LONDON — HSL supplied lighting and video equipment plus crew, and designed a custom DJ booth for two recent sold-out performances by The Swedish House Mafia at Brixton Academy. The shows were presented and produced by Cream and Loudsound Events and HSL was working for technical co-ordinators, BPM, who also supplied pyro and lasers.

NEW YORK — The lighting team on Comedy Central’s The Sarah Silverman Program are using ETC’s Ion lighting control system to deal with the high-pressure, fast-paced challenges of single-camera television production.

BOCA RATON, FL — With one part-time and two full-time employees, BocaTV, the local cable channel covering city council meetings here, is not about to be confused with CNN, or even C-SPAN, for that matter.

Carl Massano, creative director at SKB Corporation, passed away on Dec. 2, 2009 after a lengthy illness.  A graduate of Queens College, CUNY, Massano founded Massano Design with his wife, Carolyn, where he began producing graphics for SKB Corporation. In 1992, SKB acquired Massano Design.

WASHINGTON, DC — Scecon, a Virginia-based design and fabrication company, used Robe DigitalSpot 7000 DTs to project onto a “floating touch screen” at the center of a large booth at the 2009 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Convention held in the Washington Convention Center.

DALLAS, TX — Opera productions at the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in the new AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas are opening to rave reviews — even before the fat lady sings. The reason: a chandelier controlled by custom rigging from J. R. Clancy.

CHICAGO — Unlimited Visibility Lighting Design (UVLD), designer Andy Henry and Gail & Rice worked together to provide lighting and video for a major automaker’s 2010 lineup, which was introduced over two days in Chicago at the Arie Crown Theater and McCormick Place.