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Airstage AirOrb

Radio Controlled, Helium Based AirOrbs Take Flight, Move with Soft Propellers

NEW YORK – The Mallorca, Spain-based company, Airstage, which has a production facility near Stuttgart, Germany, says its radio-controlled, helium-based Airstage AirOrbs are taking flight in venues around the world, including Radio City Music Hall as part of this year’s Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Flight control for the lighter-than-air orbs can be programmed or manual, and a soft propeller design lets event organizers use them without a net.

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GLP impression X1

GLP impression X1

GLP’s impression X1 is smaller than the company’s X4 S and weighs just 6.8 pounds, but it is capable of creating impressive feats with its four 15W RGBW LEDs including quick and continuous pan and tilt motion. Like other GLP impressions it features a small base and Neutrik powerCON in and thru connectors.

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Milburn Stone Theatre Stages 'Bring it On' with Vari-Lite, Selecon and Showline Fixtures. Photo by Scott Serio.

Milburn Stone Theatre Stages ‘Bring it On’ with Vari-Lite, Selecon and Showline Fixtures

NORTH EAST, MD – For a recent production of Bring It On: The Musical, staged at Milburn Stone Theatre at Cecil College, LD William Price worked with Philips Entertainment to set up a rig that included Showline SL BEAM 300 FX, SL BAR 640, and SL NITRO 510 LED luminaires, along with Philips Vari-Lite VL4000 Spot luminaires and Philips Selecon PLCYC1 LED luminaires.

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Sponsors Support Super Saturday, Industry Event Set for Jan. 9, 2016

NEW YORK – The 11th Annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday workshop, continuing its practical and hands-on educational presentations, will take place on Saturday, January 9, 2016 at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts located at 721 Broadway in New York City. Sponsors include City Theatrical Inc., Lectrosonics, A.C. Lighting Inc., Clear Com and Figure53, makers of QLab.

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A.C.T Lighting Partners Clay Paky and ImageCue Net Three Awards at LDI 2015

LAS VEGAS – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. joined manufacturer partners Clay Paky and ImageCue to celebrate their trio of wins at LDI 2015.  Clay Paky went home with two coveted awards for its lighting products, and ImageCue was named a PLASA members’ favorite for its small-footprint embedded server.  A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky and ImageCue products in North America. 

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Vision SL Equips DeLorean-shaped Cake Car with Chauvet Gear for Back to the Future Day

Vision SL Equips DeLorean-shaped Cake Car with Chauvet Gear for Back to the Future Day

LONDON – For a celebration of ‘Back to the Future Day’ (Oct. 21, 2015), Tattooed Bakers crafted a cake in the shape of a DeLorean sports car. Instead of candles, Vision SL used four COLORado Deco Quad 1 Tour  fixtures as front headlamps, two MegaStrobe FX12s for rear brake indicators and two COLORband PiX IP linear washes for bumper lights. Two Geyser RGB foggers, meanwhile, simulated plumes of smoke emanating from the cake-car’s exhaust.

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Robe BMFL Blades lit up the main stage at KAABOO in Del Mar, CA. Photo by Brian Spady-WireImage courtesy Robe Lighting.

KAABOO Festival Main Stage Lit with Robe BMFL Blades

DELMAR, CA – For the inaugural KAABOO festival, a three day, seven-stage music event, Nashville based lighting and visuals designer Chris Lisle provided included 20 Robe BMFL Blades in the main stage rig (on a stage dubbed Sunset Cliffs, after a well-known surfing spot.) Music headliners included The Killers, No Doubt, Snoop Dog, The Zac Brown Band and many, many more. “House” LD / programmer Matt Shimamoto and guest LDs for nine of the bands used the fixtures for their sets.

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