PITTSBURGH, PA — Doug DeHaven, AV specialist/robotics at Carnegie Science Center here noted how Alcorn McBride’s V16 Pro controller proved a good fit with the center’s Works Theater venue, which was in need of an upgrade for its aging, proprietary automation system.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — To honor the memory of Nelson Mandela, the anti-Apartheid activist who emerged from more than 27 years of incarceration to serve as president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the Western Cape Government hired LaserX to beam imagery and messages on the side of Table Mountain near Cape Town from Dec. 8-16. The laser show began three days after Mandela, winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, died (on Dec. 5, 2013 at age 95).
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SANFORD, FL – InterAmerica Stage, Inc. (IAStage), a theatrical rigging and specialty equipment company based here, named Eric McAfee the company’s Director of Safety. McAfee, who has 25 years of industry experience, will focus on the company’s Safety Program and also work on product quality control.
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LOS ANGELES — MagicSnow produced more than 100 tons of real snow despite 80 degree weather for an episode of the ABC reality show, The Bachelor. The show aired Jan. 13, 2014, and a bonus “behind the scenes” special airing the night before.
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PARIS — For Mylène Farmer’s highly visual 2013 Timeless tour, with stops in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Russia and Belarus, Belgium-based Wicreations designed and fabricated five major automation elements.
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KOLDING, Denmark — Jacob Elsig, project manager from Get Visual, worked with his LD, Christian Vigsø, to support the lighting needs for the inaugural Light Festival that took place in Kolding, Denmark from Dec. 12-14, 2013. They used SGM fixtures for the Spanish Steps, The Train Station Square’s installation named The Spider and the Hotel Saksildhus (pictured here) with SGM lighting fixtures.
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MIAMI BEACH, FL — The 12th annual Art Basel in Miami Beach event, a spinoff of an annual Swiss arts event dating back to 1970, drew a record 75,000 in early December to see and buy offerings from 258 galleries from 31 countries. The estimated total value of the artwork changing hands: $3 billion. At the Alexander Mijares Gallery, LD Ruben Laine used Chauvet Professional fixtures to bring attention to — and ultimately sell — artwork on display.
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