Festival season is here, and with it the fine art of performers touring their own distinctive-but-practical visual ‘specials’ packages, carefully imagined to ensure that their show has the edge!
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GASTONIA, NC – The trampoline craze has been sweeping the world in recent years. The first of Altitude’s ‘Super Park’ locations, just outside Charlotte, NC, is using a total of more than 182 ADJ lighting, atmospheric and control products to help set its facility apart from competitors.
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Irma Suarez-Ruiz had one request for Dustin L. Derry when she asked him to light her dance composition Pasión Oculta, which premiered at the North Shore Center For The Performing Arts this summer.
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Hippotizer Version 4.5 is the next major release for Hippotizer V4+ systems. Version 4.5 adds new features, functionalities, fixes and enhancements to Hippotizer and SHAPE in response to user feedback.
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Green Hippo, specialist in the design and manufacture of hardware and software for real-time manipulation of video for the AV industries, welcomed 18 of its most advanced Hippotizer practitioners to its latest UK ‘Super User’ event in July.
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STUTTGART, Germany – Robe’s new IP65-rated iPointe moving lights were lit the main stage at this year’s Elements Festival, a two-day showcase of house music. The festival was staged in an amusement park at Dormettingen, southwest of Stuttgart. LD Raphael Herrmann’s main stage rig included eight Robe Pointes and 16 LEDBeam 150s as well as the 22 iPointes and other lights.
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While the live event and architectural industries have always been driven by new technologies, the departure of major companies like GE Lighting and Osram Sylvania from large PAR lamps raised more than a few eyebrows. Many people running theaters, smaller production houses, theme parks along with those maintaining architectural lighting said “Too soon.” In stepped Absolute Lumens to fill that void and meet those needs.
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Quest Events, the premier provider of pipe and drape, scenic and furnishings rental solutions to the event industry, announced today the opening of a new location in Denver, Colorado
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ANAHEIM, CA – Backstreet Boys are back with their DNA World Tour, and they’re partnered with ER Productions, the tour’s official supplier of lasers and special effects. The setup includes 20 compact BB4 lasers with audience diffraction optics, six Storms, a high-powered scanning laser, and six Unique Hazers, along with confetti and pyro effects.
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When the genre-hoping Grammy Award winning band, The Mavericks stopped at the Glastonbury Festival during their 30th Anniversary World Tour, their LD Landon Bloss did what he always does on fly dates: he walked over to look at the lighting rig that he would be running later that day.
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RL Wilson & Associates and JLH Marketing, both independent sales representative firms based in Southern California
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Ready for action, the new Digital Encoder Head (DEH-1) is the latest edition to ARRI’s Camera Stabilizer System range.
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