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Nominations Underway for Parnelli Hometown Hero Awards
LAS VEGAS — Each year, PLSN honors regional lighting companies with our Hometown Hero awards. These awards honor the best small companies in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest and Canada. PLSN readers — the people who actually work with these companies — get to decide who’s really the best. We are looking for your ideas on the best regional lighting production company in the U.S. and Canada. Let us know your faves (and, yes, you can nominate your own company).
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Barco to Showcase Latest Solutions at InfoComm 2016
LAS VEGAS – Barco will showcase its latest 4K and laser projection, image processing, enterprise collaboration, digital signage, and video wall solutions at InfoComm 2016 in Booth C8720 at the Las Vegas Convention Center from June 8-10. Pictured here is Barco’s new laser phosphor HDF-W30LP Flex projector.
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Iowa Church Upgrades Sanctuary Lighting with elektraLite Dazer LEDs
KNOXVILLE, IA — Fluorescent lights may “get the job done” in illuminating a room, but they can certainly be unforgiving in terms of setting a mood, something especially important in a house of worship setting. With that in mind, Celebrate Community Church of Knoxville, Iowa recently upgraded its lighting facilities with the addition of a new system comprised of 24 elektraLite Dazer LEDs controlled by a new Avolites Titan Mobile desk.
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tvOne to Feature ONErack at InfoComm 2016
ERLANGER, KY – tvOne, a designer and manufacturer of video and multimedia processing equipment, will feature its ONErack at InfoComm in Las Vegas (booth C6818). ONErack is a universal, powered mounting system designed to improve rack installation of small devices. tvONE’s patent pending design converts randomly sized, externally-powered devices from ANY manufacturer into slide-in modules that can be installed quickly and cleanly and then serviced easily.
Read More »Registration Deadline for 2016 Hog Factor Competition is June 30
AUSTIN, TX. High End Systems’ Hog Factor 2016 competition is open for enrollment to all qualifying college and university students, and Phase One of the contest will close on June 30, 2016.
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Gig Gear Thermo-Gig Gloves
NASHVILLE – At Summer NAMM 2016, Brooklyn, NY-based Gig Gear LLC’s Gig Gloves line will expand to include a new cold weather glove called Thermo-Gig Gloves. These new gloves will include all of the same features that made the Original Gig Gloves a favorite, but also include an internal fleece lining to provide warmth for outdoor, cold weather gigs and events.
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Morpheus Lights to Feature New Ayrton LED Fixtures at InfoComm 2016
LAS VEGAS — Morpheus Lights, the exclusive U.S. distributor of Ayrton LED products, will exhibit at InfoComm 2016 at the Las Vegas Convention Center June 8 through 10 in Booth #C4750. The company will be featuring new products including Ayrton’s video-equipped DreamPanel Twin, the CosmoPix R, NandoBeam S and MagicDot R. The company is also debuting the MagicDot XT (pictured here) and IntelliPix XT.
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Student Fashion Show in NC Lit with Chauvet Professional Fixtures
RALEIGH, NC – For Art 2 Wear, an annual fashion show featuring the work of North Carolina State Design School students, LD Daniel Thibault of Alpha Production Group used Ovation E-190WW fixtures, Rogue R2 Wash moving lights and COLORado 2-Quad Zoom Tours, all from Chauvet Professional.
Read More »Edible Schoolyard NYC’s spring benefit lit by KM Productions and Arc 3 Designs
NEW YORK – Kevin Mignone of KM Productions teamed up with Al Crawford and Arc 3 Designs to provide light, sound and video for Edible Schoolyard NYC’s fourth annual spring benefit. The setup featured an array of brands including Chauvet, Vari*Lite, GLP and D&B Audiotechnik that were used to create an event ambience that was reminiscent of an outdoor, lush garden.
Read More »Osprey Video Announces H.264 Hardware Decoder and Two New SDI-to-HDMI Converters
Osprey Video recently announced three new devices to complement its flagship video-capture cards: the Talon G1 H.264 hardware decoder and two SDI-to-HDMI converters.
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Projection Backdrop for Glass Bottle Company in South Africa Makes Use of the Company’s Products
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Digital design agency INJOZI worked with Gearhouse Group on an idea for their Consol Glass campaign for Grey Advertising Johannesburg. The brief was to create a projection surface using the client’s product, in this case glass bottles. The result (pictured here) was used as a backdrop for a variety of performance scenarios. The campaign incorporated a video shoot as well as various activations around the country, so the surface needed to be able display patterns and text effectively as well as be assembled and dissembled quickly and safely for touring purposes.
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