NEW YORK — Sapsis Rigging provided rigging design and installation services as well as all of the equipment to fly two sculptures in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. The sculptures, designed and crafted by Chinese artist Xu Bing , represent a male and female Phoenix flying through the nave of the Cathedral.
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LONDON — Avicii’s recent U.K. and European shows relied on LED, projection and control from XL Video. Also supporting the shows: tour director Curly Jobson, production manager Robin Scott and visuals produced by Harry Bird from This Is Comix. (Bird also serves as live show director.)
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LONDON — For folk-punk singer Frank Turner’s European tour, LD Shaun Moore, who has used various Avolites desks since 2002, is controlling the lighting rig with a Sapphire Touch.
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SACRAMENTO — Sacramento Production & Lighting (SPL) supplied both LED and discharge lighting gear from Elation Professional for Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson’s State of the City address held at the historic Sacramento Memorial Auditorium on Feb 12.
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TUSTIN — The theme at Volkswagen’s press event at the 2013 LA Auto Show was “Think Blue,” and it was all that blue on stage and on screen that posed a challenge for WorldStage in creating a live augmented reality experience for the automaker.
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VALENCIA, Spain — MGC Lighting, an international lighting distributor, named Rosa Comba Lopez International Sales Administrator. She is based at the company’s offices here.
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CAMDEN, NJ — Imagine Dragons LD Nook Schoenfeld included Elation Professional’s compact Rayzor Q7 LED moving head in the rig for the alt rock band’s current “Into the Night” arena tour. “I have four trusses that underhang from a larger mother truss which makes a stunning wall of 60 fixtures when all assembled,” Shoenfeld said. Upstaging is providing the gear.
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LISLE, IL — John Featherstone of Lightswitch specified 28 Clay Paky Sharpys for Illumination: The Lights at The Morton Arboretum, a lighting installation that brought bare trees in winter alive with luminous color. The fixtures, in Igloo domes, were programmed on grandMA consoles for the display, featured during the 2013/2014 holiday season.
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SYDNEY — A March 1 performance by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard at the Secret Garden Music Festival here was cut short when a roof element fell to the stage. Reports cited damage from heavy rains that had hit the area prior to the performance as the probable cause. The performance area, one of the festival’s main stages, was shut down.
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CHANDLER, AZ — Arizona State University (ASU), in cooperation with the Event Safety Alliance (ESA), is offering the first 10- and 30-hour OSHA Construction Industry Outreach courses tailored to the live event and special event industry. The inaugural session is set for March 26-27 at the ASU Chandler Innovation Center here.
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