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Clouseau Tour in Europe Lit by Painting with Light

Clouseau Tour in Europe Lit by Painting with Light

HEUVELLAND, Belgium – Clouseau, the maverick pop / rock band from Belgium, hit the road this summer with a new album Clouseau Danst (Clouseau Dances); a new sonic dynamic with the addition of a four-piece horn section; plus a vibrant new set and lighting design from leading European creative design practice, Painting with Light. Coruna Lights is providing Chauvet Professional fixtures for the tour, including Chauvet’s Rogue R2 Wash and RH1 Hybrid Spot fixtures.

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Funny or Die Junction visited the Scoot Inn in Austin during SXSW 2016

‘Funny or Die’ Staged During SXSW in Austin, TX with PixelFLEX FLEXCurve 8mm LED Wall

AUSTIN, TX – LD and event designer Sohail E. Najafi used FLEXCurve 8mm curved LED video panels from PixelFLEX to transform Austin’s Scoot Inn for Cleft Clips, which was setting the stage for Funny or Die, the Emmy-winning comedy video website and film/TV production company founded by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy. The Funny or Die Junction event took place during SXSW in mid-March.

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Tim Brooksbank, CEO, Calibre

Calibre Adds Streaming to Scalers and Switchers

LAS VEGAS – At InfoComm 16, Calibre is launching a streaming video input option for the company’s 7th-generation HQView600 series presentation scaler-switchers, LEDView700 series LED scaler-switchers and HQUltra700 series live events scaler-switchers. Pictured here is Tim Brooksbank, CEO.

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Kansas City-Area Church Lit with Chroma-Q Inspire LED House Lights

Kansas City-Area Church Lit with Chroma-Q Inspire LED House Lights

LIBERTY, MO — Pleasant Valley Church has installed 120 Chroma-Q Inspire color-mixing LED house lights. Stark Raving Solutions worked with Chroma-Q distributor A.C. Lighting on an LED house light “shoot out” before replacing the church’s existing 500W incandescent house lights. The goal was to provide an immersive worship environment for its congregation and to dramatically reduce the venue’s ongoing operating costs.

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Education, Innovation, at Stampede’s Infocomm 2016 Drone Pavilion

LAS VEGAS — Underscoring the growing number of ways for ProAV resellers to profit by incorporating unmanned aerial vehicles into their immediate business development programs, Stampede hosted  eight subject-specific seminars at InfoComm 2016 at Booth #N-168, beginning Wednesday, June 8th and running through Friday, June 10th.  The seminars were co-hosted by Unmanned Vehicle University.

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The lighting setup for the Deftones on their return to the stage in the U.K. and Europe. Entec is supplying the gear.

Entec Adds Light to The Deftones on Their Return to Europe

LONDON – The Deftones, whose tour last fall was disrupted by the Paris attacks, arrived at Wembley’s SSE Arena at the beginning of June to play a large scale one-off show. The London show kicked off a series of European festival dates including Germany’s Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park, Greenfield in Switzerland, Download in the UK and France, and Iceland’s Secret Solstice, with lighting support from Entec throughout the run. Entec’s full production lighting for the Wembley show included Ayrton Magicblade-R LED battens, Clay Paky Sharpy moving beams, Martin MAC Aura XB compact LED wash lights and MAC Viper Performance and Profile models, a large array of Atomic 3000 Strobes with colors and copious amounts of generic light sources.

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Lasergraph DSP Updated with New Interface

Lasergraph DSP Updated with New Interface

The Laserworld Group started distributing Lasergraph DSP in April 2016, making the high-end DSP show control systems more affordable through a new licensing model. Due to “Master-Slave” licensing it is possible to combine several low priced slave-units with one master unit only. Along with the pricing structure, the user interface has changed with the latest release of the LG-Remote remote control software for the DSP. Laserworld notes that the redesign and partial rearrangement of features dramatically improved the look and feel of the software itself.

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Nearly 17,000 attendees including 8,000 students from 21 countries poured into Knoxville for the event.

Bandit Lights Global Finals for Students Participating in Destination Imagination Competition

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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