Roughly 7,000 dairy farms closed in Wisconsin between 1993 and 1998 according to the US Department of Agriculture, part of a reorganization of production facilities in America’s “dairy state.” Most of their barns faded from the landscape, either absorbed by the tall grass fields around them, or replaced by other buildings.
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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, 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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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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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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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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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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As its name suggests, this fixture from Mega-Lite can be used to create dazzling looks for different sized stages and can add an eye-catching effect to highlight vertical or horizontal lines. Utilizing a matrix, the Mega-Lite iCandy Q18 is designed with pixel control. Along with unique eye-candy effects, the fixture’s pixel-mapping capabilities include the ability to recreate video.
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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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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, 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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Robe MegaPointes are making their presence felt on the current European tour by Slovenian / Croatian duo 2CELLOS – Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser – with another jaw-dropping lighting design by Crt Birsa.
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