NEW YORK – When the lighting needs intensified for the Rockefeller Center outdoor concerts hosted by NBC's Today show, Kaufman Astoria Studios provided a grandMA2 for LD Howie Strawbridge. Brian Davis is the board programmer. They've used the console to light performances on the show by Bon Jovi, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and Carole King.
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ROME – For the Italian TV variety show I Migliori Anni (The Best Years), broadcast from RAI production studios, director of photography Marco Lucarelli's rig includes nearly 90 Clay Paky effect lights include Alpha Profile 1200s, Alpha Spot HPE 1200s and Alpha Wash 575s.
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PARIS – LD Nik Evers specified 120 GLP Impression Zooms for Volkswagen Group Night, an event staged on the evening before the 2010 Paris Motor Show, Mondial de l'Automobile, got into gear.
Read More »DURBAN, South Africa – Gearhouse South Africa supplied sound, lighting, video equipment plus crew for the South African leg of Indian singer/musician A R Rahman's Jai Ho world tour. For the outdoor Durban show, the company also furnished a stage/roof system.
Read More »NORTHFIELD, OH – Stage Research is updating Light Shop, its online database of everything lighting, to be a website instead of an application. The company is also offering a free, three-month trial to lighting and theater professionals.
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BALTIMORE – New Psalmist Baptist Church recently installed five new Hitachi Z-HD5000 multi-format HD cameras within the 4,000-seat main sanctuary of its new multi-million-dollar worship center, known as The Holy City of Zion.
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REGENSBURG, Germany – The Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation recognized the research team based here for Ostram Opto Semiconductors with the Beckurts Prize for their work in researching direct green semiconductor lasers.
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AARHUS, Denmark – Martin Professional named longtime Martin UK sales manager Clive Bailey product manager – smoke. Still based in the U.K., but now working for the company's Denmark-based headquarters, he is responsible for all Martin's Jem and Magnum branded haze, fog and heavy fog machines.
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SOUTHLAKE, TX – The congregation of Gateway Church got an unexpected Christmas bonus this year. Their new 206,000-square-foot, 4,000-capacity church, which replaced a 60,000-square-foot, 1,600-seat facility, wasn't expected to open until January 2011. Instead, the doors opened a few weeks before Thanksgiving.
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WARSAW, Poland – Aram Multimedia supported an event for DnB Nord bank with a projection spanning nearly 100 meters in length and covering an area close to 500 square meters in size. The projection required 11 projectors, two Catalyst Pro media servers and was controlled via a Barco/High End Systems Wholehog 3 console.
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American DJ has introduced two remote control LED color par cans, Pro38B LED RC and Pro64B LED RC, and two remote control LED color bars, Mega Bar 50RGB RC and Mega Bar LED RC, which can be operated from up to 15 feet (4 meters) with direct line of sight.
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KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites hasn't completely sworn off non-LED lighting fixtures just yet, but the company began a push toward LED alternatives close to two years ago, and many of the artists it supports now have a significant percentage of their stage illumination coming from energy-efficient alternatives to conventional light sources.
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