The Entertainment Technician Certification Program (ETCP) will launch a new version of the practice exams for the Rigger – Arena and Rigger – Theatre Certifications this summer. Both new practice exams will be accessible beginning July 31, 2014.
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LAS VEGAS – Elation Professional lighting and video gear was used this year to light up Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) in Las Vegas, North America’s largest dance music festival. Lighting supply companies AG Production Services, Felix Lighting, Visions Lighting and Aspect Lighting all supplied Elation gear to the Vegas version of EDC with this year’s lighting and stage looks by one of the industry’s premiere designers, Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting.
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Lititz, PA – The Wall Street Journal profiled the new multi-million dollar campus, Rock Lititz Studio in central Pennsylvania. The site of the new tour rehearsal space is built on a former cornfield. The main space, a 100 foot tall, 52,000 square foot building was designed and realized by two Lititz resident companies, Clair Brothers and Tait Towers. The idea behind the new rehearsal space, a central location that tours can build and rehearse large tours.
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SERIATE, Italy – Clay Paky, the Italian manufacturer is getting ready for a new phase in its history. Pasquale Quadri, founder and current President, has signed an agreement for the acquisition of the company by Osram, one of the two leading light manufacturers in the world. After the acquisition, Clay Paky will continue to operate from its production and administrative head office in Bergamo. The acquisition is subject to approval by the relevant antitrust authorities.
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LAS VEGAS — The Event Production Directory (EPD), long the Bible of working event planners and production professionals, is now a downloadable free app for iPhones currently available at the iPhone App Store online or on your iPhone.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Art-Festival used 180 ETC Source Four fixtures with attached Source Four Dimmers on a recent series of high-end fashion shows in St. Petersburg. Due to the large number of fixtures clustered close together on the lighting rigs, Art-Festival wanted a flexible solution that would require very little cabling.
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NEW ORLEANS – One hundred and forty Robe Pointes were at the core of the production lighting design for the 2014 Essence Festival in New Orleans. Around 40 – 50 of the Pointes were rigged on trusses over the audience and up above on top of a social media feed ticker-tape style screen high up in the roof of the stadium. The balance were dotted all over the stage on the LX bars which included the side wings, with some on the floor.
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For Katy Perry’s current Prismatic world tour, LD Baz Halpin selected the Clay Paky Sharpy and Sharpy Wash 330 to create a series of poptastic surprise special effects. Halpin designed a series of 36 bespoke hydraulic flippers onto which are attached 36 individual Sharpy fixtures. The flippers are built into the sides of show’s giant onstage triangular LED screens to provide a range of fast paced special effects. “As the LED screens move up and down the stage the Sharpys ‘flip’ up or down allowing the screens to pass by each other,” explains Halpin. “At one point in the show the dancers interact with the fixtures by using mirrors attached to their hands. They bounce the beams across the stage achieving a really retro-mirror effect that’s in keeping with the kitsch feel of the show.”
Read More »DOHA, Qatar – Creative Technology provided a variety of LED screens and video projection for Qatar’s Brazil 2014 Fanzone venue for World Cup fans. The main screen consisted of 8mm SMD lightweight product in the form of a 10.2 x 5.7 16/9 main LED screen with side supporting screens of 20m x 3.2m in a 20mm SMD. In addition, single LED fingers extended all around the 29m of the parameter of the venue in 20mm SMD.
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From time to time, I get a chance to do some work in the DCMA — the Washington DC metro area, for those of you outside of the Beltway. Typically, they are quick gigs, and the jobs range from running a desk to pushing a road case. Yes, I am never above pushing a case — it builds character, and some of the stories my fellow stagehands tell are priceless.
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Okay… Who is going to take the first step? Well, I guess it will be me. No, that is not true. It was actually Clive Forrester of All Access Staging and Productions who took the first step around four years ago. Clive took the first step towards better health by buying a Tread Desk. What is a Tread Desk? A Tread Desk is a combination desk and treadmill that enables you to keep your body in motion during the workday instead of being slouched over your desk for eight or more hours a day.
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