NEW YORK — Platt’s 14th annual Global Energy Awards, staged at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel here Dec. 12, got an assist from U.K.-based Eclipse Presentations, which designed, produced, specified and coordinated all the technical production elements – lighting, video, audio, staging and rigging, etc.
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SYDNEY — The International Fleet Review, which commemorated the arrival of the original Royal Australian Navy fleet in Sydney Harbour a century ago, involved close to 40 warships, 16 tall ships, more than 60 aircraft, 10 military bands, and 8,000 sailors from 17 nations around the world. Lighting designer Mark Hammer specified 132 Clay Paky Sharpy and 108 Sharpy Wash 330s, which he positioned around the harbor and on the ships themselves
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DUBAI — Three years after it first took to the road, Jamiroquai wrapped its world tour on Nov. 15 at the Sundance Festival in Dubai. LD Mark Wynn-Edwards had included Philips Vari-Lite VL3500 Spots and Washes in the rig.
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PITTSBURGH, PA — Doug DeHaven, AV specialist/robotics at Carnegie Science Center here noted how Alcorn McBride’s V16 Pro controller proved a good fit with the center’s Works Theater venue, which was in need of an upgrade for its aging, proprietary automation system.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — To honor the memory of Nelson Mandela, the anti-Apartheid activist who emerged from more than 27 years of incarceration to serve as president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the Western Cape Government hired LaserX to beam imagery and messages on the side of Table Mountain near Cape Town from Dec. 8-16. The laser show began three days after Mandela, winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, died (on Dec. 5, 2013 at age 95).
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SANFORD, FL – InterAmerica Stage, Inc. (IAStage), a theatrical rigging and specialty equipment company based here, named Eric McAfee the company’s Director of Safety. McAfee, who has 25 years of industry experience, will focus on the company’s Safety Program and also work on product quality control.
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LOS ANGELES — MagicSnow produced more than 100 tons of real snow despite 80 degree weather for an episode of the ABC reality show, The Bachelor. The show aired Jan. 13, 2014, and a bonus “behind the scenes” special airing the night before.
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PARIS — For Mylène Farmer’s highly visual 2013 Timeless tour, with stops in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Russia and Belarus, Belgium-based Wicreations designed and fabricated five major automation elements.
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KOLDING, Denmark — Jacob Elsig, project manager from Get Visual, worked with his LD, Christian Vigsø, to support the lighting needs for the inaugural Light Festival that took place in Kolding, Denmark from Dec. 12-14, 2013. They used SGM fixtures for the Spanish Steps, The Train Station Square’s installation named The Spider and the Hotel Saksildhus (pictured here) with SGM lighting fixtures.
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