NEWPORT, South Wales – Following the success of last year’s annual conference, accounting specialists Tax Assist again turned to Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) to deliver full technical production and design – sound, lighting, video, rigging and staging – for their 2015 event, which had the added resonance of also being their 20th anniversary.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland — Lighting rental and technical event production specialists Blue Parrot have joined Martin Professional’s UK dealer network, adding 12 new Martin MAC Quantum Profile moving heads to their Edinburgh-based rental inventory, which also includes 30 MAC Aura washes, 24 MAC 101s and MAC Vipers (Profile, Performance and Wash DX models).
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SINGAPORE – For the primetime broadcast of Asia’s Got Talent at the Singapore-based AXN TV network studios, Showtec Group provided 50 Wonder LED Wall Washers from DTS Lighting.
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MEXICO CITY – The Robe Stage at the 2015 Sound Check Xpo in Mexico City featured the latest Robe technology, including BMFL Spots, Pointes, LED Beam 100s and 1000s, LEDWash 1200s and 600s, miniPointes, ParFects and CycFX 8s.
Read More »PLYMOUTH, U.K. – S+H Technical supplied starcloth, soft goods, and video products for the 2015 Herald Business Awards, which were staged at the Plymouth Pavilion April 23.
Read More »MOSCOW, Russia – For a Valentine’s Day 3.5-hour dance event that drew more than 17,000 Muscovites to the SC Olympisky, LD Konstantin Gerasimov of 4DProject used an array of Clay Paky fixtures supplied by Arlecchino Techno to deliver an electric party atmosphere. The rig including 92 A.leda B-EYE K20s, 71 Alpha Spot 1500s, 72 Sharpys and 36 Sharpy Washes. Pavel Shchelkanov created video content for the event. All the lighting and video was completely time coded, with the sound and show program by Nikolay Zinovenko.
Read More »LONDON – Avolites aficionado Jamie Thompson has been out with Irish pop-rockers The Script on their European tour controlling ‘maximum impact’ lighting with his Avolites Sapphire Touch console, plus an Avolites Quartz and x4 Avolites Titan Net Processors. A second Sapphire Touch was used a backup. All front-end Avolites control equipment was supplied by global lighting and show design company MIRRAD.
LONDON – Matt Button of Button Light used hundreds of Clay Paky Sharpys in his design for the 2014 Castrol EDGE oil ad seen in cinemas and online. It featured four cars racing the lights. The video has more than eight million hits on YouTube. Barney Steel, director of Marshmallow Laser Feast, is credited with the idea for the ad. Button was brought on board to bring Steel’s idea to life.
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TOKYO – For Yukari Tamura’s two shows at the Nippon Budokan venue in Tokyo’s Chiyoda district, LD Kenichi Taira created a visual design for the crowd of 20,000 using close to 250 Robe fixtures, including 24 Robe BMFL Spots.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — The first PRG Alliance Summit, held April 16 during Prolight+Sound 2015, drew 65 attendees representing 28 countries. The inaugural event also represented the one-year anniversary for the PRG Alliance, which was launched at PL+S 2014.
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BERLIN, Germany – Artistic Licence previewed its new lightJuice technology at the Smart Lighting conference at Berlin City Cube from May 20-22. The company says lightJuice could change the way power, control and monitoring are integrated in modern commercial spaces.
Read More »LONDON — A woman in her 30s was injured by a 20-by-10-foot Clear Channel LED advertising billboard that fell with its metal framework about 20 feet from the brick façade of a century-old building to the pavement below. The accident took place in South London’s Tooting district about 7:30 a.m. on May 12.
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