WARSAW, IN – Da-Lite Screen Company added Alan Keller to its sales consultant team. Keller, based in the Chicago area, will be responsible for Da-Lite clients in Wisconsin, Northern Illinois and Northern Indiana. Keller has 15 years of AV industry sales experience. He has a business degree from North Park University.
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LAS VEGAS, NV – 4Wall named Bob Athey head of its recently-formed audio and video department. Part of 4Wall's national Systems & Design division, the new audio and video department will help 4Wall offer clients turnkey lighting, audio, video, and control systems.
Read More »SYDNEY – All Access Staging & Productions, Inc., which expanded to Brisbane, Australia last year, recently added a Sydney location. Jeff Lamour, one of the directors of All Access in Australia, will be operating the new facility, while Ross Butler will remain at the Brisbane location.
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For increased traction, FASTLANE Drop Over Cable Protectors are now available with optional Velcro strips for use on carpet and/or anti-slip rubber pads for use… Read More »Fastlane Cable Protectors With Added Traction
Read More »Coolux GmbH, creators of Pandoras Box product family, today announced the official release of their Widget Designer Version 3.0. The freeware Widget Designer STD allows the creation of custom user-interfaces. The Widget Designer PRO is designed as an advanced control surface creation framework and includes a large feature set for visual node based programming.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – LD Peter Gasper updated the lighting system used for Rio's famous Christ the Redeemer monument using LED technology, including 300 Traxon Shield AC XB LED projectors and an e:cue system for control. Osram, parent company to both Traxon and e:cue, agreed to provide the lighting system for a two-year period.
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TUSTIN, CA – For the third year in a row, Video Applications Inc. (VAI) has supported Trevor LIVE, an annual event sponsored by The Trevor Project, the leading national organization focused on crisis intervention and suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ youth. Held at the Hollywood Palladium, the ready-for-primetime show honored Kathy Griffin and featured guest performances by Sarah Silverman, Wayne Brady, Neil Patrick Harris and Queen Latifah. The special guest producing director was Adam Shankman.
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SERIATE, ITALY – Clay Paky was official lighting equipment supplier to MMS srl for the inauguration of “Ferrari World”, also known as the “Ferrari Experience”, the first Ferrari theme park in the world, built on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi.
Read More »MIDLAND, TX – Hundreds of students came from Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Missouri and New Mexico to participate in the Region 6 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Design, Technology and Stage Management students had an opportunity to showcase their work and receive outside assessment by KCACTF respondents.
Read More »West Wind Drive-Ins, San Rafael, CA, started refurbishing their drive-ins about four years ago. At one location in Concord, CA, the projection stats at the… Read More »Drive-Ins Going Digital
Read More »WUPPERTAL, Germany – Riedel Communications announced that all of its intercom-over-IP products are fully compatible to the recently released EBU Tech 3347 standard.
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LOS ANGELES – For visuals that ranged from vintage scenery and film clips to futuristic time travel, the video production crew for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards (the Oscars) used 34 Hippotizer HDs and a total of 53 discrete active outputs. Hippotizer's UberPan multiple display software component controlled video feeds for over 70 projectors.
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