As we get older, we find ourselves working with a lot of the same people gig after gig. You become friends, then buddies, then chums, then you get to the point where you start playing gags on each other. In the entertainment biz, this is what we call "the wind up". You see what silly prank you can do to another person to drive them crazy.
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LONDON — Projected Image Digital (PID), working closely with architectural lighting design practice Indigo Light Planning, has specified and installed an Element Labs VersaPIXEL ceiling effect for the house gymnasium of a leading investment bank in London’s Canary Wharf area.
Read More »Yeah yeah! Welcome back to the Notebook. Let’s jump right into it, so we pick up with the show at Calypso Bay Casino in North Lake Tahoe. Not only was there beautiful scenery, there was a fun lighting system full of Martin Mac spots and washes. The Martin light jockey was used for the systems control via an ETC smartfade along with some par cans and a calibrated computer touch screen monitor. The gig was a great success and I got to win $50 on slots afterwards. I soon headed back to the hotel to catch some shut eye for a long few travel days over to Florida.
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DELFT, HOLLAND — High End Systems Inc. and Dutch dealer Improve recently held a Digital Lighting University in Holland. Forty lighting and video designers and technicians hosted the two-day program Oct. 8-9. The intimate, hands-on curriculum taught the intricacies of products such as DL.1 and DL.2, along with the Axon media server and other digital products.
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MONTREAL, QUEBEC — The new Stageline SAM 550 XH, which features the covered wings system, made its official debut, July 1, in Montréal, for a series of outdoor summer concerts.
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NEW YORK — When the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was preparing for its latest world tour, Lighting Director Al Crawford used the ETC Eos to replace the dance company’s older Obsession II console, also from ETC.
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L’ASSOMPTION, QC, CANADA — Work is progressing on Stageline Group’s new plant in L’Assomption, Quebec. With an investment of $5 million, this expansion project features the latest environmental technologies that can be applied to industrial plants.
Read More »ORLANDO, FL — The deadline to purchase tickets for the Parnelli Awards, held during LDI at The Peabody Orlando Hotel, is quickly approaching. Tickets must… Read More »Purchase Parnelli Award Dinner Tickets!
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — They’re mixing more than drinks these days at 32 Degrees, a European-style bottle-service lounge in The Quarter shopping-entertainment complex at the Tropicana Hotel & Casino. Since undergoing a renovation in Summer 2007, the popular club can mix and change the colors of its lighting at the touch of a button to modify its atmosphere with new color-mixing LEDs from Elation Professional.
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Interactive Technologies Inc., manufacturer of entertainment and architectural lighting controls, has released four new CueServer models to its web-based lighting control processor family.
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AARHUS, DENMARK — Martin Professional A/S has announced the appointment of Mats Karlsson as Technology Manager for the company’s Visual Solutions business unit. Mats has more than 25 years of industry experience in lighting — more recently in video — and joins Martin from Barco, where he served as product manager for the company’s line of creative LED products.
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — Over 100 Robe moving lights were in action at the 2007 Melbourne Parklife event — one of Australia’s highest profile and most popular dance parties, produced by Future Entertainment. Andy Mutton designed the lighting, which supplied by Clifton Productions.
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