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NEW YORK – LD Luke Stratton, an LD and FOH audio engineer for jam-rock quartet Dopapod, who posts a series of podcasts called The Light Side, shared a link to an audio podcast of his interview with Phish lighting designer/director Chris Kuroda and associate designer and programmer Andrew Giffin. The designers discussed the abstract video and lighting looks for Phish’s recently concluded Baker’s Dozen Shows at Madison Square Garden, including the morphing light rig used for the shows. Phish performed 13 shows over a 17-night span that ran from July 21 to Aug. 6, touting both the shows (and free Federal donuts) as being jam-packed.

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ATLANTIC CITY – The annual DJ Expo event is always an important date on the ADJ calendar, and this year is no exception. The ADJ team are preparing to demonstrate a total of 13 brand new products at the show (5 of which are new product debuts), all of which will be of interest to DJs. Moving to a new home this year – the Atlantic City Convention Center – DJ Expo attracts thousands of DJs from across the USA for a week of networking, learning, partying and checking out the latest gear.

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[caption id="attachment_278521" align="alignnone" width="800"]Steubenville gets 80' video wall[/caption]

LOWELL, MA – For the 2017 Steubenville East Catholic Youth Conference, held July 13-15 at UMass Lowell, Tim Messina of Events United had a brainstorm: to turn the seven-letter word, “ELEVATE,” into an 80-foot video wall. To carry out his vision without blowing the production budget for the event, he made use of 67 PVP X6IP tiles from Chauvet Professional.

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RYE, CO – Sonic Bloom, an EDM music festival, was staged June 15-18 at Hummingbird Ranch near Rye, CO, amid the splendor of Colorado’s Spanish Peaks. Denver-based Nexus Productions has been working the festival for the past four years and this year served as the main stage lighting vendor (Bloom Stage) for the first time, supplying all trussing, lighting, motors, distros and more. Owner Chuck Williams’ lighting rig included Elation ACL 360 Bar LED moving bar effects and Platinum Beam 5R beam lights.

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LAS VEGAS, – Live event production companies in Las Vegas soon will be able to fill the void with newly trained employees. The Stage Technician Education and Development Intensive (STEADI) certificate program and Entertainment Electrics course offered by UNLV Continuing Education provides participants with an entry-level, intensive education in live event production.

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USA – MILOS has just released a technical video about their new MT-PA5030 PA Tower. In this video, Dipl.-Ing. Norbert Tripp (Area Four Industries Technical… Read More »New Video on MILOS PA5030 PA Tower Released

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[caption id="attachment_278496" align="alignnone" width="800"]Lolla 2017 gets some site lighting from Bandit[/caption]

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – Bandit Lites is honored and humbled to once again work with C3 Presents, providing the site and structure lighting for the fourth year in a row at Lollapalooza in Chicago’s Grant Park. Working closely with C3 Presents Production Manager Tyler Crain, Bandit Lites successfully illuminated the multitude of structure locations for all the signage, entryways and archways throughout the 319 acre park.

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AUSTIN – High End Systems is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2017 HOG Factor National Collegiate Lighting Show Programming Competition. The competition finals will be held on High End Systems’ booth at the 2017 LDI trade show. The finalist teams will be flown to Las Vegas to perform their pieces live at LDI 2017, based on the High End Systems 2017 LDI Booth Design.

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[caption id="attachment_278488" align="alignnone" width="800"]Central Lakes College Theatre utilizes Chauvet fixtures[/caption]

BRAINERD, MN – Located in the geographical heart of Minnesota, Central Lakes College embodies the state’s long-standing tradition of supporting community involvement in the arts. This spirit is very evident in the college’s two theatres, which not only showcase the work of its own drama department, but also host community theatrical productions, as well as recitals, rock concerts and a wide range of other performances.  To support this diversified schedule, the theatre’s lighting designer Ben Kent recently upgraded its rig by adding flexible CHAUVET Professional LED fixtures, supplied by Monkey Wrench Productions.

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[caption id="attachment_278483" align="alignnone" width="600"]The Lighting Rig resembled the sun[/caption]

TEL AVIV – When Light Architects Cochavi & Klein were engaged by “The Tripping” production group to create spectacularly different lighting for a special sunset party in the Gan Haslaim (Rock Garden) of Tel Aviv’s famous Yarkon Park, they came up with the concept of a giant “Electronic Sun” positioned 20m high in the air behind the elevated DJ and VIP areas. Based around a 3-ring circular truss, this huge 8 meters diameter backlight structure carried 48 of Robe’s 19-segment Spiider LED fixtures together with 24 of Robe’s fast, ultra-narrow Pointe fixtures, and two dozen 4-light mole-fays. The entire structure was suspended at a pre-tilted angle from a 66m mobile crane.

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[caption id="attachment_278480" align="alignnone" width="640"]ARKA Room makes use of Elation fixtures[/caption]

NYC – Arka Lounge operated for 16 years as one of the more successful nightspots in the Washington Heights area of upper Manhattan. Rebranded last December as Arka Room, owners of this sophisticated, intimate place to party are hoping for the same run of success they enjoyed for nearly two decades. As the area has changed, the venue has changed with it. Now Arka owners seek to engage old and new patrons alike with an updated design that features a dynamic Elation Professional lighting system.

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[caption id="attachment_278474" align="alignnone" width="800"]Zac Brown on tour with Robe[/caption]

NORTH CAROLINA – Multi-platinum, Grammy-Award winning artists Zac Brown Band (ZBB) is on the road again with a new album “WELCOME HOME” and a brand-new production lighting and visuals design created by James Scott and Louis Oliver from UK-based creative design practice, Okulus. James and Louis have included 32 x Robe Spiiders on the lighting rig, which are integral to creating the look, feel and lighting ambience of the show. James has been working with Zac Brown Band since 2014 and since 2015 this has been in conjunction with Louis and Okulus … adding the dynamic and strategic advantage of now being able to offer two design ‘heads’ for each project.

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