NEW YORK — The Hemsley Lighting Portfolio Review brought 32 students from 20 universities across the country to New York’s Lincoln Center March 16-17 to present portfolios of their designs to a group of theater professionals. It was the ninth such event, and for the fourth consecutive year, 4Wall served as an event partner, hosting a demonstration of automated lighting gear at its shop in New Jersey.
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NASHVILLE — Bandit Lites launched its new e-commerce website, BanditBuys.com, which features used and new gear for sale, including lamps, fixtures, consoles, effects and foggers. Special deals will also be available in addition to social media discounts. All equipment gets tested by Bandit’s technical staff, and shipping is available both domestically and internationally.
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LOS ANGELES — Christie Lites, which operates from 12 locations in the U.S. and Canada, has added 1,000 Platinum Beam 5R ACL beam moving head fixtures from Elation Professional to its rental inventory. Christie Lites CEO Huntly Christie credited the gear as a good fit with “middle-market productions,” which are “an important segment of our business.”
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ATLANTA – NanoLumens appoints Brad Childress as executive vice president of sales & marketing. The privately held corporation is engaged in the research, product development, marketing and sales of flexible and fixed large-format LED displays. Childress assumes immediate responsibility for developing and implementing all worldwide direct and channel sales programs as well as all national and regional marketing programs.
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SANTA CATARINA, Brazil – The statue of Jesus Christ overlooks the city of Balneário Camboriú, with one arm outstretched, welcoming visitors from near and far, and the other carrying a symbol of the sun. The statue’s recent lighting installation uses just six SGM P-5 LED wash lights to shines a different color each night to symbolize peace, love, health, faith, happiness, nature and energy.
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LOS ANGELES – How do you control 28 four-foot lighted spheres suspended above the band fun. at the 2013 Grammy Awards? With LumenRadio Receiver Cards inside each sphere, and a LumenRadio Flex transmitter located backstage.
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TURIN, Italy – Visual design company Teslacoop has created a life-size virtual 3D forest using wysiwyg R30. The live simulation, originally conceived for a show by a prominent fashion label, was designed to be held within a circular theatre in Milan. Although it was a 3D forest, Luca Baraldo, president of Teslacoop, says it could have been anything involving scenery: a town, a desert, an aquarium, for instance. “The main thing is that we can put the audience inside a virtual 3D scene.”
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HIGH WYCOMBE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UK – Lighting rental company Siyan supplied equipment and crew to the first UK leg of indie rockers The Courteeners tour. LD Dan Hill was challenged with designing a show that would expand from the tour’s smaller venues to the larger festival season stages.
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LAS VEGAS – When production for Smokey Robinson presents Human Nature: The Motown Show relocated from the Imperial Palace to the nearby Venetian Hotel, LD Steve Cohen received a call for help in redesigning the lighting. With budgetary constraints and physical limitations of a small venue, he selected six impression Wash One, 12 impression Spot One and 16 impression X4 from GLP to pump up the new production.
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MIDDLETON, WI – ETC introduces the Source Four LED Studio HD, a white light LED spotlight designed for professional broadcast, film and video production. The new Source Four LED Studio HD uses the color technology of ETC’s Selador x7 Color System for a more spectrally-complete white light that can be finely tuned for truer color rendition on camera.
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LONDON – d3 Technologies announce that San Carlos, CA-based rental and staging company Tekamaki have signed up to become the latest d3 Studio. Tekamaki used d3 systems on the September 2012 DreamForce event for Salesforce.com, which saw the entire San Francisco City Hall visually mapped up for a one-off performance by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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