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Sharpy Wash 330

Clay Paky Sharpy Wash 330

Clay Paky’s Sharpy Wash starts with Philips’ MSD Platinum 16R 330W lamp as a light source and adds features including a CMY color system, color wheel, mechanical dimmer, rotating beam-shaper, motorized top-hat and 6.5°-48° zoom. It also offers two frost filter choices, a Fresnel lens and speed of movement comparable to the original Sharpy. The light source produces 16,000 lumens of output in the 8,000K color temperature range and the fixture operates at 550W as a whole.

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Elation EZ6

Elation EZ6

LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional’s EZ6 is a high-resolution 6mm indoor LED video display panel. Its light weight and modular quick assembly make it suited for visual displays at nightclubs, concert venues, live stages, exhibit halls and public spaces. It features 6mm pixel pitch, 1,800-nit brightness and 960 Hz refresh rate, producing high-definition graphics, text, logos or images. Panels may be linked together and can be floor or wall-mounted.

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Max Hamilton

Stage Crew Expands Financial Team

LAS VEGAS – Because of its growth and volume of business, Stage Crew’s financial staff has expanded with the promotion of Max Hamilton as account manager. Hamilton, with the company for five years since its start-up, was formerly its director of finance. He will now provide more hands-on supervision for the clients’ objectives. Prior to joining Stage Crew, Hamilton was a retired Las Vegas hotel executive with more than 30 years of experience.

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In This House

4Wall Provided for ‘In This House’

NASHVILLE- 4Wall Nashville recently provided lighting for ‘In This House,’ a dance performance by Found Movement Group held at OZ Nashville. The group’s LD/ production manager, Brandon Webb, also took advantage of 4Wall’s labor services by adding crew members to assist with on-site installation.

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Biffy Clyro

XL Video Supplies Biffy Clyro’s Tour

LONDON – XL Video supplied full video production and crew for the recent UK arena leg of Biffy Clyro’s ‘Opposites’ world tour. The set design from show designer / director Misty Buckley featured an intricate tree-like structure which could morph into of a pair of lungs, complete with the arterial / branch complexity of both structures. LD Oli Metcalfe provided the integrated lighting design.

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The Script

The Script Tours with Avolites Products

LONDON – Avolites products, including Avolites Media’s Ai media server and the Avolites Sapphire Touch, are helping deliver fast moving evocative visuals on The Script’s sell out arena world tour. Designed by LD Jamie Thompson, in collaboration with content producers Immersive, the show visuals are operated by US-based Jeffrey Brown.

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Rayzor Q12

Elation Rayzor Q12

LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional has added to its Rayzor LED moving head series with the Rayzor Q12. Designed for applications requiring a more powerful output, such as the club and stage, the Rayzor Q12 is equipped with 12 x 15-watt 4-in-1 RGBW LEDs, which produce up to 5,840 lux at 5 meters. It also offers some new effects and a sharp 7-degree beam angle, 14-degree field angle.

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USITT Awards $26,000 in Research Fellowships

SYRACUSE, NY – Three research projects were chosen to receive a total of $26,000 in funding from USITT’s 2013 Fellowship Program, the Institute’s Grants & Fellowship Committee announced. The committee voted to give $12,000 to Helene Siebrits’ Cambodia project, $8,000 to Howard Kurtz’s Federal Theatre Project research and $6,000 to Anita Tripathi Easterling’s study of Indian stage designer Khaled Choudhury.

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Martin Rush MH 1 Profile

Rush by Martin

Martin’s Rush series of affordably-priced effect lights include the Rush MH 1 Profile (pictured here), an LED profile two gobo wheels and one color wheel; the MH 2 Wash, an RGBW LED wash moving head with a fixed 20° beam angle; the MH 3 Beam, for intense and narrow beam effects; the Rush Strobe 1 5×5, with a 5-by-5 matrix of individually controllable white LEDs; the Rush PAR 1 RGBW, an LED PAR Can with premixed RGBW color mixing; and the Rush Pin 1 CW, a white LED pin spot with two beam options.

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