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London-Based BITC Charity Gets Down to Business with White Light

London-Based BITC Charity Gets Down to Business with White Light

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LONDON – Business in the Community is a movement of businesses committed to continually improving their positive impact on society through corporate and social responsibility.  The charity, whose President is HRH Prince of Wales, have recently partnered with Accenture to launch a new report encouraging business to be part of creating an inclusive digital revolution. This report was launched as part of the AGM and Leadership Summit which was recently held at Central Hall Westminster.

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Phantom of the Opera in Stockholm Lit with Robe Fixtures

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Robe moving lights continue their run on high profile theatre shows worldwide, with the new ‘Phantom of the Opera’ production in Stockholm utilizing over 50 fixtures in total. The Really Useful Group (RUG) licensed production of the legendary Andrew Lloyd-Webber blockbusting musical has just opened and is scheduled to play the 1,650-capacity Cirkusteatern arena for a year, for which the Robe lights were specified by associate lighting designer, Mike Odam.

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FIX8Group delivers immersive digital experience at LeadDog installation

Immersive Lenovo Projects in London and Paris Get FIX8Group Assist

LONDON – LeadDog Marketing Grouo recently appointed event technologist FIX8Group to manage, design and deliver the visual and digital technology for a boutique experiential installation in both Paris and London on behalf of Lenovo. Conceived and led by LeadDog, the tech installation was built around a facsimile of a digitally enhanced underground train that featured an interactive LED floor, wall mounted touch screen technology and LED lit ceilings and walls.

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The holiday promotion had a mountain resort theme.

Department Store in Paris Highlights Holiday Promotion with Airstar Inflatable Lighting

PARIS – Airstar’s inflatable lighting technologies for the event and architecture industries, recently joined forces with the Val d’Isère mountain resort to inaugurate the “Christmas in the mountains” promotion featured by the BVH Marais departmetn store in the heart of Paris. Airstar Europe deployed lighting balloons inside and out of the iconic Parisian department store to celebrate the launch of the Christmas season.

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Elation DW Chorus White-Light LED Battens

Elation DW Chorus White-Light LED Battens

Elation Professional’s DW Chorus™ is a new series of white-light LED batten wash lights with variable white color temperature control. Useful for floodlighting surfaces and stages in even washes of dynamic light, a broad range of white color shades combines with the versatility of four different model choices to offer the ultimate in white light flexibility.

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Aftermath of Oakland 'Ghost Ship' Warehouse Fire

In Memoriam: Jonathan Bernbaum, Barrett Clark, Cody Stoltz

OAKLAND, CA and NEW ORLEANS — The first week of December was marked by the tragic news of the passing of three promising young designers, including video innovator Jonathan Bernbaum, audio engineer Barrett Clark and lighting prodigy Cody Stoltz. Bernbaum and Clark were among the 36 victims of the Dec. 2 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, pictured here. Stoltz, whom PLSN profiled in Sept. 2008 as a 13-year-old LD, died Dec. 5.

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Pepe Aguilar performs a duet. Photos by Guillermo Cabada

Pepe Aguilar

Ricardo Ortiz Lights Elaborate Shows for Grammy-Winning Artist

Pepe Aguilar, the son of music and film stars Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre, is an American-born singer who has made his mark in the Ranchera, Mariachi and pop genres of music.

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Michael Golden, Bandit Lites VP, marks 40 years in the business.

Michael Golden

One day in 1976, Dr. Billy Golden, a chief of staff surgeon, came home with three Alice Cooper concert tickets, which he had bartered from a patient (apparently that’s how they rolled in Eastern Tennessee in those days). He not only made his 15-year-old son Michael happy, but inadvertently set his son on a career path neither knew existed. “I took two friends from high school, one being Steve, younger brother of Michael Strickland,” he tells. “That concert turned my complete focus toward working in the entertainment/concert field.” The motivated and presumably persuasive teen immediately got a job at the Freedom Hall Civic Center in Johnson City, TN. Thus his live event industry career was launched, though inauspiciously: He started at the bottom, if not a few elevator stops below that. “I mopped, swept … I literally popped popcorn by day and ran a spotlight at night.”

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PLSN 2016 Dec Buyers Guide - Followspots

Followspots

According to some historians, the first spotlights were used in Paris opera houses in 1803. They involved the use of limelight. Invented by Henry Drummond, the technique was to heat a piece of lime with a flame of oxygen and hydrogen. This produced a hot white light that, when put behind a lens, could focus a hot spot of light in a directional manner. As you can see from the latest crop of followspots listed here, we’ve come a long way in 200 years.

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The Cosmic Truss team at LDI 2016. From left, Paul Saghbazarian, Jack Lee, David Park and Marco Stuve.

Cosmic Truss

You probably have heard recently about Cosmic Truss’ award-winning booth design at this year’s LDI where they displayed a giant skull — which looked like it came straight out of hell — made entirely from truss. While many assumed that the huge skull was all custom, in fact it was almost completely stock pieces with minor custom bits. PLSN caught up with Cosmic Truss’ brand director, David Park and sales manager, Paul Saghbazarian to talk about Cosmic Truss, what’s new, and what they’ve been up to lately beyond building awesome truss skulls.

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