CANBERRA, Australia – Floriade, Australia’s biggest celebration of spring, is held every year for 30 days during September and October. It showcases one million flowers in bloom, set in Canberra’s Commonwealth Park and attracting more than 400,000 visitors. For this year’s NightFest, Mandylights designed and created the lighting ambience, making extensive use of the Martin MAC 301 Wash LED moving head. PRG supplied the fixtures.
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MEDELLIN, Colombia – Robe’s new Colombian distributor, Codiscos SA, staged a hands-on technical demo of Robe products recently, then provided a glimpse of the gear in action when it was used to support a rock concert by Matute at the 400-seat Teatro de Barro in Medellín.
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LONDON – The Stone Roses reunited this summer, choosing to work with LD Paul Normandale of Lite Alternative to design their tour. Among other fixtures sharing the stage were Clay Paky Sharpys, with control on a grandMA2 full-size, programmed by Glen Johnson. It was the first time that Normandale had used the Sharpy, and he chose it specifically because he wanted a “bright, tight, narrow vertical beam.”
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NEW YORK — A Red Cross fundraising benefit concert, Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together, featuring New Jersey’s Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, Staten Island native Christina Aguilera and Long Island native Billy Joel, among others, aired Nov. 2 at 8 pm (EST) on NBC-affiliated stations, cable networks and websites. The telethon/webathon event raised close to $23 million in a four-hour span.
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NEW YORK – Strollers on the Chelsea Market passage of the High Line (a linear park built on a former elevated NY Central Railroad) got to strut their stuff, pose and collect nods of approval as they walked a virtual runway to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Lifetime’s “Project Runway.” WorldStage facilitated the installation of a 20-ft long interactive videowall, which used human tracking technology to mix the realtime virtual emotions of show host Heidi Klum, mentor Tim Gunn and judges Michael Kors and Nina Garcia as they reacted to the fashion sense of passersby seeking their moment on the runway.
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ASHEVILLE, NC – Bandit Lites worked with LD Brooke Kimble to light the mainstage of Moogfest Oct. 26-27 in Ashville, NC. The event was a benefit and sonic tribute of sorts to Robert Moog, electronic visionary of the Moog synthesizer. Headliners included Primus 3D, Santigold, Thomas Dolby, Orbital and others.
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MEDINAH, IL – Theatrical Lighting Connection of Chicago supplied lighting and data distribution for the event ceremonies of the 2012 Ryder Cup golf tournament. LD Patrick Chan of TLC used ProPlex data cables to transmit control data from two lighting consoles at the 640-acre Medinah Country Club in Illinois.
Read More »Barco’s MCM-400 is a new warping, blending and color matching external component for the company’s Galaxy 4K projectors. Designed to enhance geometry correction, color correction, and electronic blending, the MCM-400 includes a real-time on-screen user interface and allows for several multi-channel configurations with multiple 4K projectors. The MCM-400 handles both mono and stereo sources up to 48 Hz. Four dual link DVI-D inputs allow 4K sources to be connected in four quadrants of 2048 by 1080 pixels, or two columns of 2048 by 2160 pixels. Both mono and stereo sources of 24 Hz or 48 Hz are shown synchronously with the input, with a minimal delay.
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PR Lighting has launched new white and RGB versions of the XRLED 300 Spot. The XRLED 300 Spot-W is equipped with 300W Butterfly white LED… Read More »PR Lighting XRLED 300 Spot-W, Spot-RGB
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MANCHESTER, UK – dbn designed and supplied a ground support system for the “Games Time” outdoor stage spectacular, which played its final performance recently at Derby. The show, produced by Walk The Plank and Déda, was a mixed-media performance combining music, dance, video, lighting and pyrotechnics. Four teams sporting carnival style costumes competed to win the ‘Games Time’ Finale.
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