ELIZABETH, NJ – Production manager Chris Gratton has joined the Shockwave Cargo team. He will continue his current role as an independent production manager while working closely with Shockwave Cargo clients and prospects to help with their shipping and touring needs. Gratton has 20 years of experience in the touring industry, including handling cargo on his tours.
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CAMBRIDGESHIRE, UK – The Dirty Rigger Octo-Pouch is designed for tool convenience, especially when working in the rig. The Octo-Pouch offers a durable 600 x 600 denier polyester nylon construction with a built-in buckle system to securely attach tools directly to the pouch, ready for quick release when required. The built-in draw-string closure net keeps smaller tools secure in the main center pocket. More tools can be attached on the multiple metal D-rings positioned around the pouch.
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LONDON – Jeremy Lloyd has taken on a new role as spectaculars director at Tait, based at the company’s U.K. location. Lloyd has worked on many of the industry’s biggest productions during his 22 years of live event experience. Most recently he led the technical design and staging teams for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Ceremonies in London.
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TORONTO – CAST Group previews its involvement at next month’s Event Live Expo Feb. 5-7 in Los Angeles with new products to showcase and a keynote presentation by CAST’s product manager and resident lighting design expert, Jim Hutchison.
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LONDON – In the week the movie was nominated for five Oscars, the UK premiere of director Quentin Tarantino’s latest film Django Unchained took place in London’s Leicester Square. XL Events supplied the visual elements for the ‘red-carpet’ arrivals including Tarantino and stars Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson.
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LOS ANGELES – Vista Systems’ Spyders are at the core of a Fox Sports Media Group studio in Century City, CA, where the NFL on Fox, UFC on Fox, College Football Saturday and soccer coverage are produced. The Spyders feed seven different monitor walls and are used to route images to the appropriate wall. The network needs to easily create different presets and scaling and the Spyders facilitate changing presets in the middle of a live show.
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COLOGNE, Germany – More than 220 AV professionals from more than 20 countries gathered in Cologne for the second coolux connect conference, held Jan. 8-9 at the KOMED in Cologne’s MediaPark. During the conference, coolux CEO Jan Huewel presented a sneak peek at future developments in the world of coolux Pandoras Box.
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OWATONNA, MN — Wenger Corporation’s new StageTek staging was designed to offer the user more benefits over its older product line. The StageTek staging assembles quickly without tools, folding frames or other cumbersome understructure. The decks are 20 percent lighter than comparably sized Wenger Versalite decks and feature integrated hand grips that require 40 percent less grip strength to handle. Assembly time is also reduced.
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IOWA CITY, IA — The University of Iowa theatre department recently turned to PixelFLEX and its flexible and portable LED Curtain systems to enhance the school’s live productions. The department recently installed a PixelFLEX 30mm LED Curtain to provide video and graphic elements to the three distinctive venues on campus.
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LAS VEGAS – Chaos Visual Productions celebrated the New Year with shows on both ends of the Las Vegas Strip. Performances from The Killers and Red Hot Chili Peppers entertained at The Chelsea Ballroom in The Cosmopolitan Hotel, while Beyonce rang in the New Year at The Wynn Hotel. Dick Clark Productions’ Rockin’ New Year’s Eve was also on the calendar of Chaos.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The lobby of the old Michigan National Bank was one of the downtown Grand Rapids’ historic treasures. But the stunning space had sat empty for more than a decade after the bank branch closed. Then, in 2012, the bank lobby received new life when it was converted into a ballroom for the CityFlats Hotel. This rejuvenation was accomplished with help from LiveSpace, which designed and installed the room’s lighting and sound systems, and Elation Professional lighting products.
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