ROSKILDE, Denmark – The Roskilde Festival's Green Footsteps program encouraged fans to act with care for the environment before, during and after the festival. Lighting supplier Comtech also helped house and visiting designers walk the walk at the main Orange stage with energy-efficient GLP impression fixtures featured in the rig.
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SYRACUSE, NY – Want to see something really scary? Go to J. R. Clancy's Facebook page to see some of the worst examples of rigging nightmares, in real photos sent to the company by rigging inspectors and theatre managers.
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ROZNOV P. R., Czech Republic – Anolis named Alfred Vallaster International business development manager. Vallaster has over 25 years of lighting industry experience, working with Zumbotel, WILA and TIR Systems, among others.
Read More »NEW YORK – BSR E1.32 – 201x, Guide for the Inspection of Entertainment Industry Luminaires, is available for public review on the ESTA website through Oct. 25, 2010.
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COLOGNE, Germany – LD Marcus Kromer specified 330 Chroma-Q Color Block 2 LED fixtures to provide stage scenic elements backlighting for a large corporate event featuring German bands including Drumcafe, Die Hohner and PUR. The event was held at the Lanxess arena.
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JOHANNESBURG – Blond Productions are supplying Robe fixtures, other lighting gear, AV and sound for the Big Brother Africa All Stars Series, which is keeping tabs on 14 Big Brother reality show personalities from the first four series of the program. The Big Brother house and studios are at Sasani Studios in Balfour Park.
Read More »BILLERICA, MA – Luminus Devices Inc., maker of PhlatLight LEDs, named Jim Hunter vice president and general manager, Global Commercial Markets.
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VENICE, Italy – Cloudscapes, an indoor cloud display, fills an 800-square-meter room at the Venetian Arsenal during the Architecture Biennale of Venice, which runs through Nov. 21. The cloud is being created and lit for the Transsolar climate engineering firm and Tetsuo Kondo Architects with help from Martin Professional gear.
Read More »SAO PAULO, Brazil – The Vitec Group plc announced the planned opening of its São Paulo, Brazil office, the company's first in South America.
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ST. LOUIS, MO – Staco Energy Products named Steve Sims Eastern regional sales manager. Sims will work from his St. Louis, MO area office to generate sales through channel partners in the Eastern U.S.
Read More »SEOUL, Korea – Global leaders will be meeting at the Coex Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul on Nov. 11-12, 2010. To help the center prepare for the event, Showcall and its partner Hargrove were asked to advise the planners as professional consultants.
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NEW YORK – The broadcast and cable networks' "upfront season" targets advertisers and their agencies with new fall programming lineups. Scharff Weisberg and Video Applications (VAI), companies affiliated via WorldStage, played a key role with upfront events for CBS, Turner, Univision, Oxygen, Cartoon Network, CNN and Discovery Channel.
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