LONDON – After seeing them in use at last summer's Isle of Wight Festival, LD Andy Hurst was impressed enough with the brightness, response speed and versatility of GLP's Impressions to add the moving LED light fixtures into the U.K. touring rig for Prodigy, the techno band fronted by Keith Flint.
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QINGDAO, China – The center that was designed for Olympic sailing events at the southern tip of China's Shandong Peninsula for the 2008 summer games has gotten a second wind as the national Training Centre for Aquatic Sports. It's also home to the annual 10-day Qingdao Sea Culture Festival and the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center Grand Theater, which has been equipped with four Robert Juliat Aramis 2500W HMI followspots.
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LONDON – Eclipse Presentations commissioned Point Source to provide a lighting system for a recent event at the Australian High Commission in London marking Australia Day, Jan. 23.
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TOKYO – For Japanese pop singer Aiko's Love Like Rock vol.4 tour last summer, LDs Masa-aki Kamishima and Masahide Maeda used a rig that included 12 MAC 301 Washes and 36 MAC 500s.
Read More »ATLANTA, GA – Digital Projection Inc. (DPI) will assume a key sponsorship role at InfoComm's AV Technology Today conference. Set for March 18, 2010 in Washington, D.C., the conference will give AV dealers a variety of new product information and hands-on demonstrations conducted by AV equipment manufacturers.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – Dave Haus, LD for Wolfmother's New Moon Rising tour, chose LSC's Clarity console. Haus, whose company, Prodigy Lighting Design, is based in the U.S., came across a Clarity desk while programming a live TV broadcast in Colorado.
Read More »Chris Martin, a principal at Forman and Associates for the past 12 years, died Jan. 17. He was 60. Martin had a 36-year career in entertainment and architectural lighting sales. He moved to the U.S. from his native England in 1973, started with Olesen Lighting in Hollywood and worked for Colortran Inc. before joining Forman and Associates.
Read More »LONDON – Lighting designers Kevin Adams, Jon Clark and Mark Henderson were among the nominees announced recently by the Society of London Theatre for the 2010 Olivier Awards, which honor top shows that have opened on London's West End the previous year.
Read More »RIMINI, Italy – SIB International, an exhibition for lighting, audio and video gear that had been scheduled to run from April 18 to 20, 2010, has been cancelled. Organizers are setting their sights on a 2011 exhibition instead.
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JS-ICON Series wall-mount dimmer racks feature "system-on-a-chip" and inductor technology to provide professional-grade SCR dimming while also complying with the International Energy Agency's "One Watt Initiative" for standby power consumption.
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MIAMI-Lava Studio, best known for its work in advertising, television and feature films, has collaborated with director/designer team Renaud Doucet and André Barbe on Florida Grand Opera's production of The Barber of Seville to create animated sets for its Feb. 20-March 6 run in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
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MADISON, WI – How hard can it be to turn an off-season football stadium into an outdoor hockey arena? As SGASi Production Services will tell you, it's a little more complicated than just adding water.
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