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Miranda Lambert using Robe BMFLs

Miranda Lambert Tour Rig Includes Robe BMFLs

STURGIS, SD —Miranda Lambert is currently touring North America on her “Keeper of the Flame” tour. Paul “Arlo” Guthrie’s lighting design makes use of 27 Robe BMFLs, including 19 BMFL Spots and eight BMFL Blade fixtures. This is Guthrie’s first design for the popular country artist. His design includes five wood-framed columns of LED screens alternating with six bent-wood lighting towers on floor bases. Above this, there are five upstage / downstage trussing “fingers” and two standard straight trusses.

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Hippotizer V4 Taiga used at Tonys

Hippotizer V4 Taiga’s run the 2016 Tony Awards in New York

The Tony’s Awards celebrate the best of theatre performance with an annual live broadcast television show from the Beacon Theatre in New York city. Viewed by millions, the show combines live performed excerpts from popular Broadway shows with the pomp and circumstance of a red-carpet award ceremony. Driving all of these video walls were four Hippotizer V4 Taiga media servers.

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Wizard of Oz utilizes Chauvet fixtures

Chauvet Sets the Stage for The Wizard Of Oz

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Not even the Wicked Witch of the West could scare away the crowds at the recent theatrical run of the Wizard of Oz, staged to sold-out audiences at the 2,000-seat Thomas Hassall Anglican College in Middleton Grange, Australia. To give the school production a professional stage look, technical supplier Showtools Australia specified a host of CHAUVET Professional fixtures, including 12 Rogue R1 Spots, 24 x COLORdash Par-Hex 12s, 24 x COLORdash Batten- Hex 8s and 2 x Vesuvio RGBAs to create maximum dimension and atmosphere on stage.

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PL+S China

2017 marks Prolight + Sound Guangzhou’s 15th anniversary

GUANGZHOU, CHINA – Starting from its first edition in 2003 to celebrating the 15th anniversary in 2017, Prolight + Sound Guangzhou has successfully transformed from a regional to an international business platform for the pro audio and lighting industry through the strategic partnership formed between Messe Frankfurt and the Guangdong International Science and Technology Exhibition Company (STE) four years ago. 

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Atomic Design Innovation Night

‘Design Thinking’ Rocks Innovation Night at ATOMIC

LITITZ, PA– ATOMIC, a creative company providing rental solutions, set construction, design and production services for the live event industry, hosted the inaugural event for the Rock Lititz Innovation Series. Presented by ATOMIC leaders Lydia Henry, VP of Strategy and HR, Daniel McPhillips, President and Rob Barber, VP of Rental Solutions, the evening was focused on “Design Thinking.” The interactive evening was a creative, fun success with employees from several of the Rock Lititz companies, including ATOMIC, Clair Global, TAIT and PEDG, among others.

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Fujinon Cabrio Lens

Fujinon Cabrio Lens Relied On for Canada’s IheartRadio Much Music Video Awards

WAYNE, N.J.,– Bell Media, one of Canada’s premier multimedia companies, produced a live-to-air UHD broadcast of the iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards (MMVAs) in downtown Toronto in June, with an extensive set up that included a 4K OB truck from Dome Productions. Along with the 4K truck from Dome, the outdoor event employed two audio mobile trucks from Broadcast Audio Services (BAS) and LiveWire Remote Recorders, an on-site broadcast control room and two audio mixing rooms.

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Virgin Media aided by d3

d3 Technologies Helps Virgin Media Showcase “Be The Fastest”

LONDON– It was an event of Olympian proportions.  In the run up to the Summer Olympics in Rio, Virgin Media’s new “Be The Fastest” campaign from Curb Media celebrates speed and the fastest man of all time, Usain Bolt.  How better to demonstrate Bolt’s blazing speed than with a 100-meter-long horizontal LED screen, floating on the Thames at the foot of the London Eye? A d3 Technologies 4x4pro media server running r13 software played a key role in the event.

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Water of Life

Hitachi Z-HD5000 Cameras Elevate Production Quality for Water of Life Community Church

WOODBURY, NY, — For Water of Life Community Church, video has long been an essential component in bringing its message to local congregants and followers around the world. When the non-denominational church recently expanded with a new facility and state-of-the-art technical equipment, they chose Z‑HD5000 HDTV cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) to provide the high-quality image acquisition they wanted to underpin their video initiatives.

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The show's finale aired aired live on May 17.

Season Finale of CBS’s ‘Survivor’ Lit with Elation Emotion Digital Lighting

LOS ANGELES – The season finale of Survivor: Kaôh Rōng, the 32nd season of the Emmy award-winning show, aired live on May 17 from CBS Radford Studios in Los Angeles.  Lighting designer Victor Fable has been incorporating digital lighting and graphics effects from Elation Professional’s Emotion digital light on television shows lately and recently turned to the new generation luminaire for the 2016 finale of the popular show.

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