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Sharpys, grandMA2s Perform at Made in America Festival

Made in America Festival

Sharpys, grandMA2s Perform at Made in America Festival

LOS ANGELES – Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures and numerous grandMA2 lighting consoles were on hand throughout Budweiser’s Made in America Festival, which entertained crowds on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Labor Day Weekend.  Jay-Z and Pearl Jam headlined main stage concerts on Saturday and Sunday. Nick Whitehouse was the lighting designer for the main stage, while John Duncan, Jr. of Pinpoint Lighting was the lighting designer and equipment supplier for the B stage and electronic dance music pad.

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ARK Festival

DTS Lighting Fixtures Light ARK Festival in Athens

ATHENS – The ARK Festival took place Sept. 10-11, hosting 14 renowned and emerging artists on two distinct stages, the ‘Ark’ and the ‘Angel.’ D.T.S lighting products in the rig included 16 JACK compact moving heads on the Ark stage, suspended from a curved truss encircling the stage, with 8 DELTA 10R LED moving head wall washers hung to a truss set above the stage. Lighting Art team with LD George Tellos designed the festival stages. Electron handled the lighting installation.

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Stage Lighting Super Saturday Set for 2013

NEW YORK – The eighth-annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday all-day seminar will take place Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City. The annual seminar is designed for everyone involved in stage, architectural or entertainment lighting. In addition to presentations, about 20 manufacturers and technical specialists will demonstrate equipment.

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ARA Donates to Hurricane Relief, Offers Disaster Recovery Guide

MOLINE, IL — The American Rental Association voted to donate $6,000 ($3,000 each) to the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. A signature piece of the ARA Foundation’s disaster relief and recovery efforts has been the creation of the Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Guide. It is offered as a free download from the ARA website to those in the equipment rental industry and provides practical information, including specific checklists, that can help rental operators prepare and plan for what to do in the event of a disaster.

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Ice Age

‘Ice Age Live’ is Painted with Light

LONDON – Luc Peumans from Genk, Belgium-based creative visual design practice, Painting With Light, has designed lighting for the new “Ice Age Live” show, a stage adaptation of the 20th Century Fox ‘Ice Age’ animation movies. The show is scheduled to tour internationally for the next five years and has just premiered in the UK, directed by Guy Caron. It all had to fit into one truck, so each fixture spec’d had to be multi-purpose. All lighting equipment is supplied by Belgian rental company Phlippo Showlight.

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Jennifer Lopez

Vari-Lite Fixtures Tour with Jennifer Lopez

LONDON – LD Sean Burke has created an energetic and dramatic design for Jennifer Lopez’s world tour using VL3500 Wash FX and VL3000 Spot luminaires from Upstaging. The fixtures needed to compete with a backdrop of LED video screens. Lighting also needed to illuminate a stage measuring 62’ wide x 48’ deep, filled with the band and dancers.

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Kenneth Bremer with PR Lighting

PR Lighting Appoints Matrix as Danish Distributors

LOSNING, Denmark – The recently formed Matrix Group is now the exclusive Danish distributor of PR Lighting’s automated discharge and LED lighting portfolio. Matrix Group has a base in pro audio and has expanded this year into lighting distribution and sales, with PR Lighting becoming its latest acquisition. This will be PR Lighting’s introduction to the Danish market and Matrix CEO Kenneth Bremer anticipates a high demand, both from touring/rental companies as well as mid-range market installation contractors and TV production crews.

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Lightswitch Opens Hong Kong Office

HONG KONG  – Lightswitch has opened a new location in Hong Kong. Under the leadership of Directors of Lighting Design Warren Kong and Alice Tang, Lightswitch Hong Kong will offer a range of lighting and multimedia design services for architecture, events, environments and museums. Says Lightswitch Principal Norm Schwab, “We can now better serve our U.S. clients who have projects in Asia by operating a full-service office that is capable of collaborating with our existing organization. We have designers, project managers and programmers in Hong Kong and are building a network of people throughout the region who can help us work efficiently and economically on projects in both America and Asia.”

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Psy's setup

Robe Does It Gangnam Style for Psy Concerts

SEOUL, Korea – Chart topping rapper Psy – Korea’s originator of the current “Gangnam Style” phenomena – performed two special concerts recently, both of lit with Robe moving lights in a design by Myeong Soo Kim.  With more than 500 million views on YouTube alone, the lighting design had to create the right vibe and live up to expectations. LiteFactory supplied the equipment.

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RED MX console from RED Lighting

RED Lighting RED MX Console

RED Lighting’s compact RED MX console promises to serve as an intuitive, ergonomic, reliable and low-cost lighting control solution. Users get access to six DMX universes directly on the controller, 3072 configurable channels and a GUI designed for easy programming. Users can control up to 576 cue lists with a maximum of 999 cues each and 12 keys offer direct access to playback and programming functions. The console has a 7-inch TFT touch screen color display, LCD digital keys, four encoder wheels, and RED Lighting is developing a “wing” module that will work with the RED MX.

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