LOS ANGELES – d3 Technologies named Matthew Cotter Technical Sales Specialist based on the U.S. West Coast. Cotter has been a lighting director and media programmer for the past 15 years, primarily working in television and on theme park spectaculars. He shared an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series” with his colleagues for “Dancing with the Stars” in 2014.
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DENVER – Lighting designer and programmer Andrew Cass has been a fan of the famously multi genre blues-rock-jam band String Cheese Incident (SCI) from Colorado since his schooldays. In April 2014 he was lucky enough to land himself in the hot-seat of designing their lighting – a long term dream job he absolutely loves.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – At the Frankfurt Motor Show (International Automobile-Ausstellung or IAA), some of the cars were lit with Clay Paky fixtures .
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LOS ANGELES – When STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9) began its U.S. fall tour, LD Saxton Waller decided to add Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s to the B-EYE K10 rig he deployed for the band’s 2014 tour, which included their sold-out concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Waller obtained the Clay Paky B-EYES and a full-size grandMA2 console from Brown Note Productions, Inc., in Thornton, CO, which has been working with STS9 for the last 10 years.
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NEW YORK – Squeek Lights LD Victor Zeiser provided Chauvet Professional fixtures for a tour featuring two hard-rocking bands – Senses Fail and Silverstein. Pooling their resources, the two bands were able to tour with an impressive visual design. Zeiser’s Chauvet-centered rig included six Nexus 4×1 linear COB LED fixtures, 12 Rogue R2 Washes, 10 Rogue R1 Spots and 16 Shocker 90IRC par style fixtures.
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NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites added two new team members – Allana Duyungan to the Technical Service Department and Mark Mistal to Sales and Systems Integration. Allana Duyungan is pictured here; Mark Mistal is pictured below.
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NASHVILLE — At the 49th Annual Country Music Awards, broadcast live on ABC from the Bridgestone Arena last month, mobile production specialist TNDV took on an expanded role as it returned to produce live streaming media and video packages.
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MADRID – Clay Paky and by its Spanish distributor Stonex hosted a seminar at the Matadero de Madrid featuring the concepts of lighting designers Al Gurdon and Peter Canning, who have lit shows including the Eurovision song contest, the halftime entertainment shows of the NFL’s Superbowl and the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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NEW YORK – Canal Sound and Light’s Jason Ayala and Jeffry Kwan used Chauvet Professional fixtures to transform a low-ceiling space on Manhattan’s far West Side. Formerly housing a bagel factory, it had been repurposed to serve as exhibition space. For the Global Spin Awards Expo, which required a staged awards show, Ayala used Chauvet’s PVP S5 LED video panels and Rogue moving fixtures.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Acoustic & Lighting System (A&L) held an open-house event on Nov. 17 to introduce Clay Paky’s The Projectors series: the Scenius, Mythos, Supersharpy and Stormy.
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NEWTON, KS – Hoopty Lights’ Erich Meitzner got a chance to return to his alma mater for a Newton High School musical production using color mixing LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional. Meitzner showed the high school students how to make the best use of gear including COLORado Batten 72 Tour RGBW wash lights and COLORdash Par-Quad 7 par-style fixtures.
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EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands – Philips Entertainment organized a new partner conference at the end of November. Mroe than 70 international distributors, dealers and rental operators flew into Amsterdam for the two-day networking and engagement event.
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