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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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Venetian

Projection Studio Delivers Winter in Venice Show at Venetian

LAS VEGAS – London’s The Projection Studio, led by Ross Ashton, has delivered a new video projection show to help celebrate the ‘Winter In Venice’ Festival at the Venetian resort in Las Vegas. The video work centers around Amadora, a character with roots deep in Italian folk lore, created by the Venetian as a key symbol for their 2012 Festival. Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” violin concertos take the onlookers along with the character as she morphs through the passage of time and changes of seasons.

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From left: Peter Johansen with Michael Herweg

SGM Sets Up New Operation in Germany

KOLN, Germany – SGM Lighting has formed SGM Germany. Spearheading operations for the Danish lighting company are Michael Herweg and Thorsten Sattler, who were previously managing director and sales manager respectively of SGM’s German distribution company, dB Technologies Germany. The formation of SGM Germany is a joint venture between the two partners and the parent company.

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Stephen Dahlem

Corporate Magic, GoVision Set Stage for Cowboys Halftime Show

ARLINGTON, TX  – For the 16th consecutive year, the Dallas Cowboys have turned to Dallas-based Corporate Magic to help conceptualize, design, stage and produce their annual halftime extravaganza. This year, Corporate Magic worked with country superstar Kenny Chesney to enhance his special Thanksgiving Day halftime performance by adding a special LED stage floor from GoVision.

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