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“We want to celebrate the Pink Floyd experience, not just with music but with lights and the entire stage presentation,“ said Anthony Macdonald, the LD who created the show.

Pink Floyd Tribute Eclipse Creates Stage Presences With CHAUVET Professional

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND —  It was never just about the music with Pink Floyd. True, the psychodelic licks laid down by the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers broke new ground, and yes their music resonates as vibrantly today as it did decades ago – but this band is remembered almost as much for its eye-popping shows as it is for its songs.  Pink Floyd’s legacy of bright, visually powerful stage productions lives on  today in New Zealand, thanks to a tribute band formed (quite fittingly) by a lighting designer who uses the color and intenstity of CHAUVET Professional fixtures to create lightshows that do the group’s legacy proud.

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Throngs of celebrants filled Cleveland Mall

Premier Event Technology, LMG and EventEQ Help with NBA Victory Celebration in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, OH — The Cleveland Cavaliers celebrated the end to their 52-year championship drought in downtown Cleveland, drawing more than 1.3 million fans and supporters.  The two-mile parade commemorated past and present champions, culminating with a rally on the Cleveland Mall. Premier Event Technology, LMG and EventEQ partnered with George P. Johnson, the overall production company to execute this event by providing audio, video, lighting, and LED to welcome home the 2016 NBA Champions.

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Brian Dowd, VP of sales at A.C.T Lighting, is also a BBQ chef. He and co-workers strapped on their aprons and began cooking real southern barbecue in the Soundcheck parking lot at 9 pm for meal service from noon to 6 pm the next day.

A.C.T Lighting, Inc. Holds Product Showcase and BBQ During Nashville’s CMA Music Festival

NASHVILLE – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. served up big helpings of home-cooked BBQ with sides of the latest products from Clay Paky, Robert Juliat, Chainmaster and Eurotruss at a showcase special event during the recent CMA Music Festival in Nashville. A.C.T Lighting selected Soundcheck, the premier rehearsal studio in Nashville, for its showcase venue. Area rental houses, lighting shops, and lighting designers and programmers were invited to view the products and fill up on some of the best BBQ in town.

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Stampede CEO and founder Mark Wilkins

Christie Appoints Stampede Europe to Serve as Distribution Partner

AMHERST, NY – Stampede CEO and founder Mark Wilkins, pictured here, noted that, after years of success taking the Christie brand, products and services to the North American market, Christie has appointed Stampede Europe to serve as a distribution partner for its Business Products, LED and Video Wall Solutions. According to Wilkins, both parties are confident that their successful North American collaboration ensures continued success with the UK as a new base and market.

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The Inspire fixtures are DMX controlled, so can be easily integrated into the building’s control system

Raleigh First Assembly Church Offers Worshippers Immersive Hues with Chroma-Q Inspire House Lights

RALEIGH, NC – First Assembly Church, an Assemblies of God-affilated church that relocated to a renovated 58,000 square foot industrial facility. installed more than 80 Chroma-Q Inspire color-changing LED house light fixtures to provide an immersive worship experience. Executive Pastor, Danny Collins turned to Douglas Hood, president of Indiana-based CSD Group, to supply a lighting solution for the new building.

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Elation Platinum Seven LED Wash Light

Elation Platinum Seven LED Wash Light

Elation Professional’s Platinum Seven is a high-power LED wash luminaire that promises an unprecedented choice of colors from a 7-color multi-chip LED. Designed to serve as a flexible color wash solution, it is described as the market’s first LED wash light that combines a seven-color multi-chip with such a wide zoom while maintaining a flat and even field of light projection.

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Enttec Aleph2 ET DX4

Enttec Aleph2 ET DX4

Enttec’s Aleph2 ET DX 4 (DX4) is designed to serve as a compact, energy efficient RGBW LED fixture for warm and cool white light along with a wide range of other colors. A total of 64 custom colors can be created and saved via the preset menu. The DX4 comes with 25 color defaults, including several whites, RGB Yellow, RGB Purple, RGB Cyan plus popular colors from both the warm and cool color families. The DX4 comes in three sizes: 300mm (11.8”), 600mm (23.6”) and 1200mm (47.2”). The indoor-rated fixture uses CREE XM-L Color LEDs.

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Professor Nicolai & Dr. Beckand on Dutch TV

Dutch TV Show, “Professor Nicolai & Dr. Beckand,” Lit with Robe Fixtures

AALSMEER, The Netherlands —More than 100 Robe moving lights, including 40 DL7S Profile “full spectrum” LED fixtures, lit the craziness and mayhem of the latest series of Professor Nicolai & Dr. Beckand, a “mad science “-based TV quiz show recorded in Aalsmeer studios in the Netherlands and broadcast on prime-time Dutch national channel, RTL4. The show was lit by Martin Beekhuizen of lighting and visual design practice Light-H-Art, with lighting equipment supplied by Eventec, a company based at the studios and a technical service provider for the majority of programs created there.

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The show is noted for adventurous couture and lighting schemes.

LD Rick Kay Uses GLP X4 Bars for Alternative Fashion Week in Berlin

BERLIN, Germany – LD Rick Kay of the CORE Berlin collective joined forces with local rental company Lautwerfer at the end of 2014 to help deliver the inaugural Alternative Fashion Week. The event has since outgrown its origins at local techno club E-Werk and, for the March 2016 event, expanded into Berlin’s Postbahnhof, a former railway station. Kay used  48 of GLP’s new X4 Bar 10 battens — 24 down each side of the stage — for that event.

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PixelFLEX FLEXCurtain screens at Analog Way Amercas' new Atlanta-area facility.

Analog Way Americas Grand Opening Makes Use of PixelFLEX FLEXCurtain LED Video Screen

ATLANTA – HWPco supported the grand opening of Analog Way Americas’ Atlanta-area headquarters recently, using FLEXCurtain LED video technology from Nashville-based PixelFLEX. The LED screens helped transform Analog Way’s 6,000 square foot warehouse space into an engaging environment for invited guests. The setup included FLEXCurtain screens divided into three sections measuring a total of 30 by 10 feet (WxH). The screen panels were hung from a truss structure rigged to the warehouse roof.

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Chauvet Professional Maverick MK2 Wash Now Shipping

Chauvet Professional Maverick MK2 Wash Now Shipping

SUNRISE, FL – Chauvet Professional reports that their Maverick MK2 Wash is now available. The fixture promises to open new ways for designers to incorporate LED washes into tours, theatrical productions and other applications. Part of the Chauvet Professional Maverick series, the fixture is powered by 12 Osram 40-watt RGBW LEDs and features a custom designed optical system, along with full spectrum color mixing and impressive brightness and speed.

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