UXBRIDGE, MA – Morgan Crane has joined event production company Blackstone Productions as Director of Sales and Marketing. Crane’s 20 years of sales and marketing experience most recently included senior positions for Projection Presentation Technology at the Boston Convention & Exposition Center.
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AMSTERDAM — Integrated Systems Europe set a new record for number of exhibitors — 825, up 15 percent from the year before, with close to 200 new exhibitors, and overall attendance — 40,869, up 17 percent from the year before, for the AV and electronic systems integration trade event that occupied 11 halls of the Amsterdam RAI from Jan. 31-Feb 2. Other new records include total floor space (about 323,000 square feet) and registrants for the pre-show conference and educational sessions (more than 2,000 for the first time.)
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CALGARY, Alberta – Johnson Systems Inc.’s new DPC-12 and DPC-24 Digital Pack Controllers (DPC?s) for CD80 Portable Packs and Compact Rolling Racks are direct plug-in… Read More »JSI DPC-12 and DPC-24 Digital Pack Controllers
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AUSTIN, TX – For 20 years, Production Designer Manfred Voss has been with the popular German TV game show, “Wetten, dass..?” (translating as “Wanna bet that…?”) which counts on ordinary people performing outlandish tasks for its entertainment value. Voss chooses the Road Hog Full Boar to control up to 16 SHOWPIX pixilation luminaires and
12 SHOWGUN 2.5 automated luminaires for its broadcasts on ZDF TV throughout Europe.
ASHFORD, UK – UK rental company Visual Elements has upgraded 100 Chroma-Q Color Block DB4 LED Fixtures in its inventory to the new Color Block Plus Replacement Engine. The new engine offers more than two and a half times the light output – 750 lumens – of the original Color Block DB4 (290 lumens) with the internal switch set to full power. The newest installation of the Color Block Plus DB4 LED fixtures is at the Roundhouse.
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LONDON – XL Video supplied the UK leg of Kasabian’s recent “Velociraptor!’ world tour with a camera and PPU system, media server control, projection and scenic Barco MiStrip LED elements. Video director Paul “Eggy” Eggerton and engineer Wolfgang “Wolfie” Schram worked on the IMAG looks, while set was a collaboration between LD Nick Gray and the band’s creative dirctor Aitor Throp.
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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional hired Mark Haney as senior market manager of Broadcast Video and Lighting. This new position focuses on the overall sales of Elation’s LED video product, support and client relations. Haney, who has more than 20 years of experience in the broadcast/touring video market, was formerly a sales director for Screenworks/NEP.
Read More »ARMONK, NY – Production Resource Group, L.L.C. (PRG) has acquired Paskal Lighting, a U.S.-based lighting, grip and expendables company that has served the motion picture and television industries since 1988. While serving as a PRG subsidiary, Paskal Lighting will operate under its own name, with Evan Green continuing in his role as president.
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SYRACUSE, NY – Winners of the nine USITT Awards for Young Designers & Technicians in the Performing Arts have been selected for 2012: Scott Wolfson, Hidenori Nakajo, Catherine Wilson, Charles Murdock Lucas, Shannon Smith, Andrew Wallace, Holland Berson, John Bowhers and David Beller. These individuals will be honored during USITT’s Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Long Beach, CA, in March.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Over 111 million viewers tuned into NBC to watch Super Bowl XLVI and the Bridgestone Halftime Show featuring Madonna, LMFAO, M.I.A., Nicki Minaj and Cee Lo Green. The halftime show was lit by Al Gurdon and featured a production design by Bruce Rodgers of Tribe, Inc. The show’s large cast performed Cirque du Soleil influenced-choreography on 43 modular pieces handled by some 500 stagehands, with load-in and load-out (pictured here) taking place in nine and 10 minutes, respectively. PLSN editor Justin Lang and Stage Directions editor Jacob Coakley followed the action as it happened, tweeting live on Twitter.
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