pictures used d3 for the first time on its Theatre of Illumination light show, a white light projection mapping of Leed’s iconic Civic Hall. “d3 really came into it’s own in the mapping for me: the fine tuning and edge blending between all the sources was superb. We had a limited amount of time to get setup, only one night before, and without d3 I don’t think we could have realized it,” said director Will Simpson.

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2014 CLIO Genius Visionary Awards

LD Rob Strohmeier Lights CLIO Awards Event with 4Wall-Supplied Rig

NEW YORK – Tasked with lighting two events over two nights on a limited budget, LD Rob Strohmeier turned to 4Wall New York for the equipment needed for the 2014 CLIO Genius Visionary Awards (pictured here) and the CLIO Awards after party the following night.  4Wall provided ETC Source Four Ellipsoidals, Chroma-Q Color Force 12 units, TMB’s Solaris Flare, Martin MAC Auras and Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures.

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ShowDome at Earth Science Center in Scotland Gets Upgrade from Electrosonic

ShowDome at Earth Science Center in Scotland Gets Upgrade from Electrosonic

EDINBURGH, Scotland – The ShowDome at Our Dynamic Earth (ODE) in Edinburgh has been transformed with support from Electrosonic, which provided refurbishment and technical upgrades to one of Scotland’s biggest attractions.  In a two-phase project, Electrosonic has given the space a full-dome projection upgrade, a new theater layout, 106 new seats, and a state-of-the-art server and content management system. The ShowDome’s current presentation is Supervolcanoes.

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Solotech Supports Fundraising Event for Montreal Hospital

MONTREAL – Solotech continues to provide audio and lighting production support for the Gala des Émilie, a major event that brings more than $600,000 annually to Montréal Sacré-Coeur Hospital Foundation. The 2014 event took place at the Sheraton Laval, in Laval, Quebec, north of Montreal, on Oct. 30, 2014.

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Jane Greenwood

USITT 2015 Distinguished Achievement Winners Announced

NEW YORK – Two Broadway designers who are also Yale School of Drama colleagues, Jane Greenwood and Wendall Harrington, will receive USITT Distinguished Achievement Awards in 2015. Greenwood (pictured here), whose career as a costume designer spans six decades, will receive USITT’s Distinguished Achievement Award in Costume Design at USITT’s 2015 Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Cincinnati March 18-21.

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Pulse Lighting and Bandit Illuminate Warren Haynes Christmas Jam

ASHEVILLE, NC – Pulse Lighting and Bandit Lites joined forces to light the 26th Christmas Jam hosted by Warren Haynes at U.S. Cellular Center on Dec. 13, 2014. With access to Bandit’s entire inventory, LD Preston Hoffman used 56 GLP X4s, 14 Martin MAC Vipers, six Robe BMFLs, 12 Clay Paky Sharpys, 30 Elation CuePix Panels, 17 2-cell LED blinders, 12 GRN Pars and two grandMA2 consoles for control.

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Robe C2C Festival 2014, c. Andrea Macchia & Matteo Bosonetto

Club2Club (C2C) Festival in Italy Lit with Robe BMFLs

TURIN, Italy – LD Walter Lutzun used Robe’s new Bright Multi-Functional Luminaire (BMFL) Spots for the main stage at the two-day C2C (Club2Club) International Festival of Music & Arts. Lutzun also used 16 Pointes, 12 MMX Spots and 12 LEDWash 600s for his design, which supported a variety of DJs and artists, each requiring their own distinctive visual styling and settings.

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Pittsburg State University in Kansas Opens Bicknell Family Center for the Arts

PITTSBURG, KS – When the Bicknell Family Center for the Arts at Pittsburg State University opened its doors Dec. 7, those in attendance may have been surprised to know that, despite the stunning glass edifice, or setting foot in the beautiful wood-trimmed auditorium, and exploring its numerous versatile facilities, that the entire building was completed at the cost of $33 million.

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Pacific Coast Entertainment provided GLP fixtures to support LD Jean-Yves Tessier’s lighting design for 3-D Theatrical's production of Ragtime.

Pacific Coast Entertainment, GLP Both Growing in L.A. Market

SUN VALLEY, CA – Pacific Coast Entertainment (PCE) provided lighting designer Jean-Yves Tessier with 12 of their GLP impression X4 LED fixtures to light 3-D Theatricals’ stage production of E.L. Doctorow’s classic book, Ragtime, at the Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton, CA. It marked the latest stage in a long partnership between PCE and GLP, both of which have taken root in the Los Angeles area.

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Flex Mobile 1.0 from Flex Rental Solutions

Flex Mobile 1.0

Flex Mobile 1.0 is a new iOS app from Flex Rental Solutions. It promises Flex Rental Solutions customers the ability to leverage the company’s warehouse inventory tracking software on their iPhone or iPad devices.

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