LONDON – XL Video supplied the UK leg of Kasabian’s recent “Velociraptor!’ world tour with a camera and PPU system, media server control, projection and scenic Barco MiStrip LED elements. Video director Paul “Eggy” Eggerton and engineer Wolfgang “Wolfie” Schram worked on the IMAG looks, while set was a collaboration between LD Nick Gray and the band’s creative dirctor Aitor Throp.
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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional hired Mark Haney as senior market manager of Broadcast Video and Lighting. This new position focuses on the overall sales of Elation’s LED video product, support and client relations. Haney, who has more than 20 years of experience in the broadcast/touring video market, was formerly a sales director for Screenworks/NEP.
Read More »ARMONK, NY – Production Resource Group, L.L.C. (PRG) has acquired Paskal Lighting, a U.S.-based lighting, grip and expendables company that has served the motion picture and television industries since 1988. While serving as a PRG subsidiary, Paskal Lighting will operate under its own name, with Evan Green continuing in his role as president.
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SYRACUSE, NY – Winners of the nine USITT Awards for Young Designers & Technicians in the Performing Arts have been selected for 2012: Scott Wolfson, Hidenori Nakajo, Catherine Wilson, Charles Murdock Lucas, Shannon Smith, Andrew Wallace, Holland Berson, John Bowhers and David Beller. These individuals will be honored during USITT’s Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Long Beach, CA, in March.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Over 111 million viewers tuned into NBC to watch Super Bowl XLVI and the Bridgestone Halftime Show featuring Madonna, LMFAO, M.I.A., Nicki Minaj and Cee Lo Green. The halftime show was lit by Al Gurdon and featured a production design by Bruce Rodgers of Tribe, Inc. The show’s large cast performed Cirque du Soleil influenced-choreography on 43 modular pieces handled by some 500 stagehands, with load-in and load-out (pictured here) taking place in nine and 10 minutes, respectively. PLSN editor Justin Lang and Stage Directions editor Jacob Coakley followed the action as it happened, tweeting live on Twitter.
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Read More »Check out the Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show Live Tweet after the break.
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BERGAMO, Italy – Central Asia’s oil-rich Turkmenistan celebrated the 20th anniversary of its independence with a multimedia extravaganza lit by Luc Lafortune. The designer of Cirque du Soliel, amog other shows, kept the Turkmen aesthetic in mind, using a large complement of Clay Paky moving heads from Roome-based Agora.
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NEW YORK – WorldStage Inc. supported the final championship event Dec. 17 for Showtime Sports’ “Super Six World Boxing Classic” at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. “The championship was an enhanced version of a normal boxing match,” says Jim Ferrara, lighting designer/production manager with Frank Gatto Lighting. So WorldStage delivered the additional bells and whistles: a lot more lighting effects, video playback and enhanced audio.
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