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Veerkamp Specs Chroma-Q Color Force for ‘Are You Normal America?’

LOS ANGELES – LD Michael Veerkamp recently specified Chroma-Q Color Force Compact fixtures and Color Force 48 LED battens to light the first series of “Are You Normal America?” (AYNA), a new TV game show on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Recorded at Culver City Studios in California, the Color Force fixtures were used for lighting most aspects of the vibrant AYNA set, designed by Anton Goss of Consortium Studios, LA.

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digiFLEX

displayLED digiFLEX Tile

LONDON – Screen specialist displayLED has launched a new generation of the flexible LED tile, digiFLEX. A more robust version of displayLED’s previous flexible screen, the digiFLEX is more production friendly in concert touring environments while simultaneously providing camera friendly imagery in television studios. The product also opens up copportunities for the architectural and conference/exhibition market.

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Mojo at Madonna's show in Hyde Park

Mojo Launches New Touring Barrier with Madonna

LONDON – Mojo Barriers launched its new touring barrier system on the European leg of Madonna’s MDNA tour, offering promoters a tour-friendly product while maintaining the highest levels of structural integrity and safety. The MDNA tour has seen Mojo, led onsite by Ap Thörig, tour across 33 European dates with the barrier making its debut at the June 7 show in Istanbul and ending Aug. 21 in Stade Charles Ehrmann in Nice, France. Other locations included London’s Hyde Park where Madonna performed outside to over 80,000 fans.

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Cisco Live

4Wall Networks with Seeing Eye at Cisco Live

SAN DIEGO – The annual Cisco Live convention is described as the Woodstock of informational technology and networking conferences. This year’s US event featured lighting design by Paul Efron of Seeing Eye Lighting Design and lighting equipment from 4Wall Las Vegas. The opener presented a lighting challenge, featuring BMX stunt bike rider Danny Macaskill seen on video, followed by five live BMX riders entering from various locations around the room.

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Kinetic Lighting Adds ETC Source Four LEDs to Rental Inventory

GLENDALE, CA – Kinetic Lighting has added ETC Source Four LED fixtures to its rental inventory. The company is now renting the Lustr+ model, based on the seven-color LED light system unique to ETC’s Selador line. Both Kinetic and ETC are promoting the Source Four LED series as a complement to conventional Source Fours, rather than a replacement.

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Kris Van Hullebusch

Martin Expands Controller Support Team, Adds Hotline

AARHUS, Denmark – Kris Van Hullebusch joins Martin Professional as a Test and Support Engineer at its lighting controller development center in Belgium, providing global support, training and service. Martin also added a 24-hour Controller Support Hotline available in multiple languages including English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese among others.

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CSN with Spot One

Bandit Lites LDs Back GLP’s New Spot One

NASHVILLE – Having maintained a long relationship with GLP Inc. since the original impression 90 (first used on the WWE circuit), Bandit Lites has embraced every subsequent generation of the German company’s LED platform. Recently they invested in next-generation Spot One technology. The new LED moving heads have already been out with Crosby, Stills, and Nash (with Jimmy Hatten as LD) with further tours of duty with Jackson Browne (LD Steve Comer).

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New Audio Console Gives Sound Engineers Lighting Control Options

POTTERS BAR, UK — Integrated DMX functionality may soon be giving sound engineers something new to play with – the lighting rig. The Soundcraft Si Performer range of mixers from Harman features a newly designed DMX512 port offering core lighting control. The first release of software provides four scene masters (A-D) with associated slave channels on the ALT fader layers, and individual color intensities or parameters can be set on the slave faders with an overall master level fader, which itself may be assigned to any of the main fader layers for simultaneous access to audio and lighting levels.

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