ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — Staging Dimensions, Inc. helped the Borgata Water Club optimize usable floorspace for special events. The clear pool cover involved coming up with a modular system that was easy to assemble, disassemble and store.
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Elation Professional credits a new light source technology for giving its Platinum Spot 5R the ability to emit an output comparable to a 575-watt fixture in a moving head fixture that’s half the size and weight of a typical 250-watt fixture, while using less than half the energy.
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The Evo variable speed chain hoist controller from Kinesys is designed to comply with the BGV C1 life-safety standard and offers zero-speed performance for ultra-slow movement cues and instantaneous starts. An integrated loadcell provides precise load information while dual encoders offer accurate and secure positioning. A metal enclosure houses the controller, with truss and rack mounting options.
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Christie MicroTiles are modular digital display tiles that can be stacked and clustered like building blocks to create display walls of various shapes and sizes. Christie cites color and image reproduction, wide viewing angles, and a near-absence of seams on display walls as advantages, with only a 1mm gap between the tiles.
Read More »EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — Traxon Technologies and e:cue lighting controls has named Matthew Burstein director of technical sales and project management. Burstein is a 20-year lighting veteran with experience in entertainment, event and architectural lighting and also theatrical lighting and controls.
Read More »I don’t understand why everyone doesn’t use a fly loop when they wire and fly their truss. In a nutshell, a fly loop consists of… Read More »Cable Management: Use a Fly Loop
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ORLANDO — Authors Richard Cadena, James Moody and Steven Shelley will be squaring off later this week — not in a boxing ring or octagon, but at PLSN’s LDI booth #1506 (Friday, Nov. 20, from 3 to 4 p.m.).
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PARIS — Robert Juliat celebrated its 90th Anniversary at SIEL-SATIS, and to commemorate the occasion, created a “museum” at the entrance to Porte de Versailles in which were exhibited an array of historic lanterns and lighting products.
Read More »VANCOUVER, BC — Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd. announced that Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, the Canadian broadcaster of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, will use 39 new Hitachi SK-HD1000 multi-standard, multiformat studio/field cameras for its coverage of the Games.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. — Pete Robinson from Manchester based lighting company DBN was asked to light and provide scenic elements for the 2009 Co-Operative Good With Food Awards and gala dinner, staged at Manchester Central (formally the GMEX).
Read More »In the 1950s, George Izenour designed an electronically-controlled line shaft system for the theatre at Hofstra University. It was a very flexible system in which the sheaves and blocks could be moved around using a matrix of bolt holes on a series of beams in the fly loft.
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Chauvet’s Iluminarc subsidiary may be less than a year old, but it’s scored a landmark coup of sorts: more than 400 Ilumipod 48 IP RGBW wash lights are being used for an LED light show on the Eiffel Tower as part of the structure’s 120-year anniversary celebration.
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