MOSCOW – Fixtures from RED Lighting are illuminating a touring exhibition featuring information and imagery of Russia’s Romanov dynasty. The fixtures include Pixel Bar 4, Pixel Bar 8, Quadro C8 and the new mini Pixel Bar 16. The fixtures have helped the touring exhibition, which is traveling to Russia’s biggest cities, keep its energy requirements to a minimum.
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PARIS – For Berges de Seine, the riverfront district between the Pont de la Concorde and Passerelle de Solférino bridges (and also near the Musée d’Orsay), Mairie de Paris (Paris City Hall) organized a special Christmas lighting installation. The area, which tends to bustle with activity day and night, was lit from mid-December until the end of January with SGM’s LB-100 LED balls. SGM’s French distributor Sonoss worked closely with LightLab and Lumière et Son to create picture-perfect effects.
Read More »LONDON – SGM reports that 68 of its two-meter-long LT-200 tubes, most typically giving optic synapses a jolt from dance floor ceilings around the world, are being used by designer Bob Crowley as a key visual element in a new Tom Stoppard play, The Hard Problem, at the Dorfman Theatre, part of the National Theatre on London’s South Bank. The color-changing tubes are assembled in a light sculpture fashioned to represent flashes of cerebral activity within a larger-than-life brain as the characters wrestle with the “hard problem” – the nature of consciousness and how it is linked to the physical brain.
Read More »LONDON – XL Video has supplied LED screens, projection screens, media servers and screen management for the National Television Awards 2015. The live ITV1 television broadcast show, produced by Indigo Television and hosted by Dermot O’Leary, took place at London’s O2 Arena. It included a tribute to Coronation Street star Anne Kirkbride, and a special recognition award for Doctor Who and Broadchurch actor, David Tennant.
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U.K., Europe, Australia – UK based folk singer / songwriter Passenger’s recent album tour campaign, Whispers, is drawing to a close with the acclaimed penultimate leg of the tour in Australia, featuring a show design by James Scott of UK based visual design collective ‘Okulus’, a new collaboration with LD / Visuals designer Louis Oliver.
Read More »FLOWER MOUND, TX – Rushworks, provider of low-cost, high-performance television production and automation systems, has established a partnership with AIV Productions and its owner, Dale E. Kelly, to demonstrate and promote Rushworks’ video solutions in Las Vegas and Reno, NV.
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MIAMI, FL – For two recent music-themed cruise produced by Cloud 9 Adventures, Jam Cruise and Holy Ship, The Design Oasis (Davie, FL) created an engaging environment with a lightshow designed by Cris Kuroda that makes use of 72 MVP 12 LED Video Panels from Chauvet Professional.
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MADISON, WI – Full Compass Systems, a national leader in professional audio, video, lighting and musical instrument sales, received Top Dealer awards from ADJ and Elation Professional Lighting at the 2015 NAMM show.
Read More »LOS ANGELES, CA- The Television Academy Foundation’s summer internship program has just opened up, providing an opportunity for a lucky college student to spend the summer of 2015 having an amazing learning experience in Hollywood.
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VANCOUVER, BC – Canada’s Grey Cup Halftime Show, held at the BC Place in Vancouver, used a design from Electric Aura for headliners Imagine Dragons. Production designer Robert Sondergaard relied on W-DMX technology from Wireless Solution Sweden AB for wireless control.
Read More »LONDON – Electrosonic, an international audio-visual systems integrator, announced the expansion of its facilities in Scotland with the opening of a regional office in Aberdeen, Scotland. The office in Cults, just outside Aberdeen City Centre, will be used to support its growing business in the city and the region.
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Martin’s VC-Grid and VC-Strip LED Video products are now shipping in 15, 30, and 60 mm pixel pitches. They are designed with individually-controllable pixels that can be used with architectural installations, stage design and as television set elements.
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