I was on the island of Trinidad working on a typical awards-style TV shoot, with five cameras, a podium and 12 musical numbers. I was… Read More »Improvizing While Your Console is Stuck at Customs
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Global Truss America has launched its first-ever lighting product: a color-changing LED truss warmer designed specifically to fit inside the company’s square truss. Powered by nine 1-watt LEDs (three red, three green, three blue), the new TW-RGB9 Truss Warmer uses RGB color mixing for a wide array of colors and color changing and fade effects for concerts, stage productions, nightclubs, DJ shows or other entertainment applications. The units use DMX-512 protocol for control and come with preprogrammed color macros and a built-in microphone for sound-active operation. Built with truss-warming in mind, the units are designed with a compact triangular shape, allowing them to be inserted into F34 and F44 square truss. The silver finish is also designed to blend in with steel or aluminum trussing. The TW-RGB9 Truss Warmer has an MSRP of $358.95.
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TAMPA, FL — As Super Bowl XLIII approached, Tampa's Raymond James Stadium was lit with a new kind of LED floodlight, Philips ColorReach Powercore fixtures. The lighting project was part of a city-wide beautification effort leading up to the game, and the stadium was lit from dusk until dawn.
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WASHINGTON, DC — With gigs aplenty in the nation’s capital, the inauguration provided more than a ray of hope to lighting and staging companies. In the span of eight days, for example, Atmosphere Inc. coordinated and executed lighting for 52 shows in 24 different venues across the city, including two of the largest — the Commander in Chief’s Ball for members of the military at the National Building Museum and the Youth Inaugural Ball at the Washington Hilton & Towers.
Read More »VAN NUYS, CA — Visual Terrain, Inc. has added Martin N. Cohen as a senior lighting designer with a specialty in newsroom and studio lighting design. Cohen joined Visual Terrain after having designed and consulted on over 60 newsroom lighting systems and upgrades.
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LISMORE, Australia — The Great Moscow Circus has been touring Australia for 50 years, and now offers 50 international performers from Brazil, Mongolia, Australia, Asia, and, of course, Russia. Brian Anslow, a lecturer in technical production at the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts, designed and programmed the lighting for this latest show using a Jands Vista I3 for control.
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NEW YORK —Bulbtronics, Inc. has released an LED catalog on the Internet, which includes the full spectrum of the company’s LED retrofit offerings to replace halogens, incandescents, miniature based bulbs and more. The company, which reviews different products as they evolve, has selected 80 LED products for a variety of products and applications.
Read More »NORTH CREEK, NY — Creative Stage Lighting Co., Inc. is offering a free online seminar on lighting design. It will take place on Feb. 19 at 3:30 p.m. EST. Called “Lighting Design 101: The Art of Illumination,” it is geared for a broad range of lighting professionals and aspiring professionals, providing a crash course on lighting a live music show, from conception to realization. It has been designed to provide a foundation for building a show from the ground up.
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CAMBRIDGE, U.K. — The first scholars at the University of Cambridge, who had split off from another group of scholars forming the University of Oxford in 1209, didn’t have the opportunity to learn about things like Christopher Columbus. It would be another 283 years before the New World explorer sailed the ocean blue.
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BROOKINGS, SD — The LED displays used by GoVision and Upstage Video to transform Barack Obama from a visual speck to a newly-elected president for the crowds on Jan. 20, 2009 (to see story, click here ) were manufactured by a company that was incorporated on Dec. 9, 1968, when Richard Nixon was president-elect.
Read More »{mosimage}LONDON — G-Lec is opening a sales office, G-Lec UK Ltd., in central London. The subsidiary will manage all sales for architectural and other installations, while supporting G-Lec’s U.K.-based rental partners. Lars Wolf, managing director of G-Lec Europe, noted that, up to now, rental projects have been the focus of G-Lec’s business in the U.K. With the new sales office, however, the company will be putting more emphasis on architectural products.
Read More »MADRID — Wybron has expanded its global distribution network by appointing Entertainment Equipment Supplies as its distributor in Spain. Based near San Sebastian with offices in Madrid, EES was founded in 2004 and mainly serves the rental, television and theatre markets, according to CEO Nacho Acha-Orbea.
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