NEW YORK — Sonny Sonnenfeld, legendary lighting salesman, educator and architectural lighting designer, died Wednesday, Feb. 10 at his home in New York City. He was 96. During his storied career, Sonnenfeld handled sales for Century Lighting (now Philips/Strand), Colortran, ETC, Wybron and again at Philips/Strand.
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MINNEAPOLIS — First Avenue has been a staple of the Minneapolis music scene for closing in on half a century. Originally opened as a dance club in 1970, the club exploded into public awareness outside of the Twin Cities in the mid-’80s when it served as the setting for most of the live performances in the Prince film Purple Rain.
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LONDON – VES, which creates large multimedia and lighting installations, chose a d3 solution for the 26th annual Paszporty Polityki awards in Warsaw’s National Opera House. The ceremony was broadcast live on Polish television network TVP2. Warsaw-based Prolight, which distributes the leading brands in entertainment and architectural lighting, is the distributor of d3 products in Poland.
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McALLEN, TX – When the Holiday Inn Express hotel in McAllen, Texas, changed its brand to Mexican hotel chain iStay Hotel, the occasion called for something special. To announce the brand change and give the hotel a new identity, several upgrades were undertaken including dynamic uplight illumination of the outdoor façade using Elation SixPar 200 IP LED PAR color changers.
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NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites recently added several grandMA 2 consoles, grandMA 2 Lites and grandMA2 NPUs to their touring inventory as spring tours gear up and prepare to load out. North American distributer A.C.T. Lighting facilitated the purchase.
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The Mega-Lite Drama LED W50 is a compact yet powerful ellipsoidal with a smooth, flat spotlight. This single source 50-watt LED fixture has a robust 2557 lumen output, yet only measures 14.5 inches long and weighs less than 5 pounds. It’s just the right size for a small to medium sized stage or venue. The Drama LED W50 has four lens options – 19, 26, 36 and 50-degrees – to best suit the throw requirements of the application. This unit also comes with four framing blades to let the user change the shape of the beam. The fixture also comes standard with a gobo holder used to project patterns and a gel frame holder used to change the color of the spotlight. The projection can be focused manually with the unit’s lens tube. Additionally, a manual iris accessory is available to adjust the diameter of the spotlight. The fixture’s housing is available in black or painted white. And, it is manufactured with a single mounting yoke for rigging. The Drama LED W50 is an on/off lighting fixture or a controllable unit. An external controller is available to control the fixture via DMX 512. It mounts on the side of the fixture’s single yoke. This gives the unit 255 steps of dimming and a flash mode. Additionally, four dimming curves offer varying speeds of fading to black. The controller is made to your specs with either 3-pin or 5-pin DMX connections. The unit houses an auto-switching power supply that operates from 100V to 240V.
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NEW YORK – CNN Heroes, a ceremony and awards program now in its ninth year, was held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The 256-square foot MicroTiles wall, installed by Data Display Audio Visual, a division of ON Event Services, captured the evening’s festivities and served as the visual backdrop for photos, graphics and video to the live New York audience and millions of television viewers during the broadcast.
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SAN JUAN, PR – For a production of Mary Poppins at San Juan’s Centro de Bellas Artes Santurce, LD Toni Fernandez-Medina included 10 Rogue R2 Spot moving LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional. Musique Xpress supplied the fixtures, which were chosen for their versatility and also for their gobo effects for the Spanish-language production.
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LOS ANGELES – Before hitting the road for the current leg of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s “The River Tour 2016,” The Boss’s lighting team took advantage of A.C.T Lighting training classes to get them acquainted with their new grandMA2 full-size consoles. LD Jeff Ravitz, and lighting director/main console operator Todd Ricci and crew chief and second MA operator Brad Brown, the latter two from long term lighting contractor, Morpheus Lights, trained with Kat Covell at A.C.T Lighting’s offices in Burbank.
Read More »FRANKFURT – Guang Jian Gao, Designer-in-Chief and Art Director at the Chinese National Centre of Performing Arts in Beijing, will speak at Prolight + Sound 2016. The internationally renowned theatre expert will hold a keynote lecture covering his many years of experience as a set designer and offering interesting expert knowledge for the sector. The lecture will be held in Forum.0 of Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre on Thursday, 7 April 2016 at 15.30 hrs.
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SINGAPORE – Showtech Communications was tasked by the organizers of the New Year’s Eve festivities in Singapore’s Marina Bay area to provide a solution in integrating the existing lighting installations surrounding the bay with all the extra equipment for these celebrations. Showtech made use of 48 Robe fixtures, 45 Clay Paky fixtures and 300 LED fixtures for the events. LDs Heryadi Mohd Yusof and Ismahadie Putra Ishak also used a six-universe W-DMX setup to bridge the 400 meter span from FOH to the fixtures area for control.
Read More »ROZNOV pod RADHOSTEM, Czech Rebuplic – Robe reports that more than 300 BMFL fixtures were sold to the French market in the few months since the formation of Robe’s new French subsidiary, Robe Lighting France SAS.
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