ORLANDO, FL – LMG named Rick Hyland accounts manager at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. His role will include creating and fostering relationships with current and prospective OCCC clients, as well as manage and oversee LMG’s operations and sales teams at the OCCC.
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KNOXVILLE, TN – Nearly 17,000 attendees including 8,000 students from 21 countries poured into Knoxville for Global Finals, the culmination of Destination Imagination (DI). The nonprofit organization works to motivate students to be visionaries in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Bandit Lites once again provided the lighting for the massive celebration, where teams from around the globe assembled to compete in challenges created to inspire creativity and promote logical skills.
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DRESDEN, Germany – For Die MEGA 90er Live, a tour featuring popular bands from the 1990s, Atlantis Audio teamed with Dresden-based LTI and used lighting products from Lightpower’s stock. Among the various lights used on the tour were 16 Clay Paky Sharpys and 15 Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s, with a control setup that included two grandMA2 full-size consoles, two MA 4Port Nodes and two MA plus MK2 Video Processing Units (VPUs).
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Eurolite’s DMX Move Controller 512 Pro promises high quality technology (including motorized faders) at an affordable price. The DMX Move Controller 512 Pro also gives users control over 24 DMX lighting effect devices with up to 34 channels per device.
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EXETER, U.K. – The festival season kicked off with BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend, at Exeter’s Powderham Castle from May 28-29 2016.The largest free ticketed music event in Europe is held in a different UK location each year. Artists including Coldplay, Mumford & Sons, Bastille, Biffy Clyro and Jess Glynne played sets at the festival. Serious Stages was on site to provide the staging on the grounds
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SYDNEY – TDC (Technical Direction Company) impressed the crowds drawn to Vivid Sydney. The light festival, now taking place during a 23 day span, includes large format projections at nine locations, including Royal Botanic Garden and Taronga Zoo. Pictured here is TDC’s 45-by-30-meter projection on the facade of Sydney’s first brewery, Carlton & United Brewery.
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LAS VEGAS, NV – To address the increasing demand for world-class large-scale audience experiences in major entertainment venues worldwide, Christie will be previewing the new Christie Mystique suite of tools, including software, hardware and services at InfoComm 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 8 – 10.
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic — At the Karlovy Lázně nightclub in Prague, each of the five floors plays host to a different mix of music, from dubstep to golden oldies. Unifying these wildly diverse scenes is a powerful lighting rig comprised of fixtures from Chauvet Professional and Chauvet DJ. Prague-based AudioMaster installed the 32 fixtures made by Chauvet.
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NEWCASTLE, U.K. – For the Sunday for Sammy benefit concert, staged in memory of actor Sammy Johnson in Newcastle, England, LD and set designer Eugene O’Connor used 30 of Clay Paky’s hybrid Mythos fixtures for a variety of visual effects for apperances by British performers including Tim Healy, Denise Welch, Kevin Whately, Christopher Fairbank and Charlie Hardwick among others
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — For Mamma Mia! The Party, a themed restaurant experience staged at the 450-capacity Tyrol restaurant in central Stockholm’s Gröna Lund amusement park, Chroma-Q Inspire and Inspire Mini color-mixing LED house lights complement the Greek ambiance that production designer Bengt Fröderberg created for a dining experience inspired by the musical and movie.
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ATLANTA – Kinesys is opening their doors and welcoming guests to its dedicated training facility in Atlanta, Georgia, for an event that will run from June 22-23, 2016. The event will offer attendees a chance to test and trial some of the Kinesys product line for those who want to know more about automated rigging for the entertainment industry.
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LAS VEGAS – U.K.-based 7thSense’s technologies will be put to use at seven different stands at InfoComm 2016, including Leyard / Planar (C7736), Crestron (C7008), SiliconCore (N948), Lightware (C4819), Da-Lite (1-H120), Electrosonic (N1127) and Vivitek (C7440).
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