PARIS — 1024 Architecture, an art and design company led by founders Pierre Schneider and François Wunschel, is incorporating Clay Paky’s Sharpy fixtures as part of a pop-up 4D scaffold and light sculpture dubbed “Hyper-Cube,” a.k.a. Tesseract.
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CYPRESS, CA. — Christie announced Feb. 20 that Kenji Hamashima, chairman, president and CEO of the Christie group of companies, will step down from his current role starting in April but will remain as chairman, president and CEO of the Christie holding company, Christie Digital Systems Inc., as well as Ushio America Inc. Jack Kline, president and COO, Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc. (pictured here) will assume the role of chairman, president and CEO of all of Christie’s operating companies worldwide.
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CLEVELAND, OH — CSR, an AV production company based here, is marking 20 years. Bob Leon, company president and CEO, credited his staff for the company’s success.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Creative Technology (CT) San Francisco has named industry veteran Roy Luster project manager. Luster comes to CT with 25 years in the AV and production fields, specializing in the areas of project management, technical direction and account management. His show experience ranges from executive boardroom meetings to multi-stage, multi-show conventions, tradeshows and music festivals.
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HUNTSVILLE, AL — Janet Wilks Milly, wife of Theatrical Lighting Systems (TLS) founder and 4Wall executive David E. Milly, died Feb. 19, 2014. Before retiring as its chief financial officer in 2004, Janet Milly had played an active role at TLS, Inc., which David Milly founded in 1981. TLS’ assets became part of 4Wall in 2012, when David Milly joined 4Wall as executive vice president and co-owner of its newly-launched Nashville operation.
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Celebrating 100 years of passenger service at Grand Central Station, New York City commuters were treated to a festive display on the west side of the station’s main concourse. The installation was comprised of 354 Martin Stagebar 54™ LED fixtures displaying video content driven by a single Hippotizer HD media server.
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MIAMI – At 2pm EST on Jan. 28, free tickets (actually, $1, with those proceeds going to charity) became available for a Feb. 15 DeadMau5 show at Miami’s Ice Palace. It took all of about a half-minute for those tickets to be snapped up. LD Scott Chmielewski used Beachsound and Lighting gear for the event. Among the fixtures in the rig: Eurolite PMC 16×30 LED matrices, distributed in the U.S. by Inner Circle Distribution.
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NEW YORK – Even before the matchup between the Seahawks and Broncos on Feb. 2, 2014 became dubbed the “not-so-Super Bowl” due to the lopsided performance on the field, the Super Bowl party sponsored by Heineken, Esquire and All In magazine at Canoe Studios here had already planned a “game free” party area for those who, for whatever reason, just weren’t that into the game. And the space was anything but dull. Canal Sound and Light added to the visual energy with PVP S7 panels from Chauvet Professional.
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MUNICH – BMW World features a dynamic lighting design using LED-based Exterior 430 luminaires from Martin Professional. Florian Felsch, general manager, Livebau Solutions, noted the the attraction is now using LEDs to show off the autos in their best light indoors as well, with LEDs calibrated at 5600K. He credited the fixtures for lowering maintenance costs by 90 percent, and allowing for a 1.5 year ROI.
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