SOUTH KIRKBY, U.K. – Illuminate Lighting, a company specializing in renting out lighting consoles and control systems, has acquired the lighting control and data distribution rental business of Lighting Productions. Pictured here at left is the founder of Illuminate Lighting Jonathan Pask and founder of Lighting Productions, Jonathan Dawson-Butterworth.
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FRANCE – With the appointment of AED France as Prolyte distributor next to its existing distribution partner Axente, Prolyte Group has guaranteed full distribution coverage in France, offering customers optimized access to the range of Prolyte products. Prolyte Group’s trusted partner Axente, who holds the position as Prolyte distributor and ProLyft Service Point in France for a prolonged period, made it possible to succeed to open the French market for Prolyte and grow a trusted and steady customer base.
AUSTRALIA – Lexair Entertainment is proud to have been appointed the exclusive Australian and New Zealand distributor for American followspot giant Lycian Stage Lighting. Lycian followspots are found in venues and production rental houses the world over. As the industry leader with over 50 years’ experience in followspot design and manufacturing, Lycian have a well-earned a reputation for high quality, reliable and robust products. As North America’s largest followspot manufacturer, Lycian also boast the widest range of followspots to suit every venue from the largest stadium to the smallest school hall.
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NETHERLANDS – Podium de Vorstin is a purpose built live music venue right in the heart of ‘media city’ Hilversum in the Netherlands. Its interesting modern neo-ecclesiastical steel architecture was created by Architekten Cie, and ensures that it stands out as an aesthetic landmark as well as a popular entertainment venue. Production assistant Robin von Zijl and technical manager Michael Sakkers were part of the team who chose Robe Spiider LED wash beams and DL4S Profile luminaires – 16 of each – in a recent technical upgrade.
ANAHEIM, CA – VCI Event Technology named Anthony Stevens vice president of business development. Stevens, who comes to VCI from AV Concepts and, before that, Swank Audio Visuals’ event services division, will lead the company’s national sales and business development initiatives from their Anaheim, CA headquarters.
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MIDDLETON, WI – Eos family control becomes even more versatile with the release of the newly-upgraded iRFR and aRFR iOS and Android mobile applications. Both remote apps boast fully-redesigned user interfaces, more intuitive connectivity and an expanded feature set, including a full-feature keyboard and direct selects. This redesign is available as a free update for anyone who has previously purchased the iRFR or aRFR application. Note that software v2.6 must be installed on the host Eos device (console, RPU, laptop, etc) for these revised applications to work.
UK – BBC One’s musical show Pitch Battle recently completed a successful opening season with five pre-recorded episodes, plus the live finals. Live broadcasts have zero tolerance for malfunctions (just ask Mariah Carey . . . or Janet Jackson) and gear must be 100% reliable. For this reason, lighting designer Mark Kenyon insists on ProPlex Data Distribution Devices for all his show data networking.
BUTLER, OH – The theme of the fourth annual EST Festival, which took place outside Cleveland August 11-13, was “1970 Something,” a tribute to those unruly, hard-driving days when social inhibitions seemed to be falling like bowling pins. Early Seventies style swagger was out in full force during the two-day festival, as its founder Machine Gun Kelly and other hip-hop heavyweights like Gucci Mane tore things up with some high-powered decibels. There were even some period piece scenic elements dotting the festival grounds for atmosphere, but the Alex Kay lightshow that supported the onstage performances went way beyond anything anyone could ever have imagined back in the day.
LOS ANGELES – Country trio Lady Antebellum is spanning the globe on their You Look Good World Tour of arenas and amphitheaters accompanied by Claypaky Mythos2 fixtures and grandMA2 consoles. The multi-Grammy winners just released “Heart Break,” their seventh studio album. The You Look Good World Tour commenced in Bakersfield, California in May, crosses North America this summer and makes stops in Europe and South Africa before wrapping in October.
TANGERANG, Indonesia – For the Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show (GIIAS), which took place at the Indonesia Convention Exhibition (ICE) in BSD City, Tangerang, from Aug. 10-20, 2017, Rudi Hidayat, CEO of V2 Indonesia, explained why his company relies on Macroblock’s Hawkeye series driver ICs for the LED displays in use for the premium and luxury auto brands at the event. Macroblock will be providing a live demo of their MBI5353 at LED China 2017 in Shanghai from Sept. 20-22 at their booth, located at Hall E1 / Booth D42.
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HONOLULU – Eggshell Light Company of Honolulu, who has handled professional lighting needs on the Hawaiian Islands for decades, took delivery of Elation Professional’s new IP65-rated Proteus Hybrid™ multi-functional moving head. Bob Harmon, CEO and President of Eggshell Light Company, commented on the addition of the award-winning hybrid lights to Eggshell’s rental inventory. “We often put moving lights outside for a number of events, always with the caveat that if it rains we have to shut them down. On a few occasions that was indeed the case but now we don’t have to do that thanks to the new Proteus in our rental fleet.”
GLP says the response among LDs to its JDC1 hybrid LED strobe has been more than encouraging since the unit made its debut at PL+S in Frankfurt earlier this year. The fixture features a traditional single tube element offering bright white output from 216 white LEDs. The fixture then adds color LED capabilities using 1,320 RGB LEDs. And the two RGB plates can be divided into six separate ‘pixel’ sections on each plate and then operated with full pixel mapping control for a variety of effects that can then be punctuated by a series of high intensity flashes from the tube-configured white LEDs.
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