AUSTIN, TX and NORTH CREEK, NY — Barco Lighting Systems’ Austin, TX-based subsidiary, High End Systems (HES) named Creative Stage Lighting (CSL) a Major Axon HD Reseller. CSL and its network of local resellers throughout the U.S. will offer HES’ Axon media server products to their end user customers.
Read More »HAMBURG, Germany — Rasta Thomas and Adrienne Canterna, the husband-and-wife team behind the Bad Boys of Dance company (BBD) and its Rock the Ballet productions, are taking a new rock ballet, and update on William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, on the road in Germany. LDs Patrick Woodroffe and Roland Griel included 16 Clay Paky Sharpy Wash fixtures in the production’s lighting design. Showconcept supplied the gear.
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LONDON — Henry V, the last of the five plays produced as part of the debut season of the Michael Grandage Company, was lit with White Light-supplied gear at London’s Noël Coward Theatre. The company provide lighting gear for all five productions at MGC West End for the 2012-2013 debut season.
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DALLAS — Philips Entertainment noted that two more rental partners — ILC in Chicago and and LMG Show Technology in Orlando, Nashville, Dallas and Las Vegas — have added Showline SL Nitro 510 luminaires to their rental inventories. The LED strobes have a quick-connect design that lets them easily connect together in both horizontal and vertical orientations, as pictured here.
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LONDON — The Westminster City Council opted to install a large “snow globe” to protect the Shaftesbury Memorial and Eros statue in Piccadilly Circus. The replica snow globe, designed by Wildstone and constructed by fabric structure experts Architen Landrell, includes an 11-meter inflatable PVC membrane that adds a festive touch to the area while protecting the statue and monument safe.
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The Ultra Bar series from ADJ includes three uplighting bars — the Ultra Bar 6, Ultra Bar 9 and Ultra Bar 12. Each uses 3W TRI color LEDs (3-IN-1 RGB). They also have built-in Pixel Control and can run on Arkoas’ Kling-Net protocol to create low res video graphics.
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