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Dubai City Walk photo by Float4

Dubai’s City Walk Comes to Life with Immersive AV Assist from Float4 and XYZ Cultural Technology

DUBAI — Featuring what has been called the world’s largest multimedia experience within a retail setting, Dubai’s City Walk invites crowds into a 922,500-square-foot area animated with 33 video servers sending 100 million pixels of digital content. Montreal-based XYZ Cultural Technology says it not only served as a technological partner to content designers Float4 for the project, but also played a key role in coordinating the efforts from contractors arriving from 10 different countries around the world.

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Banff Gondola Terminal interior, photo by Tyler Martin

Banff Gondola Terminal Equipped with ETC LED Fixtures

BANFF, Alberta, Canada — To light the recently opened Banff Gondola Terminal for maximum visitor eye appeal while keeping energy consumption to a minimum, LD Josh Starr’s design called for ETC Source Four Mini fixtures and Selador Desire D22 track-mount units. Christie Lites supplied the gear, and Michael Pyatt of GES served as project manager for the design team.

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USITT’s President-Elect, Dan Culhane

USITT 2017 Election Results Announced

SYRACUSE, NY – A new president, secretary, vice presidents of commissions and six directors were chosen in the most recent USITT Board of Directors Election. The board oversees leadership of USITT, the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, the national non-profit for performing arts design and technology professionals. USITT’s President-Elect, Dan Culhane, will begin his three-year term as president beginning June 30, 2018.

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Sergio Vergara

WAGO Names Sergio Vergara Senior Sales and Application Engineer of Eastern Canada

GERMANTOWN, WI —WAGO named Sergio Vergara senior sales and application engineer of Eastern Canada. He has lived in Canada for the past three years and is fluent in French, English and Spanish. An avid learner, he is currently working on his fourth language, Russian. Vergara plans to take his project-based experience and apply it to engineering support and sales for WAGO.

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The Dwight Vredenburg History Pavilion within the lobby of Hy-Vee's new Ron Pearson Center makes use of NanoLumens' 360-degree Nixel Series LED displays.

Hy-Vee Grocery Chain Uses NanoLumens Nixel Series LED Displays in New Conference Center Lobby

WEST DES MOINES, IA — Hy-Vee, Inc., a grocery chain with more than 240 stores throughout the Midwest, is also one of the largest employee-owned companies in the U.S. The company, founded in 1930, used NanoLumens curved Nixel Series LED displays to portray its history in the lobby of Ron Pearson Center, its new confernce and event center in West Des Moines.

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Thursday Reunites for Homecoming Show in NJ with Rogue

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SAYREVILLE, NJ – Typically, when legendary bands reunite, it’s usually for a national tour, big festival or high- profile TV special, but post hardcore pioneers Thursday have never been about following the tried-and-true commercial track. When they got back together recently after a six year breakup, the New Jersey-born group, which is widely credited with putting emo music on the map, came back to the place where it all began – the Starland Ballroom in central New Jersey.

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Wargaming Fest LDs Add Intensity for Moscow Event with Claypaky Fixtures

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MOSCOW – An exclusive Claypaky rig of almost 300 moving-head fixtures delivered the high-impact lighting for international game developer and publisher Wargaming Group’s highly anticipated debut video game event ‘Wargaming Fest’ in Moscow’s Expocentre. Production and lighting designers Maxim Martynov and Jevgenij Juhnevich of Moscow-based production company MAX \ MAX Productions specified 81 x Claypaky Sharpy, 56 x Claypaky Stormy CC, 46 x Claypaky Mythos, 22 x Claypaky Alpha Profile 1500 and 76 x Claypaky A.leda B-EYE K20 supplied by Russian rental outfits Arlecchino Techno and MF Group.

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Hitachi Kokusai Z-HD5500 1080p Studio and EFP Camera

Hitachi Kokusai Z-HD5500 1080p Studio and EFP Camera

Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) announced new Z-HD5500 HDTV studio and field production camera. Featuring Hitachi Kokusai’s latest advances in CMOS imaging technology, the Z-HD5500 promises to cost-effectively address the challenges of shooting in studios and venues with low-cost or varying-frequency LED lighting. 

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Christie Version 1.5 Phoenix Firmware Update Now Available

Christie Version 1.5 Phoenix Firmware Update Now Available

Christie announced a firmware update for its Phoenix content management systems. Version 1.5 directly integrates with Milestone’s XProtect, an open platform IP video management software (VMS). Christie Phoenix obtains H.264 camera data directly from the XProtect recording server, and automated video wall control is initiated from the XProtect event server.

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Bandit Lites supplied more than 100 fixtures, including VL 3500 washes, VL 3000 Spots and Clay Paky Sharpys, Elation CuePix Blinder WW2 fixtures, Ayrton MagicDots, PixelLine 1044s, GRNLite Moving Washes and two Grand MA 2 full consoles for control.

Bandit Lites Donates Gear for Randy Travis Tribute

NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites was proud to donate a lighting package for 1 Night. 1 Place. 1 Time: A Heroes & Friends Tribute to Randy Travis. Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers, Alison Krauss, Kane Brown, Chris Young, Travis Tritt, Wynonna, Alabama and others honored the man Garth Brooks said, “totally saved this music and this format.” The event raised funds for the Randy Travis Foundation which supports stroke research and rehabilitation.

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ADJ Entour Venue

ADJ Entour Venue

Building on the success of its Entourage professional-grade touring faze machine, ADJ has further expanded its line of atmosphere-generating haze effects units with the Entour Venue. This flexible, high-output, water-based professional faze machine has an integrated hanging bracket for both mobile use and for permanent fixed installations. Despite its compact form, the Entour Venue offers output of up to 15,000 cubic feet per minute, made possible due to its high-speed fan and powerful 1500W heating element.

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