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Chauvet Video Panels Provide Set for Audible Festival

Deadmau5

Chauvet Video Panels Provide Set for Audible Festival

EL PASO — More than 200 Chauvet Professional video panels became the central part of  Audible, an EDM event featuring Deadmau5, Chris Lake and Audrey Napoleon. Creative Production & Design of Austin, TX, supplied the gear. “The design of this show depended on the transparent nature of the columns and the MVP 18 panels where a perfect fit,” said Justin Jenkins, director of Creative Production & Design. “This transparency has allowed us to not only layer video designs, such as this one, but to also allow lighting to be mounted behind the panels and ‘blow through’ for an additive effect.”

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Patrick Finn

Sapsis Rigging Welcomes Patrick Finn

LANDSDOWNE, PA – The newest member of the SRI team is Patrick Finn, an ETCP Certified Rigger – Theatre. Finn most recently worked for a rigging manufacturing company, first as a project manager and then as a product manager handling product development.

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Frank Willard

In Memoriam: Frank Willard, 58

SYRACUSE, NY — Frank Willard, vice president of Syracuse Scenery & Stage Lighting Co., Inc., passed away unexpectedly on Jan. 8, 2013. Willard, who was drawn to technical theatre as a student at Watertown, NY-based Jefferson Community College in the early 1970s, joined Syracuse Scenery in 1975 and was its representative as a founding member of the Theatrical Dealers Association (then ESTA, now PLASA). Willard also was an ETCP-certified rigger and a member of JR Clancy’s dealer advisory board.

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All renderings © Courtesy of Mark Cavagnero Associates

SFJAZZ Center Now Open

SAN FRANCISCO — Working together with architect Mark Cavagnero Associates and SIA Acoustics, Auerbach Pollock Friedlander provided theatre and video consulting for the new SFJAZZ Center, which opened Jan. 21. The new three-story Center’s main venue, the Robert N. Miner Auditorium, can be formatted with as many as eight configurations, seating 350 to 700. Other spaces include the Ensemble Room for rehearsals or as an intimate performance space, three practice rooms and a digital lab.

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Jeroen van Aalst (Controllux) and Hans Peitsman.

Benelux’s First Robe Robin DLFs on Tour

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands – Rotterdam-based rental company Peitsman Licht en Geluid (Light & Sound) has purchased Robe’s latest Robin DLX Spot and DLF Wash fixtures, becoming the first DLF users in the Benelux region. Of the new purchase, 10 DLFs and six DLXs went straight out on tour with Percossa, a high energy percussion ensemble now touring Benelux and France.

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Wonderland

SGM’s LEDs Light Up Wonderland

MAIDSTONE, KENT, UK – More than 1,000 LED light sources from SGM have brought the new 1800-capacity Wonderland nightclub to life in Maidstone, Kent. Commanding the focus of attention is an overhang comprised of 225 of SGM’s 1-meter length pixel tubes interspersed with 784 LED Pix pixel cubes.

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Screenworks-NEP uses MultiDyne for Madonna’s Tour

LOCUST VALLEY, NY —  Screenworks-NEP selected MultiDyne’s DVI-6000 for video transmission during the 2012 worldwide Madonna MDNA concert tour. MultiDyne’s DVI-6000 fiber-optic transport solution extends transmission distances to up to 24 miles — over just a single fiber — enabling equipment operators to deliver video from servers located throughout concert venues to video walls onstage.

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Blue Man Group

Blue Man Group Leaps to 3D with digiTHIN

LAS VEGAS – Blue Man Group are putting a lightweight screen, digiTHIN, to use when they appear to materialize from a video projection in their latest production. The screens, developed by displayLED under its digiLED brand, are worn by the artists who perform rigorous routines animated by visual effects. Says BMG show director Bill Swartz, the effects illustrate the group’s creative idea that a hybrid space exists between real life and the technical world of phones and texts. “We call it 2.5D space,” he says.

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Hollywood Wax Museum

Electrosonic Turns Heads at Hollywood Wax Museum

LOS ANGELES – When the Hollywood Wax Museum refurbished its on-the-street lobby to attract the attention of passers-by, Electrosonic was called upon to design and install a number of HD video displays to capture the interest of strollers on Hollywood Boulevard. Electrosonic project manager Dan Laspa says the job posed the usual challenges for “an old Hollywood building,” including obtaining seismic certification for the monitor mounts. “We worked only at night when the museum was closed so we wouldn’t impede business in any way.”

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