VERONA, Italy — Massimo Pascucci, lighting director for Mediaset, worked with a big rig for Gianni Morandi’s Oct. 7 and 8 concerts at the Verona Arena here. The rig for the sold-out shows centered on Clay Paky gear, including 200 Sharpys, 70 Sharpy Wash 330s and more than 60 Alpha Profile 1500s.
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Hosa Technology says its new USB-300 Series SuperSpeed USB 3.0 cables are up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0.
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IBIZA, Spain — Dave Singleton from The Shop Ibiza, who served as production manager for Ibiza’s BOOOM! Nightclub for the summer 2013 season, got Steve Warren from Avolites Media involved in the club’s ambitious visual design. Powered by a single Ai media server, the club offered guests multiple surface projections and LED screens.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. — A multi-year touring production of the musical Wicked is slated to visit venues in the U.K. and Ireland into 2015 with visual support from Creative Technology (CT), which has also supported the musical production at London’s West End over a seven-year span.
Read More »NEW YORK — David Byrne and the cast of Here Lies Love, his musical about Imelda Marcos, including the time she spent in Tacloban, will be performing a concert adapted from the production to raise funds for victims of Typhoon Haiyan. It’s set for Nov. 25 at Terminal 5 in New York City. Proceeds will go to Doctors Without Borders.
Read More »Field Template has released upgrades to its SoftSymbol packages of Altman, Altman striplights, Ayrton, grandMA consoles, High End Lighting, and Morpheus fixtures, for use in the Vectorworks environment. Designed by Steve Shelley, these upgrades include the latest equipment for all of these libraries. All six libraries include graphic SoftMaps and SoftData in PDF format. They also include Sam Jones’ fabulous Data Conversion macros, which convert all lighting elements from imperial to metric and back again in a single click. Full details about the upgrades and included fixtures and equipment after the jump.
For more details: www.fieldtemplate.com.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — The Event Safety Alliance announced that Version 1.0 of its Event Safety Guide, nearly two years in the making, will be introduced at LDI here in late November. Copies of the guide will be available for review and comment at the Event Safety Alliance booth #2363. Print and digital versions will be available for purchase in Dec. 2013.
Read More »TACLOBAN, The Philippines — With the death toll rising past 5,235 in the weeks after super-typhoon Haiyan hit hard here Nov. 9, the storm ranks as the deadliest disaster to ever hit the island nation. Along with widespread death, an estimated 4 million people were rendered homeless — close to the total left homeless by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and the earthquake in Haiti in 2009 combined.
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ORLANDO — The Christ For All Nations (CFaN) Ministry staged two big events at the Amway Center here recently. XL Video UK and its U.S. operation, XL Video Inc., pooled resources to support the visual design with LED screens, Catalyst control and crew.
Read More »ESPOO, Finland — The original U.K. singing talent competition, Pop Idol, ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003, and while it has been on hiatus in the U.K. since then, the U.S. version, American Idol, secured a larger viewership than any other American TV show for an eight-year span (from the 2003/2004 season to 2010/2011). For the current season of Idols in Finland, LD Mikki Kunttu, the lighting, visuals and set designer, specified 36 Robe Pointe fixtures, supplied by Akuntehdas. The show gets recorded at Barona Arena in Espoo in front of a live audience of 1,500 and broadcast on MTV3.
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