AUSTIN, TX – MTVU’s Woodie Awards returned to SXSW in Austin, Texas where Clay Paky Scenius moving head spotlights made their show debut during the performance of London-based electro-pop artist Jack Garratt. Tom Kenny also returned for the third consecutive year as lighting designer of the show, which celebrates the music voted best by college students.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – On Feb. 20 at White Night Melbourne 2016, TDC – Technical Direction Company achieved a projection mapping first inside La Trobe Reading Room of The State Library of Victoria. On the façade of the Library building itself, TDC immersed audiences in a myriad of illuminated video projections.
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Chroma-Q’s Space Force LED Soft Light, featured at Prolight + Sound 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany, is available in North America as well and is now shipping. The Space Force is a cutting-edge variable white LED Space Light that is a modern replacement for conventional space lights or soft light sources commonly used in film and TV studios around the world. The fixture benefits from cool running, energy efficiency, lightweight design and minimum maintenance.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Laserworld launched several new products at this year’s ProlightSound, including worldwide debuts for RTI NEO SIX RGB beam arrays (pictured here) and the HB-Laser Poseidon 3D-HydroMatrix HD.
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VEJLE, Denmark — Vejle Musikteater, a performing arts venue that is home to a 1,134-seat Great Hall and the 300-seat Jacob Gade Hall, upgraded with new gear from Robe. The venue has invested in over 50 Robe fixtures, including MMX Spots and LEDWash 600 moving lights and PARfect 100s in the last three years, a move instigated by Technical Manager Tor Futtrup.
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BEIJING – Christie Pandoras Box media server system is showcased at the Christie booth #EB1-01 at InfoComm China 2016, April 13-15.
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GREENSBORO, NC – Dave Carr, LD for the Eli Young Band, used Chauvet Professional lighting fixtures for the band’s February 20 tour stop at the Cone Denim Entertainment Center in Greensboro, NC. The setup included eight Ovation E-190WW LED ellipsoidals, four Rogue RH1 Hybrids, eight Legend 412z moving wash fixtures and 22 COLORado 1-Quad Zoom Tour par style fixtures.
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Mountain Productions’ MTN BOX: Spektrum Series SM road case offers the same high level of durability and versatility as the original MTN BOX design, but in a smaller, more compact size. This road case is designed to optimize truck packs and provides an adaptable storage system for users looking for a manageable sized case that’s tougher than the road traveled.
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Sommer Cable America is introducing their DVM-HDT-KIT– HDMI Engineers Toolkit with 4K and HDMI 2.0 support at the at NAB show in Las Vegas. The kit promises to make HDMI installations easier for rental companies while also enhancing trouble-shooting and product development.
Read More »ARGYLE, TX – This is big. No seriously…this is HUGE! Bristol Motor Speedway will soon be home to the world’s largest outdoor, permanent, center-hung digital display. Fittingly named “Colossus,” the screen – comprised of 8,694 square-feet of state-of-the-art digiLED Toura 6mm LED panels – will give race fans an unprecedented audio-visual experience when it debuts later this month.
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LONDON — Prolyte launched its Verto truss at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt and invited attendees to take the Verto Speed Challenge. The Verto truss is based on a new principle of truss connection, where the sections are joined by a rotating coupler system.
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LONDON– Lumiere London lit up the winter streets of the capital this past January with an installation of 30 illuminated artworks by a contingent of international artists. Two of the installations, at Oxford Circus and on the BAFTA façade, featured d3 Technologies’ creative solutions deployed by QED Productions.
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