SEDALIA, MO — Seth Jackson, LD for Toby Keith’s current Hammer Down tour, is using a light rig that includes more than 80 of GLP’s new impression X4S LED wash fixtures. Bandit Lites is supplying the gear. Jackson’s co-designer, Nathan W. Scheuer, provided an assist with the versatile setup, which is designed to adapt to a wide array of different venues.
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RIJKHOVEN, Belgium —Luc Peumans, a lighting and visuals designer with Genk, Belgium-based Painting With Light, lit Summer Opera Alden Biesen’s 2013 season production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto with a moving light rig that included six Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1200s, 12 HES Studio Colors and a grandMA 2 for control. Carlos Wagner directed this year’s production, Marnik Daert designed the set, Niels Huybrecht assisted with programming and local rental company New Lines provided the gear.
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AALSMEER, The Netherlands — Eventec, a leading production company based here, added more than 80 new fixtures from Robe to its inventory, including Robe Robin Pointes, LEDWash 300s and MMX WashBeams. The gear will be used for a variety of live and televised productions. Eventec also works together with other Amsterdam-area rental companies —notably Haarlem-based React — to pool their gear resources in support of large events.
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THE NETHERLANDS — Creative Technology announced that Edwin de Haan has joined the project management team at CT’s Holland operation. Prior to Creative Technology, de Haan spent seven years managing elaborate video productions on behalf of XL Video in the Netherlands.
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NEW YORK — For the annual “Christmas in August” promotional event for the 2013 Radio City Christmas Spectacular, which took place under the venue’s marquee on Aug. 13, MSG Entertainment featured its Rockettes, Santa Claus, nativity scene animals and a freshly-carved Okamoto Studios ice sculpture along with free cranberry-apple ice pops. MagicSnow provided faux snow for the event.
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Harman is offering a new front lens replacement kit to turn its MAC Viper AirFX into what is effectively a new fixture, the Martin MAC Viper Beam. The final fixture in the MAC Viper line, the MAC Viper Beam has a linear zoom system that projects a very narrow pencil beam of high-intensity light. It also shares the MAC Viper AirFX’s notable color mixing system and aerial effects, along with its compact form, speed and light quality from the same 1000W source as the other Viper Family luminaires.
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UTRECHT, Netherlands – Netherlands equipment rental company Ampco Flashlight Rental has made a major investment in Robe’s new multipurpose moving light fixture, the Pointe. The company ordered 100 Pointes because of the current demands of the rental market and its increasing popularity on equipment riders.
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