ARLINGTON, WA – Video may have killed the radio star, but its breathing new life into the fortunes of a 30-year-old Washington State lighting/staging company. Earlier this year, lighting industry veteran Mark Steneide (Steneide Illumination) added the capability to install video walls at music concerts and shows, using EVLED 1024SMD panels from Elation Professional.
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LOS ANGELES – Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 tour visuals have gotten an assist from PRG's Mbox Extreme v3 media server, with screens director Drew Findley and video director Dirk Sanders using the five-server system provided by PRG for multiple video surfaces that are part of the city skyline video wall set designed by UVA's Matt Clark.
Read More »Some of the loads we use every day exhibit high inrush currents when they are first turned on. An incandescent lamp with a cold filament… Read More »Consider Inrush Currents for Power Load Calculations
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Mega Systems offers three different splitters to meet individual lighting installation needs – Mega, Disco and Enlighten Splitters.
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Drivecon's LoadLock, a free feature available on all Drivecon closed loop hoist inverters, is designed to minimize the effects of operator-induced shock loading, which can result in cumulative fatigue on the crane's mechanical and structural components.
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PC Wing is a compact training tool from Stage Technologies. The console enables students and automation technicians to learn to program and operate automation technology off-line in a classroom environment.
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LONDON – In early June a group of bikers, hailing from all sectors of the entertainment technology industry, swapped their blacks for leathers and their hard hats for helmets and embarked on an eight-day sponsored motorcycle tour of U.K. theatres to raise money for The Theatrical Guild (TTG).
Read More »NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, DC – Drape Kings has hired Meredith Greene to oversee its recently-opened Washington, D.C. Metro office.
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NEW YORK – LD Tom Kenny lit Christina Aguilera's recent appearance on VH1's Storytellers using Coemar fixtures. Since 1996, the program has featured artists and bands including Sting, Elton John, Alanis Morissette and Coldplay.
Read More »The good news is that no one was seriously injured…as far as we know…and we don't know much. The bad news is that it happened again.
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Bon Jovi's The Circle Tour needed a set design that was both practical and visually unique. Tait Towers credited Doug "Spike" Brant for coming up with the main visual concept: a video wall that looms skyward, beyond the stage, in the shape of a giant arch.
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Visitors to the Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Okla. can see a series of color-changing pylons that flank the boulevard on the way to the resort, and a circle of nine obelisks around an entry fountain attract attention with water effects, lighting and fire as they get closer. ETC Unison Mosaic show controllers are used to orchestrate both the synchronized scenic effects and exterior LED wash lighting.
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