KANSAS CITY, MO – Sublime with Rome has hit the road for a North American summer tour featuring 37 concerts coast to coast. Lighting designer Scott Warner of Karate Pinky Visual Design, LLC, Pittsburgh, has selected Clay Paky Sharpys, Sharpy Washes and A.leda B-EYE K20s for the tour along with a grandMA2 light console for lighting control. Both brands are distributed exclusively in North America by A.C.T Lighting, Inc.
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LONDON, UK – Lighting rental specialist HSL supplied stage lighting, sub-rigging and trussing, architectural and site-wide practical and decorative illumination, electrics, power distribution, and full public address announcement PA – for the 2015 Opera Holland Park festival season in west London.
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UK – Triple E noted that its design engineer, Alex Kusztelan, has received his Engineering PhD research degree. Kusztelan is part of Triple E’s team working alongside founder and managing director, David Edelstein.
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BANGALORE, India – Christie opened an expanded facility in India. The official inauguration, during an event attended by customers and business partners, took place Aug. 14, 2015.
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BRISTOL, UK – Bristol’s ‘Love Saves The Day’ Festival moved to the new, expanded location of Eastville Park this year, dramatically increasing its capacity from the previous city center site. The move allowed for 27,000 music fans to enjoy the line-up and good weather. lighting, video and rigging for the three main stages. Fineline provided lighting, video and rigging for the three main stages.
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NEW YORK – LD Victor Zeiser of Squeek Lights and lighting director Kirby Naylor were able to quickly add Chauvet Professional’s Rogue R1 Spots and COLORdash Batten-Quad 6 linear fixtures to the rig for recent shows staged by the Psychedelic Furs.
Read More »FREMONT, CA – Blackmagic Design today announced it will make the optical fiber connection on its Blackmagic Studio Camera models a user installed option allowing the company to reduce the retail price of the camera. The HD model will reduce in price by $300 and the Ultra HD model will reduce in price by $500.
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NASHVILLE – The Team Beachbody health and fitness brand held its most important coach event of the year July 16-19 in Nashville, and Elation gear was there in force on what is, perhaps surprisingly, production company Visions Lighting’s biggest job of the year.
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ROCKHAMPTON, Australia – Ashley Salta, technical supervisor at Rockhampton’s 1,000-seat Pilbeam Theatre often employs projected media effects on their in-house produced productions to save budget, space, time and effort. Salta recently shifted to Green Hippo Hippotizer Amba, a 1RU media server that can store, warp, blend and map content in higher-than-HD resolution from multiple outputs, because it can be integrated into the lighting control system so the effects can be triggered with cues.
MADRID – The third edition of La Voz Espana, the Spanish version of the popular TV singing contest, was won by Antonio José, coached by singer songwriter Antonio Orozco. The series set records for viewership and was lit for the first time by TV LD Iñaki Irastorza, who used Robe’s BMFL Spots and Pointes in his design.
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CHICAGO, Ill – The summer of music festivals continues for Bandit Lites as they once again teamed up with lighting designer Seth Jackson and the team at 3SRCreative to provide lighting for Lollapalooza, one of the biggest musical events of every year. A record-tying 300,000 filled Grant Park to see the hottest EDM acts, legends and the music industry’s hottest chart toppers.
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