NORTH CREEK, NY – Creative Stage Lighting has announced its latest schedule for Avolites training events. Three different sessions will be offered, providing attendees with an introduction to Avolites Titan, information about new features in Avolites Titan 6, and an introduction to Ai server software.
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GLENVIEW, IL — Frank Luppino Jr., founder of Marketing Insights, head of marketing for Seeburg, a music and vending equipment manufacturer, and an industry journalist who covered NAMM for Billboard Magazine in the 1940s before serving as Billboard’s associate publisher, died Nov. 10, 2012 at age 90.
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LOS ANGELES – Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures and numerous grandMA2 lighting consoles were on hand throughout Budweiser’s Made in America Festival, which entertained crowds on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Labor Day Weekend. Jay-Z and Pearl Jam headlined main stage concerts on Saturday and Sunday. Nick Whitehouse was the lighting designer for the main stage, while John Duncan, Jr. of Pinpoint Lighting was the lighting designer and equipment supplier for the B stage and electronic dance music pad.
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ATHENS – The ARK Festival took place Sept. 10-11, hosting 14 renowned and emerging artists on two distinct stages, the ‘Ark’ and the ‘Angel.’ D.T.S lighting products in the rig included 16 JACK compact moving heads on the Ark stage, suspended from a curved truss encircling the stage, with 8 DELTA 10R LED moving head wall washers hung to a truss set above the stage. Lighting Art team with LD George Tellos designed the festival stages. Electron handled the lighting installation.
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Read More »NEW YORK – The eighth-annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday all-day seminar will take place Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City. The annual seminar is designed for everyone involved in stage, architectural or entertainment lighting. In addition to presentations, about 20 manufacturers and technical specialists will demonstrate equipment.
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LONDON – Luc Peumans from Genk, Belgium-based creative visual design practice, Painting With Light, has designed lighting for the new “Ice Age Live” show, a stage adaptation of the 20th Century Fox ‘Ice Age’ animation movies. The show is scheduled to tour internationally for the next five years and has just premiered in the UK, directed by Guy Caron. It all had to fit into one truck, so each fixture spec’d had to be multi-purpose. All lighting equipment is supplied by Belgian rental company Phlippo Showlight.
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LONDON – LD Sean Burke has created an energetic and dramatic design for Jennifer Lopez’s world tour using VL3500 Wash FX and VL3000 Spot luminaires from Upstaging. The fixtures needed to compete with a backdrop of LED video screens. Lighting also needed to illuminate a stage measuring 62’ wide x 48’ deep, filled with the band and dancers.
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LOSNING, Denmark – The recently formed Matrix Group is now the exclusive Danish distributor of PR Lighting’s automated discharge and LED lighting portfolio. Matrix Group has a base in pro audio and has expanded this year into lighting distribution and sales, with PR Lighting becoming its latest acquisition. This will be PR Lighting’s introduction to the Danish market and Matrix CEO Kenneth Bremer anticipates a high demand, both from touring/rental companies as well as mid-range market installation contractors and TV production crews.
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Read More »HONG KONG – Lightswitch has opened a new location in Hong Kong. Under the leadership of Directors of Lighting Design Warren Kong and Alice Tang, Lightswitch Hong Kong will offer a range of lighting and multimedia design services for architecture, events, environments and museums. Says Lightswitch Principal Norm Schwab, “We can now better serve our U.S. clients who have projects in Asia by operating a full-service office that is capable of collaborating with our existing organization. We have designers, project managers and programmers in Hong Kong and are building a network of people throughout the region who can help us work efficiently and economically on projects in both America and Asia.”
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