BOISE, ID — The Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts at Boise State University selected a NanoLumens LED display to install in its lobby to serve as an information center for patrons. The NanoSlim 4mm LED display measures 6 feet tall by 11 feet wide and complements existing lobby decor while also adding a more modern design element.
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Philips Selecon’s new twin single source RGBW LED chip PLCyc2 is designed to deliver a smooth, even beam with the capability to seamlessly blend intense washes of color on cycloramas. LED source technology combined with a properly shaped asymmetrical reflector ensures the PLCyc2 brings consistent and powerful light distribution without the need to compromise performance by using vertical or horizontal spreader lenses.
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Italy – Italian singer-songwriter Eros Ramazzotti opened his 2013 European tour in Italy last month, with Tait helping to bring his set design to life. The show opens with the main stage closed down and covered by the projection ceiling, a custom scenic element that consists of six geometric pieces. Each piece then flies away to reveal Ramazzotti and his band. These elements created a 3-D projection ceiling giving LD/set designer Jvan Morandi the versatility to form striking shapes and aerial effects during the show.
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TORONTO – Westbury National, the Toronto-based show services and AV systems integration firm, has launched a fully redesigned company website. The company’s goal is to better communicate its service offerings to current and potential clients, drive sales of new and used equipment, share company information, and showcase the achievements of the company’s show services and systems integration divisions.
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NEW YORK CITY – With its recently-opened showroom, Times Square Lighting has returned to the heart of Manhattan. The showroom, which is open M-F, 9am to 5pm, at 240 W. 37th St., Suite 318, is also currently stocking products from ETC, Rosco, Leviton and other manufacturers. The showroom’s phone number is 212.391.5865.
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LONDON – Lighting designer Rick Fisher chose ETC‘s Selador Desire LED fixtures to help light the recent production of David Hare’s The Judas Kiss at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London. “For the kind of work I’m doing – a subtle piece with the lighting concentrating on moods, emotional states, and times of day – I wanted lighting which doesn’t draw attention to itself,” says Fisher. “The Desire fixtures give a very nice, natural looking light, which was a pleasant surprise and a real advance.”
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LOS ANGELES – The Cosmic Truss F34 Baby Tower allows for an unobtrusive ground support system to be used. Its compact form makes it suitable for applications where locations are difficult to access and where application with normal ground support is too big and heavy. Instead of being conceived as a truss tower, Baby Tower is essentially a tube — designed to support a grid made of 12-inch box truss. The legs are in sections and can be set to a maximum height of 23 feet (7 meters) while retaining a strong aesthetic.
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MIAMI – Clay Paky lighting – including the US debut of the Sharpy Wash 330 – and a grandMA2 console performed at the 15th annual Ultra Music Festival (UMF) in Miami’s Bayfront Park. LD Stephen Lieberman spec’d the equipment to help in the Carl Cox Mega Structure, a tent-like environment purpose-built for the high-energy festival to showcase DJs and artists on stage and shelter legions of dancing fans.
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AMHERST, MA – Etesian Technologies manufactures wireless and self-powered wind speed anemometers. By virtue of a small self-contained internal generator, the anemometer provides its own… Read More »Etesian Technologies Wind Sensors for Outdoor Staging
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LAKE ORION, MI – High Resolution Systems, developers of the UDC (Universal Device Controller) software, announces UDC Timecode, a new feature in the Protocol Translation portion of the UDC Pro Plus package. UDC Timecode enables users to sync UDC control with external timecode or turn UDC in to a timecode generator itself.
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PARK CITY, UT – Sundance Film Festival organizers commissioned Klip Collective to create the 3-D projection mapping display for the venue’s exterior during their recent event. Klip Creative Director Ricardo Rivera envisioned a “man vs. machine” Steampunk-styled vignette entitled and inspired by the Tom Waits song “What’s He Building in There.” To fulfill the technical demands of the concept, Sundance Film Festival used Barco’s HDX-W18 large-venue projectors to present the show.
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AABYHOEJ, Denmark – When production designer Baz Halpin of Silent House found features he liked with SGM’s new XC-5 LED strobes, he tried them out during rehearsals for P!ink’s world tour and has since chosen them for Taylor Swift’s tour as well. PRG is supplying the fixtures for both artists.
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