The Perils of Pinspots
Although we've been using dimmers for years, I still get questions about whether or not it's okay to put a pinspot on a dimmer. Some… Read More »The Perils of Pinspots
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Serapid Telescopic Mast
The Serapid Telescopic Mast is designed to support any type of equipment used in television, film, worship and performing arts production, including cameras, lights and microphones.
Read More »TMB Offers LumenRadio CRMX Product Range to North America
LOS ANGELES – LumenRadio announced the availability of the full range of CRMX wireless entertainment and architectural lighting control products across North America through TMB, which recently affirmed its status as LumenRadio's exclusive distributor in North America and the U.K.
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White Light Holds Second Annual Technology Showcase
LONDON – White Light collaborated with students from the Central School of Speech and Drama for the second year to create a lighting technology showcase for lighting designers, technicians, consultants and others.
Read More »Techni-Lux To Host 20th Anniversary Open House
ORLANDO, FL – Techni-Lux is celebrating its 20th year in operation with an open house event. It will take place April 21, 2011 at Techni-Lux, 10900 Palmbay Drive, Orlando, FL 32824. The event is from 10am to 6pm, with doors open at 9:30 and a ceremonial cake-cutting taking place at 12:30 pm.
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Broadway-Bound “Bus” Lit with Nearly 30,000 LEDs
NEW YORK – In Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, which opens on Broadway for previews Feb. 28, 2011, the musical's visual focal point is the show's namesake: a roving set piece done up as a tour bus, emblazoned with Traxon Technologie's String RGB fixtures – nearly 30,000 LEDs in all.
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Creative Stage Lighting Adds PJ Turpin to Sales Team
NORTH CREEK, NY – Creative Stage Lighting has named Paul "PJ" Turpin at its Western business development manager. Turpin will be responsible for servicing CSL dealer accounts in the Western U.S.
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Laser Design Productions Shoots Linkin Park with Lasers for SNL Gig
NEW YORK – For their Feb. 5 appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live, Linkin Park performed "Waiting For The End," off their latest album, A Thousand Suns. The design concept was to link their live performance into the song's video theme using two full-color OPS laser systems from Laser Design Productions.
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Wybron Mobile Light Lab Visits West Coast
LAS VEGAS – Wybron's Mobile Light Lab , the successor to the company's 2010 Mobile Showroom, visited Colorado and Utah earlier this year before traveling to Nevada, where Wybron's Dusty Hudgins led PLSN sister publication Stage Directions on a video tour of the traveling facility. The Visuality 2011 tour will visit Arizona before traveling north up the West Coast.
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Senegal World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures Lit with ETC Gear
DAKAR, Senegal – Working with its French distributor, Avab, ETC supplied a range of fixtures, dimming and control equipment to the third Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures), illuminating the event's venues, the Théâtre National Daniel Sorano, Centre Culturel Blaise Senghor and La Biscuiterie de Médina.
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Asian Winter Games Gets Lift from Prolyte
ASTANA and ALMATY, Kazakhstan – More than 1,500 athletes representing 27 Asian nations and 45 National Olympic Committees recently competed at the Asian Winter Games. ARG (Moscow) called in The Prolyte Group to support their vision for the Opening Ceremony.
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ADB Lights New Theatre Complex in Abandoned Coal Mine
GENK, Belgium – C-Mine, a new $470 million cultural development on the site of an abandoned coal mine, offers visitors two flexible theatres, both of them with installed lighting rigs provided by ADB Lighting. ADB supplied a total of 275 luminaires and 564 ways of Eurorack dimming to the project, with the Eurorack 60 dimmer chosen for its quiet operation.
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