BARCELONA – LD Steve Nield used more than 150 Robe moving lights for an event at the 2014 Mobile World Congress staged by a Chinese telecom company. The design included 72 Robe ROBIN Pointe fixtures and 80 Robe ROBIN LEDWash 800s.
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MILAN, Italy – The Salvatore Ferragamo Fashion Show during Milan Fashion Week took place recently under no fewer than 314 SGM P-5 wash lights, each of which has 44 RGBW 10W LEDs, creating the perfect flicker-free colour output. “The show needed to have a vast homogeneous illumination”, comments LD G. Paolo Bruzzese. “The P-5 gave us that big bang of light with diffused reflection that we wanted.”
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PRETORIA, South Africa – The new auditorium at the Christian Revival Church in Pretoria, South Africa is benefitting from an all-Robe moving light rig made up of 24 x Robe ROBIN LEDWash 1200s, 12 x ROBIN Pointes and 18 x LEDForce 18 PARs. The need for the lighting to be adaptable and multi-purpose was paramount to the overall design as CRC features three very different styles of Sunday service to suit the different demographic of their congregation.
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MARKTOBERDORF, Germany – The Richard Wengenmeier Hall at the Bavarian Academy of Music in Marktoberdorf, Germany, recently replaced its outdated tungsten lighting system with a new lighting rig of Elation Professional TVL Series white light LED luminaries. In addition to improved lighting, the new fixtures also save money though decreased energy usage from the fixtures themselves as well as reducing the need for air conditioning to cool the fixtures.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Chosen for their ability to stand up to the seaside environment, 75 Pulsar ChromaPoints and two Pulsar ChromaZone PSU/controllers were installed in Santa Monica’s Tongva Park. “The ChromaPoints were the right choice because their IP weatherproof rating is ideal for this salty outdoor setting. In addition to being durable, the ChromaPoint LEDs feature an exceptionally smooth color mix and excellent dimming curve,” comments Vicci Stewart.
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NEW YORK, NY – Barbizon New York and lighting designers Al Crawford and Zak Al-Alami of Arc3 Design provided a design that would illuminate the exterior of Madison Square Garden, from 31st and 33rd Streets, 8th Avenue, and from the roof of the Chase Hallway on 7th Avenue. The design called for covering the more than 90 exterior lighting fixtures with the Rangers blue hue, and to add some punch and energy.
Read More »KORTRIJK, Belgium – Barco, based here, is launching Barco Connect!, a channel partner program to expand and reward its network of Pro AV resellers in the U.S. The program provides a host of performance-based incentives including financial benefits such as tiered pricing and volume discounts.
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LONDON – XL Video’s UK operation has announced a major upgrade to its fleet of media servers. The new servers, and accompanying custom-designed housings, are built around Apple MacPro computers.
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LONDON – The Projection Studio worked as a consultant for live communications agency Wasserman to activate a large format video projection campaign for the Vodafone Firsts initiative (www.firsts.com) that took place at sites across Europe, including Budapest Sapientia College, Bucharest National Theatre, Berlin Kulturbrauerei, Cairo CityStars Building, Rome Palazzo Farnese and The National Theatre in London.
Read More »GUANGZHOU, China – The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, taking place at the China Import and Export Fair Complex here June 9-12, features 2,621 exhibitors within 21 halls and 225,000 square meters of exhibition space. The exhibitor count is a new record for the annual event.
Read More »PUIDOUX, Switzerland – Merging Technologies, based here, named HHB Canada as its distributor in Canada, effective July 2014. Toronto-based HHB Canada is an established supplier to the music, broadcast, post production and production markets in Canada, well-known for its abilities in terms of systems integration and sales.
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