HAMBURG, Germany – The Frappant, an underground art gallery and artists residence in Hamburg’s Altona borough, was the site of a noted avant-garde exhibition “Der liebe Gott” (The Dear God). Among the pieces attracting the most attention during the 10-day event was light artist Boris Frentzel-Beyme’s “Deus luminogaster.” It makes use of carefully placed Freedom Pars from Chauvet DJ to make its powerful impression.
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NASHVILLE – For Gary Allan’s latest nationwide tour, lighting director and production manager Brandon Quisberg crafted visual looks using gear supplied by Elite Multimedia. Elite provided a full lighting package including Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpy and A.leda Wash K5 luminaires, along with Showline SL NITRO 510 strobes, Martin Atomic 3000 strobes, Chauvet SlimPAR HEX 6 LED PAR fixtures, and a GrandMA console for control.
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SANTIAGO, Chile – Light Initiative’s IntelliFlex and NeonFlex LED systems are visually keeping the beat on Blur’s current world tour, in a design by Dave Byars. Byars commissioned Light Initiative to create individually controllable RGB LED light boxes from its in-house-invented IntelliFlex LED system.
Read More »CHICAGO – Professionals and students across the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), landscape and entertainment design disciplines are invited to attend the 2016 Vectorworks Design Summit on April 25-27 at the Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park.
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LONDON – Light Initiative and FIX8Group will reveal their custom creations for the Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) ceremony this weekend. The eighth KOI Awards is this Sunday, Oct. 4, at London’s Troxy. The awards program is organized by The Association of Lighting Designers (ALD), The Society of Television & Lighting Design (STLD), The Fifth Estate Ltd and Clay Paky. Light Initiative (LI) was asked to create the table center pieces for the occasion. FIX8Group’s Richard Kenyon and Henry Crawfurd created the visuals for the KOI ceremony main screen, pictured here.
Read More »BELGIUM and the U.S. – Luminex Network Intelligence, which offers ruggedized, easy to use Ethernet switches for the commercial and entertainment industries, is expanding in the U.S. The company recently announced new sales management partners, agents and distributors across the country, including Techrep Marketing in the Ohio Valley, Camano Distributing West of the Mississippi and and Midwest AV Group, which will handle eastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
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LONDON -South London based live event and technical solutions specialist PR Live has invested in its own LED screen surface, with an initial purchase of 120 panels of Absen A3 Pro 3.9mm pitch high definition product, complete with all necessary processing and rigging.
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LONDON – High End Systems will be exhibiting on stand E8 at the forthcoming PLASA 2015 at London’s EXCEL. Once again, it is all about LED, and the Austin, TX-based company will be featuring its SolaWash Pro 2000, pictured here, at the U.K. show for the first time.
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SYDNEY – TDC – Technical Direction Company, creators of transformative video technology for the event industry, has been noted for their achievements at the Vivid Sydney 2015 festival of Light, Music and Ideas. The firm has been shortlisted in the Best Technical Achievement and Innovation category of the Australian Event Awards.
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LSC Lighting Systems’ Mantra Lite lighting controller is designed to control any type of fixture including LEDs and moving lights. Mantra’s App-like user interface and simple programming platform is helping newcomers to the world of lighting make great lighting shows.
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The Axis Psycho 5R from Mega-Lite is a new beam animation effect moving head fixture. Equipped with dual rotating disks that move at different speeds, the beam is transformed into moving shapes and designs, creating a lighting effect like nothing ever seen before. The unit has a powerful 5R Lamp with a 8000K color temperature. It has 17 gobos plus open, a 14 color color-wheel plus open and a 3 bi-directional rotating prism. It is also equipped with a 1-13 dual blade shutter and frost effect.
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LAS VEGAS — When TRU Night Club opened on East Flamingo Road in Las Vegas earlier this year, its location just off the busy Las Vegas Strip told you a lot about the new dance spot: it would be intimate and apart from – yet close to – the action of Sin City. They included a dazzling array of lighting fixtures from manufacturers including American DJ and Elation.
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