SAINT-DENIS, France — ETC partner Avab Transtechnik France (ATF), based here, provided a Cobalt 20 desk to the Avignon Festival and sold a second to Dushow, a rental provider supporting the lighting needs of the outdoor EQI Cheval Libre equestrian show in in Vaucluse, France (pictured here).
Read More »RANCHO MIRAGE, CA — The long-awaited reunion tour of 1980s hit-makers Culture Club was scrapped on Nov. 13, two days before the first tour stop at Aqua Caliente Casino Resort Spa here, after lead singer Boy George was diagnosed with a throat polyp.
Read More »ATLANTA and MIAMI —ARRI Rental Atlanta, led by vice president Ed Stamm, has opened for business. Craig Chartier will fill Ed Stamm’s previous position, taking over ARRI Rental Miami as general manager there. Besides promoting the ALEXA 65 system exclusively available at ARRI Rental, Stamm will ensure that the company’s extensive inventory of digital, film, anamorphic and spherical camera equipment is available to customers in the Atlanta region. In Miami, Chartier will focus on strengthening ARRI Rental’s strategy and operations while working to expand the company’s business in Florida and the South American market.
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LOUISVILLE, KY – Sam White of MSI Production Services used 12 Chauvet Professional Q-Wash 560Z-LED fixtures at Senator Mitch McConnell’s victory celebration here on Election Night 2014. And although TV networks rarely see things eye to eye on election night, when it was over, virtually every TV crew member from NBC and ABC to CBS and Fox came over to thank him for making their jobs easier.
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LONDON — Lighting director Franck Evin has used 40 ETC Selador Desire D22 luminaires in an art gallery here to make the colors in the artwork “pop.” He called his use of ETC Selador LEDs as a “radical way to fix the lights,” calling the result “fantastic.”
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FOR-A noted that it had changed the name for three products within its HANABI Series of video switchers. The company’s formally named HVS-XT100, HVS-XT110, and HVS-XT2000 switchers will now be called the HVS-100, HVS-110 and HVS-2000 (pictured here).
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Patrick Stansfield, 70, tour manager for Neil Diamond, the Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, the Grateful Dead, Santana, Tina Turner and scores of others, died in the early morning hours on Oct. 28, 2014 from kidney failure. Along with his prominence in concert touring, Stansfield was the production mastermind behind the transformation of Dodgers and Yankee Stadiums for papal visits in 1987 and 2008 and was co-founder of the Parnelli Awards, named in memory of his good friend Rick “Parnelli” O’Brien. He was surrounded by family and friends at the Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center here in the days before his death.
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