PR Lighting XPar 390, XPar 390-W
PR Lighting expands its range of LED PAR spots with the XPar 390 (brighter than the earlier XPar 348) and XPar 390-W, which adds a broader beam width and improved white light.
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PR Lighting XPar 390, XPar 390-W
Vasco Rossi’s Last Tour Uses Pixled LED Strips as Key Scenic Design Element
ROME — Vasco Rossi’s 2011 tour, Live Kom ‘011, which the Italian singer/songwriter recently announced would be his last, uses LED video — in this case, over 350 square meters of Pixled LED screen, as a key scenic element.
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DesignScene Names Matthew Rickard Senior Production Manager
LONDON — Live communications and production company DesignScene named Matthew Rickard senior production manager. Working with DesignScene’s founder, creative director and show producer Attila Keskin, Rickard will lead the production department.
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Long Reach Long Riders Log 2,114 Miles, Raise $36,500
BILLINGS, MT — For the Long Reach Long Riders’ 8th annual charity motorcycle ride, 14 riders, five passengers and two chase cars covered 2,114 miles from July 2-9 around still-snowy peaks and over snowmelt-gorged rivers in the American West.
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Studio One Dance Theatre Lit with Elation Design Spot 1200C DMX Fixtures
CHICAGO — For Studio One Dance Theatre (SODT)’s annual theatrical production showcasing the talents of close to 400 student dancers from preschool through their 20s, Jason Reberski of JR Lighting Design, Inc. (Orland Park, IL) opted to incorporate seven of Elation Professional’s Design Spot 1200C DMX moving heads.
Read More »Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition Draws Record Attendance
GUANGZHOU, China — The 16th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, held June 9-12 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou, drew more than 100,000 visitors and 2,931 exhibitors, breaking the record on both counts with better than a 40 percent surge, driven largely by new LED technologies. The total exhibition area covered 210,000 square meters spread across 20 halls in the complex. In all, 116 countries were represented at the show, which covers a wide spectrum of lighting-related industries and applications.
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ETC CUE End-User Conference Set for July 25-27
MADISON, WI — ETC’s first end-user conference, CUE (Create, Understand, Experience) will take place at the Monona Terrace Convention Center here on July 25, 26 and 27. The event includes opportunities to learn about the latest ETC technologies and products, to connect with other ETC users, and to tour ETC’s unique headquarters and production facility.
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Lasers Light Up Victory for Team Porsche at 24-Hour Race
NURBURG, Germany — If you’ve ever wondered how far you could get in a Porsche over the span of 24 hours, a team of drivers at the Nürburgring Nordschleife have provided an answer: 156 laps of the 25 km track (about 15.5 miles), or a little over 2,400 miles — at an average speed of 100 mph through the track’s matrix of twists and turns, with close to 200 other race cars for company.
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Theatre at Kuwait Center for Autism Gets New Grid from Unusual Rigging
KUWAIT — The Kuwait Center for Autism opted last year to expand the use of its five-year-old theatre, and in a bid to make the venue more attractive for potential users, they decided to upgrade the existing lighting capabilities with the installation of a new grid.
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Northside Christian Church Finds Vista Spyder a Good Fit
NEW ALBANY, IN – Northside Christian Church has grown from providing services in the basement of a house to services for up to 6,000 worshippers every weekend. And although its AV capabilities had grown as well, the church needed gear that was a better fit with the non-technical people who were operating it.
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Russian TV’s Star Factory Gets New Look with Narrow-Beam Sharpy
MOSCOW — Star Factory, a reality TV talent show broadcast on Russia’s Channel One, offered viewers a new visual look with Clay Paky’s narrow-beam Sharpy. Mixing elements of Pop Idol and Big Brother, the contest aims to nurture the next generation of singing talent with help from pop industry veterans.
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Active Production Touts LED Wall Options with its 80 Elation EVLED 1024 SMD Panels
ATLANTA — Active Production and Design, Inc., which recently added LED video screen rentals to its AV, lighting, special effects, staging and set design services, didn’t just tiptoe into the market. With its recent purchase of 80 of the 2’2” square EVLED 1024SMD 20mm LED panels from Elation Professional, the company is declaring that it can now put together a peach of a display — “the largest LED wall in Georgia,” if needed — for corporate clients, who make up 70 percent of the company’s business.
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