LOS ANGELES – Lighting designer/director Alex Specht of Spechtrum Lighting turned to the dynamic look of Elation Professional’s ACL 360 Bar effect luminaire for Danish rock band New Politics’ fall U.S. tour, teaming the continuous rotation batten effect with Elation’s warm-white Lumina Strips, among other lights.
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BRISTOL, U.K. – Lighting and visuals rental specialist Fineline was commissioned by production company The Fair to add lighting ambience to the Islington Square Festival of Culture, a four day event organized by the company at the heart of redeveloping the former site of the N1 post sorting office into a new and vibrant commercial and residential hub, due to launch in 2017.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Full Flood LD Matthew Firestone included GLP’s X4 Atom in the rig used for the performance stage during the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in front of the White House Dec. 3. President Obama threw the ceremonial switch, and Reese Witherspoon hosted the show. Firestone also used GLP’s impression X4 fixtures for the event. Matt Shimamoto programmed the show on a grandMA2.
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BALTIMORE — The animated clock on the big building counted down as 2015 came to an end. A large crowd gathered in the streets to watch the glistening ball drop to welcome the New Year. This was not Times Square, though — this was Baltimore. At GAME Sports & Spirits in the heart of the city between the Baltimore Ravens’ M&T Bank Stadium and Horseshoe Casino, X-Laser projectors generated vivid laser effects to help create the atmosphere for Baltimore’s first New Year’s Eve ball drop.
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WESTLAKE, TX. – The ESTA Control Protocols Plugfest, the event where manufacturers and developers can test their products for interoperability with other manufacturers’ products, is scheduled to take place Jan. 29 through Feb. 1 at the D/FW Marriott Solana in Westlake, TX. Attendees bring controllers, intelligent lights, control protocol analyzers, and various other tools and devices, in an effort to seek out and resolve interoperability challenges. People attend from all around the world to plug into this network and improve their products.
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MOBILE, AL – For the International Congress of Airbus’ Suppliers, which took place at the Arthur Outlaw Convention Center, AV service provider LCD Vision used Analog Way’s Ascender 48, a multi-screen seamless switcher with soft-edge blending capabilities, to meet the event’s live video production needs.
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ROSEMONT, IL – LD Collyns Stenzel of White Light AV transformed space within the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL into party central for a series of house music artists taking the stage for React Presents’ Reaction New Year’s Eve festival, a two-day event. Stenzel used 96 Chauvet COLORado Batten 144 Tour RGBWA linear washes arranged in V-shaped configurations flown from upstage truss.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Clay Paky fixtures including Mythos, B-Eyes, Sharpys and Alpha Spot 700 HPE are amping up the visual energy within Colosseum, a mega-nightclub now drawing crowds with world-class DJs.
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SEOUL, South Korea – Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K10 luminaires are part of an elaborate lighting system that provides visitors with an immersive viewing experience at Grévin Seoul, the first Asian location of the famous waxwork museum Grévin Paris.
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TAMPA, FL – Revelers coming to the Amphitheatre seeking an immersive experience on New Year’s Eve found what they were looking for at the lofty two-story club, which has become a familiar stop on the EDM circuit. Lighting designer Brett Lorins of Brett Lorins Design brought fixtures from Chauvet Professional to the party.
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DALLAS – Jimmy Page Henderson, 69, died Jan. 5. Known for playing a key role in the live events industry, he joined founder Jack Calmes at Showco in 1972 as their first and only salesman after being involved with concert promotions and nightclub management. Jimmy again teamed with Calmes to help build Syncrolite in 1991, and worked there for more than two decades. In a striking coincidence, his death comes one year to the day after Calmes’ passing.
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