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 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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Chauvet Professional’s Rogue RH1 Hybrid promises to combine a powerful beam and spot effect in one compact unit. It can produce a tight beam angle of 1°-4.5° in the Beam Mode, and a Zoom angle of 5°-19° in Spot Mode, for an array of beam size options. Equipped with a 330W, 8000K Osram Sirius lamp, the Rogue RH1 Hybrid emits a 111,000 lux at 15 meters. Features include two prisms – a 5-facet and an 8-facet – which are independently controllable and can be overlapped.
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RALEIGH, NC – Available Light, a lighting design firm with offices in Boston and New York, announced that it is opening an office in Raleigh, NC to be led by senior associate Derek Barnwell, who is returning to his southern roots after serving Available Light for nine years in New England. The Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area is home to more than 200 AIA Architects, the company notes.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey – Asimetrik hosted a open day on Nov. 5, featuring Clay Paky, DiGiCo and Meyer Sound gear. The event was held at Asimetrik’s HQ and Kucukciftlik Park (an outdoor culture and entertainment center). Brand representatives included Clay Paky’s Alberico D’Amato, DiGiCo’s James Bradley and Meyer Sound’s Scott Gledhill.
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ADJ extends its Inno Series of LED lighting fixtures with two new compact mirror scanners – the Inno Pocket Scan and Inno Pocket Roll. Both are highly portable versions of their larger, costlier counterparts – the Inno Scan and the Inno Roll – but these “pocket-sized” versions make the same impressive mirror effects available to small bars and clubs, stage acts and bands, as well as the DJ-on-the-road.
Read More »WARSAW, Poland – For the Verva Street Racing event held at National Stadium in Warsaw Sept. 20, LD Jacek Chojczak specified 32 Clay Paky SuperSharpys from lighting rental company Transcolor and rigged them on the crown of the stadium, making them a “huge part of the show.” The gear was sourced via Prolight Sp. z o.o., the distributor for Clay Paky products in Poland.
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LONDON – Entertainment production supplier White Light has recently been named a Super Dealer for the RUSH brand of lighting effect products made by Martin Professional. The company will also keep stock of selected RUSH products, to be shipped directly from its London facility. Launched earlier this year, the comprehensive RUSH product line brings to the market the latest effect technology at an affordable price, backed by the Martin Professional reputation for quality products. The RUSH MH 5 Profile is pictured here.
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LONDON – Dubstep/garage star Katy B’s recent UK tour brought a moody nightclub atmosphere to venues around the U.K. with an assist from Tom Campbell’s silhouette rich, strobe heavy lighting design, which relied in part on the effects from new Stormy CC and A.leda B-EYE K20 and K10 fixtures from Clay Paky.
Read More »JERSEY CITY, NJ – An exhibition, Beyond Rubik’s Cube, opened at Liberty Science Center with audio-visual design, integration and installation by Electrosonic. Electrosonic was hired by exhibit fabricator Maltbie, a kubik Company, to take on the project designed by the Science Center’s Experience Services. The 7,000 square-foot exhibit, with 24 areas featuring AV support by Electrosonic, is intended to travel; after 11 months at Liberty Science Center, it will start a seven-year international road trip.
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SPICELAND, IN – Draper, Inc. has announced its TecVision XH900X Grey projection viewing surface has been certified by the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF) for excellent color reproduction and fidelity. XH900X Grey performs very well in moderate ambient light, is well suited for high resolution content, and is 4K ready. This latest announcement means the entire TecVision Engineered Surface Technology line is now ISF certified.
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JOHANNESBURG, DURBAN and CAPE TOWN South Africa – Clay Paky’s Massimo Bolandrina and Giovanni Zucchinali spent two weeks in South Africa providing daily demos to introduce the company’s latest offerings to the region, including the SuperSharpy, Mythos and Stormy fixtures. A photo taken during this roadshow of a SuperSharpy beam projecting onto a cloud reached the second most “Likes” ever recorded on the Clay Paky Facebook page.
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