LONDON– It’s Frank Sinatra’s centenary, and to mark his 100th birthday, the legendary singer played the London Palladium. “Sinatra: The Man & His Music” brought Old Blue Eyes to life more than 60 years after the celebrated entertainer played the venue. d3 and its creative software suite helped Fifty Nine Productions, Ltd. deliver the show’s complex visual media content to packed houses of fans.
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USA – Analog Way Inc., a France-based designer and manufacturer of high-end presentation switchers and image converters, announced the appointment of two new representative firms for the Midwest and Northeast U.S. Bormann Marketing will cover the Midwest territory, while Sapphire Marketing will represent Analog Way in the Northeast.
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Elation’s new Satura Profile is an energy-efficient CMY color-changing moving head in the company’s popular LED-based Satura Series. The Satura Profile promises intense output from a 440W cool-white LED engine and houses a variety of design tools including zoom and internal framing. The luminaire’s LED engine is designed to deliver a total of 20,000 lumens, with output comparable to a 1200W discharge lamp.
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LONDON – London’s Barbican arts center has invested in Robe DL4S LED profile and Pointe multi-functional moving lights. They play a key role in the lighting system for the 1,943 capacity Barbican Hall concert venue.
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LOS ANGELES – 4Wall Entertainment Lighting has reached an agreement to purchase the assets of Los Angeles-based Entertainment Lighting Services (ELS). ELS, established in 1991 by founder John Chuck, is well known for providing lighting rentals, system integration, and special event production services.
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BERLIN — For Sunrise Avenue’s show at the Wuhlheide in Berlin this summer, part of the Finland-based band’s Fairytale – Best of tour, Stephan Aue used Martin MAC Viper AirFX hybrid fixtures and RUSH MH 3 beam fixtures.
ZOTTEGEM, Belgium — For Dance D Vision, an EDM festival that drew 60,000 fans this year, LD Vincent de Schinckel kept the visual beat with top artists with a dozen flown Legend 330SR Spot moving lights, mounted on the downstage truss, over the festival’s main stage.
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NEW YORK – Now sponsored by banking giant Citi, the Today Show’s concert series at Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center recently featured a performance by Selena Gomez. LD Peter Greenbaum included Chauvet fixtures in the rig. WorldStage supplied the gear, which included Nexus 4×4 LED panels and Next NXT-1 moving fixtures.
AUSTIN, TX – For the Eli Young Band’s recent show at the 4,000-capacity Nutty Brown Café & Amphitheatre, Dave Carr added 24 Next NXT-1 moving LED panels from Chauvet Professional to his rig, which had already included Chauvet Nexus 4x4s. Carr says the fixtures came recommended by Josh Peikert and Erich Meitzner of Hoopty Lights, the band’s preferred Midwest-based lighting vendor.
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ADJ’s new Mega TRIPAR Profile Plus builds on its predecessor, the Mega TRIPAR Profile, with UV-enhanced four-in-one LEDs. With 64 built-in color macros and the addition of UV to the color mix, users now have access to an enhanced color palette that includes hot pink, electric blue and lime green. The fixture is designed for use by event organizers, lighting designers, venue operators and mobile entertainers for effective up-lighting and truss-warming applications.
Showlogix, a developer of show and media control software, has released its version 1.6, designed for producing multi-display shows and interactive attractions in museums, visitor centers, trade shows, live shows etc. The new Timeline Object includes numerous layers of videos, images or sound, synchronized to one centralized timecode. This is done across displays and computers.
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