Richard Steinau and Jeffrey Jayne Join WorldStage Sales Team
NEW YORK– WorldStage named Richard Steinau Vice President of Business Development. The company also named Jeffrey Jayne Senior Account Manager.
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A.C.T Lighting Partners Clay Paky and ImageCue Net Three Awards at LDI 2015
LAS VEGAS – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. joined manufacturer partners Clay Paky and ImageCue to celebrate their trio of wins at LDI 2015. Clay Paky went home with two coveted awards for its lighting products, and ImageCue was named a PLASA members’ favorite for its small-footprint embedded server. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky and ImageCue products in North America.
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Vision SL Equips DeLorean-shaped Cake Car with Chauvet Gear for Back to the Future Day
LONDON – For a celebration of ‘Back to the Future Day’ (Oct. 21, 2015), Tattooed Bakers crafted a cake in the shape of a DeLorean sports car. Instead of candles, Vision SL used four COLORado Deco Quad 1 Tour fixtures as front headlamps, two MegaStrobe FX12s for rear brake indicators and two COLORband PiX IP linear washes for bumper lights. Two Geyser RGB foggers, meanwhile, simulated plumes of smoke emanating from the cake-car’s exhaust.
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SGM Restructures with New Shareholder; Continues as Before
AARHUS, Denmark — Although the future of SGM seemed uncertain with reports of a bankruptcy filing in early November, by Nov. 9, the company noted that Peter Johansen (pictured here, left) will continue in a leadership role as CEO. The company is now owned by Eurofinim, led by CEO Paolo Covre (pictured right.)
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AV Stumpfl to Display AV Products for the Amusement Industry at IAAPA 2015
ORLANDO – AV Stumpfl will be at IAAPA Attractions Expo Nov. 16-20 2015 to feature a variety of new AV related products including their Wings Avio Manager 2.0 control network architecture software. The company will also showcase solutions for uncompressed media serving, control and projection screens.
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KAABOO Festival Main Stage Lit with Robe BMFL Blades
DELMAR, CA – For the inaugural KAABOO festival, a three day, seven-stage music event, Nashville based lighting and visuals designer Chris Lisle provided included 20 Robe BMFL Blades in the main stage rig (on a stage dubbed Sunset Cliffs, after a well-known surfing spot.) Music headliners included The Killers, No Doubt, Snoop Dog, The Zac Brown Band and many, many more. “House” LD / programmer Matt Shimamoto and guest LDs for nine of the bands used the fixtures for their sets.
PR Live Supplies Full Production for Friends Fest
LONDON – Live event production specialists PR Live supplied all technical elements – lighting, sound and AV – to the recent Friends Fest event, a five day expo-style extravaganza staged at the Boiler House in Brick Lane, east London which celebrated the hugely popular landmark American sitcom, ‘Friends’.
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HSL Supplies Moving Lights for ‘Sweet Charity’ in Ipswitch, U.K.
IPSWITCH, U.K. – HSL supplied ten Robe 600E Spots for a recent production of he classic Cy Coleman musical, Sweet Charity. Along with the moving lights, which were used extensively, the production also featured video scenery using Martin’s EC20 LED video panels.
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Tampa Church Installs Eiki Projectors
TAMPA, FL – For St. Mark The Evangelist Catholic Church, Magnum Audio Group, Inc. provided two Eiki LC-HDT700 7000 lumen ANSI projectors. Magnum Audio president Randi Crooks credited the projectors’ 3LCD+One technology as a key advantage in terms of color saturation for a wide range of applications.
Read More »Atlanta Based Nanolumens Honors Veterans Every Day
ATLANTA, GA – This Wednesday is Veterans Day, and for most Americans it’s just another holiday on a calendar filled with holidays that have little or no meaning. But for Rick Cope, CEO of Atlanta, Georgia based NanoLumens Veteran’s Day is celebrated every day of the year.
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Pollstar Nominates Bandit Lites for Lighting Company of the Year
NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites announced that it has again been nominated for ‘Lighting Company of the Year’ by Pollstar.
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The Heights Baptist Church Uses Rogue RH1 Hybrid for Worship Services
RICHARDSON, TX – Bobby Dennis, technical director of The Heights Baptist Church, has had success using multi-tasking Rogue RH1 Hybrid fixtures from Chauvet Professional, and not just for the musical performaces staged there. He’s also found the fixtures to be useful for worship services.