BERGAMO, Italy – Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures are gaining in popularity for television production in the U.S. with exposure on Simon Cowell’s new “The X Factor” music reality show for FOX and on this year’s MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) telecast. LD Tom Kenny used the Sharpys on both.
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NEW YORK, WASHINGTON, DC and LOS ANGLELES — The 2011 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, held Nov. 30 and broadcast live on NBC, has come a long way since workers at the office complex first pulled out the ladders and plugged in the lights in 1931. (The first ceremony took place two years later.) This year’s tree, a 74-foot spruce from Mifflinville, PA, featured 30,000 sparkling LED lights powered via 5 miles of cabling and topped by a six-sided, 9.5-foot-diameter, 550-lb. star made with 25,000 Swarovski crystals. The star itself was lit with 720 LEDs.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Protea Court, which houses 70 new international and luxury retail outlets, was inspired by the shape of South Africa’s national flower, the Protea. A lighting install of Anolis LED fixtures accentuate the curvy roof and girders of the structure, allowing the architecture to “breathe” with color and movement.
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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional introduces a new lighting controller targeted for permanent installations. The new Art SSC is a 1024-channel DMX command-line controller with a complete array of features and capabilities to program, operate, record, playback and schedule light shows, in one low-maintenance solid-state unit, without requiring a computer.
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TORONTO, Ontario – CAST Software’s Wysiwyg was the “steering” force of a celebration marking the 125th anniversary of the first car. The event, named “Autosymphonic,” was held Sept. 10 in Mannheim, Germany, the birthplace of the car.
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Software provider Stardraw.com has launched Stardraw Design 7, a new system design/documentation tool for systems integrators. The software is available for download on Stardraw.com’s website.
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ETC is now shipping the Tessera, or Unison Mosaic Tessera Controller (MTPC). A new addition to ETC’s Unison line of architectural control, Tessera combines a 4.3” touchscreen with a 512-channel DMX-Over-Ethernet Mosaic controller. Tessera controls complex lighting shows with moving lights as well as color-mixing LEDs, conventionals and dimmers. It also handles impromptu show control, accessories, automation, waterworks, and other non-lighting effects.
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MASCOT, Australia – Oceania Audio & Lighting has devoted equipment and crew the past few months to the Rugby World Cup and its associated events. Now that the final is over, corporate gigs and touring events which deferred until the World Cup was over are now underway. Oceania’s General Manager Lighting Simon Garrett prepared in advance by purchasing new Jands HPC12 series dimmers as well as additional Jands power distribution units and HPX dimmers.
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LOS ANGELES – KTLA TV coverage got some light relief on the red carpet recently at the Prime Time Television Awards at the Nokia Theater. With a low afternoon sun shining opposite the camera position, additional light from Litepanels new Hilio High Output LED daylight lighting fixtures saved the camera coverage.
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