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Active Production Touts LED Wall Options with its 80 Elation EVLED 1024 SMD Panels

Active Production and Design Elation EVLED 1024 SMD Panels

Active Production Touts LED Wall Options with its 80 Elation EVLED 1024 SMD Panels

ATLANTA — Active Production and Design, Inc., which recently added LED video screen rentals to its AV, lighting, special effects, staging and set design services, didn’t just tiptoe into the market. With its recent purchase of 80 of the 2’2” square EVLED 1024SMD 20mm LED panels from Elation Professional, the company is declaring that it can now put together a peach of a display — “the largest LED wall in Georgia,” if needed — for corporate clients, who make up 70 percent of the company’s business.

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Cristian Arroyo

Rosco Names Cristian Arroyo Business Development Manager for Southern Europe

LONDON — Rosco Europe named Cristian Arroyo business development manager for southern Europe. Arroyo, who joined Madrid-based Rosco Iberica in 1998 as financial manager, will also serve the company as European textiles manager. He will continue to be based in Madrid for one year, then move to London as part of Rosco’s strategy of bringing business units closer together.

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The Paul Cocksedge Studio exhibition at Salone del Mobile, Milan

Exhibition in Milan Relies on Precise Color from ETC Selador Gear

MILAN, Italy — As part of the Salone del Mobile home furnishing exhibition here, LD Paul Cocksedge relied upon precise colors projected from 80 ETC Selador Classic Ice LED fixtures in an exhibition space that projected both lighting and video onto an 82-foot-long, curved white wall. Visitors would not be able to see the video, however, until they viewed the wall through a red light shade.

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EIT Gaffer Tape from CSL

EIT Gaffer Tape from CSL

Creative Stage Lighting’s Entertainment Industry Tape (EIT) has been updated with improved adhesion properties designed to stick better and remove clean. The tape has also been designed to tear by hand more easily, with a matte finish to reduce reflected light. EIT Gaffer Tape is available in more than 10 colors, including fluorescents.

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Foo Fighters tour with support from Chaos Visual Productions

Foo Fighters Touring with Custom HD Video Elements

MILTON KEYNES, U.K. — Chaos Visual Productions is providing new video elements for the Foo Fighters’ 2011 Wasting Light tour, working with John Cutcliffe of SAM Entertainment, Eric Pearce of SGPS and the designs of Dan Hadley on a multifaceted production managed by Joe Beebe. The collaboration includes custom pods of high-resolution 8mm WinVision along with a custom stage using 18mm video elements.

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When Opportunity Calls…PICK IT UP

A few weeks ago, I received a phone call from a friend that I haven’t heard from in months. I was excited to hear from him since we’ve been trying to find time to head down to the Potomac River and do some fly fishing together. This wasn’t that call. He was in a “panic” to find a programmer for a show he had coming up in less than a week and asked if I could do it. Quickly looking over my schedule, I could fit it in. “PERFECT!” he said. Before I knew it, I committed to the gig. For this particular friend, I would walk through hell and back. I didn’t realize until later that I’d signed up for 14-hour days — after a week’s worth of travel.

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