ST. LOUIS — Dodd Technologies, Inc. (DTI) produced Valpak Direct Marketing Services Inc.’s annual national sales meeting and awards event for the sixth consecutive year, known as Coupon U, and staged in America’s Center in St. Louis.
Read More »BALTIMORE, MD — Event Tech named Jeremy Meyers account executive. Meyers comes to Event Tech after 13 years at Entertainment Sound Production, where he started as a system tech and monitor engineer and worked his way up to be the lead account executive.
Read More »TORRANCE, CA — GLP announced a new office serving the North American market, to be led by Mark Ravenhill, who will retain his position as GLP’s director of global key players. Elation Professional will remain GLP’s distributor for the Impression range.
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LINZ, Austria — LD Lui Helmig specified 130 Robe moving lights as the main work-horses of the rig for Die Ärzte’s two recent stadium shows. Helmig arranged the fixtures — a mix of ColorSpot and ColorWash 1200E ATs and ColorSpot and Wash 2500E ATs — across 9 finger trusses above the stage and on a front truss.
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LONDON — White Light is no stranger to London’s West End, but the company set something of a record for itself recently by supporting three different productions at the same theatre over the course of just a few days.
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NEW YORK — It won’t be that long before Dutch apparel manufacturer G-Star Raw’s 2010 spring and summer fashions are being worn by its customers. But for the company’s recent showing at the recent New York Fashion Week, Scharff Weisberg helped project a look that went much farther into the future.
Read More »Anyone who has ever looked after lighting a musical artist will eventually find themselves having to work in strange surroundings, with a light rig and… Read More »Being a Guest LD
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In January of 2002, Ed Wannebo resigned from his production manager position for Tim McGraw to be the manager of a new production, the first headlining tour of McGraw’s opening act, Kenny Chesney. Since that tour eight years ago, Chesney has evolved into one of the biggest names in country western music and the touring industry at large.
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A tribute to architect Daniel Burnham, who is credited with drafting the first master plan for Chicago 100 years ago, includes two temporary pavilions designed by two of today’s leading architects, each lit with Iluminarc architectural lighting fixtures. The pavilions, in Chicago’s Millennium Park, were designed by Amsterdam-based Ben van Berkel and Zaha Hadid of London and lit by LD Tracey Dear of Dear Productions.
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The Mantra Garden Bar & Club, an investment of about $7 million, might have racked up an even more impressive cost total if Frank Murray, proprietor of sound and lighting specialist Audiotek, had opted for something besides the PR Lighting fixtures for the double-floor venue.
Read More »I find automated lighting programming is always lots of fun as I am a self-admitted “lighting geek.” However, all programmers find there are times when it can be tough to get our juices flowing when working on a show. Whether it is programming yet another song (they all sound the same after a while), working with the same rig over and over, or just doing too many gigs back to back, we all find ourselves stuck in a rut at some point in our careers.
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From AC/DC to U2, Berlin to Yes, Janet Jackson to Tina Turner, Cher to Madonna, Barney to Walking with Dinosaurs, Bob the Builder to the Wiggles, Metallica to the Rolling Stones — tour manager Jake Berry has earned a backstage pass to some of the most successful and biggest acts in the business and to rock ‘n’ roll history itself.
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