SACRAMENTO, CA – Barco partnered with Moment Factory to support Imagine Dragons’ Smoke and Mirrors tour, which leveraged Barco’s XHD media server, projectors and High End Systems digital lighting.
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NASSAU, Bahamas – For the Albany resort’s White New Year’s Eve Party, Paul Francis Aranha and his team used Nexus 4×4 panels and Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional. They chose the fixtures in part for their bright output and brilliant colors.
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LOS ANGELES – Ramiro Aguilera of Show Production Technologies used Elation’s Platinum HFX hybrid moving head, Platinum Beam Extremes and Platinum Spot 35 Pro fixtures for the Resolution 2016 EDM party. The event, organized by Social Management Group and Heat Ultra Lounge, featured 3LAU, WeareTreo and ANDR3X on multiple stages.
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NASHVILLE — Earlier in 2015, mobile production specialist TNDV managed the multi-camera production for two pilot episodes of Skyville Live, the Emmy nominated music series that brings musical performers together with an intimate audience. The success of those shoots led to an invitation to provide turnkey mobile production services for a special December program, streamed live exclusively on USA TODAY’s website with sponsorship support from Gannett Company, the national newspaper’s publisher.
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HERTFORDSHIRE, UK – Drapes, ‘softs’ and special effects specialist S+H Technical supplied large amounts of red velvet drapes and a substantial custom Pea-light installation for the most recent series of the BBC’s prime time show, ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’ More than 4,000 Pea-lights bulbs were ensconced in custom set panels covered in red drape that served as an integral part of the production design created by Patrick Doherty.
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ELSTREE, Hertfordshire, U.K. – DLM Events, production riggers for the last series of the BBC show, Strictly Come Dancing, supplied various Kinesys automation and flying elements for the production, recorded at the George Lucas 2 Stage at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire.
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MONTERREY, Mexico – Pro Audio Producciones del Norte, a busy full production solutions provider led by Victor Gutierrez, provides lighting, audio, video, rigging, staging, generators and power for a wide variety of tours, festivals and events. Recently Pro Audio has invested in 24 Pointe moving lights, their first investment in Robe products, which were supplied by Mexico City based distributor, Vari Internacional. Pictured here, from left, are Victor Gutierrez and Alberto Garcia from Vari Internacional, Robe’s distributor for Mexico.
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NEW YORK – Columbus McKinnon Corporation (CMCO), a leading manufacturer of electric chain hoist and rigging products, has pledged its support for ESTA’s Technical Standards Program by becoming a Visionary level “Investor in Innovation” with a five-year pledge of $10,000 per year. Pictured here, from left, are Ken Tilson, Vertical Market Specialist – Entertainment CMCO; Lori Rubinstein, ESTA Executive Director; Mike Garl, Co-Chair Technical Standards Council; and Kurt Wozniak, Vice President – Americas CMCO.
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Flex Released 4.13.0 to customers in early January, 2016. The release included several new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes, including a much anticipated feature – assignable sound themes per user. Other new features include the ability to add a Resource Type selector on the schedule page for inventory models, a new interface when free scanning in non-serialized models, the “Scan Selected Items Out” option to the Ship Scan warehouse scanning screen and the Deprep Scan warehouse scanning screen, a “Hide if Zero” option to the Total Block settings and he ability to manually edit the price of a child tier (on a tiered pricing model) and have it calculate to the parent price, among other enhancements.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – Keny Whitright, founder of Wybron, which closed in mid-2013 after a 33-year run, announced the formation of Wybron Scroller Parts, a web resource for those seeking to maintain the gear that Whitright and his company produced from 1980-2013.
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LOS ANGELES – Pointing to the future, ADJ has unveiled a new corporate logo, with the changes reflecting the evolution of the company since its previous brand mark was created back in 2007. Losing its red and yellow coloring, the iconic original logo has been enhanced with a stylish all-silver design that upholds ADJ’s reputation as an on-trend company that crafts modern, high-quality products.
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LONDON – For the recent Star Wars premiere event, which took place in Leicester Square, Colin Bodenham of Utopium used Chauvet Professional’s Rogue RH1 Hybrid spot/beam fixture to light key areas. Bodenham positioned 24 of the Rogue fixtures at ends of the red carpet, on the cinema canopies and the portable stage that was set up for the event.
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