LOS ANGELES — Leroy Bennett’s lighting design for the current Nine Inch Nails Tension 2013 tour features the largest installation of Ayrton MagicPanel 602 units to date. The lighting/video setup includes 126 of the moving head LED beam projectors. Each unit features 36 15W Osram RGBW LED modules — so there were 4,536 emitters in all for the visual design team to play with.
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LOS ANGELES — Lighting and video designer Breckinridge Haggerty has been using MA Lighting’s VPU (Video Processing Unit), the media server for still and moving images that’s fully integrated into the MA system.
Read More »LONDON — Creative Technology (CT) has formed a new creative team within their London business. The new Media Solutions team will focus on managing the increasing demand for specialist media management and delivery systems. CT has also appointed David Mulcahy as Media Consultant.
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NEW YORK — Singer/songwriter India.Arie’s tour in support of her fifth studio album, Songversaton, which launched in Seattle in late September and traveled through the U.S. in October and November, relied upon flexible video panels from PixelFlex for the tour’s video effects.
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LONDON — Projection and digital art specialist Ross Ashton and The Projection Studio, based here, created two large format projection works in Wolverhampton, west Midlands UK for the inaugural Wolverhampton Enchanted City event, which attracted up to 8,000 people each evening into the city center.
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DELHI, India — London based projection artist Ross Ashton designed and specified the large format projection elements of a new permanent immersive multi-media spectacle here at the Guru Tegh Bahaur Memorial on the NH1 highway at Singhu Border. Ashton and Himanshu Sabharwal, his business partner in TricolorIndia, were commissioned by the Delhi Tourism & Transportation Development Corporation (GTDB) to create the piece, for which Sabharwal was the overall Show Director.
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NEW ORLEANS — RZI Lighting CEO Ray Ziegler has been bolstering the inventory within his rental company’s 25,000-square-foot facility here with an expanded selection of GLP gear, including the company’s recently-introduced impression X4 and Volkslicht Spot fixtures.
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BIRMINGHAM, U.K. — Colin Wood, who has been an LD since 2005, heads Pre Production Services, which specializes in lighting console rentals. Wood started using Robe several years ago and continues to rely on gear manufactured by the Czech Republic-based lighting manufacturer.
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