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Robert Juliat Followspots Tour with Springsteen

Springsteen in Paris

Robert Juliat Followspots Tour with Springsteen

LOS ANGELES – Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s “Wrecking Ball” tour continues to roll across the country with three Manon, eight Topaze, and four Lancelot followspots from Robert Juliat. Robert Juliat got together with Morpheus Lights, of Las Vegas, the production company for the tour, and created a hybrid that married the RJ heads with a Morpheus electronic power supply – the RJE Electronic Ballast – and produced one-piece truss spots that have been a great success.

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Keith Klentz

Christie Digital Names Keith Klentz Visualization Director

CYPRESS, CA – Christie Digital Systems named Keith Klentz director, visualization and simulation sales, Visual Environments (VE). He will manage the VE sales team in the U.S. and Canada. Klentz has been in the visualization and simulation industry for more than 25 years. Prior to joining Christie in 2009, he worked for Barco for more than 20 years in visual systems engineering, market development and sales.

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Suzy Casserley

Green Hippo Adds Staff

LONDON – Green Hippo has added new members to its staff. Suzy Casserley, who started as an intern, officially joins the technical support and product testing team after receiving a BA Hons Degree in Lighting Programming at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance.

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Tree of Life

Renegade Creates Architectural Show for Tree of Light

LONDON – Renegade’s Nick Gray combined entertainment and architectural lighting to produce a lightshow for the recent Tree of Light performances, which were part of the London 2012 Festival leading up to the Summer Games. Gray incorporated as many LED and low energy light sources as possible in the design in keeping with the ethos of the project, with some of the lighting actually run via bicycle power.

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Prom Night Party

More Than 100 Clay Paky Fixtures Light Moscow Prom

MOSCOW – World renowned DJs descended on Moscow June 23 for the annual student Prom Night, lit by more than 100 Clay Paky luminaires. LD Roman Stolyarov of Moscow-based Arlecchino Group used the Shotlight and the Alpha Profiles to create the general atmosphere for the event and the Sharpys to deliver the lighting and set effects in sync with the music.

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One of the five screens at Country Concert.

Pete’s Big TVs Debuts MK7 LED Panels on Country Concert ’12

FT. LORAMIE, OH – Pete’s Big TVs recently added to its rental inventory 1,200 panels of digiLED MK7 video screens, using 350 of the panels to create five screens for the Country Concert ’12. The MK7 panels provided a solution for daytime ambience. “They have all the features of the 7mm MC7 – popular because of their no Radio Frequency interference – except that the screens are not transparent, which makes them twice as bright,” says Guy Benjamin of Pete’s Big TVs.

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Enlighten One

Mega-Lite Enlighten One

SAN ANTONIO, TX – The Enlighten ONE lighting console, developed and manufactured in Texas, is being marketed as an affordable choice for stages and houses of worship. The white console, with a 23-inch touch screen monitor, comes with 4 universes with a total of 2048 channels of DMX. The unit has a 2.8 GHz Intel motherboard and processor and Solid State hard drive to ensure ensure fast boot up speed and increased reliability. The unit is ArtNet expandable. The board components include 8 sliders, 1 grand master, 1 manual crossfader, 11 jog wheels, 8 bump buttons and 32 preset or assignable access buttons.

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Canada Olympic House

MicroTiles On Display at Canada Olympic House

LONDON – Christie Digital Systems has provided two digital displays featuring Christie MicroTiles and Christie Entero LED rear projection cubes at Canada Olympic House in Trafalgar Square. In addition to being the Canadian Olympic Committee’s space for athletes, Canada Olympic House hosts business leaders and government dignitaries and showcases Canada’s leading industries and businesses.

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IES

IES to Host 2012 Annual Conference

MINNEAPOLIS – The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) has set its Annual Conference for  Nov. 11-13 at the Marriott City Center in Minneapolis. This year’s conference theme is “Building Synapses: Connections in Lighting,” with the focus on connectivity between the lighting industry and the surrounding world. Opportunities for continuing education credit are also available.

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Robe Flies On ‘The Millions’

JERUSALEM – Ofer Jacobi has specified Robe on the popular “Fly On The Millions” primetime TV quiz show, in which contestants answering questions incorrectly are ceremoniously dumped from the set through a trap door beneath their podium. Danor Rental supplies the lighting, which includes 20 ROBIN 300E Beams, 10 ColorWash 700E ATs, six ColorBeam 2500s and 10 ColorSpot 1200E ATs. Jacobi follows in the footlights of his father, who worked in the film industry.

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