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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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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SYDNEY – More than 200 Robe moving lights were used on the 2012 Australian International Motor Show for 10 of the highest profile car stands. Clifton Productions supplied lighting for the event at the Sydney Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour.
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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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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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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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