LAS VEGAS – Robe is ready to rock the LDI 2016 expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center October 21-23 on Booth 1715 where the featured product will be the new Spiider LED wash beam luminaire – the next big thing – from Robe, which has just been launched worldwide! Much anticipated, the Spiider has received a fantastic reaction, and it will be the visual centerpiece of the large booth with a special lightshow running at the top of each hour.
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LAGUNA HILLS, CA — Take1 Insurance recently launched its “Take1 Combined Crisis Cover.” Take1 describes the new insurance product as a first-of-its-kind offering for the live and special event industry. It is designed to provide immediate coverage of up to $1 million annually in the event of (or threat of) malicious acts including terrorism that are caused by an active assailant who interrupts or cancels a planned live event.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Thousands gathered at the National Mall to take a breath from divisiveness, hate and despair at Together 2016, an event whose mission was to “come together around Jesus in unified prayer, worship, and a call for catalytic change.” Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the July 16 nondenominational event, where Hillsong United, Lecrae, Crowder, Michael W. Smith and Kari Jobe performed.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. USA – Barco, the worldwide market share leader in digital cinema projection, will host a series of demo sessions at ShowEast showing the unique advantages of its complete laser projector portfolio, with a keen focus on the industry’s first 20,000-lumen laser phosphor projector for cinema. Visitors can attend the sessions at ShowEast 2016, October 18-19 at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach in Miami, Florida.
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ADJ’s Focus Spot One is a compact and affordable addition to the company’s Focus Series of fixtures, which also includes the company’s popular Focus Spot Three Z. Featuring a 35W LED light source, the Focus Spot One offers users remote electronic focus adjustment, EZ Gobo change and the ability to rotate all gobos at variable speed in either direction. The fixture also features a color wheel with eight colors, split-color effects and a built-in UV LED. Other features include a 16-degree zoom angle for short-to-medium distances; 540-degree tilt and 240-degree pan; and 0-100 percent digital dimming, with five selectable curves, gobo shake, variable speed digital strobing and random slow-to-fast pulse effects.
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SUN VALLEY, CA – GLP’s mighty X4 atom, the latest addition to its hugely popular X4 range, enjoyed its German television premier in the best possible way — when Thomas Gerdon selected 116 of the compact fixtures, containing the same high output quad color LED source common to the entire X4 range, for a new prime time series. They were used to light up the Capitol Theatre for a Saturday night series on the RTL network called Mein Bestes Jahr — a retrospective in which Germany’s top comedians showcase the best and weirdest moments of their favorite year.
FARMINGDALE, NY — Group One Ltd., the U.S. distributor for Avolites and elektraLite lighting products as well as DiGiCo, Calrec and other pro audio lines, announced that it is now the official distributor of lighting fixtures made by Italy-based D.T.S. Illuminazione srl. Jack Kelly, Group One president, and Paolo Albani, DTS sales and marketing director, made the announcement.
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ST. PAUL, MN — For a recent show featuring top DJ Hardwell at the Myth Live Event Center near St. Paul, MN, Ryan Warffuel and Max Koehler of Antic Studios provided a video wall and floor package using products from Chauvet Professional. Warffuel and Koehler used PVP S5 LED panels and a symmetrical array of Rogue and Q-Wash fixtures to create an even look across the stage.
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GOTHENBERG, SWEDEN – LumenRadio, leading manufacturer of reliable wireless technologies for the entertainment industries, is pleased to announce that Martin Professional and ChamSys Ltd. have chosen to add support in their respective control software for the CRMX Nova USB TX dongle to give their users easy access to reliable wireless DMX control directly from the console.
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LENEXA, KAN. — LynTec, a leading manufacturer of innovative electrical power control solutions for professional audio, video, and lighting systems, will display its expansive electrical options and new enhancements to its market-leading RPC platform at LDI 2016. Held Oct. 17-23 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the event will give attendees the opportunity to see how the platform’s new dimming control and panels can be incorporated into power and lighting control designs for AVL installs.
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LOS ANGELES — Tait named Michael “Mickey” Curbishley senior vice president of live event. Curbishley brings more than 30 years of entertainment experience including senior level management positions with PRG. Curbishley also served as co-owner of Light & Sound Design (LSD) and toured with top artists including Elton John, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, George Harrison, Frank Sinatra, Judas Priest, AC/DC, and Prince, among others. He has collaborated with Tait executives on many projects and will be based in Los Angeles.
Read More »LE CHAMP-PRÈS- FRANCE – Airstar, the inventor and world leading manufacturer of balloon lighting solutions, was once again involved in what is arguably the most important sports event of the year: The 2016 Rio Olympics. For the 2016 milestone sporting event, Airstar do Brazil deployed a total of 34 Flex lighting balloons – 12 Flex 4K and 22 Flex 1K – in the legendary Copacabana area. The lighting solutions were installed around the field of play at the Beach Volley Arena (BVA) and the Triathlon Stadium.