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Creative Technology Supports Video Needs for Mariah Carey U.K. Tour

Creative Technology Supports Video Needs for Mariah Carey U.K. Tour

LONDON – Mariah Carey is a musician that rarely needs any introduction after two decades in music and a collection of much-loved classics. At the start of March, the singer began her European tour, Sweet Sweet Fantasy, by returning to the UK after 13 years away. Working for the production team behind the tour, Creative Technology (CT) supplied seven Panasonic projectors which were used to feed playback content onto a number of upstage panels, all driven by Photon. The panels were able to move across the stage with the projection tracking and following the movements.

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Blizzard Solar Cell

Blizzard Solar Cell

Blizzard Lighting’s Solar Cell LED blinder eatures 2x 100-watt mega bright 3200-3500K warm white LEDs that are capable of high impact 2-pixel strobe effects along with its 80° beam angle, making this fixture perfect for concert audience abuse and crowd blinding. With a CRI of 92, the Solar Cell is also well suited for theatre and house of worship use. This pro fixture features a 4-button LED control panel that allows total control over the fixture. Auto, master/slave, and sound active modes are just the tip of the iceberg along with full DMX control. The Solar Cell features PowerCON “TRUE”power connections and 3-pin DMX input and output connections.

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Lou Reed's Drones

Big Ears Festival Returns with Bandit Lites

KNOXVILLE, TN – In what has been hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as “the most adventurously programmed music festival in America,” The Big Ears Music Festival returned for its fifth year. Created and produced by AC Entertainment, Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for one of Knoxville’s newest event spaces, The Standard. Bandit lighting programmer Wayne Lotoza used Vari-Lite, Source Four and Martin Atomic strobes with a  Road Hog console for control for most of the acts, and for an installation piece entitled Drones, he also used GRNLite Washes, ETC Source Four  LED units, Robe Color Blocks and a mirror ball.

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GoVision Teams with Dallas Love Field to Showcase Texas Music

GoVision Teams with Dallas Love Field to Showcase Texas Music

DALLAS – Travelers heading to and from Dallas Love Field may want to start carving out a little extra time to spend at the busy airport. No, we’re not forecasting flight delays or security checkpoint issues…we’re talkin’ Texas music, live on-stage! In one of the most unusual and welcome innovations in modern air travel, Dallas Love Field is teaming with North Texas businesses and the Texas Music Project to bring rising stars and established Texas artists alike to a new performance stage in the lobby of the airport’s main terminal. The stage, which debuted Monday, April 4, is positioned inside the secure area, near the food court.

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tvONE Shipping 1T-MV-8474 4K Multiviewer

tvONE Shipping 1T-MV-8474 4K Multiviewer

 tvONE is now shipping their new 1T-MV-8474 4K Multiviewer. The 1T-MV-8474 is the latest product in tvONE’s range of 4K enabled products. It can display up to four video windows simultaneously via sixteen different fixed layouts, which can be recalled to present content in a variety of combinations. Combinations can vary from a straight forward Quad split, Picture-In-Picture, Triple, Side-By-Side, Full screen or something more complex with multiple layers.

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Event Tech Names Petra Compel Account Executive

Event Tech Names Petra Compel Account Executive

BALTIMORE – Event Tech named Event Tech account executive. Compel has 25 years of special events experience along with local market savvy in the Baltimore/DC region. Prior to joining Event Tech, she served for many years as one of Event Tech’s customers. A director at Feats Inc. in Baltimore, Petra produced hundreds of events for corporate, educational, and convention clients over a ten year period, and many times would rely on Event Tech to provide the technical equipment and staff.

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More than 500 Elation fixtures were used for Ultra Music Festival 2016. Photo by Adam Kaplan of ASK Media.

Ultra Music Festival 2016 Featured 500+ Elation Fixtures

MIAMI — Described as “three-days of fast beats, loud drops, beautiful people, and so many lights” by Billboard, many of those luminaires used on Ultra Music Festival again bore the Elation Professional logo with well over 500 Elation products in action on several stages at Miami’s biggest EDM party of the year. Some 165,000 people jammed into Miami’s Bayfront Park March 24-26 for Ultra’s 18th incarnation.

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Christie GS Series Laser Phosphor Projectors

Christie GS Series Laser Phosphor Projectors

Christie enhanced its 1DLP lineup of projection gear with the addition of four new GS Series laser phosphor projectors, including two HD models with BoldColor Technology. The projectors promise true-to-life images in a compact package for discreet installations in venues such as corporate meeting rooms, trade shows, entertainment venues and rental staging. More advanced than previous GS models, the four professional-grade models use a grid-based warping and blending processor and also have an option for camera-based warping, blending or stacking to make setups faster and simpler. They can also be rotated 360-degrees and used in portrait orientation, making them ideal for complex setups in rental staging and medium-sized fixed applications. At only 35dBA, users won’t be distracted by projector noise, and the new, sleeker design blends seamlessly into any environment. Lightweight and compact, the four new models promise impressive images using a laser phosphor light source with a 20,000 hour life for low maintenance and a low cost of ownership.

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Bruce Springsteen tour photo by Steve Jennings

Bruce Springsteen Cancels April 10 Show Over North Carolina’s HB2 “Bathroom” Law

GREENSBORO, NC — Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band have canceled the show set for Greensboro, NC April 10 in protest of HB2, a.k.a. “the bathroom law,” which prevents municipal and county governments from passing antidiscrimination measures that could serve the interests of those who are gay or transgender. Springsteen posted an explanation outlining the reasons for the cancellation on Facebook.

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