SYDNEY – The John Butler Trio One Way Road tour, which has recently finished touring Australia, adopted a carbon-neutral stance, calculating the carbon "footprint" and emissions generated during the tour and balancing those costs with an investment in renewable energy.
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DETROIT – The auto industry might have regarded 2009 as a clunker of a year, but there was still enough cash (or at least credit) to stage the 21st North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). UVLD played a role with Hyundai Motor America's Blue-Will concept car.
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PHOENIX – Lighting and video designer Nick West used a Jands Vista T2 console for lighting, I-Mag and video control for the recent tobyMac annual Winter Wonder Slam tour. Axxis Inc. was the tour lighting company.
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VANCOUVER, BC – Light sculptor Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has incorporated Syncrolite fixtures in Vectorial Elevation, a work commissioned by the 2010 Cultural Olympiad, the City of Vancouver's initiative to celebrate artists along with athletes.
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MIAMI GARDENS, FL – With the NFL's Pro Bowl and Super Bowl drawing much attention in South Florida, the recent grand opening for the Calder Casino, which added 1,200 slot machines and three new restaurants to the Calder Race Track complex for horse racing, needed a visual attention-getter.
Read More »KANSAS CITY, MO – All three ETCP exams – for entertainment electrical, arena rigging and theatre rigging – will be offered to USITT attendees this year, starting on March 31 and ending April 1. The deadline to apply is March 1.
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LONDON – Cover It Up has been appointed as a "preferred" drapes and soft goods supplier to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. Events and functions are routinely staged in places like the museum's Central Hall, home to "Dippy," a 26-meter-long Diplodocus skeleton.
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SACRAMENTO, CA – Capital Christian Center, one of the biggest Assembly of God (AG) churches on the West Coast, can seat close to 3,000 and stages full productions for annual events such as the two-day Northern California/Nevada Youth Convention.
Read More »NEW YORK – ESTA has added two Control Protocols Working Group draft standards to the public review page on the ESTA Web site: BSR E1.30-1-20xx, EPI 23. Device Identification Subdevice, and BSR E1.20 – 201x, Entertainment Technology — Remote Device Management over USITT DMX512.
Read More »NEW YORK – Trade publisher Penton Media – publisher of titles including Live Design, Sound & Video Contractor, Mix and producers of the annual LDI show – announced that it is filing a "strategic" Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Read More »MIAMI – Four volunteers were injured in the parking lot of Sun Life Stadium on Feb. 2 when a section of staging being prepared for the Super Bowl XLIV halftime show tipped over. The injuries were serious enough to warrant hospitalization but none were life-threatening, according to reports.
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How has the live event production industry changed over the last ten years?
For starters, it now has PLSN.
Ten years ago this month, PLSN launched its very first issue of its now familiar 11-inch-by-17-inch tabloid-formatted industry news magazine.
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