PLOIESTI, Romania – For a New Year’s Eve celebration in the Romanian city of Ploiesti, visitors to the main town square were treated to a fireworks display and concert. Temple Media provided a dynamic light show for the large outdoor stage, using nearly 100 LED fixtures from PR Lighting.
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DUSSELDORF, Germany – Entertainment industry engineering and automation specialist WIcreations provided a custom automation solution for the new Holiday on Ice show, Believe. WIcreations also played a key role fabricating the elaborate set as an efficient and tourable package.
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DUSSELDORF, Germany – For Believe, a new Holiday on Ice show with a storyline based on William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet (but with a more cheerful ending), Belgian design practice Painting with Light created the set, lighting and video designs. Painting with Light’s Luc Peumans imagined the set and worked alongside his team including Paco Mispelters, who created the lighting, and Michael Al-Far, who designed the video.
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AUSTIN, TX – Wes Lane, principal and lead designer at LIGHTfaktor (pictured here, left) noted that the architectural lighting design firm and custom lighting fixture manufacturer has opening an events design and rental division, led by Amy D. Lux (pictured right). LIGHTfaktor also recently signed on as a Robe dealer. Both divisions will operate out of LIGHTfaktor’s headquarters and showroom in Austin, TX.
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ADJ’s Magna Tube, designed for ease of use and compatible with ADJ’s metal Flat Par and WiFLY Par fixtures, features a magnetic adapter and a lightweight design. It serves as a new column lighting alternative to standard uplighting and par effects.
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CHICAGO – For the “Chi-Town Rising” New Year’s Eve event, broadcast live from downtown Chicago, Intelligent Lighting Creations provided 18 Aquabeam fixtures, sourced via SHS Global, to light the event’s key focal point: the rising star.
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tvONE’s ONErack, to be featured at ISE in Amsterdam (stand 1-M60), is a universal, powered mounting system designed to improve rack installation of small devices. tvONE’s patent pending design converts randomly sized, externally-powered devices from any manufacturer into slide-in modules that can be installed quickly and cleanly and serviced easily.
Read More »BRIDGEPORT, CT – United Staging & Rigging (USR) has been purchased by long time employee Jonathan B. Sharpe. The company is a provider of staging, chain motors, trussing, scaffolding, roof systems, rigging supplies and services to the Boston and New York theatrical, event and touring markets.
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ATLANTA – For the BMI Trailblazers Awards, presented at Atlanta’s Rialto Center for the Arts on Jan. 16 to honor achievers in Gospel Music, Magnum’s Todd Finch provided lighting and video gear that included 57 PVP S5 panels from Chauvet Professional. Scott Chmielewski and his team at DMDS7udios of Miami managed the custom screen content.
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Mexican rock pop band Mana concluded its Cama Incendiada World Tour last fall with a large complement of Clay Paky Mythos, A.leda B-EYE K10 and K20, and Stormy lighting fixtures controlled by grandMA2 consoles. Alain Corthout was lighting designer for the tour, which featured 107 Clay Paky Mythos, 54 K10s, 32 K20s and 36 Stormys in the rig.
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SAN FRANCISCO – When Apple launched the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco last year, Prelite Studios played a key role in helping lighting designers for the general session and for guest band OneRepublic previsualize the event before the lighting rig was set up on site.
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LONDON – Electronic metalcore five-piece Bring Me The Horizon recently completed a tour of the U.S. and Europe in support of their latest album, That’s The Spirit. LD Ben Inskip used Philips Showline SL NITRO 510C LED strobes to cut through the brightness of the show’s significant video element.
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