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Daktronics 4mm LED panel

Daktronics Four Millimeter LED Video

Daktronics Inc. is introducing a new four millimeter transportable LED video display product that consists of a lightweight cabinet designed specifically for ease of setup and tear-down, which can now be accomplished by a single person. The four-millimeter pixel pitch promises a viewing experience unmatched in contrast and definition, particularly well-suited for close-up viewing. A sealed field-replaceable unit encases power and signal components for easy servicing if necessary.

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Philips Selecon PLCyc1 LED

Philips Selecon PLCyc1 LED

The Philips Selecon PLCyc1 LED builds on the technology of the PL1 Spot and PL3 Wash luminaires. It uses a mixing chamber designed to homogenize the RGBW colors for color washing cycloramas up to 5 meters high.  Using LED source technology combined with an asymmetrical reflector, the PLCyc1 LED delivers consistent light distribution without the compromising performance of vertical or horizontal spreader lenses.

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Elektralite Eye Kandy

Elektralite eye Kandy LED

Elektralite introduces eye Kandy fixture, a combination wash and spot fixture, to its Pro Line of LED fixtures. At the heart of eye Kandy is a 200-watt white LED running at 150 watts. Its spot source can be used as a pencil beam of light. Colors are achieved using the 7 dichroic filters. Sixteen 3-watt LEDs surrounding the front lens are formatted and can be controlled in quadrants.

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Skrillex

Skrillex Spins Under Chauvet Legend 412

AUSTIN, TX — Skrillex rocked the house using 16 CHAUVET Professional Legend 412 moving heads at the AM Only Showcase at South By Southwest (SXSW). LD Justin Jenkins specified 12 Legend 412 moving heads for backlighting while the remaining four fixtures created downlighting and audience pixel-mapping effects for the show at Mohawk.

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Motley Crue

Martin Gets Motley at Vegas Hard Rock

LAS VEGAS – Sooner Routhier and Robert Long, co-production designers for Mötley Crue, recently had a run of 12 shows at The Joint at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas. For this special gig they specified a mostly Martin rig supplied by Christie Lites which included Martin MAC Aura and MAC 101 wash lights along with MAC III Profiles, MAC 2000 Wash XBs and Atomic 3000 strobes with Atomic Colors scrollers.

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Le Poisson Rouge

GLP, G-LEC Solaris Give Le Poisson Rouge Scenic Boost

NEW YORK – Multimedia art cabaret Le Poisson Rouge recently upgraded its technical infrastructure with GLP’s impression Spot One LED and G-LEC Solaris video curtain. With NPR producing live videocasts of select shows and VH1 also recently shooting a performance with the artist K’naan, the lighting director says that GLP has helped them raise the bar and maintain production values at top level.

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Joe Branam

Joe Branam to Receive Parnelli Visionary Award

LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Board of Advisors has announced that Joe Branam, owner of Branam Enterprises, will receive the Parnelli Visionary Award at the annual gala dinner and award ceremony in Las Vegas. The event is set for Oct. 20, 2012 at the Mirage Resort and Casino.

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Redback

Australian School Meets Budget with LSC Redback

WEST GOSFORD, Australia – Lots of Watts Central Coast has recently installed a new lighting bar and an LSC dimming system into a local high school auditorium, replacing their aging 1980s dimming and patching system. Jeff Morgan of Lots of Watts said, “The Redback wallmount relay option allows easy control of circuits that just need to be turned on and off, such as mirror ball, motors and odd set pieces that turn up in school theatre. The dimmers were easy to install and the option to lock out the screen touchpad is a big plus in a school install.”

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Canon NAB

4Wall Supplies Lighting for Canon’s NAB Booth

LAS VEGAS – 4Wall Las Vegas recently teamed with Daniel Wallace LTD. and LD Glenn Wade to provide lighting for the most elaborate Canon NAB trade show booth to date. “The vision of the booth was to be clean and simple, and to really focus on lighting the products,” Wade said. “As one of the biggest booths within NAB, we felt we could create a number of different sections within the booth as stand-alone areas that would draw people in.”

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Top Hat

White Light Enjoys Busy Spring Theatre Season

LONDON, UK – White Light is supplying a spate of spring/summer theatrical productions, as the West End defies the predictions that it would suffer in the run up to the 2012 Olympics. “This remarkable array of new productions shows that theatreland will be alive and kicking during the Olympics, despite some of the pessimistic predictions we’ve been hearing,” says White Light’s Managing Director Bryan Raven.

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Wicked

grandMA2 Gets ‘Wicked’ on Broadway

NEW YORK – “Wicked,” the  Broadway musical about the untold story of the Witches of Oz, recently switched to a grandMA2 console for lighting and special effects control.  Show electrician Brendan Quigley said they needed to replace their previous control system of 20 years, and the grandMA2 was a natural choice as all the other Wicked shows playing worldwide are also using the grandMA.

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