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HSL Passes Grammar Test

The first full production tour by trip hop trio London Grammar featured a new GoldPix 77 LED surface. This is a 500 X 500 mm panel populated with 7 x 7 warm white LEDs with very narrow beam optics, which is incredibly light, robustly built and ideal for touring and making a high visual impact. The tour’s stylish and off-beat visual design was created by Steve Bewley, who rose to the challenge of producing a scalable and flexible rig that would look good wherever they played.

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Apollo Design Technology Names Ben Powers Industrial Designer

Apollo Design Technology, Inc. announces the appointment of Ben Powers as an Industrial Designer. In this role, Powers will help develop new and innovative products from concept to product release. He will also make enhancements to existing products and specifications.

Prior to joining Apollo Design Technology, Powers was self-employed as a product, graphic, and web designer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in industrial design from Purdue University. “Ben will be key in helping Apollo Design build a broad array of products for our industry. Ben brings a fresh perspective and will ensure our products are innovative in both form and function.” said Mr. Joel Nichols, president of Apollo Design Technology.

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Immersive Forest of Light for Closing Ceremony of Sochi Winter Games

The closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics wrapped up the most expensive games yet with a dynamic forest of light, which was created and built by set and stage designer, TAIT Technologies, and programmed by creative UK collective, Immersive. The design by Danielle Finzi Pasca was comprised of a custom LED product which was flown from a complex flying system rigged above the field of play. “At Immersive, we strive to work at the forefront of project design alongside clients that not only have the vision to see the idea but also the technical know-how to deliver them,” said project manager Mark Calvert.


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Robe Welcomes Chinese New Year in London

As Chinese New Year celebrations kicked off around the world, Robe Lighting was involved in some of the highest profiles shows around the world including the massive celebrations in London’s Trafalgar Square. The event featured an afternoon of onstage entertainment culminating in a massive son et lumière extravaganza finale show to welcome the Year of the Horse. Three straight trusses were dead-hung below the roof of the 15 metre wide Star Events Alpha Stage to provide all the onstage lighting positions, to which were added eight each of Robe’s ROBIN Pointes, ROBIN MMX Spots and ROBIN LEDWash 600s and 16 x ROBIN LEDBeam 100s. For general washes, they added in some 2K fresnels.

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Tim Kohlmeyer

In Memoriam: Timothy L. Kohlmeyer, 60

LOUISVILLE, NE— Tim Kohlmeyer, co-founder of Theatrical Media Services, Inc. (TMS), died Dec. 25, 2013. He was 60. Raised by farming parents, Ted and Vi, in Fairbury, NE, Tim was remembered for a relentless work ethic and the pursuit of perfection along with professionalism and integrity.

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Immersive Creates EPIC 2.0 Experience for Eric Prydz US Dates

Raising the stakes of EDM visuals, Eric Prydz’s EPIC 2.0 tour features an enormous set incorporating LED screens rather than projection surfaces, lasers, holograms, smoke machines and other visual effects. Influenced by Immersive’s creative director John Munro’s passion for brutalist and minimalist architecture, the set situated Prydz in a giant structure that overlapped the audience, made from LED screens onto which visual content was displayed. Munro drew from a visual concept, The Manmade In Nature in parallel with How Nature Influences the Manmade, to create the sublimely striking, dark images that accompanied the show.

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