A heartwarming Christmas story told through projection mapped animations in the run-up to Christmas is being driven by tvONE’s Green Hippo brand of Hippotizer Media Servers onto the façade of The Queens Hotel in Leeds. The animation, ‘To Leeds, With Love’, is a reimagining of The 12 Days of Christmas song, featuring a cheeky gingerbread man who is on a mission to decorate the hotel for a festive party.
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Eight ADJ Entour Snow machines were used to fill downtown Paramount, CA with a flurry of synthetic snowflakes for the city’s annual Christmas tree lighting celebration. The event, which also featured a five-hour program of entertainment and live musical performances, was also illuminated by a variety of ADJ lighting fixtures.
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Leading lighting and LED manufacturer Robe Lighting s.r.o. enjoyed the pre-holiday buzz in the air at the Live Design International (LDI) expo in Las Vegas last week, ‘wowing’ crowds with a new live performance stage production, “The Fifth Dimension”, which helped win the coveted “Most Creative Use of Light” Award at the show.
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Avolites announces a change in partnership in the Middle East, which will see the UK-based lighting and visual control manufacturer distributed and serviced by Robe Middle East as of January 1st, 2025. Service and support throughout all Middle Eastern countries will be managed via the considerable resources, experience and organizational infrastructure of Robe Middle East, headed by Managing Director Elie Battah and his talented team.
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Avolites announced the release of Prism ‘Early Access’, the latest edition of its popular media software. Prism ‘Early Access’ (E.A.) edition can be downloaded for free via the Avolites website and becomes operational when used in conjunction with an AVOKey (Avolites license key). The full Prism ONE paid license release is currently scheduled for the Spring 2025
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Praised as the Best Parade in Texas, the McAllen Holiday Parade presented by H-E-B helped kick off the festive season in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. This unique nighttime holiday parade featured over 60 illuminated floats, 38 larger-than-life character helium balloons, 16 school bands and dance teams, and appearances by international and local celebrities. When approached for the project, Boom Special Effects in Arlington, TX, knew exactly how to create a “wow” factor; snow – a rare sight for many in the “South Pole” of Texas.
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The Jim & Linda Lee Performing Arts Center, Northern Arizona’s premiere entertainment venue, has installed Ayrton Rivale Profile and Karif-LT fixtures in its lighting rig. Formerly known as the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center, the theater offers seating for 1,064 and the best in live performance at its Perry & Sandy Massie Foundation Theatre.
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Blue Thunder Sound provided full production for the London Film Music Orchestra concert at the St Paul’s Cathedral, using over 200 lighting fixtures, including 102 PROLIGHTS Smart Bat units. Blue Thunder Sound strategically placed the lighting fixtures to enhance the architectural features of the cathedral, minimizing cable runs by employing wireless signals for lighting and audio control.
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The Latin Grammy Awards celebrated its 25th anniversary in a big way on November 14, putting on a glittering show that was impressive even by the exalted standards of awards festivals. Every genre in the galaxy of Latin music shined at the Kaseya Center. LD Tom Kenny and the rest of the lighting team (LDs David Convertino, Felix Peralta, & Joseph Vineyard), creating distinctive looks that reflected the individual musical personas of all these performers in the three-hour live broadcast show represented a challenge – albeit a very fun one.
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The newly inaugurated Potosí Arena stands has a capacity of over 20,000 people, and is set to host concerts by national and international artists and various sports and cultural events. The front of the arena is dressed with vibrant colors thanks to MEGA-LITE’s Outshine Q500 luminaires.
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From a showstopping light show that attracted eager crowds to Elation’s next frontier booth experience, to groundbreaking product debuts capped by a Best Debuting Product Award for PARAGON—the company’s new class of LED profile luminaires—LDI 2024 was truly extraordinary for Elation.
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Every November Alton Towers Resort hosts its annual end-of-season fireworks extravaganza. Even the most spectacular pyro displays, however, become more mesmerizing when set against a stunning backdrop of light. This year, Lighting Designer Olly Suckling, now in his eighth year working on the Alton Towers Resort Fireworks, elevated the display to new heights with a bold and vivid lighting design, controlled via a ChamSys console.
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