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.
Read More »BIJIE CITY, Guizhou Province, China – The stage at the Grand Theater in Bijie, China collapsed during choir rehearsals here May 9. Eighty singers in the choir fell with the stage, along with a pianist and an onstage piano. Eight were injured and two sustained “relatively serious” injuries.
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ORLANDO, FL – ArKaos PRO will host two MediaMaster PRO training courses as part of InfoComm 2015’s education program. The half-day sessions, led by ArKaos’ Benjamin Bauwens, will cover video mapping, edge blending, 3D mapping and advanced geometrical correction, using the company’s new MediaMaster Pro V4.2 software and media servers.
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SYDNEY, Australia – Danny Rose, the award-winning Paris-based art and design collective, celebrate their return to the seventh annual Vivid Sydney festival, the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas, with the true “synaesthesia” of Mechanised Colour Assemblage.
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Gearhouse Group, South Africa’s leading technical solution group for the events industry, will again play a key role in Mediatech Africa, the only media and entertainment technology trade show for southern Africa.
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EUROPE – XLNT Advanced Technologies’ brand new CyberHoist II™ made its touring debut with US nu-metal mega-stars Linkin Park when the band returned to head-banging basics on their sold out European tour, The Hunting Party.
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LONDON – LD Mark Dymock specified 10 Pointes, 12 LEDWash 600s and for LEDBeam 100s from Robe for the unique U.K. retro sci-fi themed touring production, “Return to the Forbidden Planet.”
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