MILFORD, OH — The First Baptist Church here turned to Ken Patterson of A Tennessee Lighting Company for a lighting upgrade that centered on LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional. The church installed 40 COLORado 2-Quad Zoom Tour par-style fixtures, eight Ovation E-190WW LED ellipsoidals and 20 COLORdash Accent RGBW LED fixtures for accent lighting.
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AMSTERDAM — For an event marking 95 years for the Dutch national airline, KLM, creative director/LD Gerard Maijenburg included Robe’s Bright Multi-Functional (BMFL) Spot moving lights in the rig. The fixtures, supplied by PRG, were the first BMFLs to make their way from Robe’s factory to The Netherlands.
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ROERMOND, The Netherlands — Lightco, the lighting sales division of the Ampco Flashlight Group, equipped the two venues that are part of the new ECI Culture Factory (ECI Cultuurfabriek) here with a lighting rig centered on Elation LED fixtures. The venue’s two main entertainment spaces are the 240-seat Theatre and 600-capacity live music POP stage.
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SAINT-DENIS, France — ETC partner Avab Transtechnik France (ATF), based here, provided a Cobalt 20 desk to the Avignon Festival and sold a second to Dushow, a rental provider supporting the lighting needs of the outdoor EQI Cheval Libre equestrian show in in Vaucluse, France (pictured here).
Read More »RANCHO MIRAGE, CA — The long-awaited reunion tour of 1980s hit-makers Culture Club was scrapped on Nov. 13, two days before the first tour stop at Aqua Caliente Casino Resort Spa here, after lead singer Boy George was diagnosed with a throat polyp.
Read More »ATLANTA and MIAMI —ARRI Rental Atlanta, led by vice president Ed Stamm, has opened for business. Craig Chartier will fill Ed Stamm’s previous position, taking over ARRI Rental Miami as general manager there. Besides promoting the ALEXA 65 system exclusively available at ARRI Rental, Stamm will ensure that the company’s extensive inventory of digital, film, anamorphic and spherical camera equipment is available to customers in the Atlanta region. In Miami, Chartier will focus on strengthening ARRI Rental’s strategy and operations while working to expand the company’s business in Florida and the South American market.
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LOUISVILLE, KY – Sam White of MSI Production Services used 12 Chauvet Professional Q-Wash 560Z-LED fixtures at Senator Mitch McConnell’s victory celebration here on Election Night 2014. And although TV networks rarely see things eye to eye on election night, when it was over, virtually every TV crew member from NBC and ABC to CBS and Fox came over to thank him for making their jobs easier.
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LONDON — Lighting director Franck Evin has used 40 ETC Selador Desire D22 luminaires in an art gallery here to make the colors in the artwork “pop.” He called his use of ETC Selador LEDs as a “radical way to fix the lights,” calling the result “fantastic.”
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