GATLINBURG, TN – More than three thousand Future Farmers of America (FFA) members gathered at the 90th Annual Tennessee FFA State Convention to compete and… Read More »90TH Annual Tennessee FFA State Convention Goes Big with Bandit Lites
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LAS VEGAS – The 2018 NAB Show exhibition opened April 9, giving some 100,000 attendees from around the world the chance to eye new products like Blackmagic Design’s $1,295 Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, Grass Valley’s GV K-Frame production switcher, and a kaleidoscope of other new product offerings from Sony, Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Avid and Sharp along with booths from big players including Cisco, Google, Facebook and Microsoft, among others.
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NEW YORK — For Rocktopia, which turns the 1,760-seat Broadway Theatre into a concert venue of sorts from March 20-April 29, Michael Stiller provided a lightshow that makes use of Chauvet Professional Rogue moving lights and PVP S5 LED tiles, all supplied by BML-Blackbird. The setup included five Rogue RH1 Hybrids, 18 Rogue R2 Wash units, 22 Rogue R2 Wash fixtures and four Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures.
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MIAMI – Empire of the Sun performed on the Live stage at Ultra Music Festival March 23. Longtime LD Davey Taylor used his ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium to present the audience with the otherworldly visuals to accompany dancers dressed like plants an pink Valkyries, all part of Taylor’s immersive 32-universe 162-fixture light show.
Read More »A range of Antari smoke machines in combination with Antari fog fluid has been Actors’ Equity Approved by the Actors’ Equity Association, the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 actors and stage managers across the country.
Read More »ADJ is once again set to make a serious impact at this year’s Prolight + Sound event in Frankfurt, Germany. ADJ (Hall 5.0, Stand C81) will use this large global platform to introduce six brand new products, as well as to showcase other recently launched fixtures for the first time in Europe.
Read More »LOS ANGELES — VER announced that, as part of a comprehensive transaction supported by its second lien lenders, including funds managed by GSO Capital Partners, it has entered into an agreement to merge with an entity controlled by Production Resource Group LLC (“PRG”). To facilitate the implementation of this pre-negotiated transaction, VER filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on April 5, 2018. These filings only affect the Company’s North American operations.
Read More »NASHVILLE — Cole Swindell’s 2018 “Reason to Drink” tour, with Chris Janson and Laura Alaina as supporting acts, is getting an oversized lighting and video assist from Elite Multimedia. It’s the biggest production yet for the headlining artist, according to production designer James “Mo” Butts, with a 48-foot wide by 20-foot tall LED video wall serving as the visual centerpiece for the shows.
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The G3 2018 world tour needed three different designs for its three distinctive guitarists. Production designer/lighting designer Alastair Watson – who is also the production manager – had a tight budget and a one-truck space constraint. One rig had to do it all. So he specified 16 High End Systems SolaHyBeam 1000s
Read More »The Opening Night Keynote at CES 2018 in Las Vegas stood out this year for its dramatic scale and technical scope. The presentation on how data is shaping our future enthralled the audience with its vision of futuristic technologies including next-generation virtual reality, the Mobileye autonomous car and mini Shooting Star drones enhanced with an array of projection and LED displays.
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Kinetic Lighting, Inc. will host its 10th annual open house on May 2, 2018 from 3pm-9pm. The lighting company’s open house has become a go-to networking party in the Los Angeles area.
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For Jacob VanVlymen, the uplifting Easter lighting display he created this year for the 7,000-member Fairhaven Church was really the second piece of a two-part design.
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