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Lighting PlugFest Set for Dec. 5 at IESNYC Event

Lighting PlugFest Set for Dec. 5 at IESNYC Event

NEW YORK –  The Illuminating Engineering Society of New York City (IESNYC) had to postpone their annual Control This! event, originally set for early November, due to superstorm Sandy. The daylong event expo and seminar series, which includes a “PlugFest” sponsored by Soraa, is now set to take place Dec. 5 at the original location, the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York. The PlugFest is geared to test the interoperability between products from different manufacturers, and to showcase new lighting control and energy management systems.

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TV One Opens Maidenhead Facility

Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK – TV One, a designer and manufacturer of video and multimedia processing equipment, has opened a new facility in Maidenhead designed to provide an R&D Center of Excellence with training and conference capability. TV One will employ up to 45 staff members, primarily R&D engineers. The facility opened Nov. 21.

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Jon Smith

Stage Electrics Appoints New Service Manager

LONDON – Stage Electrics has appointed Jon Smith as the company’s new service manager. Smith, who has more than 30 years of engineering and managerial experience, takes over Steve Chappell’s position. Chappell is now in a new role as Commissioning and Design Engineer, responsible for lighting control system design and programming.

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Empire State Building unveils new LED tower lights with an exclusive light show on Monday, November 26, 2012.

Empire State Building LED Lighting Synchs with Alicia Keys Radio Broadcasts

NEW YORK — Although the Empire State Building has been equipped with a Philips Color Kinetics LED color-changing system including customized Reach, Graze, Cove and Blast Powercore fixtures, the LED fixtures have so far been used mainly to mimic the static seasonal and charity-related hues bathing the upper reaches of the 1,454-foot office building for years. But on Nov. 26, that changed. At 9pm, a color-changing light show designed by LD Marc Brickman and driven by Hippotizer media servers controlled by a grandMA2 console was synched to Clear Channel broadcasts of music by Alicia Keys.

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Milos safety workshop

Milos Runs 2012 Safety Workshop in China

GUANGZHOU, China – Trussing manufacturer Milos hosted a two-day product seminar and safety awareness workshop at its facility in Guangzhou, China. Milos’ most current products were examined in depth, with focus on new products introduced to China this year: the T12 modular display system and x.Truss range.

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Hippotizer 3.2 Beta

Hippotizer 3.2 BETA

LONDON – Green Hippo’s Hippotizer media server 3.2 beta software is now available as a public download from the website. It’s Green Hippo’s biggest release in terms of features and fixes since v3. New features include RegionMapper, X-Fade on Layer, Muti-Select, Mackie, Presets2, MaNet, Time Code On-A-Layer and Watch Folders along with smaller features and bug fixes.

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Muse tour photo by Oli Metcalfe

Oli Metcalfe Design for Muse Includes Transformable Video Pyramid

LONDON — Oli Metcalfe’s design for Muse’s current tour, Second Law, which moves from Europe to North America in early 2013, features a fusion of lighting, video and automation effects with a transformable pyramid-shaped array of overhead video panels. They hang inverted above the stage, and can also descend to conceal the band. Collaborators include lighting, video and staging suppliers Neg Earth, XL Video and Brilliant Stages, with a Kinesys system and Hog 4 from High End Systems used for control.

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TobyMac

4Wall Nashville Tours with TobyMac

NASHVILLE – 4Wall Nashville is providing lighting and labor for TobyMac’s fall tour. Recently named American Music Awards’ ‘Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist,’ TobyMac’s tour starts Nov. 29 and makes 10 stops until its Dec. 15 finale.

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