LOS ANGELES – LumenRadio announced the availability of the full range of CRMX wireless entertainment and architectural lighting control products across North America through TMB, which recently affirmed its status as LumenRadio's exclusive distributor in North America and the U.K.
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LONDON – White Light collaborated with students from the Central School of Speech and Drama for the second year to create a lighting technology showcase for lighting designers, technicians, consultants and others.
Read More »ORLANDO, FL – Techni-Lux is celebrating its 20th year in operation with an open house event. It will take place April 21, 2011 at Techni-Lux, 10900 Palmbay Drive, Orlando, FL 32824. The event is from 10am to 6pm, with doors open at 9:30 and a ceremonial cake-cutting taking place at 12:30 pm.
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NEW YORK – In Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, which opens on Broadway for previews Feb. 28, 2011, the musical's visual focal point is the show's namesake: a roving set piece done up as a tour bus, emblazoned with Traxon Technologie's String RGB fixtures – nearly 30,000 LEDs in all.
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NORTH CREEK, NY – Creative Stage Lighting has named Paul "PJ" Turpin at its Western business development manager. Turpin will be responsible for servicing CSL dealer accounts in the Western U.S.
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NEW YORK – For their Feb. 5 appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live, Linkin Park performed "Waiting For The End," off their latest album, A Thousand Suns. The design concept was to link their live performance into the song's video theme using two full-color OPS laser systems from Laser Design Productions.
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LAS VEGAS – Wybron's Mobile Light Lab , the successor to the company's 2010 Mobile Showroom, visited Colorado and Utah earlier this year before traveling to Nevada, where Wybron's Dusty Hudgins led PLSN sister publication Stage Directions on a video tour of the traveling facility. The Visuality 2011 tour will visit Arizona before traveling north up the West Coast.
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DAKAR, Senegal – Working with its French distributor, Avab, ETC supplied a range of fixtures, dimming and control equipment to the third Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures), illuminating the event's venues, the Théâtre National Daniel Sorano, Centre Culturel Blaise Senghor and La Biscuiterie de Médina.
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ASTANA and ALMATY, Kazakhstan – More than 1,500 athletes representing 27 Asian nations and 45 National Olympic Committees recently competed at the Asian Winter Games. ARG (Moscow) called in The Prolyte Group to support their vision for the Opening Ceremony.
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GENK, Belgium – C-Mine, a new $470 million cultural development on the site of an abandoned coal mine, offers visitors two flexible theatres, both of them with installed lighting rigs provided by ADB Lighting. ADB supplied a total of 275 luminaires and 564 ways of Eurorack dimming to the project, with the Eurorack 60 dimmer chosen for its quiet operation.
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Pathway Connectivity's Pathport Manager 5.1 offers RDM control and an IP-address auto-corrector. The software also recognizes the Strand Palette consoles, ShowCAD controllers and the Jands Vista, and will discover and configure the new Pathport VIA 10+1 gigabit switch, introduced at LDI 2010. It also unlocks full protocol support in Strand and Entertainment Technology raceway dimmers, including Art-Net and sACN.
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Elation Professional's Platinum Spot 5R Pro is an upgraded version of the Platinum Spot 5R DMX moving head. Both fixtures use Philips MSD Platinum 5R lamp technology to produce brightness comparable to a 575-watt fixture with only half the energy draw and a lengthy 2,000-hour lamp life. But the equally-compact-and-bright Platinum Spot 5R DMX adds an expanded array of professional features and effects, making it well-suited for theaters, stage shows, concerts, productions, churches, nightclubs and other entertainment venues.
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