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Earl Girls First to Purchase New MA onPC Command Wing

Earl Girls First to Purchase New MA onPC Command Wing

LOS ANGELES – Earl Girls Theatrical Equipment in Egg Harbor City, NJ, has become the first dealership to place an order for grandMA’s new MA onPC command wing, which paves the way for mobile use of the grandMA2 control system. Designed as a hardware complement to the free grandMA2 onPC software, the MA onPC command wing emulates the look and feel of the command section of a grandMA2 console as closely as possible.  It provides a portable 2,048-parameter control solution that may be used in nearly any location.

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Ziquid

Elation, American DJ Put Ziquid Lounge into the Spotlight

SAN ANTONIO, TX – The owners of the Ziquid Lounge in San Antonio wanted to create an international-style club that appealed to clientele on both sides of the border.  Event Ignition chose American DJ and Elation lighting for the club’s interior and exterior, including the Nucleus LED, a tri-color LED with six scanning heads used as a centerpiece on the dance floor.

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RB USITT design flyer

Rose Brand and USITT Host Design Action Competition

SECAUCUS, NJ – Rose Brand is now accepting applications for students wishing to compete in the Design Action Competition at this year’s USITT Conference, to be held March 28-31 in Long Beach, CA. The competition will consist of up to four different teams of students competing against each other to create the best scenic environment.  Teams will consist of a student scenic designer, technical director, lighting designer and a costume designer. They will be given a 10’ x 10’ space and 3.5 hours within to work. The deadline for applying is March 1.

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Chris Wallace

Wallace Joins TV One as Western Regional Sales Manager

ERLANGER, KY – Chris Wallace is the new Western Regional Sales Manager at TV One, a designer and manufacturer of video and multimedia processing equipment. Wallace brings with him an extensive sales background with 13 years of experience in the AV Industry. He will be based in Northern California to oversee Western Canada along with California, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii.

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Alexa Brierley

GDS Adds to Sales Support Team

BRISTOL, UK – Alexa Brierley is the new Sales Account Coordinator at GDS, a UK manufacturer of lighting and control systems, with headquarters in Bristol. She will help the international sales team with customer service and dealer support.

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Hollydazzle 2011

Clay Paky Sharpys Light Up Hollydazzle

NEWPORT NEWS, VA — The 2011 edition of Hollydazzle, an annual lighting and fireworks show staged at Newport News’ City Center at Oyster Point, featured a 45-foot-high LED Christmas tree, a fireworks display and light effects from 20 of Clay Paky’s Sharpy light fixtures supplied by Main Light Industries, Wilmington, DE. The Sharpys swept across the five-acre fountain where the fireworks originated and shot their beams into the sky to the accompaniment of holiday music and the pyrotechnics.

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Bowmer Theatre

Robert Juliat Lucy Followspots Light Up Oregon Shakespeare Festival

WALLINGFORD, CT – The Angus Bowmer Theatre at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland has taken delivery of three Robert Juliat Lucy 1200W HMI followspots from Musson Theatrical, Inc. of Santa Clara, CA.  The fixtures were chosen for their compact size and ability to fit into the theatre, which typically doesn’t accommodate followspots. They’ll debut in the February performance of “Animal Crackers.”

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SAS

Christie MicroTiles Visually Enhance SAS Headquarters

CYPRESS, CA – Five digital displays comprised of Christie MicroTiles help create a visually dynamic corporate headquarters at SAS, an independent vendor of business intelligence in Cary, NC. SAS needed a green solution – functional and artistic – to enliven its hallways, briefing center and other areas  throughout the building. A 40-foot Welcome Wall is the highlight of the installation, greeting visitors in the registration area.

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Slovakian Legends of Pop

Robe MMXs Join Slovakian Legends of Pop

CZECH REPUBLIC – Slovakian rental company Q-99 supplied 50 Robe moving lights including Robe MMX Spots to LD Martin Kubanka for “Slovakian Legends of Pop.” The TV music series airs during a nine-week run on prime time national TV channel STV1. Taking the LED-oriented set design by Michael Brna as a starting point, Kubanka needed some seriously powerful light sources on the rig to hold their own amidst all the LEDs.

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Breakin' Convention

Hawthorns is Breakin’ Convention with Clay Paky Alpha 1200s

LONDON – UK theatrical suppliers Hawthorns recently supported LD Jonathan Samuels’ design of the Breakin’ Convention International Festival of Hip Hop Dance with a charitable loan of nine Clay Paky 1200 Profiles. The event at Sadler’s Wells Theatre featured an international line-up of dancers, whose performances required lighting to accommodate with shuttering and gobos.

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Adrian Gilby

Green Hippo Hires New Software Developers

LONDON – Green Hippo introduces Adrian Gilby and Philippe Levieux as new members of the software development team. Levieux joins the programming team as Researcher and Software Developer in the production of new features for Hippotizer software. As a programmer and Software Developer, Gilby will work on specifying, designing and implementing new features for Green Hippo’s existing and future range of products.

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