LAS VEGAS — Visitors to Las Vegas during LDI later this month might not be guaranteed a big payout at the casinos south of the Las Vegas Convention Center, but if they are also AT&T customers, they are guaranteed to break even on their fees for Wi-Fi usage along most of the Las Vegas Strip. AT&T has provided more than 60 free Wi-Fi access points along the Las Vegas strip as a public service of sorts for tourists and locals alike.
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LONDON – BroadWeigh announced that the rigging division of U.K. distributor A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd. has provided three full kits of 12-point load monitoring to UK-based Load Cell Rental. The BroadWeigh system, pictured here, uses Crosby shackles and wireless load pis.
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MINSK, Belarus – LD Ilya Piotrovsky of Blackout Studio included PR Lighting XLED 336 fixtures in the rig for the third season of a popular talent show here, Poyushchie Goroda (Singing Cities). The season began with a five-day casting period — one for each region of Belarus.
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PITTSBURGH, PA — When the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins made their entrance for the first hockey game of the 2014-2014 season, the team’s fans were already pumped up. Kevin Hogan from Process of Illumination, LD to the Penguins’ shows since 2005, further stoked Penguin fervor with an assist from four of Robe’s Cyclone fixtures. Pictured here is Penguin team captain Sidney Crosby.
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NEW YORK — The start of football season marked several changes for the iconic “Inside the NFL” program, which airs on Showtime and The NFL Network. Chief among them was a move to CBS Studio 42 and implementation of a new lighting package by lighting designers Christopher Landy and Abigail Wells of Vibrant Design LLC with equipment supplied by WorldStage.
Read More »ATLANTA — NanoLumens and PartnerTech, both based in the Atlanta area, are teaming up to provide more than a dozen large-format LED screens (20 to 27 feet wide) for malls across Canada. NanoLumens president/CEO Rick Cope noted that the two companies have teamed up before to help get large screens installed in other places including NBA basketball arenas, train stations, convention centers and more.
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AUSTIN, TX – They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the 75,000 people who poured into Zilker Park’s 46-acres for the Austin City Limits Music Festival were about to experience live music in a big way. Bandit Lites worked with the design team 3SRCreative to provide lighting for the massive event where more than 130 musical acts performed.
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BURNABY, BC — If dance productions are traditionally a pas de deux between dance and lighting movements, with choreographed dance routines dictating the sway and flow of illumination, there’s no law saying you can’t reverse the creative process and give lighting the creative leading role. For the culmination of MovEnt’s annual project called “Today in the Theatre,” LD Robert Sondergaard did just that, with an assist from Martin fixtures provided by Christie Lites.
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ATLANTA — Hip hop duo OutKast hit the road this year for the first time in a decade. The 20th anniversary featured three nights of hometown performances Sept. 26-28 at Centennial Olympic Park here. LD/programmer Daunté Kenner of DK Production Design shaped the looks and Atlanta Sound and Lighting provided the gear, which included Elation’s new Platinum SBX moving head fixtures.
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LAS VEGAS — The Cyndi Lauper/Harvey Fierstein staged musical collaboration, Kinky Boots, a hit in Chicago in 2012 before its successful 2013 Broadway debut, kicked off its first national tour at the Smith Center here on Sept. 4, 2014 with a PRG-supplied lighting rig specified by LD Kenneth Posner. The tour rig includes 18 COLORado 2-Quad Zoom Tour fixtures from Chauvet Professional. PRG also provided gear for Kinky Boots’ pre-Broadway and Broadway engagements.
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