MIAMI BEACH, Florida — For the Pulse event at New World Symphony (NWS) and its New World Center, which featured musicians, a DJ and dancers, Director of Lighting Luke Kritzeck used the facility’s own stock of elektraLite Dazer fixtures to transform the concert hall into a late-night lounge of sorts. Barbizon of Miami provided additional gear for the event.
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ANTWERP, Belgium – Painting with Light’s Luc Peumans energized a creative team to deliver video content for a 3D digital set and lighting design for the Judas TheaterProducties staging of Helene Fourment. The new musical focuses on Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens’ young muse. It was staged at the Fakkeltheater in Antwerp. Painting with Light’s Michael Al Far created the video content and Jeroen Opsteyn was associate lighting designer and also programmed the lighting with Luc. All worked very closely with set designer Arno Bremers.
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AUKLAND, NZ – The 53rd Halberg Awards, which honor New Zealand’s top sporting achievements, involved a collaboration between the event’s lighting, audio and LED screens supplier, Oceania, broadcast partner OSB and broadcaster SKY TV which runs the show and manages content for the three-hour live telecast. Thirty Robe BMFL Spots and 20 Pointes were included in the lighting rig this year, among other fixtures, all of which were rigged in the Vector Arena, Auckland.
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TORONTO – When the National Hockey League’s Toronto Maple Leafs step onto the Air Canada Centre ice for each home game, they are greeted by a celebration of their rich history with a stunning on-ice projection mapping display. Installed by Solotech, the 12 Christie Roadster WU20K-J projectors are stacked in six sets of two around the arena and help celebrate a team with 13 Stanley Cup titles and its ‘Leaf Nation’ fan base.
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ATLANTA – LD Steve Lieberman updated the look within Atlanta’s Tongue and Groove nightclub, giving the club’s semi-circular DJ booth a sense of energy and movement using ÉPIX panels from Chauvet Professional. In all, there are now 181 12” square ÉPIX Tile 2.0 panels animating the booth.
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LOS ANGELES – Elation is reporting strong interest in its Platinum FLX hybrid moving head among rental companies and lighting designers in the U.S. and Europe, with strong sales for the award-winning multifunctional fixture since hitting the market last fall.
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LONDON – Self-adhesive switchable smart film from Pro Display’s Intelligent Glass division featured in the high-profile reveal of the new Rolls Royce Dawn Drophead Coupe. Creative agency JUSTSO covered the windows of Harrods London, one of the most exclusive advertising spaces in the world, with switchable smart film to create a very special launch experience.
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LAS VEGAS – Munich-based DoPchoice will be featuring its Snap Technology, Snapgrids, Snapbags and Butterfly grids at the 2016 NAB show in booth C11146. The products promise filmmakers with easy set-up and teardown.
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AAdyn Technology (AAdynTech) noted that four models in the company’s JAB and Punch fixture lines now have increases of at least 30 percent in output while holding the line on energy consumption. The enhanced fixtures include the JAB Daylight, JAB V2 Variable, JAB Hurricane, and Punch Plus, pictured here, which is nearly 50 percent brighter than before.
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GENK, Belgium – Painting With Light’s Luc Peumans used 16 Geyser RGB LED effect foggers from Chauvet DJ to add an ethereal vibe to the 2015 European Holiday on Ice production, Passion. The Geyser RGB uses 21 3-watt RGB LEDs to illuminate columns of water based fog that shoot from the machine.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan – ETC’s Taiwanese dealer, Ming Li Engineering & Consultant Co., LTD., provided ColorSource and Source Four LED Series 2 luminaires and an Eos-family control system to light up two events organized by Taiwan’s Dharma Drum Mountain (DDM): he second Global Followers Assembly and the annual Great Compassion Water and Land Dharma Service.
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