Another week has past and the weekend is almost over. Did you get everything done that you wanted? Work on an interesting show? Share with us over on ProLightingSpace! Before Sunday is gone, take a moment for yourself and catch up on the biggest news for the past week. Put on another pot of coffee, finish the comics and see what everyone is talking about from the previous week. Oh, and Happy Easter & Passover!
Staging Concepts Seats 17,000+ for NCAA Final Four
MINNEAPOLIS – Staging Concepts is supplying a temporary seating configuration for more than 17,000 fans for the NCAA Final Four at the Superdome in New Orleans. Almost 4,700 portable platforms supported by a highly engineered scaffold style understructure will cover an area of 188,216 sq. ft. This seating configuration involves a major move of the basketball court from the end zone, where it was in 2003 when New Orleans last hosted the Final Four, to the middle of the arena near the action.
Designing Brad Pitt’s ‘A Night to Make It Right’
NEW ORLEANS – Stefan Beese of RE:BE Design was Production Designer for Brad Pitt’s “A Night to Make It Right” gala in New Orleans. The event raised funds for Make It Right’s goal of building homes in the Lower 9th Ward. The stage design included angular overlapping lines of the newly built Make It Right houses and the culturally significant concept of the traditional NOLA “Front Porch.” Both would tie together the three staging areas for Sheryl Crow and Rihanna, space for Ellen Degeneres’ interviews with Brad Pitt and MIR family members, and the gala host.
LOS ANGELES – GLP German Light Products Inc. offers new colors and graphic designs in truss covers in the Cosmic Truss range of products. With hook and loop fastening as standard, covers can be attached quickly for presentations and set dressing.
RSN Strengthens its Service with New Members
PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ – Three companies have recently joined the Rental and Staging Network (RSN), bringing the total membership to 19. Video West, Audio Visual Frischkorn and CMI Communications help strengthen the organization’s goal, which is to become the “go to” source for AV/staging services.
Elation LED Video Wall Enhances Chicago’s Enclave
CHICAGO – Chicago’s Enclave has changed with the times, emerging recently as a hot electronic dance music venue. Its newest install is an LED video wall, made up of 14 EPV 762 LED panels from Elation Professional. The video wall played an important role in a major PR event that recently took place at Enclave: the breaking of a Guinness World Record.
