SYDNEY – Sir Cliff Richard returned to Australia earlier this year with his “Still Reelin’ and A-Rockin’ ” tour. Longtime LD Derek Jones brought a rig of close to 90 moving lights. To control the rig, he brought his own Vista S3 and Vista M1, part of a larger family of Vista consoles that he owns.
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LONDON – Green Hippo, developers of the Hippotizer media server, has established a new beta testing program and is now recruiting field test candidates. Once registered and accepted, beta testers will be given access to all the latest builds and tools for the media server. An internal forum will also allow participants to engage in discussion with fellow testers and share new ideas.
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LONDON – Avolites Media’s Ai server has been powering the fast-paced visuals for Sky TV’s spring series of “Got to Dance.” With the help of Ai, the visual team was able to see the entire TV studio as one giant canvas, using Ai’s ability to scale the outputs to compensate for the varying pixel pitches of the different LED fixtures. Ai is equipped to play back to video canvasses up to 8x HD1080 and this was a significant benefit to the production.
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DONALDSONVILLE, LA — Doug Thorpe of Wyndchaser Lighting was looking to update the house lighting for 110-year-old Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church. He opted for Mega-Lite UniColor fixtures with warm white LEDs to replace the building’s old halogen lighting.
Read More »LOS ANGELES – Christie Lites recently purchased more than 200 onPC command wings from MA Lighting to add to the lighting company’s rental inventory. The onPC command wings extend usage of the grandMA2 control system to customers working on location or those who find it physically difficult to fit a full grandMA2 console at their venue. Christie Lites’ latest investment brings its total onPC command wing inventory past the 250 mark.
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NEW CASTLE, DE – Video equipment rental company Pete’s Big TVs is supplying the “Super Why Live: You’ve Got the Power” children’s tour across the U.S. with the same type of high resolution LED video screens that they are supplying on Bruce Springsteen’s “Wrecking Ball” world tour.
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LOS ANGELES – The Mark Taper Forum has been lit by an ETC Eos lighting system since the venue was a beta-test site for the board in 2007. Then this spring, the Forum’s chief electrician decided to purchase a Ti – becoming one of the first venues in the world to install the new desk. Their original Eos desk – still well loved – was transferred for use in the Ahmanson Theatre, another venue in the Center Theatre Group.
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RIVA, Italy – The Spiaggia degli Olivi lighthouse, a historic monument on Lake Garda, was turned off about 40 years ago. Restoration work has turned on the light again – but instead of the complicated original 24-volt mechanism, there is a new Clay Paky Sharpy inside the lantern room, which is not only able to reproduce the brightness of the old lighthouse, but also its perfect movement.
Read More »MIAMI – USITT and Chauvet are offering a workshop at the University of Miami here on June 3 that will explore methods of effectively blending LEDs with more traditional fixtures. The workshop is the third in the recently launched USITT Presents series of one- and two-day workshops. The series is designed to provide ongoing training for entertainment designers and technicians at low cost.
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ATHENS, GA – Bandit Lites had the privilege of being the first to light a concert at the University of Georgia’s Sanford Stadium, where Jason Aldean played to more than 60,000 people. The 90-minute set was filmed for a DVD release, requiring additional lighting to his concert rig, including 88 Sharpys, 20 Syncrolite fixtures, 34 x VL 3500 washes, 20 MAC Auras and 24 Bandit 5x5s.
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ElektraLite recently expanded its Pro LED offerings for the commercial, architectural and theatrical markets with a variety of additions to its Dazer and 1018 fixture lines. ElektraLite also introduced new products including the eyeBall (pictured here) and Downlight series.
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CLEVELAND – Electrosonic was charged with designing the AV systems, media control and power management for Cleveland’s Eaton Experience Center, which combines art and information. The centerpiece of the atrium is a five-story chandelier comprised of Traxon custom Mesh RGB LED wrapped into a cylinder 53 feet tall by 12 feet in diameter. The LED mesh combines a woven stainless steel mesh grid with individually-addressable LEDs to form a canvas for vivid, large-scale media. The chandelier can display specific media on a predetermined timeline or media for a particular show via a Medialon show controller.
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