GILBERT, AZ – LD Jeff A. Davis of Davis Entertainment christened the new Martin MAC Auras at the Hale Centre Theatre in Gilbert, AZ, for their first show of the season, “The Secret Garden.” Clearwing Productions installed the 9 MAC Auras into the theatre-in-the-round space to allow for color saturation and isolation.
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SUNRISE, FL — Chauvet has added two solid, indoor high-resolution video panels to its VIP Series: PVP S5 and PVP S7. The panels are designed for touring and permanent indoor installations. Each high-resolution panel uses black face, tri-colored SMD LEDs for increased contrast, and the tight pixel pitch (PVP S5 at 5.2mm and PVP S7 at 7.8mm) make these video panels useful for high-resolution graphics and live-action video.
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LONG MARSTON, UK – Martin Professional’s M1 lighting controller was used to control a large moving head rig on the main stage at the 2012 Global Gathering festival at England’s Long Marston Airfield in late July. Festival lighting operator André Beekmans of The Art of Light used the Martin console on Friday for top acts such as headliner Afrojack, for which he is also the LD.
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LOS ANGELES – The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) at the Los Angeles Convention Center June 5-7 had an estimated 700 Martin MAC Aura LED wash lights highlighting many of the show’s 200 booths. The fixtures most prominently lit Nintendo’s booth, which alone featured 250 MAC Auras complemented with 70 MAC 101 wash lights.
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HOUSTON – SGM A/S named Randy Wade head of its U.S. operation. Wade, a lighting veteran in the entertainment field since the mid-1980s, will be in charge of sales and support for the entire line of SGM products. He is based in Houston, TX.
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HOF, Germany — Working with Soundhouse, Tait Technologies is providing staging and automation support for Helene Fisher’s current tour, which began here Sept. 18. Tait provided the main stage, a hydraulic 12.4-meter lifting arm and three lifts controlled by Tait’s Navigator automation system. Tait project manager Matthew Hales noted that the tour serves as an example of how the company can reconfigure existing staging and automation elements to create a fresh new look without breaking a tour’s budget.
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SURREY, UK – displayLED has opened The Pixel Depot, a showroom and resource featuring innovative LED products from leading manufacturers. The Pixel Depot opened this September at the company’s headquarters near Dorking, Surrey. Products on display include solid LED modules and tiles, creative and flexible displays, mesh/curtain products, video controllers, content management software and an LED dance floor. They’re also showing digiLED product applications, including the use of wearable LED and incorporation into objects such as a piano, as used by a leading US performer.
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CLARKSTON, MI – Kirk Marchwinski has joined High Resolution Systems as a sales representative. He will handle all outbound calls for High Resolution Control, which offers integrated Pro AV control hardware and software systems with its Universal Device Controller (UDC). Prior to High Resolution Systems, Marchwinski served as associate district manager at Automatic Data Processing (ADP) in Dearborn, MI.
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NELSPRUIT, South Africa – Robe moving lights were at the hub of the lighting action for a Main Stage design by Johan Ferreira from JSF Productions at the 2012 Innibos Festival in South Africa. The organizers wanted to up the ante on the look and feel of the event – and in particular the Main Stage – so Ferreira set about designing looks with a theatrical feel. This was his seventh year to design the lighting.
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