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Saks Fifth Avenue Light Show Gets Previz Support from 4Wall Los Angeles

[caption id="attachment_274448" align="alignnone" width="800"]Land of 1000 Lights takes place at Saks 5th Ave in NYC[/caption]

NEW YORK — Every evening, the 10-story-high, block-long façade of Saks Fifth Avenue lit up at 10-minute intervals from 4:35 to 11:35 p.m. with a 2.5-minute holiday light show designed by Chris Werner Design (CWD). Crowd-counters estimate that more than 500,000 passersby got a chance to see the 2016 show, titled “Land of 1000 Delights,” which ran from Nov. 21, 2016 to early January, 2017.

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Skepta Fills London’s Alexandra Palace with Lighting and Video Assist from VER

[caption id="attachment_274445" align="alignnone" width="800"]SKEPTA plays London's Alexandra Palace with Help from VER[/caption]

LONDON – For his Dec. 2 sold-out homecoming show at London’s Alexandra Palace, Skepta, a.k.a. Joseph Junior Adenuga, brought his brand of grime music – think U.K. Hip-Hop – to a crowd of 10,000. VER provide a video and lighting assist that included a 23-by-seven-meter upstage LED wall made from 600+ LED tiles.

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Tony Griffiths

Adlib Names Tony Griffiths Head of Special Projects

LIVERPOOL, U.K. – Adlib named Tony Griffiths head of special projects. With an industry career dating back 27 years, Griffiths has worked with some well-known names in the UK, including AS Green, Harkness Hall (now Harkness Screens and Hall Stage), PCM … and most recently fabric specialist J&C Joel, where he was a director for eight of his 12 years there.

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Blizzard Lighting Drop PC

Blizzard Lighting Drop™ Power Drop Boxes

Blizzard Lighting’s Drop™ power drop boxes are designed to give users safe and reliable power connections quickly and easily. These stage power drop boxes come in the choice of either Drop™ PC (powerCON™ compatibility), or Drop™ TRUE (powerCON™ TRUE1 compatibility.) Each model provides In/Out power thru connections on either end, plus a total of 4x 20A Edison power outlets (two per side.)

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The GroundShieldz crew in Washington

FPA Has the 2017 Presidential Inauguration Covered With GroundShieldz

WASHINGTON, DC – FPA (Field Protection Agency recently wrapped up its biggest project to date covering the National Mall for the 2017 Presidential Inauguration using their signature product GroundShieldz. FPA headquartered in Boston, MA with a satellite office in Nashville, TN is an industry leader in turf protection. FPA deployed nearly 750,000 sq. ft. of drivable and pedestrian flooring over the course of their setup, making this one of the largest flooring projects ever in Washington, DC. Utilizing sixty-four workers FPA was able to lay GroundShieldz down at a rate of 90,000 sq. ft. every four hours.

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Robe for Ras Al Khaimah National Day Celebrations

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UAE – Nearly 200 Robe fixtures were used by award-winning lighting and show designer Terry Miranda of Lighthouse Productions to light a special production of musical “Fakhrak Ya Watan” (The Pride of a Nation) for the 2016 Ras al-Khaimah National Day Celebrations on the eve of the United Arab Emirates 2016 National Day event. Ras al-Khaimah (RAK) is one of the seven Emirates making up the UAE.

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Anolis Ambiane fixtures

Robe and Anolis at ISE 2017

AMSTERDAM – Leading Czech lighting brands Robe and Anolis will share Stand in Hall 7 at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2017 in Amsterdam, Feb. 7-10 2017. As a major European expo for integrators and installers, Robe and Anolis will highlight new products for these markets including Anolis Ambiane fixtures, pictured here. Some of these will be incorporated into the booth design as well.

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The Bridge Anniversary Concert Goes Rogue With Aaron Kovelman

[caption id="attachment_274431" align="alignnone" width="800"]The Bridge performs under Chauvet Rogue lights[/caption]

BALTIMORE, MD – Coming off a year of touring with EDM artists such as The Chainsmokers, Cash Cash and Tritonal, designer Aaron Kovelman was accustomed to creating big slashing looks. Taking on an anniversary concert for his hometown friends and jam band legends The Bridge, however, required him to wear a different more subtle lighting design hat. He donned it very well too, creating some pure live band looks with help from CHAUVET Professional Rogue fixtures.

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Premier Global Production Supplies Red Hot Chili Peppers Tour with Claypaky B-EYE K20s, grandMA2 Consoles and Eurotruss

[caption id="attachment_274428" align="alignnone" width="800"]RHCP with a killer production design by Scott Holthaus[/caption]

LOS ANGELES – For the better part of a year the Red Hot Chili Peppers have played to fans worldwide with back-to-back festival and arena tours. The band’s busy schedule commenced last spring with festival dates in North America, Asia and Europe.  The European leg of the world arena tour began last fall, and now the Red Hot Chili Peppers have launched their North American world tour with arenas booked through June.  The tour is in support of the band’s eleventh and latest LP, “The Getaway.”

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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Malta was viewed by 3.9 million. Photo by Andres Putting PSB

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 Relies on Avolites Integrated Control System

VALETTA, Malta — The Junior Eurovision Song Contest (JESC), the youth version of the international televised music competition, took place at the end of 2016. LD Anton Borg Olivier designing a fully networked Avolites control and dimming system to power broadcast-ready stage and green room lighting. Hosted by Malta in the capital city of Valetta, JESC ‘16 reported a total live average audience of 3.9 million viewers across 14 markets; the biggest audience for four years.

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HES Quad

High End Systems QUAD Now Shipping

AUSTIN, TX – Introduced at the 2016 LDI trade show, High End Systems’ new QUAD automated luminaire turned heads with its optical quality, output and unique performance qualities. ‘A Richard Belliveau Concept’ and part of HES’ FX Series along with UNO, SHAPESHIFTER, and HEX, The company is very pleased to announce that the first QUAD shipments have shipped from the HES warehouse in January.

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