SECAUCUS, NJ -Rose Brand Inc. is thrilled to announce industry veteran Carrie Johns as its new Sales Account Manager. Carrie brings numerous years of entertainment… Read More »Rose Brand Inc. Introduces Carrie Johns as its new Sales Account Manager
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EUROPE – Grammy-award-winning metal band, KoЯn, embarks on a tour of mainland Europe in March, starting in Zurich with a set that features Ayrton MagicPanel™-R fixtures as the focal point of the lighting design. The 17-date tour follows on from North American and UK legs which were supplied by Morpheus Lights in the US and Neg Earth in the UK respectively, with Black Box of Germany assisting for the forthcoming Europe leg.
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GUANGZHOU – PR Lighting chose this year’s GET Show at Guangzhou’s Poly World Trade Center to launch its first waterproof moving head (the AQUA 440 Beam). This IP44-rated version of the XR 440 Beam is equipped with the advanced Osram 440W lamp, to create a punchy, parallel beam with 3.1° beam spread. Also well received at the booth were other recently launched products, including the fully-featured XLED 4007 Beam and XPar 150 Zoom.
PHOENIX – Composer Craig Bohmler was on a hiking trip through Arizona’s Tonto National Forest five years ago, when he came upon a small museum dedicated to Zane Grey, the prolific writer (64 novels and over 300 short stories) of American cowboy sagas. Intrigued, Bohmler began reading Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage. Not long into the book, the composer envisioned turning the 1912 romantic story into an opera. His vision became a reality this March as The Arizona Opera premiered Riders of the Purple Sage, directed by Fenlon Lamb at Phoenix Symphony Hall.
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ZURICH – Switzerland is home to some impressive musical talent – take DJ BoBo for instance – some of whom were honored February 10th at the tenth anniversary edition of the Swiss Music Awards in Zurich. Lighting Designers Thomas Gerdon and Nik Evers were tasked with lighting a colorful mix of live acts and chose Elation fixtures for the job including Platinum FLX™ and Platinum HFX™ hybrid luminaires along with Elation’s new Fuze™ Wash Z350 LED wash lights and ACL 360 Matrix™ LED moving head panels.
QATAR – AL ISTEKLAL IAC-QATAR is a busy rental and technical production company based in the vibrant Middle East cultural hub of Qatar … that has just taken delivery of 148 x Robe moving lights to boost their current rental stock. AL ISTEKLAL was founded in 2004 by Akram Hamada to supply premium lighting, sound and AV packages – together with staging, rigging, trussing and all associated infrastructure – to a wide range of clients in the Qatari market
LOS ANGELES — No firm tour dates have been set, but Eyellusion, the company working with Wendy Rio, the widow of rocker Ronnie James Dio, who died in 2010, is now planning what might be the first live rock show built around a “virtual” performance by a deceased frontman.
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MOORESTOWN, NJ – With the Borgata Hotel and Casino’s recent announcement of its new $11 million dollar conference and event space, branded the “Central Conference Center”, Starlite will provide an innovative and custom architectural lighting and control system throughout the 18,000 square-foot bi-level venue. The system, which includes ETC Sensor and Unison dimming paired with Paradigm architectural control, incorporates high-end touchscreen interfaces, which will allow the client to adapt the décor lighting based on the individual needs of the venue, event or client.
LOS ANGELES –– The premiere for Fifty Shades of Grey sequel, Fifty Shades Darker, was held at The Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. 4Wall Los Angeles’ events team converted the hotel’s parking lot into an elegant area welcoming the stars of the film. Lead actress and actor Dakota Johnson (Anastasia Steele) and Jamie Dornan (Christian Grey) were two of the many stars who walked the red carpet for the film’s opening night. Universal Pictures turned to 4Wall LA to provide a tasteful look for the arrivals, while incorporating elements of the movie in the overall design.
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SINGAPORE – Coldplay’s Head Full of Dreams tour resumes later this month in Asia. The tour has already made history by selling out 100,000 seats in Singapore. At the same time, Kings of Leon is winding up their U.K. tour and heading for America. Paul Normandale of Lite Alternative Design is production designer for both tours, and the Solaris Flare is his LED fixture of choice – with 96 Flares used for Coldplay and 36 for Kings of Leon.
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Blackmagic Design’s new URSA Mini Pro 4.6 is a new professional camera that combines high end digital film quality with the ergonomics and features of a traditional broadcast camera. URSA Mini Pro features a massive number of tactile control buttons, switches and dials that make it faster to use, built in optical ND filters, a new interchangeable lens mount, dual CFAST 2.0 and dual SD/UHS-II card recorders, and much more.
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ABU DHABI, UAE – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) celebrated 45 years of unification with a National Day that featured a huge multi-surface video projection in Abu Dhabi. The event, staged Dec. 2 at the request of the Crown Prince’s court, was held for an invited crowd of dignitaries. Balich Worldwide Shows contacted Tom van Hemelryk, VP Global Sports and Special Events at PRG, to provide both the technical expertise and technology for this video mapping production, which was fed by eight d3 4x4pro media servers.
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