RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA – Rent What? has adapted its portable Pop-Up! Dressing Room into a portable shadow box. By adding height onto the Pop-Up! Dressing Room and fitting it with a translucent panel, the unit can be backlit for shadow effects onstage. The unit comes with a light fixture to make the system self-contained. A privacy panel then turns it into a portable dressing room as well.
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HIGH WYCOMBE, UK – Jands Vista consoles, running the new Vista v2 software, have been installed in the two TV studios at Lincoln University’s Media Broadcast Production Centre. The studios were recently upgraded to offer students the opportunity to learn on the latest lighting and camera technologies. Jands exclusive UK dealer A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd (AC-ET) supplied the Jands Vista consoles – a T2 and an I3 – to the University.
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OOSTENDE, Belgium – At the start of this year, Pixled became the official distributor for LED display manufacturer Radiant’s Linx range of products in key European countries. Pixled and Radiant have been involved in an on-going ‘co-development’ agreement for the past two years. Pixled has now renamed its four current L-Series products to all have the suffix ‘by Radiant.’
Read More »SECAUCUS, NJ — BML-Blackbird Theatrical Services named industry veteran David Oakes director of production. Oakes had spent over two decades as a master electrician/gaffer working with designers, producers and promoters on many of the top live entertainment productions in the country and around the world.
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Welcome to 2012, the start of a new year. So what will your New Year’s Resolution be? It’s the perfect time to turn a new page. (Please, wait till you get to the end of the column before turning this page!) New Years always gives us a fresh start. It’s our annual opportunity to eliminate bad habits. It’s our chance to start new routines to make us healthy, wealth and wise. Of course, resolutions are much easier to make than to keep. By the end of January many will have abandoned their resolve and settled back into old patterns. Will this be you or will this be the year your resolve outweighs your temptations?
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Protecting an asset as valuable as our hands is important in a field like ours. We work with our hands daily. We are a hands-on profession. If we have injured digits, it can cost us, not just money but our ability to work. Protecting our hands is a simple as putting on a pair of gloves.
Sure, you can pick up a cheap pair at any hardware store, but you get what you pay for. I have gone through countless pairs of simple leather gloves working focus and pushing my fair share of cases. They never seem to hold up past one season. Read More »
Although Noël Coward’s witty play Private Lives is an intimate tale told with only five characters, the set design for the latest Broadway production (which just closed), imported from London’s West End through a run in Toronto, offers impressive and visually striking sets to accompany the bedroom farce. But it makes sense to have grand sets for emotionally explosive comedy, which finds a divorced couple (Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross) accidentally staying adjacent to one another while honeymooning with their new spouses on the French Riviera. Naturally, all sorts of nostalgic sexual shenanigans ensue. Originally written in 1930, the play resonates with modern audiences in its mischievous tone and sly views on marriage and divorce.
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Twists, Turns and Automation for the Get Closer Tour
His last name doesn’t sound very rural, and, geographically, at least, his roots are Down Under. But Keith Urban has a huge following among country music fans in the U.S. and Canada. For his 2011 Get Closer tour, supported by Bandit Lites, SGPS and Chaos Visual Productions, long stretches of curving truss evoke roller coasters and Ferris wheels. And the structural elements move during the course of the show, transforming the lighting fixture positions along with the visual design possibilities.
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