NASHVILLE, Tn. – More than 150,000 people turned out for what the city of Nashville hailed as the largest Fourth of July firework show in the country. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for Music City July 4th: Let Freedom Sing!, where Martina McBride, Missy Ekko and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra performed.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium — Jo Van den Wijngaerde, manager of Soundfield Productions, credited Rogue R2 Washes from Chauvet Professional for their role in complementing an immersive projected video installation called ‘Discover the Power of Light.’ Soundfield Productions collaborated on the project with B-Phot, the photonics research group of the Vrije Universiteit of Brussels (VUB).
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LOS ANGELES – Three MA Lighting dot2 XL-F consoles recently purchased by Strictly FX, the live special effects (SFX) company based in Wood Dale, Illinois, have been flying out the door since they arrived. The dot2s have been deployed on Luke Bryan’s concert tour, the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, “Dancing With The Stars” and more. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America.
Read More »FORT WORTH, TX — In the new headquarters of Bell Helicopter a convex video wall greets visitors in the main lobby. The screen, measuring 8.4 square meters, is made from 48 omniSHAPES from eyevis. It displays 8192 x 4608 pixels and is able to be seen clearly despite the area’s ambient light.
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BRISTOL, U.K. — Bristol based lighting and video rental specialist Fineline enjoyed another ‘Sessions’ season at the Eden Project in Cornwall, providing production lighting, LED screen, trussing and rigging for the 2015 Eden Sessions – seven high profile concerts with a diverse line up including Elton John (2 shows), Paolo Nutini, Paloma Faith, Motorhead (pictured here), The Stranglers, Spandau Ballet and Ben Howard.
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NEW YORK – NY CityFest with evangelist Luis Palau featured a free outdoor concert held July 11 on Central Park’s Great Lawn. Gordon Painter and Kevin Shaw designed the show visuals, which included 280 EPT6IP panels from Elation. Boston-based Audio Spectrum provided the screens and staging, with a sub-rental assist from Elation dealer Gemini Light, Sound & Video.
Read More »MUNICH, Germany – Astera has partnered with Kaiser Showtechnik GmbH as a stocking dealer for Astera’s wireless event lights in Germany. Kaiser, based in Augsburg, Bavaria, will assist end users throughout Germany.
Read More »LOS ANGELES – Zylight, a manufacturer of innovative LED lighting solutions, named BLV as its exclusive distributor in Germany and Austria.
Read More »TORRANCE, CA – Luminit LLC, a privately held high technology company specializing in custom and standard holographic light shaping diffusers, announced that its propriety Light Shaping Diffusers (LSDs) have been added to Optis’ SPEOS optical modeling and simulation library.
Read More »LOS ANGELES –Christie is participating in an Emerging Technologies demonstration displaying its latest digital “sandbox.” Attendees will also see Christie projection technology in action across the conference, including lighting up BARTKRESA Design’s Shogyo Muyo 360-degree projection mapping installation.
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LAUREL, MD — Over the last eight months, X-Laser USA has worked to engineer new products that make more possible with less. “Less,” in this case, is the removal of vertical scanning via the Y-Axis in their newly released Aurora laser projectors. Contrary to conventional thinking, removing vertical scanning actually creates the best, brightest and safest version of a “liquid sky machine.” The new Aurora 4C and Aurora 4G models give users the ability to simply and easily make stunning “liquid sky” effects on a flat plane.
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COLOGNE – make.tv is driving the revolution toward cloud-based TV production further forward with its latest development, make.tv ACQUIRE. The new plugin enables third-party solution providers to integrate the functions of the make.tv Live Video Cloud into their own applications. As part of this development, make.tv is pleased to announce that Avid® has certified the integration of the make.tv ACQUIRE plugin within the Avid MediaCentral™ Platform ecosystem, using the Avid Connectivity Toolkit.
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