LOS ANGELES — A.C.T Lighting, Inc., which has served as a distributor for products from Italy-based Clay Paky since Sept. 2010, was recently named exclusive distributor in the U.S. and Canada.
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LONDON – Cinimod Studio in conjunction with Prolyte Group’s Special Projects Division, Litestructures, have delivered the most epic of public lighting installations to mark the launch of the Halo 4 Xbox 360 game. Agency AKQA (acting on behalf of Microsoft/Xbox) commissioned Cinimod Studio to create the illuminated structure – based on the Halo 4 Glyph symbol – which would fly over London. Cinimod Studio turned to Litestructures to help bring their concept to life.
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CHICAGO – Improving safety conditions for technical staff members has always been a primary goal at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. When timing and budgets came together after the annual production of A Christmas Carol, they called Sapsis Rigging, Inc. Sapsis installed fall arrest equipment in both performance spaces at the Goodman. Daniel Porter, one of the ETCP-certified rigging professionals on the Sapsis staff, supervised the 10-day installation.
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LONDON – Deep Purple lighting designer Louis Ball has just given Martin Professional’s new MAC III AirFX lighting fixture a thorough workout on the band’s November/December European arena tour. Ball, who has been with Deep Purple since 1984, put the fixtures through their paces with a trim height of 10 meters (32 ft.) giving ample room to see what the fixtures could do. There were 24 MAC III AirFX paired with MAC III Profiles across an upstage, midstage and downstage truss with one AirFX on each side of the downstage floor used as side light. TDA Rental supplied the fixtures.
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ORLANDO – LMG, Inc. recently added Barco HDQ-2K40 projectors to its rental inventory to support live events. Said Les Goldberg, CEO/president of LMG, “The brightness of these projectors allows us to offer a new level of high quality, large scale projection mapping. When you see these projectors and what they can do, all you can say is ‘wow.’”
Read More »ERLANGER, KY – TV One, a designer and manufacturer of video and multimedia processing equipment, has appointed Scott Kehoe and Steve Sherk as regional sales managers in the US. Kehoe will manage Central/Rockies region and Sherk will manage the Southwest region.
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NEW YORK – For Election Night 2012 TV coverage, ABC brought in Vista Systems’ Spyders for easy image delivery to a set designed for hosts Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos. John Mims of J3 Productions in Austin, TX, chose the Spyder platform to manage digital video signal distribution and pixel mapping for the background video displays seen on the ABC set in Times Square. Mims selected two Spyder X20 1608 systems running in a parallel configuration to handle Election Night tasks.
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LONDON – When BBC One’s The One Show was chosen to launch the BBC One Christmas line-up, they commissioned arts and technology collective, seeper, to produce a large scale projection onto the front of the BBC. The projection displayed a specially-produced promo film of the BBC’s upcoming Christmas shows on to the building in Wood Lane, West London. To satisfy the requirement for a high lux output, XL Events specified the newest Barco projectors.
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MILWAUKEE – Clearwing Productions has added two High End Systems’ Full Boar 4 consoles to its inventory. Aaron Hubbard, Clearwing’s Business Development Director, said, “Moving to the Hog 4 line of consoles is a continuation of Clearwing’s long tradition of early adoption of emerging technologies.”
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LONDON – Projection artist Ross Ashton returned to Gateshead’s Saltwell Park for the Enchanted Parks 2012 event. His large format show “Glass House,” was a multimedia experience celebrating the work of Victorian stained glass artist, William Wailes. Ashton commissioned a photographer to visit all the churches in the area which still have intact Wailes stained glass windows, including St Nicholas’ Cathedral, Newcastle and others, which he used as original materials for his PIGI artwork.
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