PAINSWICK, U.K. — Core Lighting’s battery powered LED ColourPoint uplighters and PinPoint pin-spots were the lighting fixtures of choice to illuminate two venues at the 2015 Art Couture Painswick (ACP) event.
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LOS ANGELES — Christie worked with Disney for the Dec. 14 red carpet premiere for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Christie Global Professional Services provided 388 Christie MicroTiles, 18 Christie LCD panels and coolux Pandoras Box media servers to support the event.
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NEW YORK — Will uplighting fixtures work as downlighting fixtures as well? LD Blaine Hentz figured they would. For the the Want My Look and Bellami Hair Fashion Show events during New York Fashion Week, he flipped 48 of Chauvet Professional’s WELL FLEX units, positioning them on 12-foot-high silver truss structures to light the runway.
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LAS VEGAS — For some of Killers frontman Brandon Flowers’ recent performances, LD Steven Douglas has been using a unique lighting solution for a “close-up wash” — Ayrton’s MADesign.
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LONDON – For Christmas at Kew, the annual holiday lighting event at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Culture Creative once again approached White Light to provide the lighting equipment. White Light provided an extensive range of lighting technology including SGM G-Spots and P-5 LED Washlights.
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Roland noted that its compact and portable V-1HD Video Switcher, which can accommodate up to four HDMI audio/video sources with resolutions up to 1080p and features a host of professional compositing effects and creative video switching capabilities, is now shipping. The Roland V-1HD provides switching for up to four HDMI A/V sources including cameras, computers, tablets, smartphones and Blu-ray players, thanks to its HDCP copy protection support. Its high-definition output can be switched between 720p (from 720p inputs), 1080i or 1080p. In either 1080i or 1080p output mode, the V-1HD can accept both 1080p and 1080i input signals simultaneously, allowing use with a range of sources. It has a 12-channel audio mixer for mixing stereo audio from HDMI and external stereo audio sources and its dedicated microphone input. The V-1HD includes two HDMI program and preview outputs and a stereo audio output.
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AUSTRALIA – October saw the United Nations’ 70th anniversary celebrated on landmarks around the world, including the iconic rock Uluru (aka Ayers Rock), the only icon to have the UN logo projected onto it. It was the first time an image had been projected onto the rock face. Darwin-based Dreamedia performed the projection with a single Martin MAC Viper fixture.
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NEW YORK – Christie once again partnered with Barneys New York to create a the holiday window displays on Madison Avenue in midtown Manhattan. Christie’s digital lighting effects were mapped to a Dale Chihuly glass sculpture entitled “Winter Brilliance” and the choreographed projection of light creates the illusion of ice, snow, and moonlight, adding a fluid and kinetic quality to the sculpture.
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EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada – Apparently things aren’t only bigger in Texas. Some things are bigger in Edmonton, too. Recently, the FC Edmonton soccer club unveiled the largest mobile video display trailer in North America, dubbed TITAN. Mounted on a 53-foot trailer, the state-of-the-art LED screen, supplied by Daktronics (NASDAQ: DAKT), measures 39 feet wide by 22 feet high.
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NEW YORK — Production Resource Group LLC, (PRG), which recently announced that Chief Financial Officer/Chief of Asset Strategy Scott Hansen will focus on the asset side of PRG’s business, noted the appointment of Ryan Schroeter, pictured here, as Chief Financial Officer.
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JOHANNESBURG – For #FillUpTheDome, an Oct. 31 concert featuring South Africa-based artist Cassper Nyovest, Gearhouse provided a Robe-centerd lighting rig that included 60 Pointes, 38 LEDWash 600s, 12 PATT 2013s, 11 CycFX 8s and eight CitySkape Xtremes.
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NORTH CREEK, NY– Creative Stage Lighting (CSL) added SGM’s P2 and Q2 fixtures to its rentals inventory. CSL is a wholesale supplier and distributor of gear for stage and theatrical lighting professionals. SGM’s P-2 LED wash light is pictured here.
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