FLORENCE, Italy – Sans drummer Stefano D'Orazio, Pooh has been performing as a reformed trio (plus three session musicians). LD Fabrizio "Fabi" Crico, who has lit the band, off and on, since 1978, has lately been providing 11 battens assembled in a kitesurfing wing shape and a large background LED screen that traces the band's history and shows various music clips while lighting tones the truss.
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SYDNEY – Last year, 101 musicians from 33 countries uploaded videos to YouTube of themselves auditioning for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 and were chosen to perform YouTube Symphony Orchestra artistic advisor, Michael Tilson Thomas. The performance was streamed live on YouTube directly from Sydney Opera House.
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LSC announced the release of the QX1 USB-DMX Decoder designed specifically for use with its Clarity lighting and media control software. The QX1 falls into the same family as its bigger brothers the QX2 and QX4 and is aimed at smaller shows or venues where only a single universe of DMX512 is required or where cost is the major consideration.
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SAN JOSE, CA – LUXEON A introduced this week is the latest illumination grade LED from Philips Lumileds that reduces the engineering effort required for new solutions and delivers Freedom From Binning. LUXEON A shares the LUXEON Rebel ES platform and footprint and incorporates a 2 square millimeter thin film flip chip and Lumiramic phosphor technology to deliver the highest quality of light at 2700K and 3000K with very high efficacy and light output.
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ITALY – Italian lighting designer Massimo Tomasino has extended his relationship with SGM's Synthesis 700 and Giotto 400 moving head spots, featuring them in the design for Patty Pravo's current Nella Terra dei Pinguini tour. Having worked with the artist – whose own career spans four decades – since 2005, he has a clear fix on the type of set design that suits her best. "With her elegant pop/rock style I like to work with a lot of rear lighting," he says.
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COLOGNE – The Swiss visual communication agency Christen Visuelle Gestaltung was recently awarded the first Public Xaver.11 award for their creative work on "zug bewegt", an interactive film panorama showing the Swiss canton Zug. The Public Xaver award aims to honour the best Swiss live communication project. The interactive installation "zug bewegt" had been used for both the LUGA exhibition in Lucerne and the MUBA in Basel.
Read More »POTTSTOWN, PA – Upstage Video recently ramped up their already extensive inventory of Daktronics modular LED video gear with the additon of 75 Daktronics PST-12HD panels from Media Visions, a Birmingham, Tenn., based rental company.
"Our clients are demanding larger and larger displays, so we were in the market to increase our inventory," said Doug Murray, President of Upstage Video. "I am familiar with the Daktronics product and the people that ran it from Media Visions. The gear is in pristine condition, looks brand new and without the financial challenges a new purchase might present… it was the ideal choice for us."
Read More »LOS ANGLES, CA – American DJ's ADJ University offers online video courses that show site visitors how to get the most out of the company's lighting and audio gear. American DJ started ADJ University to provide DJs with real-world insights and advice. The video courses are designed to give an overview and also some tips and tricks on adding lighting and special effects to any type of live event.
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Flogos – soap-based, lighter-than-air foam logos that float indoors or outdoors though the air, are usually made from machines weighing 350-400 lbs. and measuring 2 to 3 feet square and transported in road cases that are more than 6 feet high. SnowMasters Special Effects (a.k.a. Global Special Effects, Inc.) now offers a suitcase-sized alternative, Flogos-Lite Portable Series, weighing just 70 lbs. and measuring 13 inches tall in transport configuration.
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DALLAS – Edwin L Schmitt II, stage lighting technician at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, died April 9, 2011 due to complications following a heart attack. He was 57.
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Brighton, Sussex – Luke George, 26, joins the team this month as a Technical Design Consultant, reporting directly to the Visual Acuity board. Despite his tender years, George is an InfoComm CTS-qualified professional who joins after spells with Creative Technology, Roger Preston & Partners and, most recently, Mark Johnson Consultants.
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ZHUHAI, China – Martin Manufacturing Zhuhai Ltd, Martin Professional's production facility in China, has received ISO 14001 certification, an emblem of efforts taken to minimize the plant's harmful impact on the environment.
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