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SAN ANTONIO – With its arched columned doorways and peaked roofs, the First Baptist Church of San Antonio’s campus is reminiscent of early Texas architecture. The church moved into this stately building in the early 1900s, but its roots actually stretch back much further, all the way to 1861, only 16 years after Texas became... View Article

LONDON – At the recent double premiere of the 2018 post-apocalyptic adventure films Mortal Engines and Aquaman in London’s Leicester Square, the red carpet was suitably soaked in a fittingly post-apocalyptic two-day torrential rainstorm. Fortunately, for movie fans who had turned up in droves to take selfies with stars like Hugo Weaving, Hera Hilmar and... View Article

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – There is an elegant simplicity to Oracle software, a fluidity of design that makes even the most complex computing tasks appear seamless and natural. This almost magical quality was very much in evidence in early October at the Oracle Open World conference in the new products unveiled by the host company.... View Article

WICHITA FALLS, TX – A cosmetology salon with 26 stations isn’t something you normally find at a high school. Neither are an industrial certified welding shop, nor a fully scaled commercial kitchen, but the $28 million Career Education Center opened this year by the Wichita Falls Independent School District is clearly not your ordinary high... View Article

LOWELL, MA – Every time Tim Messina sat down at his computer to work on a design for the 2017 Steubenville East Conference, he felt “less than completely satisfied” with the end result.  The owner of Events United, Messina has been creating the lighting, audio, video, and stage design for the large Catholic youth conference… View Article

Sunrise, FL – The F4IP LED video panel from CHAUVET Professional is a fair and foul weather friend. With brilliant SMD 1921 LEDs, a pixel pitch of 4.8 mm and 5,000 NITs illuminance, the new panel has the brightness and clarity to make a vivid impression in outdoor applications even on the sunniest days.  At… View Article

MIAMI, FL – The action at the 88th annual Major League Baseball All-Star game was not confined to the baseball diamond. Outside the field, host city Miami rolled out its sizzling and colorful South Florida flair to turn the area surrounding Marlins Park into a festive party zone, complete with an electric 5K run, Zumba… View Article

WATERVILLE VALLEY, NH – The six-campus Granite United Church has never rested when it comes to spreading its message and touching lives. By 2014, its three day Warrior Conference for men had already established itself as one of the largest religious gatherings in the Northeast, but the church was looking to make the event even… View Article

LONDON, UK – Since the world’s most famous oversized gorilla first appeared on cinema screens in 1933, King Kong has become one of the most renowned movie icons, with countless comics, video games and theme park rides adding to a string of film remakes. Now the iconic ape has surfaced again with the release of... View Article

GRANBURY, TX – History runs deep throughout the Lone Star State. Perhaps nowhere in Texas is this more evident than in the little town of Granbury.  A look at the well preserved 19th century homes and original frontier storefronts that line the downtown district make it easy to see why Granbury bills itself as “The... View Article

Stevie Wonder tries out the Roland RD-2000 on one of the many demo stages featuring COLORado Batten 72 Tour units as backlight, and uplighting ANAHEIM, CA – Officially, NAMM 2017 ended on Sunday January 22, but for digital music trailblazer Roland, the show is still in high gear. Known almost as much for its advance... View Article

AUSTIN, TX – Magical is a word that is often ascribed to Louis The Child’s spacey, ethereal sound. It also accurately describes this EDM duo’s phenomenal career path. Formed by two high school friends, Robby Hauldren and Freddy Kennett, the group was playing Chicago-area clubs in 2015, when they released what would become their breakout... View Article

LANCASTER, SC – It’s become almost routine for Nutramax to earn praise for being one of the “best places to work” in the US.  There’s a good reason for this; the global maker of dietary joint supplements for pets and people, is known for its emphasis on supporting employees through team building. A good example... View Article

NEW YORK – Talk about an enthusiastic reception. “This Monument Could Be Manhattan’s Answer to the Eiffel Tower,” screamed a headline in the online edition of Fortune Magazine on September 14, when the design of a towering abstract structure called “Vessel” was reveled at a ceremony in New York’s Hudson Yards. Providing the gathered crowd... View Article

Mexico City – Responding to the rapidly increasing demand for its lighting and trussing products in Mexico, Chauvet has opened a new office, warehouse, service center and showroom in Lerma, just west of the nation's capital. Located close to major highway and rail transit channels, the spacious new facility will house an extensive inventory of... View Article

CHILLICOTHE, IL – The 20,000-plus fans who turn out for the weekend Summer Camp Music Festival like it so much that every year about half of them turn up a day early for a giant “Pre Party.” The assembled partiers almost double the population of the central Illinois hamlet of Chillicothe, but no one -... View Article

BOSTON – Journalists from far beyond New England are used to coming to Westin Copley Place to cover news.  US presidents and Supreme Court justices have frequently given speeches here, and one would-be Commander and Chief, Mitt Romney, used it as his primary election night headquarters. Recently, though, members of the fourth estate visited the... View Article

BELFAST, UK – Fat Boy Slim, Seb Fontaine, Nick Warren are just some of the legendary resident DJs that have shaped Cream’s unique dance music identity since its inception in 1992. Beginning life in the form of a super club, the brand has gone on to become a worldwide success with numerous one-off parties and... View Article

ATLANTA – The Rialto Center for the Arts has seen its share of inspired performances since it opened its doors in 1916, but it’s doubtful that anything in the 100-year history of this legendary venue ever surpassed the raw energy level at the BMI Trailblazers Awards. Sponsored by the largest music rights organization in the... View Article

SUNRISE, FL – Disco Donnie Presents was one of the drivers of the EDM movement in the ’90s and remains at the top of its game today, producing over 1000 club events, arena shows and outdoor festivals a year. Creative Production and Design is a rapidly growing lighting and video company that has been spinning... View Article

London, England – The UK premiere of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was big news throughout Europe. Setting an appropriately grand tone for this A-list event at London’s Leicester Square, Impact Production Services, created the highest profile video installation in the company’s history using a collection of PVP X6IP LED panels and pixel mapped... View Article

BOSTON – When global medical equipment giant Smith & Nephew was looking for images to dress up its booth at the Arthroscopy Association of North America convention, the company didn’t have to search any further than the event’s host city. Over 17 million people visit Boston every year, easily placing the city among the top... View Article

CAMBRIDGE, MA – Harvard Yard has hosted visits from presidents, kings and Nobel laureates too numerous to mention over the course of the past 300 years. On Sunday April 24, however, the fabled 22-acre site was the scene of an altogether different kind of event, when electro house capo Steve Aoki thrilled a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd... View Article

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – In the 1970s, the Skyway 6 was one of the biggest downtown multi-cineplexes in the US. Twenty years later, its glory days as a movie theater gone, it stood worn and neglected, before being reborn as the Skyway Theatre, one of the hottest electronic music venues anywhere. Virtually every major EDM artist... View Article

AUSTIN, TX – The rainstorm experience at the Foam Wonderland tour is always intense with a thunderous bass, bright flashes of light, and foam cannons that shoot massive projectiles of foam over the crowd. The music is always edgy too, with EDM heavies laying down tracks that keep everyone on their feet. Although the intensity... View Article

Lee Kahle never met Pitbull, but the Technical Director of Harford Community College says he owes the superstar rapper a nod of thanks for helping him enhance the audience experience at the school’s arena by replacing its projection videos with an impressive 10’ tall by 20’ wide LED wall made of PVP S5 Panels from... View Article

Receiving your college diploma typically means that worrying about exams and grades is over. But at Ohio University’s 2014 graduation ceremony, held at the school’s Convocation Center basketball arena, a different sort of “test” was just getting underway: determining whether CHAUVET Professional MVP Ta8 Curve LED panels could provide the high video quality, flexibility and... View Article

Boston, Mass. – Being in advertising, members of The Ad Club know all about the importance of creating sizzle for a ceremony. So it’s not surprising that this Boston-based trade group asked Derek Iorfida (JDI Productions) and Chris Hubbard (EPAV) to do something special for its 53rd annual Hatch Awards, a ceremony honoring the best... View Article

MANCHESTER, NH – Easter is a time when churches have a chance to reach people who don’t normally go to religious services. Manchester Christian Church took advantage of this opportunity in a unique and dramatic way recently by renting out the Verizon Wireless Arena, one of the largest event centers in New England, for a... View Article

MIAMI – Jack U, Steve Aoki, Zeds Dead, Flosstradamus, Big Sean and other EDM heavies are headlining the current Life In Color “Kingdom” Tour, which is selling out venues in the US and UK. As powerful as these superstars are, however, none of them is the big cat on stage. That honor belongs to Panthera... View Article

LAFAYETTE, LA – Surveying the stage at Louisiana’s sprawling Cajundome, Jason Wilson was impressed by its sheer size. The vice president of operations at B&L Sound and Lighting, Wilson had more than a passing interest in the stage’s physical dimensions. The event producer for the Louisiana Youth Evangelism Celebration, he led the team responsible for... View Article

Great boxers like Floyd Mayweather know the value of constantly refining their approach to their profession, so too do successful lighting designers like Jason Eible of Frank Gatto Associates (Boca Raton, FL), a multi-Emmy Award-winning company specializing in televised events. Eible has been creating high impact designs for championship boxing matches for some time, and... View Article

SUNRISE, FL – As LED video wall technology has improved in quality, it’s becoming the new standard for displaying video images – in applications ranging from concerts and productions, to nightclubs and sports arenas -- thanks to the superior efficiency, reliability and flexibility it offers compared to traditional projection video. Now CHAUVET Professional is meeting... View Article

LINCOLN, AL - The folks at insurance giant GEICO know a thing or two about marketing; after all they made a lovable gecko the world’s most famous lizard! So as a major sponsor of one of America’s most popular sports, NASCAR auto racing, it was only natural that they would come up with ways to... View Article

Nottingham, UK – Growing from a small local shop to a hugely successful international enterprise in the space of two decades is not easy. Achieving this success while advancing and upholding deeply held ethical principles makes the accomplishment all the more noteworthy. Management at Lush Cosmetics recognized this, which is why they wanted to make... View Article

SUNRISE, FL – As LED video wall technology has improved in quality, it’s becoming the new standard for displaying video images – in applications ranging from concerts and productions, to nightclubs and sports arenas -- thanks to the superior efficiency, reliability and flexibility it offers compared to traditional projection video. Now CHAUVET Professional is meeting... View Article

We're Behind the Scenes once again with the CHAUVET Professional PVP S5 video panels at WSVN-TV7 News -- walk through the studio and installation and learn about the people behind the celebrated WSVN-TV7 studio! Recent News IPS Supports Back To Back Film Premieres With CHAUVET Professional PVP Panels Digital Dynamite Productions’ “Organic Wall” Uses CHAUVET... View Article