LOS ANGELES — Elation sponsored the latest in its series of E3 (Elation Educational Experience) seminars at its headquarters here May 13. Lighting designer Jonathan Smeeton led the presentation targeted at aspiring lighting designers.
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LONDON — Students at Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance here have been using an Avolites Sapphire Touch and Tiger Touch II console to stage a concert as part of a specialist module on lighting design for live music.
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FRISCO, TX — Preston Trail Community Church’s new facility here will be using the same Vista Systems Spyder 344 that had been serving the needs of a space only half the size of the new facility. Tech director Jerod Chambers, who credited the unit for its functionality, power and ease of use, noted that while the church is “relocating the Spyder from our current church and upgrading everything else around it.”
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VANCOUVER, BC — Soaring Attractions, the owner/operator of Fly Over Canada, is using images produced by Sherpas Cinema and Christie’s D4K35603-chip DLP projector for a new flight simulation ride, “Fly Over Canada.” The attraction was installed at downtown Vancouver’s Canada Place.
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MONTREAL — Lighting collective Lüz Studio, based here, turned to GLP’s impression X4 high power LED fixtures to boost their production design for the recent U.S. club and theatre tour by indie rock band Broken Bells.
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MIAMI — Herman ProAV, a provider of professional AV products, procurement services and labor resources to systems integrators in the commercial AV and broadcast industries, announced a new distribution partnership with SurgeX, a provider of professional grade power protection and energy intelligence solutions.
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LAS VEGAS — Le Maitre Ltd, a 35-year developer and provider of pyro, smoke, haze and other special effects technologies, named Bruce Baum, based here, as its chief operating officer and chief financial officer (COO/CFO). Prior to Le Maitre, Baum served as CFO of Pyrotek Special Effects.
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INDIO, CA — Elation products were again put to work across several stages at the 2014 Coachella music and arts festival. Elation fixtures were also used to help light the grounds of the festival itself.
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LAKE ORION — When an executive briefing center at a Fortune 100 company needed to replace its aging control system, 3Stage Design selected HRS Control’s (Embedded Control Server) ECS-Raptor. The new system’s Internet Protocol (IP) based design proved to be a key advantage as the new system was put to use.
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