ADELAIDE Australia – The Adelaide Conventions Centre’s new West Building, part of an ongoing $400 million expansion of the facility in the state capital of South Australia, has had all of its rigging, trussing and flying needs designed, supplied and installed by Sydney engineering and distribution firm, HME Services.
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PRATT, KS — The First Southern Baptist Church in Pratt, Kansas, had the kind of problems that most churches wish they had: they were growing fast and had reached the point where they needed additional services each weekend to accommodate the nearly 800 people in the congregation. Its physical plant could not keep up. Enter Builders for Christ, a non-profit that gathers volunteers to construct church buildings for needy congregations at no cost. Last year, the organization constructed a new building for the First Southern Baptist Church, one that far better accommodates their growing flock.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Swedish lighting designer Palle Palmé provided a pre-Christmas lighting design for Stockholm’s Berns Salonger using GLP impression LED fixtures. The ‘Motown Featuring Afro-Dite’ revue is one of the Dröse & Norberg entertainment productions for whom Palmé has been working for the past four years.
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The 2016 version of connectCAD, the connectivity design add-on to Vectorworks, is now available. Used extensively by audiovisual designers worldwide, connectCAD’s tools and commands are engineered to speed up the design process from concept to implementation in various installation projects, from AV to electrical and IT.
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AMSTERDAM – The 17,000-capacity Ziggo Dome welcomed Dutch singer Marco Borsato for his Symphonica in Rosso concert series. d3 has been the media server of choice for Borsato’s lighting and video team for a number of years. For the latest Symphonica in Rosso concerts the team deployed four d3 4x4pros with close to 3TB of content.
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MANCHESTER, UK – Lighting designer Olly Suckling presented a novel solution and lighting effect using 28 of Robe’s CycFX 8 LED battens to create a giant illuminated M-A-X-I-M-O sign upstage on UK alt rockers Maximo Park’s most recent tour. This celebrated 10 years since the release of their seminal debut studio album, ‘A Certain Trigger’ in 2005, which was also nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.
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AV Stumpfl announced their next generation Wings Vioso RX software which was shown for the first time at Integrated Systems Europe 2016. Aimed at quick and easy adoption by existing users, the familiar user interface has been given an extensive facelift with several performance and feature optimizations. The new render engine is based on x64 architecture and includes several base level algorithms, replacing standard operating system and driver functions.
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LONDON – On Feb. 4, the Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) Showcase took place within the Tower of London. White Light supported the event’s lighting needs, supplying a variety of CORE Lighting fixtures including StripPoints, Point30s, Flood30s, ColourPoints and PinPoints. White Light also supported the event’s production needs with video and audio gear.
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NOTTINGHAM, UK – In mid-Feb. 2016, Current RMS noted that they had reached a milestone – the 1,000-user mark. Close to 700 rental businesses worldwide are now relying on the system to manage all their rental processes.
Read More »KNOXVILLE, TN and MIAMI – Tomcat, a leading provider of structural aluminum systems for the entertainment industry, is expanding its presence into the Central and South American markets with Tomcat / James Thomas Engineering Latin America. This endeavor will be headed by Jose Luis Roche and based in Miami, FL. Roche, who has been in the entertainment industry for 27 years, is also the President / Owner of Roc-Off Productions, an entertainment company which has been in business for 18 years.
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KITCHENER, Ontario – The “Northern Lights” will be visible on Canada’s Parliament buildings again this summer thanks to a striking new projection mapping show delivered by 17 Christie 3DLP projectors with content provided by id3. The half hour “Northern Lights” show celebrates Canadian history, achievements, the majesty of its vast landscape and the diversity of its people. The 2016 show runs from July 9 to September 10.
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MIAMI – Abbas Ritscher from The Design Oasis relied on Chauver Professional MVP LED video panels for Jam Cruise 14, which featured performances by Dr. John & The Nite Trippers, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Galactic and more than two other bands on board. The video wall measured 10’ by 20’ and was divided into three sections.
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