LOS ANGELES – Masked rockers Slipknot are making headlines with a fifth album release, the addition of new band members, their Knotfest concert series and the launch of the “Prepare for Hell” tour – and Clay Paky Stormys are along for the ride.
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PHOENIX, AZ – Before the start of the 2014 NFL regular season, University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona, home to the NFL Cardinals and also Super Bowl XLIX, retrofitted 312 high-performance light-emitting diode (LED) stadium light fixtures. The LED fixtures replaced more than 780 metal halide high-intensity discharge (HID) fixtures and lit the field during the Super Bowl matchup between the Patriots and the Seahawks on Feb. 1, 2015.
Read More »ORLANDO, FL — Absen is offering its Certified Engineers Program for engineers, technicians, and freelancers working in the event production industry. The next event is set for 7703 Kingspointe Parkway, Suite 600 in Orlando, FL on March 10, 11 and 12, 2015. The course is offered at no charge to qualified participants. Attendees are responsible for covering their own travel, food, and accommodation expenses.
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CINCINNATI, OH – Terrence Spivey, artistic director of Cleveland’s Karamu House, the nation’s oldest black theatre, will help USITT promote diversity in theatre at USITT 2015 in Cincinnati in March.
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BOSTON, MA – Fan Experience is significantly enhanced with 40 NanoLumens NanoSlim displays and 12 totally new “Transparent Visualization” displays developed by the pioneering tech leader.
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ENID, OK — For Emmanuel Baptist, a 35-year-old church undergoing a renovation, Springfield, MO-based Paragon 360 provided lighting fixtures from Chauvet Professional including COLORdash Batten-Quad and Par-Quad RGBA fixtures, COLORado Batten 144 Tour washes, Ilumipod Logic Tri-4 RGB fixtures, and Iluminarc Ilumiline Logic 12 linear RGB fixture and Wedge Tri RGB uplights as well as 6 Core 3×1, and 10 Core 3x 3 COB LED panels from Chauvet DJ.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – 4Wall Entertainment has made a sizable purchase of Clay Paky Mythos fixtures, a highly-advanced hybrid light which serves as an excellent 470-watt spotlight and an extraordinary beam light. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky lighting in North America.
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ARLINGTON, TX – Josh Smith knew he had to come up with something extra when he got the call to create the lighting rig for Interstate Hotels and Resorts (IHR) 2014 Food & Beverage Conference at the Hilton Arlington Hotel outside Dallas. The company, with more than 425 hotels and 79,000 rooms under its corporate umbrella, is one of the final arbiters on all things pertaining to the hospitality and conference industry.
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CALGARY, Alberta, Canada – Calgary’s Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts has taken delivery of eight Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K10 Easy fixtures for its 1,800-seat Jack Singer Concert Hall. The fixtures were sourced via A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky lighting in North America.
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NEW YORK – Originally an internationally best-selling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time made its stage debut in London at the National Theatre and has since made its way to the streets of Broadway. The production, called one of the most fully immersive works to ever appear on Broadway, relies heavily on pixel-mapping technology and uses an ETC Eos Titanium (Eos Ti) lighting system.
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Avolites MD Steve Warren discusses the company’s Ai media server and lighting control technology on display at LDI 2014.
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LAS VEGAS — Released in 2014, High End Systems’ Shapeshifter luminaires have already been incorporated in a variety of high-profile events lit by well-known lighting designers, with a number of LDs incorporating the new looks into their designs for parties ringing in 2015. These included PLSN contributor Vickie Claiborne, who used Shapeshifters for the ARIA Dreamscape Party at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, pictured here.
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