NEW YORK – When Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly kicked off the 2010 leg of their Bold & Fresh tour, Scharff Weisberg provided AV and lighting support. Scharff Weisberg also supported Beck's solo American Revival tour.
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LONDON – At the 2010 ABTT Theatre Show, Stage Technologies' new split pulley mechanism, designed to enhance the ability for performers to fly at an angle out over the audience, was recognized as "Best Engineered Product 2010."
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Panamax/Furman's BlueBOLT power and energy management platform has been updated with version 1.2, which promises to help users conserve energy, lower their utility bills and gain access to an expanded energy management feature set and new control options.
Read More »{mosimage}LONDON and SAN DIEGO Musion Systems Ltd named AV Concepts Inc as its North American provider of Musion 3D Holographic HD Projection Technology for corporate events and trade shows.
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GE Lighting's Showbiz 24,000-watt CSR double-ended lamp is designed for the need for daylight color temperatures in film production, especially where light output, reliability and color stability are of critical importance.
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SHANGHAI, China – Attracting over two million visitors in its first two months of operation, the USA Pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai China delivers its Rise to the Challenge theme in a series of Hollywood-style, multi-dimensional presentations that tell the story of the American spirit of perseverance, innovation and community building.
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Elation Professional's Color Tone 50 is a new DMX-controllable LED color changer for staging, entertainment and architectural applications that makes use of the new 50-watt Philips Lexel LED module, a homogenized LED light source.
Read More »LONDON – The Association of Lighting Designers (ALD), Society of Television Lighting and Design (STLD) and awards program sponsor Clay Paky recently announced the nominations for the third annual Knights of Illumination awards program. Geared toward U.K.-based lighting designers, the awards will be held Sept. 12 at the IBIS Hotel London Earls Court.
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LONDON – DesignScene, a production company, provided the creative concept, technical production and the sourcing of artists and performers for Superdrug, a U.K.-based company involved in health and beauty products.
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VENICE, Italy – The design team for the five Broadway-style shows staged aboard Holland America's New York-themed cruise ship, the 86,000-ton Ms Nieuw Amsterdam, relied upon CAST Software's wysiwyg for previsualization.
Read More »MINNEAPOLIS – Staging Concepts, a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, announced its intention of "going green" on a large scale, with both its staging and railing divisions.
Read More »Once, in a moment of apparent weakness, the dean of the college of engineering invited me and some other students to his house for dinner. We were all sitting in the study talking about school when I said something that, in retrospect, seemed to be the dumbest comment ever.
"Learning is painful," I said.
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