CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Gearhouse South Africa's Cape Town branch supplied specialist LED and AV display technology to four different installations at the Design Indaba 2011 exhibition, which was staged at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) and included the Design Indaba Conference and Young Designers Simulcast.
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NEW YORK – For a recent concert featuring Italy's Gigi D'Alessio at Radio City Music Hall, Coemar's Infinity ACL S and Infinity Wash XL fixtures played a key role, lighting the artist for the mid-February show and for taped performances shown on Italy's Rai1 in early March.
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MIAMI – Marco Brambilla's Evolution (Multiplex), a 3D video collage culled from thousands of movies featured at Art Basel Miami, relied upon Video Applications Inc. (VAI) for its 3D silver screen, projectors, technicians and a projectionist.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – For the Australian leg of Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns tour, LD A.J. Pen used 41 Vari*Lite VLX Wash fixtures, supplemented with 12 Vari*Lite VL 3500 Wash fixtures.
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – As part of a $17 million renovation, Lila Cockrell Theatre (LCT) has augmented its lighting inventory with three Robert Juliat Cyrano HMI 2500W hot restrike followspots purchased from locally-based Texas Scenic.
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ARGYLE, TX – GoVision is providing visual support in the form of LED video screens for a variety of college basketball events, with its custom-built LED screens being used in Atlanta, Nashville, El Paso, Hot Springs, AR, Garland, TX and for the NCAA Final Four Men's Basketball Championships in Houston.
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LONDON – The Big Bang: UK Young Scientists' and Engineers' Fair, an event sponsored by the nonprofit EngineeringUK, got video and visual production support from XL Events, including camera and PPU system, projection, playback and crew.
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MINSK, Belarus – The lighting rig for the new Minsk Arena, a 15,000-seat ice hockey arena also used as a concert hall, includes Robe gear specified by Robe's Belarus distributor Art Ramos. Part of a government contract, the main contractor, Belcultproject, supplied the products to the venue.
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The Martin MAC 401 Dual CT Zoom is a versatile white light source wash luminaire with fast zoom, available as a white light or color plus white light source module that fits onto either side of Martin's dual-sided MAC 401 Dual RGB Zoom fixture. The MAC 401 CT Zoom's color temperature is adjustable between warm and cold (3000 – 7000K). Its large lens face produces a broad beam look. The MAC 401's beam can go from hypermode tight to a wide wash in less than 0.5 seconds.
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Daniel E. Mayo, director of creative services for Digital Sound Systems, passed away March 13. A 1975 graduate of the University of Kansas, Mayo was a production manager for the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and Martina McBride for years. After coming off the road, his focus shifted to scenic and lighting design and managing private and corporate events.
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I. Weiss' Viawinch, which recently joined the company's Via line of motorized rigging products, is positioned as a solution in between a manual hand crank and a high-end hoist.
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