2014 Tony Awards Visuals Relied on Hippotizer Media Servers

NEW YORK CITY – This year’s Tony Awards were programmed by Peter Vincent Acken who designed a set-up using a total of 192 layers running over more than 48 DMX universes. The entire set-up comprised 12 active Hippotizer HD outputs, all genlocked and controlled by a grandMA2 lighting console. Acken built his own custom Hippotizer DMX personality to enable control of the 192 layers over the 48 universes. The Hippotizer HDs fed their content to 26 discrete surfaces comprised of 9 and 7 mil LED and HD LED monitors.

NEW YORK – For that live music segments featured as part of its Summer Concert Series, NBC’s The Today Show has been using Clay Paky’s A.leda B-EYE K20 LED-based moving lights. LD Peter Greenbaum cited B-EYE’s daylight color as one of his favorite attributes for the fixture.  “We do a lot of interviews with the talent on stage and The Today Show hosts with their backs to the audience,” Greenbaum said.  “We go daylight in the B-EYEs and get a beautiful video level so there’s no need for HMIs.  Their color temperature is pretty amazing.”

RENO, NV – For a lighting upgrade that helped transform Fitzgerald’s Hotel and Casino here into the new Whitney Peak Hotel, XN-Tric’s Matt Jones worked with the Whitney Peak team including Dan Bishop and Justin Bell. They used a plethora of fixtures from Chauvet Professional for the upgrade, which includes Cargo, a 1,100-capacity concert venue in a space formerly used for slot machines and table games.

LAS VEGAS — Are you one of the growing number of people who are looking to an alternative to sitting on a chair at your workplace everyday by installing (and using) a treadmill desk? If so, we want to know about it! If you know of someone else in our industry who uses one of these, please provide their contact details as well.

LAS VEGAS — This year’s window of opportunity to nominate companies worthy of receiving a Parnelli Award for Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year hasn’t slammed shut yet; the deadline is July 31, 2014. But while the annual PLSN newsletter alert informing readers that they only have scant days before the nominations period closes is still a week away, there’s no reason to wait until that final reminder. Do a worthy company proud by taking a minute to nominate them for the honor today.