ABU DHABI, UAE – The Ferrari World F1 Grand Prix events held in 2010 on Yas Island were accompanied by a series of city-wide events known as Yasalam, and there were also three nights of after-race concerts headlined by Kanye West, Linkin Park and Prince. Fixtures from Clay Paky were included in the lighting rig.
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LONDON – Entec is supplying lighting, rigging and part of the visuals package, including a new Green Hippo Grasshopper HD media server, to the current Australian Pink Floyd Show tour. Entec has supplied gear for the band, lit by LD Phil White, since 2004.
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PUEBLO, CO – While most of his colleagues go about their daily occupation in theaters and concert halls, lighting professional Nelson Meeks works in an environment that's much more "earthy." "My world is dirt," said Meeks. As the lighting designer for the Professional Bull Riders Tour (PBR), Meeks meant this quite literally.
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LONDON – Three of the four shows nominated for best lighting design at this year's Olivier Awards, including the winner, The White Guard, lit by Neil Austin at the Royal National Theatre's Lyttleton Theatre, relied upon ETC Eos for lighting control.
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SINGAPORE – LumenRadio and Total Solution, its distributor for Singapore, are staying busy providing LumenRadio's CRMX wireless lighting control to meet various entertainment and hospitality lighting needs at the 2,561-room, $6.35 billion Marina Sands Bay Resort.
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Prism Projection's RevEAL Profile joins the company's energy-efficient RevEAL Color Wash (RevEAL CW) and RevEAL Studio fixtures. It is a high-CRI, LED Profile Spot with 16,000-lumen output, a variable CCT range (2800k-6500k), adjustable focus from hard to soft edge, changeable lenses for beam angles from 14º to 70º, and a flat field. It also offers four shutters on a tri-plane; an M-size GOBO; DMX, ArtNet and local control; and universal AC input (90-260 VAC).
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AUSTIN, TX – Omega Broadcast Group provided Riedel's Acrobat Wireless Intercom System to the XI Media staff at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival's Fader Fort stage.
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VERS-PONT-DU-GARD, France – LumenRadio's CRMX RDM wireless lighting control system is playing a key role controlling the architectural lighting for Pont du Gard, an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge and UNESCO world heritage site in southern France.
Read More »NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA – Jeff Ravitz and Intensity Advisors provided the lighting design for their fourth installment in the American Express series, "Unstaged," featuring Duran Duran. The band performed songs from their new album, All You Need is Now, for a live webcast March 23 from the Mayan Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The show was directed by David Lynch of Blue Velvet, Dune, Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks fame.
Read More »ATLANTA, GA – Digital Projection International (DPI) will be the display products sponsor for InfoComm's 12 Regional Roundtables to be held in 2011. Free to InfoComm members, the Roundtables provide manufacturers' training sessions as well as peer discussions on issues impacting the industry.
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NATIONAL HARBOR, MD and ORLANDO, FL – Freelance Technical Services used the Vista Spyder X20-1608 to manage video processing for Capa Productions, producing the DaVita national meeting in National Harbor, Md., and Elite Business Productions, producing the Siemens Healthcare Leadership & Sales Conference in Orlando.
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DAYTON, OH – Staco Energy Products Company named Michael Lewis central regional manager. Lewis, a graduate of the University of Illinois – Springfield with a BA in Accountancy, has more than 20 years of experience in the power quality industry, working as a regional sales manager for Electrical South and as a strategic account manager for MGE UPS Systems.
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