ARRI Rental opens satellite office in Brooklyn, New York
ARRI Rental, a leading provider of camera, lighting and grip equipment, is excited to announce the opening of ARRI Rental Brooklyn Haus in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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Genesis Technology Selects Analog Way’s Ascender 16-4K for Open Door Presbyterian Church Three-Screen Installation
Genesis Technology, LLC in Chantilly, Virginia has installed an Analog Way Ascender 16 4K multi-screen seamless switcher in the sanctuary of The Open Door Presbyterian Church in Herndon.
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In Dominican Republic, Festival Presidente Visuals Powered by Avolites Ai R8 Media Servers
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – More than 50,000 fans packed the Dominican Republic’s Olympic Stadium in November to experience The Festival Presidente, the Caribbean’s largest international music festival. On the festival’s opening night, Latin music star Gabriel (pictured here) performed in front of epic LED screens displaying florid, fast-paced graphics, powered by Avolites’ Ai R8 media servers.
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Large Elation Lighting Package Lights Houston’s “Toast to Living Well” Gala
For the second year running, Houston-based event staging company Stage Directions Inc. provided the creative visuals for the city’s annual “Toast to Living Well” Gala, considered Houston’s largest black tie event.
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Robe Making an Impact in Schladming
The former mining district of Schladming-Dachstein is considered one of the finest skiing areas in Austria during their season. It is also famous for the Men’s World Cup Night Slalom – hailed by some as the biggest party in the Alps – attracting up to 50,000 spectators and skiing enthusiasts annually towards the end of January.
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ProPlex EZ-LAN helps Kia “Light up the Holidays”
LOS ANGELES – For a 2017 holiday season TV commercial, LD Matthew Ardine transformed a Kia Motors America dealership into a large-scale lighting display to promote the company’s year-end sales event. Featuring nearly 500 various lights communicating over two V-LAN groups, with a total of 75 Ethernet devices, the network relied heavily on its nerve center, four ProPlex EZ-LANs, for a light show that made car headlights, building and landscape lighting flash in sync to TSO’s “Christmas Eve in Sarajevo.”
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City Theatrical Announces Moving Light Assistant Software Now Available at a Reduced Student Rate
Moving Light AssistantTM is an application designed to document both the physical setup and programming information for moving light rigs commonly used in the entertainment industry. The Student License price was recently reduced to make this industry- leading software available to more upcoming lighting professionals.
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The Minneapolis Armory Reopens with Horizon EDM Tour, Chauvet Lighting and Video
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – For the second-to-last stop on the Horizon tour, featuring EDM acts Kill The Noise, Tritonal and Seven Lions, LD Daniel Thibault of Life Is Art Studios used Chauvet Professional Rogue fixtures and PVP S5 video panels supplied by Antic Studio to light the recently-refurbished 8,400-capacity Armory in Minneapolis. The tour, which launched in late October at the Brooklyn Hangar in New York, finished up the next night at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom.
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Syracuse Stage’s “The Wizard of Oz” Brightens with Elation’s Artiste DaVinci Fixtures
SYRACUSE, NY – LD Herrick Goldman used Elation Professional’s Artiste DaVinci LED moving head spot for color and visual effects on a Syracuse Stage production of “The Wizard of Oz.” Goldman credited the fixture as a flexible workhorse that performed a number of duties throughout the show. “The DaVinci took so much of the workload, I could have saved the time and energy of hanging 25 percent of the light plot,” he said.
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Blackout Pulls Plug on Part of CES Tradeshow in Vegas
LAS VEGAS — On Jan. 10, the second day for the 51st annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), attendees had to be temporarily evacuated during a two-hour blackout that affected some of the main exhibit areas.
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Bandit Brings Lights To Death From Above
Bandit Lites is thrilled to have supported Canadian rock band Death From Above on their recent fall tour. Comprised of drummer and vocalist Sebastien Grainger and bassist Jesse F. Keeler, the duo released their third studio album, Outrage! Is Now in September of 2017.
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Elation Proteus™ Performs on 2017 Riptide Music Festival
Technical Entertainment Services (TES) of south Florida recently turned to Elation Professional’s IP65-rated Proteus Hybrid™ moving head fixture for unconstrained beam and mid-air looks on the 2017 edition of the Riptide Music Festival.
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