CHICAGO – Confetti from Strictly FX provided a celebratory atmosphere at McCormick Place in Chicago when President Barack Obama was elected to a second term on Nov. 6. The electoral celebration included 15,000 people at the venue, as well as a worldwide television audience of millions. LD Robert Peterson called the confetti cue.
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PHILADELPHIA – Creative Stage Lighting recently provided crew and stage lighting equipment for the first annual City Bisco festival, Oct. 5-6 at the Mann Center in Philadelphia. LD Johnny R. Goode III designed the lighting for the featured artists including The Disco Biscuits and more.
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GOTHENBURG, Sweden – A new ferris wheel attraction at Liseberg amusement park literally revolves around Martin Professional LED-based lighting. The illumination design for the Liseberg Wheel is made up of three layers including a general color wash, pixel dot twinkle effects and moving graphic projection. The customizable characteristics of the lighting system allow for customizations to cater to any occasion, including special designs during holiday seasons.
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LONDON – LD Chris Bushell took the Avolites Sapphire Touch lighting console out with Florence & the Machine on this summer’s festival shows. The Sapphire Touch is a new step for Bushell, who until the festival season was working with his own Tiger Touch. Features on the Sapphire Touch helped him handle the frantic pace of festival shows. “I program and operate visually not mathematically,” explains Bushell. “I’m not interested in punching numbers into a desk. The Avolites consoles enable me to quickly and simply achieve what I want, whatever the nature of the job.”
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MINNETONKA, MN – Vaddio is moving all operations Monday, Nov. 19, to a new 67,000 sq. ft. facility, nearly doubling the size of its current space. The new building will accommodate growing product research and development, and significantly expand manufacturing facilities in Minnetonka, MN.
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SANTA MARIA, CA – 4Wall Entertainment and its CEO, Michael Cannon, have donated a variety of gear to support PCPA Theaterfest at Allan Hancock College (Cannon’s alma mater). The donated gear includes Vari*Lite moving lights, Color Kinetics ColorBlaze and ColorBlast LEDs, Wybron scrollers, a High End Whole Hog 2 console, more than 100 ETC Source Four Ellipsoidals, dimming racks, hazers, snow machines and a 24-foot box truck.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Lighting design, rental and production company Blackmotion has invested in the latest Robe moving light technology. Owner and founder Kagiso Tiro Daystar Moima (“KG”) says Robe’s commitment to producing smaller, lighter, brighter and more energy efficient fixtures factored in on their purchase decision.
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OSLO – Elektrik Solutions of Norway has supplied lighting and power control for a refurbishment of the Oslo Konserthus (Concert Hall). Some 100 ETC Selador Desire D40 Lustr+ LED fixtures have been installed in the auditorium ceiling for house lighting, along with another 14 in the choir area. The Selador Desire fixtures were chosen for their power savings along with their ability to accurately render or even enhance colors and skin tones. The ETC Unison Paradigm system was chosen for control.
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DALLAS – Working to support Behind the Scenes, Philips Strand Lighting and Philips Selecon have donated USB LED ghostlights which are now being sold by The ESTA foundation to raise funds for the financial support of entertainment technology industry professionals who are ill or injured. To date, Philips Strand Lighting and Philips Selecon have donated 250 USB LED ghostlights which have raised $10,000.
Read More »KORTRIJK, Belgium – Barco has signed a distribution agreement with AV expert TechnoPro LLC for the availability, delivery and support for Barco’s projection and image processing products in the Middle East region. “The projector and image processing business in the Middle East is a growing yet competitive business, requesting short delivery cycles, local technical support, local availability of spare parts, etc.,” says Barco’s Eric Brouwers, Regional Director Middle East and Africa. “Our distributor partnership with TechnoPro will help us cope better with these challenges and provide the best possible services to our rapidly-growing customer base.”
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LUCERNE, Switzerland – Robert Juliat’s Swiss distributor, Lumiere Spectacle LSB SA, has been spreading the word about Robert Juliat profiles, spotlights and dimmers with three Swiss venues adding to their lighting inventories this summer: Cultural center KKL Lucerne, Lausanne’s Theatre de Beaulieu and Berne’s Haute Ecole des Arts.
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