DUBAI, UAE – AED Rent, based in Belgium and with international offices in The Netherlands, France, Germany and the U.K., announced its first franchise location, which opened here recently. The Dubai-based organization is known as AED Rent Franchise UAE.
Read More »TALLADEGA, AL – NEP’s Screenworks provided a massive screen display during NASCAR races at the Talladega Superspeedway. Their large-scale solution included three 46-foot-wide LED screens on custom 64-foot-high towers and one massive 80-foot-wide LED screen on a custom 88-foot-high tower.
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WEST NORFOLK, U.K. – 5 Star Cases supplied new flightcases to house the timing equipment used by the West Norfolk Swimming Club. Two of the cases each take four timing pads, and both feature a split-top design making the cases as accessible as possible, facilitating extremely quick and easy removal and deployment of the pads from the large cases.
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LOS ANGELES – Lighting Designers Adam Portelli and Michael Veerkamp of Team Imagination used 24 4Wall-supplied Nexus 4×4 panels from Chauvet Professional on the set of game show Bet on Your Baby. “The set already incorporated LED fixtures from season one, but we wanted to enhance the visual opportunities we saw,” recalled Portelli. “Mike and I decided to use the Nexus panels to suggest a ‘stadium’ look that would make the pre-existing set seem bigger than ever. By hanging the Nexus panels between the gaps of the set, we achieved that visual effect.”
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PROVIDENCE, RI – A “Hair Hang Act” performance during a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus show here on May 4 took a disastrous turn when the apparatus the performers were hanging from suddenly fell to the ground. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration determined the incident occurred because the carabiner used to support the performers failed from being improperly loaded. The failure resulted in the eight employees performing the act falling more than 15 feet to the ground and sustaining serious injuries. A ninth employee, working on the ground, was struck by falling employees.
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CRESSKILL, NJ — Crestron Electronics announced Nov. 4 that company founder and chairman George Feldstein died after battling brain cancer over the past year. Feldstein, a lifelong tinkerer, whose company developed AV and lighting control panels and systems for commercial applications along with residential control systems, was 73.
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ROME — Mario De Sisti, a lighting designer who founded De Sisti Lighting in early 1982, died Oct. 31, 2014. Survivors include sons Fabio and Sergio De Sisti, who plan to continue the company’s legacy of innovation with lighting and rigging product technologies, building on past successes that have advanced flicker-free lighting for television applications and such rigging innovations as motorized self-climbing hoists.
Read More »There’s a caveat with 4K presentations, and companies desiring to move in that direction need to have their eyes wide open. The workflow, from concept… Read More »The Move to 4K: Costly, Yet Inexorable
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – For Miley Cyrus’ Bangerz world tour stop at Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot on Sept. 11, Musique Xpress Lights provided Chauvet Professional fixtures. The gear, including 44 Q-Wash 560Z-LED moving washes and 48 COLORado Batten 72 Tour LED linear wash fixtures, was chosen and approved by both LD Sean Burke and LD Richard Vicens of Musique Xpress Lights.
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ATLANTA — NanoLumens promoted Nathan Remmes from director of business development & demand generation to vice president of marketing & business development. He reports directly to NanoLumens senior vice president of sales and marketing Karen Robinson, who announced the promotion.
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ATLANTA – For Jeffrey Fashion Cares, an annual autumn fashion event that also raises funds for charity, The Magnum Companies Ltd. opted to use 50 of Chauvet Professional’s PVP S5 video panels for a 9-by-16-foot video screen that served as a backdrop for the runway.
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