DUBAI, UAE – Luminex GigaCore 16RFO and BlackTrax tracking systems have been used to support entertainment productions, events, and award shows around the world. A recent case in point was a government awards show in Dubai.
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Blackmagic Design’s Intensity Pro 4K is a new PCIe card designed to allow capture and playback of high quality SD, HD and Ultra HD video on Windows, Mac and Linux PCI Express computers.
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ARLINGTON, TX – Dall Brown Lighting, with the support of Chroma Designs, turned to Syncrolite for an assist with the task of lighting the exterior of the University of Phoenix Stadium for this year’s Super Bowl. The project bathed the aluminum skin of the stadium in color for the NFL’s annual week-long celebration and season finale.
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MUNICH, Germany – Acrobatic performances and the play of light and shadows are the ingredients for the tour of Shadowland – a performance piece from the Connecticut-based dance company Piobolus. With their bodies, the performers create shadow silhouettes including those of elephants, faces, buildings and cars. Assisting with this shadow play are several ETC Source Four incandescent fixtures, as well as Gio and Ion lighting control systems.
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CINCINATTI, OH – USITT announced that 280 exhibitors are confirmed for its 2015 trade event in Cincinnati, setting a new record for the exhibition. The exhibitors list also includes 60 first-time exhibitors.The exhibition takes place March 19-21; the event including conferences runs March 18-21.
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CZECH REPUBLIC – Robe is sponsoring the team of tennis players who will be representing the Czech Republic in the 2015 Fed Cup women’s tennis championships. Competition runs from Feb. through Nov. 2015; the finals are set for Nov. 14-15, 2015.
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Blizzard Lighting’s G-Max 150 LED moving head fixture features a bright 150-watt LED light source, fast pan and tilt, crisp aerial effects, a 7-color +open color wheel and two gobo wheels, each with 7 gobos, including 7 that are rotating, indexing and interchangeable.
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LONDON – For a recent concert at Alexandra Palace, LD Ed Warren’s design for genre-defying music act Metronomy made use of Clay Paky’s Stormy CC. Warren’s concept was to engage the audience with a disco atmosphere that included strobe-heavy moments and glitteringly vibrant looks.
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SYDNEY, Australia – Sydney’s Luna Park has a new ride that raises you 50 meters above sea level for a bird’s eye view of the magical city before unceremoniously dropping you over 80 km’s an hour back to earth via an edge of your seat, white knuckle experience. Appropriately called the Hair Raiser, the ride has been lit in spectacular style acting as a beacon in the night sky.
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LAS VEGAS, NV – The Target ads featuring Las Vegas-based band Imagine Dragons that were seen by a record TV viewing audience during Super Bowl 2015 got a behind-the-scenes boost from Creative Conners. The company’s control products helped elevate the stage from All Access Staging & Productions that the band used for the commercial. The photo here, from All Access Staging, shows the stage in its lowered position; the image below shows the stage in its extended mode.
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AUSTIN, TX – High End Systems launched its Hog Factor national collegiate lighting show programming competition two years ago. Eligible participants include students enrolled at recognized colleges and universities throughout the U.S. The top college lighting teams in the country will be invited to the 2015 LDI trade show in Las Vegas, where they will compete for prizes including a Hog 4 console (MSRP $44,000), a $20,000 scholarship for their school and an internship at High End Systems, with the opportunity to join the company full time following a successful trial period.
Read More »Blackmagic Design announced the immediate availability of ATEM Switcher Update 6.3, which adds new advanced power macros that let customers operate dozens of switcher features instantly and in parallel with a single button press. The new power macros are unique because they are extremely easy to build and because they’re located in the switcher, they are available on every control panel for all users.
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