POTSDAM, NY – The amphitheater at Clarkson University’s Student Center has been equipped with a video wall from Video Visions made with Christie MicroTiles. Students voted to increase their own activity fees to help fund the center, and wanted to make it both welcoming and technologically advanced.
Read More »EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Traxon Technologies announced the release of a new Traxon & e:cue application designed specifically for the iPad. The app is a resource for delivering information including Traxon & e:cue products and project details, as well as general lighting industry facts, tips and trends.
Read More »MONTREAL, QC – Lumenpulse Inc. announces that architectural and entertainment lighting expert Gorm Teichert has joined as executive vice president of international sales. This addition comes on the heels of the recent appointment of intelligent LED illumination pioneer Bill Sims to its board, as well as the formal introduction of its executive team, which Teichert now joins.
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LONDON, UK – Lighting designer Travis Shirley, who has been with Enrique Iglesias for six years, is using an all Martin rig on the current "Euphoria" world tour, a rig that includes over 200 of the remarkably small and super light MAC 101 washes.
Read More »NEW YORK, NY – White Light has been chosen to supply the lighting to Shrek, the musical adaptation of the Dreamworks Animation film that has already been greeted with acclaim in New York and on its current US tour. The stage version of Shrek has been created by a hugely experienced theatrical team, including directors Jason Moore and Rob Ashford, choreographer Josh Prince, designer Tim Hatley and lighting designer Hugh Vanstone. Shrek marks White Light's second ‘green' collaboration with Vanstone this year, having also supplied the lighting equipment for his design for The Wizard of Oz!
Read More »ALGERIAN – Algerian distributor, NEOSUN, has supplied production specialists, HANS Company, with quantities of PR Lighting's XL Beam 300's to enable the production company to showcase a number of leading car brands at the recent Salon International de l'Automobile d'Alger.
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SERIATE, ITALY – The 360-degree staging of Pietro e Lucia, based on the 1920s anti-war novel by French novelist Romain Rolland included Clay Paky's Alpha Beam 1500. Focusing on the impact of the First World War on the lives of two lovers, the show is a monumental multimedia combination of dance, film, rock and opera, featuring soloists from Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, Italian opera stars, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Choir, together with rock musicians.
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AARHUS, DENMARK – The Royal Danish Ballet’s recent performance of “A Folk Tale,” which ended a four week run at the Copenhagen Opera House on April 8th, is a classic Bournonville ballet that included several new interpretations and visual elements. Part of that new look included lighting effects from Martin Professional MAC III Profile luminaires under the command of lighting designer and programmer Mikki Kunttu.
Read More »NEW YORK – The American Theatre Wing announced the nominees for the 2011 Tony Awards, to be televised live on CBS June 12. The nominees for Best Lighting Design of a Play include Paule Constable for War Horse; David Lander for Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo; Kenneth Posner for The Merchant of Venice; and Mimi Jordan Sherin for Jerusalem. For Best Lighting Design of a Musical, nominees include Ken Billington for The Scottsboro Boys; Howell Binkley for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Peter Kaczorowski for Anything Goes; and Brian MacDevitt for The Book of Mormon.
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KORTRIJK, BELGIUM – Blitz-CineStar, Croatia's leading cinema operator, has selected Barco as exclusive digital cinema projector partner. Within the space of a year, the cinema chain will transform all of its ten multiplexes to state-of-the-art digital cinema complexes.
Read More »Japan's earthquake-driven tsunami and the damage to several of the nuclear reactors that provide most of the country's electrical power will have long-term impact on… Read More »Japan’s Disaster and the Lighting Industry Supply Chain
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CORONA, CA – Screenworks named 20-year industry veteran Mark Haney senior director of sales. Haney will oversee the concert and special event business for the company, which provides HD flightpacks, playback solutions, projection, and both high and low resolution LED screens for its clients.
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