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GLP Lights Up Hollywood for STAR WARS World Premiere

HOLLYWOOD, CA – For the world premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, LA-based NYX Design put GLP’s X4 Atom, X4 Bar 20 and X4 Bar 10 fixtures into service. Said to be one of the biggest film premieres ever staged, with the red carpet stretching for half a mile, the film was shown in three cinemas simultaneously.

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Light City Baltimore Set for March 28-April 3

Light City Baltimore Set for March 28-April 3

BALTIMORE, MD –  Light City Baltimore is a festival of light, music and innovation. The inaugural event will light up Baltimore’s Inner Harbor from March 28 – April 3 with art, music, performances, and an innovation conference. Central to the event, will be the 1.5-mile BGE Light Art Walk, with 50 illuminated experiences and art installations, musical performances, street theater and concerts, all free and open to the public. The event will kick off with the Light City Lantern Parade coordinated by the Creative Alliance on March 28 at 7 p.m., beginning at the Maryland Science Center and following the BGE Light Art Walk.

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National Football Championship in Glendale, AZ

Image Engineering Kicks Off 2016 with Lighting, FX for Top Football Games

GLENDALE, AZ –  Image Engineering spent the beginning of 2016 working on the two largest football games of the year, the National Football Championship (pictured here) and the Super Bowl. At the National Football Championship Image Engineering provided lighting, cryogenic and flame special effects for the Clemson University and University of Alabama player introductions. These effects energized the players and fans helping to set the stage for what was a riveting game. An audience of over 70,000 fans were in attendance and over 25 million viewers watched on television.

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Ryan Darling

DWP Live Hires Ryan Darling to Lead New Laser Scanning Division

NASHVILLE – DWP Live added Ryan Darling to its recently founded laser scanning division. Darling, who brings expertise in 3D laser scanning to the position, will work closely with the company’s projection mapping unit. He joins DWPLive after gaining experience at Darling Geomatics in Tuscon, Az where he’s worked since 2002, most recently as vice president of 3D technologies.

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Gregg Brooks

Syncrolite Names Gregg Brooks Technical Sales Manager

DALLAS – Syncrolite LLC named Gregg Brooks as the company’s technical sales manager.  In his new position, Brooks will work with existing and new customers in all product groups at Syncrolite including the newly acquired Strong and SkyTracker lines. Brooks brings 23 years of professional experience as a lighting designer, production designer, programmer and stage technician.  His career has taken him all over the world, working for top designers on concert tours including Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Cher and many more.

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University of Tennessee Event in Nashville Gets Bandit Lites Support

University of Tennessee Event in Nashville Gets Bandit Lites Support

NASHVILLE – Some of the University of Tennessee’s top students, including Hannah Robison and Josh Dobbs, who are, respectively, Miss Tennessee and UT’s football team QB, arrived at Legislative Plaza in Nashville February 17 to meet with Tennessee legislators during the 10th Annual UT Day on the Hill. Bandit Lites provided Vari*Lite VL 2500s to cover the room with patterns and colors, while GRNLite LED Battens lit the upper balcony walls. ZR 44 smoke machines gave the senators and representatives a dramatic entrance. Additional lighting came from custom UT gobos shot with ETC 5 degree ellipsoidal, while the stage lighting and control was provided by the venue.

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Eagles of Death Metal “Nos Amis” Tour in Europe Cut Short by Jesse Hughes’ Finger Injury

PARIS — The Eagles of Death Metal were able to return to Paris for a Feb. 16 concert performance at the Olympia music venue — free to survivors of the terrorist attack at the Bataclan on Nov. 13, 2015. But their 23-date “Nos Amis” tour of Europe, planned from Feb. 13 to early March, was cut short after singer and guitarist Jesse Hughes sustained a torn tendon in his finger.

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