USITT Conference & Stage Expo
March 30-April 3, 2010 Kansas City Convention Center Kansas City, Mo. www.usitt.org
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GoVision, Daktronics Video Displays Outside Dallas Cowboys Stadium
ARLINGTON, TX — The huge video display hanging in the center of the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium isn’t the only video element fans have been encountering lately. The football team’s management also opted to install eight Daktronics portable modular LED displays on their new stadium’s outdoor plaza.
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Clay Paky Knight of Illumination Awards Announced
LONDON — The second annual Knight of Illumination Awards, organized by Clay Paky in collaboration with the Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) and the Society of Television Lighting and Design (STLD), was held at the Ibis Hotel during PLASA 2009.
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Parnelli Awards Voting Begins
LAS VEGAS — Voting for the 2009 Parnelli Awards has begun! Go to www.parnelliawards.com/vote and let your voice be heard. There are four new Indispensable Technology “IT” award categories along with returning categories for Lighting Company of the Year, Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year, Lighting Designer of the Year and more. To purchase tickets, go to www.parnelliawards.com/reservations.
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PIXLED FLEX-10
The FLEX-10 is a thin, bendy LED display that is well-suited to a variety of LED designs. Made with silicone rubber and flexible PCBs, the FLEX-10 Creative LED display can be bent and flexed to fit curved surfaces.
Read More »Habla Engineer? Sprechen Sie Tech?
Not everybody in this industry has had the benefit of a formal education in electricity or electronics. By that simple revelation it came clear to… Read More »Habla Engineer? Sprechen Sie Tech?
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Scharff Weisberg Lights USGA Learning Tents
NEW YORK — Scharff Weisberg lit “Learning Tents” for two professional golf events this summer, working on behalf of Momentum Worldwide. The events were the US Open 2009 in Farmingdale, N.Y. and the 91st PGA Championship in Chaska, Minn., where a second hospitality tent for corporate VIPs was added. Scharff Weisberg supplied all the lighting and A/V equipment for the venues.
Read More »ZFX and Stage Technologies Announce Strategic Alliance
LOUISVILLE, KY — ZFX Flying Effects and Las Vegas-based Stage Technologies have announced a strategic alliance to offer automated solutions for productions that require complex flying sequences.
Read More »Revised Fog Effects Standard Available for Public Review
NEW YORK — ESTA’s Technical Standards Program has posted BSR E1.23 — 20XX Entertainment Technology — Design and Execution of Theatrical Fog Effects on its Web site for public review. It is a proposed revision of the existing ANSI E1.23-2006 standard related to glycol, glycerin or white mineral oil theatrical fog effects.
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Aram Multimedia Provides LED Backdrop for Polish Beauty Pageants
PLOCK, Poland —Aram Multimedia supported the finale for three beauty pageants that took place here recently, Polish Miss 2009, Miss Supranational 2009 and Miss Teen Poland, with nearly 80 square meters of LED curtain.
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Rosco Raises Another $4,100 for Light Relief
LONDON — Since 2003, when Rosco introduced #313 Light Relief Yellow to its Supergel range, the company has contributed more than $19,000 to the U.K. charity Light Relief, and at PLASA09 one of the charity’s trustees, John Simpson, accepted a check for the latest donation of over $4,100 (about £2,500).
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Finnish Battle of the Choirs Lit with Clay Paky Gear
LAHTI, Finland — Called Kuorosota, or Battle of the Choirs, this Finnish singing contest is a choir-meets-Rock ’n’ Roll showdown that forgoes the stoic formalities of a traditionally robed choir. As such, it warranted an elaborate staging and lighting setup that included Clay Paky’s Alpha Beam 300.
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