LONDON – The Association of Lighting Designers (ALD), Society of Television Lighting and Design (STLD) and awards program sponsor Clay Paky recently announced the nominations for the third annual Knights of Illumination awards program. Geared toward U.K.-based lighting designers, the awards will be held Sept. 12 at the IBIS Hotel London Earls Court.
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LONDON – DesignScene, a production company, provided the creative concept, technical production and the sourcing of artists and performers for Superdrug, a U.K.-based company involved in health and beauty products.
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VENICE, Italy – The design team for the five Broadway-style shows staged aboard Holland America's New York-themed cruise ship, the 86,000-ton Ms Nieuw Amsterdam, relied upon CAST Software's wysiwyg for previsualization.
Read More »MINNEAPOLIS – Staging Concepts, a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, announced its intention of "going green" on a large scale, with both its staging and railing divisions.
Read More »Once, in a moment of apparent weakness, the dean of the college of engineering invited me and some other students to his house for dinner. We were all sitting in the study talking about school when I said something that, in retrospect, seemed to be the dumbest comment ever.
"Learning is painful," I said.
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The month-long 2010 FIFA World Cup, played in 10 stadiums around South Africa, culminated in a match between Spain and Holland at Soccer City Stadium in Soweto, Johannesburg, and in Spain's first World Cup victory by a score of 1-0.
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QMDI Event Organizer hired Creative Communication Group (CCG) to produce the light and sound for the third Senior Convocation of Education City, an initiative sponsored by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development.
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It probably wasn't intended to serve as a commentary on the current outlook for the international economy, but the British electronica band, Faithless, was booked to perform during the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia in mid-June.
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It was the year that Big William Howard Taft was president and little Marie Curie published her Treatise on Radiography; Mark Twain died and Django Reinhardt was born; Jack Johnson ruled the ring and the Titanic was being built.
Oh, and Rosco Laboratories was born.
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Orwellian Influence Leads to Ministry Video Towers
Oli Metcalfe is one of the new generation of lighting designers who is completely comfortable with developing video content to complement the lighting design.
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One of the earliest automated lighting consoles on the market was called the Animator. It was very advanced for its time, but it never gained the widespread popularity it deserved in North America, probably because it had limited distribution. The company that designed and built that console is Compulite.
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Daktronics partner GoVision worked with BSUN Media Systems to help LuLu's restaurant at Homeport Marina in Gulf Shores, Ala. out of a jam. Tropical storm Alex forced the postponement of a charity concert to benefit those affected by the BP oil spill. Lulu's was left without an act to entertain the large crowds expected on June 30 and July 1.
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