KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites has added the Martin MAC Aura and MAC Viper Profile to its rental inventory. LD Bob Peterson specified the new fixtures for his design of the CMT Artists of the Year show, which airs Dec. 8. Bandit already has the fixtures slated for a busy touring schedule in 2013.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — LD Roberto Penso incorporated 54 fixtures from Chauvet Professional within his design for the Miss Venezuela Pageant, which was televised from the Hotel Intercontinental here. Chauvet’s Q-Wash 560Z-LED fixtures, provided by VLPS, proved a good fit for the challenges posed by the production, including a small stage and low ceiling within the hotel ballroom. For audience lighting, Penso used 36 COLORado 1 Tour wash lights.
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NEW CASTLE, DE – Video equipment rental company Pete’s Big TVs continues its long relationship with the “Jersey Boys” tour by supplying gear to “Jersey Boys Singapore” at The Marina Bay Sands. Pete’s Big TVs supplied Lighthouse R6-B LED video panels, computers with a Dataton Watchout system, and cameras for IMAG. Since 2006, Pete’s Big TVs has been supplying equipment to the national touring shows of the hit musical.
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LAS VEGAS – Modeling plugins for use with Vectorworks Spotlight 2013 on Windows and Mac OSX operating systems are now available from ESP Vision. Included in this release is also compliance testing against the latest MAC OSX, Mountain Lion (10.8.x). ESP Vision supports the latest two releases of Vectorworks. Therefore, concurrent with this announcement, ESP Vision will no longer maintain support for Vectorworks 2011.
Read More »MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — ARRI has moved its Canadian office to Mississauga, just west of the Greater Toronto area. The new office for ARRI – a manufacturer and distributor of motion picture camera systems, LED lighting and other related products – features a dedicated customer showroom for testing and demos of its lighting, camera systems and other products, and is more convenient to customers, situated just minutes south of Highway 401 and near Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.
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LOS ANGELES — On his recent three-month tour, Meat Loaf turned to the PixelFLEX LED video screen for part of his stage design. Flexible and lightweight, PixelFLEX LED Curtains are able to bend and shape around structures for a more creative display effect. Meat Loaf apparently wants to wrap up the whole stage with the LED Curtain when he returns to the road in 2013.
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ATLANTA – Production People Inc. (PPi) hired Levi Bulkley as senior production consultant. Bulkley has designed and managed more than 300 local event productions as a production sales executive with another company in Atlanta. He also has experience as an audio engineer.
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LONDON – Tait Technologies was awarded a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest landscape video display. Consisting of 634,500 individual pixels, Tait’s pixel tablet debuted July 27 at the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics and was used for memorable visuals for the other major Olympics ceremonies as well.
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EUROPE — Canadian rockers Billy Talent celebrated their new album in September with an arena run of Germany and central Europe. Lighting Designer Dara Guiney had worked with the band briefly in 2010 and was invited to come aboard. Guiney specified 28 Alpha Beam 1500, 24 Alpha Profile 1500 and 16 Sharpys, supplied by Go Audio Rental GmbH.
Read More »NEW YORK — Seven industry standards are currently in public review at http://tsp.plasa.org. Comment deadlines are either on Jan. 8, Jan. 15, Jan. 22 and Jan. 29, 2013. The standards relate to DMX512-A, fog equipment, GFCIs, gobo projection and the use of chain hoists.
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