ARGYLE, TX– Marking its fifth strategic acquisition since the beginning of 2014, GoVision LP announced Feb. 23 that it has acquired the assets of Custom Design and Fabrication, LLC, adding decades of experience in the design and manufacturing of LED support elements to the company’s comprehensive portfolio of services.
Read More »COLUMBIA, MD – As a part of their shared commitment to empower today’s entertainment designers, Vectorworks, Inc. and Production Resource Group (PRG) announce that they will collaboratively develop and implement new features for Vectorworks Spotlight software. More specifically, PRG will work with Vectorworks’ research and development team to develop new tools and object libraries for Spotlight, the standard for CAD software in entertainment design, as well as drive efficient workflows that are crucial to the industry.
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Banda el Recodo has been making its distinctively engaging brand of music since 1938. The band’s lighting rig, controlled by LD Arturo Guevara, includes fixtures that are considerably younger. Guevara lights the 17 musicians with more than 140 fixtures from Chauvet Professional, including 84 Rogue RH1 Hybrid and 16 Rogue R2 Wash moving fixtures, 40 Next NXT-1 moving LED panels, six Atmos high-output fog machines, and 16 Data Stream 4 optical splitters.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Blackmagic Design has today announced that Mumford and Sons six show tour of South Africa, directed by Steve Price, featured a live to screen fiber optic workflow incorporating Blackmagic’s studio cameras, ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4K and HyperDeck Studio Pro. For the band’s first ever tour of South Africa, promoter Hilltop Live approached local specialists Militia Broadcast, with nearly 150 live shows under their belt, about supplying the IMAG projection, PPU, camera packages and crew during the band’s Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria gigs.
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NASHVILLE, TN – Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business (CEMB) stages its Showcase Series five times a year, showcasing the talents and technical skills of the students who run the shows. The first one for 2016 took place Feb. 13. Nashville-based Morris, a full service production and integration company, once again provided crew and equipment, offering students a chance to put their hands on real-world gear in an actual arena concert environment.
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LONDON – d3 Technologies added two new members to its marketing team. Nikita Bazalo is the company’s marketing manager, and Matthew Drozd was hired as a digital designer. Nikita, who hails from New Zealand, has extensive experience working in marketing and design for household brands in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Matthew comes to d3 from ThreeFourSnap, where he served as marketing manager. They come on board at the company’s London headquarters.
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LOS ANGELES – For Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s (TSO) latest ‘Letters from the Labyrinth’ tour, which included two TSO troupes simultaneously playing East Coast and West Coast venues, production and lighting designer Bryan Hartley once again strived to up the visual ante with video, lasers and pyro and a lighting rig that included more than 100 Robe moving lights on each rig. Each of the TSO treks included 60 Pointes and 44 LEDBeam 100s.
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SANTA CLARA, CA — Elation Professional lighting products were used at several locations across Levi’s Stadium for Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7, including CBS’ three main broadcast sets. Elation’s ELAR Q1 color-changing PAR lights were also mounted in the stage deck for the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show. Illuminate Production Services (IPS) of Sacramento provided the Elation products for CBS’ Plaza, Field and Tailgate Super Bowl 50 on-site broadcast settings. The event proved to be the third-most-watched television program in U.S. television history, with a reported 111.9 million TV viewers, on average, for the duration of the event.
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NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites is providing gear for three-time ACM nominee Thomas Rhett as he joins Jason Aldean’s “We Were Here” 2016 tour. Collaborating with both Thomas Rhett and tour manager Logan Kornegay, lighting designer Nick Whitehouse built upon their general concept to create the final lighting design. What may look like a standard rolling floor package reveals itself to be compact custom video and lighting lifts that extend to a full height of nearly 30 feet above the stage. Lightweight Ayrton MagicDot-R and Clay Paky Mythos both play a key role.
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NEW YORK – When the Broadway production, If/Then, began its successful run on Broadway in March 2014, a key staging focal point was the large mirror element tilting above the stage. To provide an equally distinctive focal point that would meet the touring production’s logistical needs, projection designers Peter Nigrini and Dan Scully were asked to reimagine the original production with a new projection and LED video component. Working with event technology provider WorldStage, Nigrini and Scully identified and implemented a unique LED video design comprised of 22 FLEXCurtain HD LED screens from PixelFLEX.
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MEXICO CITY – The people of Mexico enthusiastically welcomed Pope Francis to their country with a warm reception that included traditional songs and dances, heartfelt tributes and richly colored light from a collection of 24 Rogue R1 Wash fixtures from CHAUVET Professional.
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