LONDON — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis recently completed their 2016 European/U.K. jaunt with more than 30 gigs scheduled from early March to late April. The lighting and visuals design by Paul “Arlo” Guthrie included Robe BMFL Spots and PATT 2013 fixtures. The duo are set to kick off their North American tour in Vancouver, BC later this month.
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AMSTERDAM — Philips, which split its business operations into medical and lighting entities back in Sept. 2014, with the hopes of spinning off its lighting business, has not been able to find a buyer willing to pay what it wants for the whole lighting entity, which analysts now value at about $5.8 billion.
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Blizzard Lighting’s Stiletto Glo19 beam and wash luminaire promises both sharp beams and wash capabilities. It is an 11° to 58° zoomable wash moving-head with under-the-lens “Glo” effects. This moving head fixture is equipped with 19 15-Watt Osram 4-in-1 RGBW LEDs with RGB color mixing Glo control on a secondary LED array underneath the lens plate for the background glow effect.
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LAS VEGAS, NV – Upstage Video’s West Coast team and local California entertainment design company, Tractor Vision, collaborated on the deployment of a curved, 3mm LED screen and scenic surround structure for NAB Show exhibitor, edelkrone. The end client used the 10’ x 35’ LED wall and scenic structure to display video content showcasing their new products and innovation.
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ATLANTA – Active Production and Design, Inc. was awarded three Allie Awards on March 6: Best Audio Visual Design, Best Event Innovation and Best Use of Media and Technology. The event took place at the Georgia Aquarium. The Allie Awards were founded in 1991 to honor those in the catering and special event industries in the Atlanta area. They were conceived by Tim Lundy, CSEP, who was on the boards of the Atlanta regional chapters of National Association of Catering Executives (NACE) and the International Special Events Society (ISES).
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SAN ANGELO, TX – For country artist Aaron Watson’s current tour in support of last year’s album, The Underdog, production designer LD Erich Meitzner is working with a rig that includes Rogue R1 Wash and R1 Spot fixtures from Chauvet Professional. 4Wall Entertainment Lighting is supplying the gear.
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KORTRIJK, Belgium — Barco NV has acquired all shares of Medialon Inc., according to a joint letter to Medialon customers from both George Stromeyer at Barco and Alex Carru at Medialon. The announcement follows several other big M&A deals among companies in the AV technology sector recently, including H.I.G. Capital’s acquisition of AVI-SPL, Diversified Systems’ acquisitions of Technical Innovation and The Systems Group and Mitel’s acquistion of Polycom.
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BIRMINGHAM, UK – The 2016 Bhangra Showdown (TBS) event produced by Kudos AV and the Imperial College Punjabi Society is a major Bhangra dance competition. This year the event moved to Birmingham’s Barclaycard Arena. The event featured an impressive lighting design created by Tom Grant and Nathan Wan, which used 80 Robe moving lights at its core – 16x BMFL Wash XFs, 18x MMX Spots, 24x LEDWash 600s and 12xPointes.
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ADJ’s Stinger II builds on its predecessor, combining an upgraded UV LED strobe feature with red/green laser beams. The Stinger II’s features list starts with six 5W hex-color (RGBA + White + Pink) LEDs. Next is the 30mW red/green laser. Then there’s the circle of eight atmosphere-enhancing UV 3W LEDs, replaces the original Stinger’s white LEDs. Along with strobe effects, these can be used for UV washes and color-embellishment. The Stinger II also offers 15 pre-set colors and stepper motor technology (1.8°) for accurate positioning and dynamic movement.
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MOSCOW — Harman’s Martin fixtures illuminated the 5th International Circle of Light festival in Moscow for nine days last fall. Several architectural landmarks of the capital city were used in a variety of multimedia and lighting installations aimed at transforming urban spaces into canvases for innovative works of art. Russian company LBL developed the concept of the festival, and the team collaborated with designers from gst.moscow to deploy a range of modern lighting solutions, including Martin fixtures, in order to implement their creative ideas.
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MIAMI – For La Banda, the Simon Cowell/Ricky Martin TV singing competition in search of teen talent for the next big Latin boy band, LD Tom Sutherland and lighting director/programmer Craig Caserta included fixtures from Chauvet Professional in the rig. There are 16 Nexus 4×4 COB LED panels, 40 COLORdash Accent RGBW fixtures and 20 COLORado 1-Tri Tour par style units, as well as a variety of hybrids, moving beams, spots and washes.
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LAS VEGAS – LD Steven Douglas worked with Ambersphere Solutions to incorporate Ayrton’s MagicDot-R fixtures within a large “K”-shaped element for The Killers’ live shows. The supporting framework was constructed by All Access Staging.
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