BURBANK, CA – LiteGear, designers and builders of LED lighting gear for professionals in Cinema, TV, and HD Video industries has become a Behind the Scenes Pledge-a-Product Partner. LiteGear, which helped introduce LED lighting for use in Cinema and TV lighting applications, has pledged a percentage of the profits from sales of their new flagship fixtures, LiteMat+ Plus, to support the charity.
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NEW YORK – AV Stumpfl noted that WorldStage has been using its projection screens for more than 10 years. Michael Halper, vice president of staging at WorldStage, credited the company, which has a wide array of projection screens and related products, for product quality.
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MONTREAL – Montreal’s 22nd Bal en Blanc, Canada’s oldest electronic music festival and one of the first EDM festivals in the world, featured an exclusive attraction by 45DEGREES, Cirque du Soleil’s events and special projects company. Five Cirque acts performing during the Sultan+Shepard set were lit by an array of Clay Paky fixtures provided by 4U2C. Held on Easter weekend at the Palais du congres, the Bal en Blanc was produced by Produkt with One Drop as its official cause partner.
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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional announced that Jean Lariviere has joined the company’s sales team as Rental and Production Market Manager. He will work to build on the success Elation has gained in working with top lighting designers and exposing them to the Elation product line.
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HASSELT, Belgium – Creative visual design practice Painting with Light helped take Belgium’s 2016 Schlagerfestival to a new level of presentational excellence with an impressive multi-dimensional stage, set, video and lighting design. The event, which sold out so quickly that a new date was added to make it a run of six shows, was staged at the Ethias Arena in Hasselt, which has a capacity of over 21,000.
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GULF SHORES, AL – At the Hangout Music Festival, Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the main Hangout Stage, the Surf Stage positioned at the opposite end of the beach and the AXS TV Stage. Major acts this year included Jason Isbell, The Weeknd, Alabama Shakes, Cage the Elephant, Panic! at the Disco, Ellie Goulding, Florence + The Machine and Lenny Kravitz. In addition to the nearly 90 musical acts, those who attended Hangout could enjoy poolside seats, a Ferris wheel, volleyball courts, gulf seafood, waterslides, or get married by the ocean under a seaside gazebo.
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT – For a high-tech business conference called Domopalooza, Webb AV used 4Wall supplied lighting for keynote speakers including Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Josh James, and Steve Eisman, along with entertainment provided by Nelly and T.I. Staged by computer software company Domo, which was also making a major announcement during the March 21-25, 2016 event at the Grand America in Salt Lake City, Webb AV also worked with design firm UVLD on the project.
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LEEDS, UK – GLP’s recently-established UK operation wasted little time in working to expand the use of its gear in the U.K. market as newly-appointed head of operations at GLP UK, Noel ‘Roly’ Smith (pictured here, left, with GLP’s Mark Ravenhill), made the rounds at a recent trade exhibition in Leeds. The company featured its hybrid GT-1 spot and beam fixture at the show along with the latest accessories in the X4 atom RGBW line up. The company’s next big U.K. push will be at the ABTT Show (June 22-23, Alexandra Palace, London).
LADSON, SC – When LD Freddy Thompson of JDI Productions put together the rig for the recent national tour for heavy metal band Killswitch Engage, he chose Rogue moving fixtures, Nexus panels, Legend 230SR Beams and Vesuvio foggers from Chauvet Professional. Killswitch Engage completed their North American tour in late April and will be heading to Europe this summer.
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BenQ added to its line of BlueCore laser light source projectors with the LU9715, which promises an output of 8,000 lumens. The projector featues a dual color wheel system plus 360-degree and portrait projection. The LU9715 debuts in North America at InfoComm 2016, June 8-10 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas.
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LAS VEGAS — Each year, PLSN honors regional lighting companies with our Hometown Hero awards. These awards honor the best small companies in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest and Canada. PLSN readers — the people who actually work with these companies — get to decide who’s really the best. We are looking for your ideas on the best regional lighting production company in the U.S. and Canada. Let us know your faves (and, yes, you can nominate your own company).
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