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Kuwait's 50th Constitution Day

ProPlex, LumenRadio Control Kuwait 50th Constitutional Day

KUWAIT – Kuwait’s 50th Constitution Day celebration featured more than 235 watts of laser power, plus lighting, audio, effects and 77,282 fireworks in a single hour.  Two weeks of setup, plus three tons of gear, culminated in the breathtaking gala witnessed by more than a million people. London’s ER Productions, the event’s laser and effects specialists, used the landmark Kuwait towers as the show’s centerpiece, using both wireless and fiber optic data control.

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Tim & Faith

Tait Adds Scenic Elements to Tim & Faith’s Vegas Run

LAS VEGAS –  Country superstars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw took to the stage Dec. 7 at The Venetian in Las Vegas, showcasing Tait Technology’s work in both staging and scenic elements, along with key automation elements. Leroy Bennett designed the set for the duo’s Soul2Soul 10-weekend run at the resort.

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Holographic image

Christie Technology Weaves Holographic Tribal Storytelling

PUGET SOUND, WA – Christie Technology brings the past to life at Tillicum Village, a Native American cultural experience, with holographic images powered by two Christie HD10K-M Series 3-chip DLP projectors. Using built-in Christie AutoStack and Christie Twist, the projectors cast holographic images onto a screen of a storyteller interacting with live actors and drummers throughout the performance on stage, helping capture tribal traditions. The images are so life-like, sometimes the audience wonders why the storyteller doesn’t take a bow at the end.

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The Jewel Box

Historic Greenhouse Glows with Chauvet

ST. LOUIS — The Jewel Box, a historic greenhouse in Forest Park, turned into a giant gem for a surprise birthday party, lit by 58 Chauvet Professional fixtures. Listed on the National Historic Register, the art deco-style glass building is a popular choice for various events. “With all the glass, steel and plants that make up this greenhouse, we simply wanted to let the building glow like a jewel,” said LD Stace Napper.

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Deftones

Deftones’ LD Chooses MAC 101 Rig for Large Looks, Small Truckspace

CHICAGO – With ever-increasing fuel costs, the mandate from alt-metal band Deftones for this fall’s North and South American “Koi No Yokan” tour was for a stand-alone lighting package that could play a wide variety of venues while maintaining an 18-ft truck footprint. LD Robb Jibson chose the Martin Professional MAC 101 from Windy City Lighting, he said, for its “small size and big output.”

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Global Immersion's Martin Howe and Electrosonic's Jim Bowie

Electrosonic Acquires Global Immersion

LOS ANGELES – Electrosonic has acquired Global Immersion, a designer and integrator of high performance digital immersive theater attractions. The acquisition, completed on Dec. 10, 2012, allows Electrosonic to expand its reach to offer digital immersive solutions across the theme park, museum, giant screen cinema and planetarium markets.

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Look Solutions Tiny S Fogger

Look Solutions Tiny S Fogger

Look Solutions Tiny S fogger has an all-in-one design — the hand-held unit contains a pump, battery and haze fluid. In demos, it puts out a thick field of fog for its size. The fog juice comes in a little syringe that inserts into the side of the unit. There’s enough fog juice in it to last for three minutes of use, and the battery on the unit lasts for up to 10 minutes. Designed to serve as a compact, sleek unit for special effects on performers, it joins the other Tiny Foggers from Look Solutions, including the Tiny-Fogger FX, the Tiny-CX and the higher-output Power-Tiny.

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GAM Products Introduces Five New Gobos

GAM Products Introduces Five New Gobos

GAM Products has released five new gobos. The gobos include three new breakup designs: Fire Escape, Vine Leaf and Scaffolding. The company is also offering a new “Jazz” gobo designed for jazz fests and New Year parties, among other uses. In addition, there’s now a new “Saturn with Stars” halftone featuring the sixth planet from the sun and its distinctive rings. GAM Products traces its gobo-making lineage back to 1975, when the company, then known as Great American Market, introduced its first stainless steel gobo.

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Chauvet Nexus 4x4

Chauvet Nexus 4×4

Chauvet’s Nexus 4×4 wash light has 16 20W RGB COB LEDs, giving users the option to deploy the fixture for pixel-mapping applications or just use them for their copious luminous output as wash fixtures. The combination of COB emitters and a new reflector design promises to drench lit surfaces in highly saturated hues. Operating modes include 3-channel (RGB), 5-channel (dimmer, RGB, strobe), and 9-channel (dimmer, RGB, shutter, color macro, auto, auto speed, dim mode), with 48 and 52 channel modes also available. Nexus 4×4 is controllable via Art-Net, Kling-Net and DMX protocols and features interlocking hardware for large arrays.

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Longwood University

Longwood University Installs PixelFLEX LED Curtain

FARMVILLE, VA — Longwood University, a liberal arts school located in Virginia, recently installed a 15-panel, 18 mm LED Curtain from PixelFLEX  in its main auditorium. “One of the major benefits of the PixelFLEX video screen is that it is extremely easy to move, which means we can use video and effects in a variety of environments across the campus,” said John Hogge, University multimedia technician.

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Phoenix ZooLights

Clearwing Unveils 2012 Phoenix ZooLights

PHOENIX – ZooLights is an annual lighting spectacular that has been held at the Phoenix Zoo for the past 20 years.  This year, Clearwing Productions designed and executed a new event finale encompassing the lagoon. The centerpiece of the lagoon is a custom 25 ft tall sphere, surrounded by a dozen 12-ft pylons, covered in Color Kinetics iColor Flex MX LED strings. Trees surrounding the lagoon are wrapped in colored LED strings and custom armatures, immersing the guests with the effect of moving, chasing and dynamically dancing trees.

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