PLAINVIEW, TX — CSD owner Doug Hood and his design team used a combination of moving spots, beams and washes to transform a defunct Kmart store into an inviting house of worship. Texas-based Harvest Christian Fellowship bought the location in 2013 and held their Grand Opening on Dec. 4, 2016.
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LOS ANGELES – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. has redesigned the customer Support Hub on the company’s website, creating a single, centralized resource for all online support needs.
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JOHANNESBURG – Johannesburg is the country’s hub for film, television and music. and that focus on the creative industries spells opportunity for those interested in fields like production, and multimedia technology. City Varsity school of media and creative arts plays an important role in the education of young talent in the region and access to professional equipment is essential. So when the school recently launched a new multi-cam studio at their Braamfontein Johannesburg campus they chose to outfit it with Elation Professional broadcast-optimized lighting.
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CZECH REPUBLIC – Robe has launched the pixelPATT … a brand new uber cool LED fixture to extend and complement its popular PATT range of retro styled fixtures … which bring elegance and finesse to any visual environment. Twenty pixelPATT fixtures were seen for the first time in public last night at the 2017 Total Production International (TPi) Awards in London – one of the highest profile awards events for the entertainment technology and production world.
UK – Two of the very latest MDG haze generators, the ATMe, recently joined up-and-coming British rock band, Catfish and the Bottlemen, playing arenas during a three-week tour of the UK in support of the band’s second studio album, The Ride. Newcastle-based Nitelites supplied the full lighting, audio and staging to the tour and hired the MDG ATMe haze generators from Impact Productions, which purchased two of the models specifically for the tour.
FREMONT, CA – Blackmagic Design today announced that Tokyo based L’espace Vision has created the Mega MultiDock, an ingest system built around 20 Blackmagic MultiDocks. The system is able to import media from up to 80 SSDs simultaneously and is primarily used for ingesting footage from its live concert recording service, which uses multiple Blackmagic HyperDeck Studio Pro SSD recorders.
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LOS ANGELES — Oscar ballot counters PricewaterhouseCoopers issued a public apology for the envelope mix-up that foiled their “fail safe” system during the 2017 Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 26, when presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway received the wrong envelope and announced La La Land as Best Picture. (Moonlight actually won.) Prior to the envelope glitch, during rehearsals at about 11:30 a.m., one of the skyscraper staging elements toppled over, reportedly crushing a camera. Fortunately no one was injured, and the ceremony was able to proceed as originally planned.
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ROUDNICE nad LABEM, Czech Republic — Area Four Industries, parent company to Milos, released video number three in a four part series on stage roof construction. In the third video, R&D director Marc Hendriks talks about ballast and how it relates to temporary demountable structures. Marc provides information about why ballast is needed, how to minimize it and some practical examples on how to connect it properly to your structure. By the end of the video, you will have a better idea of how to use ballast more effectively and increase the safety of your temporary structures.
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RALEIGH, NC and NEW YORK – Available Light promoted Derek Barnwell, who is based in in Raleigh, NC to Principal. Available Light also promoted Rachel Gibney, who is based in New York, to senior associate.
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NASHVILLE – Longtime industry veteran Pete Heffernan joins stage lighting industry leader Christie Lites. Heffernan was president of Bandit Lites for eight years prior to joining Christie Lites and his career spans more than three decades including as promoter of an Elvis Presley concert, lighting designer, production manager and finally as corporate executive. Heffernan said, “Christie Lites is a company that puts the client first and has a methodology that in my opinion is tops in the industry.”
The Sparkular is an innovative indoor fountain display effect — freeing productions from the hassle of multiple of shot type of effects. The visuals it… Read More »Cool Sparks Flying
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