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At Alfa Future People EDM Event in Russia, LD Marina Larikova Uses 125 Claypaky Fixtures

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NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia —Russian lighting designer Marina Larikova dubbed Claypaky fixtures as ‘the best creative devices’ after using 125 of the leading Italian brand’s moving heads and strobes in her lighting design for cutting-edge electronic dance music (EDM) festival Alfa Future People, Russia. With global audiences of 50,000, the two-day festival celebrates the latest in EDM and consumer technology.

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London-Based BITC Charity Gets Down to Business with White Light

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LONDON – Business in the Community is a movement of businesses committed to continually improving their positive impact on society through corporate and social responsibility.  The charity, whose President is HRH Prince of Wales, have recently partnered with Accenture to launch a new report encouraging business to be part of creating an inclusive digital revolution. This report was launched as part of the AGM and Leadership Summit which was recently held at Central Hall Westminster.

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Phantom of the Opera in Stockholm Lit with Robe Fixtures

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Robe moving lights continue their run on high profile theatre shows worldwide, with the new ‘Phantom of the Opera’ production in Stockholm utilizing over 50 fixtures in total. The Really Useful Group (RUG) licensed production of the legendary Andrew Lloyd-Webber blockbusting musical has just opened and is scheduled to play the 1,650-capacity Cirkusteatern arena for a year, for which the Robe lights were specified by associate lighting designer, Mike Odam.

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FIX8Group delivers immersive digital experience at LeadDog installation

Immersive Lenovo Projects in London and Paris Get FIX8Group Assist

LONDON – LeadDog Marketing Grouo recently appointed event technologist FIX8Group to manage, design and deliver the visual and digital technology for a boutique experiential installation in both Paris and London on behalf of Lenovo. Conceived and led by LeadDog, the tech installation was built around a facsimile of a digitally enhanced underground train that featured an interactive LED floor, wall mounted touch screen technology and LED lit ceilings and walls.

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The holiday promotion had a mountain resort theme.

Department Store in Paris Highlights Holiday Promotion with Airstar Inflatable Lighting

PARIS – Airstar’s inflatable lighting technologies for the event and architecture industries, recently joined forces with the Val d’Isère mountain resort to inaugurate the “Christmas in the mountains” promotion featured by the BVH Marais departmetn store in the heart of Paris. Airstar Europe deployed lighting balloons inside and out of the iconic Parisian department store to celebrate the launch of the Christmas season.

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Elation DW Chorus White-Light LED Battens

Elation DW Chorus White-Light LED Battens

Elation Professional’s DW Chorus™ is a new series of white-light LED batten wash lights with variable white color temperature control. Useful for floodlighting surfaces and stages in even washes of dynamic light, a broad range of white color shades combines with the versatility of four different model choices to offer the ultimate in white light flexibility.

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Aftermath of Oakland 'Ghost Ship' Warehouse Fire

In Memoriam: Jonathan Bernbaum, Barrett Clark, Cody Stoltz

OAKLAND, CA and NEW ORLEANS — The first week of December was marked by the tragic news of the passing of three promising young designers, including video innovator Jonathan Bernbaum, audio engineer Barrett Clark and lighting prodigy Cody Stoltz. Bernbaum and Clark were among the 36 victims of the Dec. 2 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, pictured here. Stoltz, whom PLSN profiled in Sept. 2008 as a 13-year-old LD, died Dec. 5.

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Claypaky Lights up the Banks of the Danube

50th Anniversary Celebration of Linz Klangwolke in Austria Lit with Claypaky Fixtures

LINZ, Austria – Lighting designer Björn Hermann lit up the Austrian sky with more than 100 Claypaky luminaires for the recent Linz Klangwolke, or ‘Cloud of Sound’, held along the Danube. The open-air multimedia event, a mix of music, performance and visual art, has been a highlight of the city’s annual calendar since 1979. The Klangwolke presents a different theme each year, and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, the 2016 edition was presented under the ‘River of Knowledge’ banner.

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Production setup for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Concert

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Concert Uses ATEM 2 M/E Broadcast Studio 4K

FREMONT, CA – American indie folk band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes performed as part of the recent “Sound in Focus” event in LA. Blackmagic Design announced that Santa Monica production company Subtractive Inc. used ATEM 2 M/E Broadcast Studio 4K, ATEM 1 M/E Broadcast Panel and HyperDeck Studio 12G broadcast recorders as part of a live streaming and IMAG setup for a recent Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros concert at Century Park in Los Angeles.

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The setup for the event included Analog Way's Ascender 48 - 4K - PL multi-screen processing technology

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Congress in Poland Gets Visual Assist from Analog Way Ascender 48 – 4K – PL

LODZ, Poland – Hewlett Packard Enterprise gathered together its partners and distributors for the HPE Congress Partners Seminar in Łódź, Poland. Polymus Agency, in charge of organizing the event, entrusted the audiovisual design of the venue to PRO4MEDIA, a prominent service provider for AV technology. PRO4MEDIA chose Analog Way solutions  for this project because of the flexibility of the systems.

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Bandit Lights Up Good Morning America CMA Concert

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – Dierks Bentley was up at dawn to kick off the morning of the 50th Annual CMA Awards with a live performance on the streets of Nashville with Good Morning America. The televised concert featured a lighting package designed by Mark Carver and provided by Bandit Lites. The crowd was treated to hearing Bentley’s new single “Black,”

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