LAS VEGAS — PLSN readers have chosen the six regional winners of the 2014 Hometown Hero Award competition. These top vote getters from each of five U.S. regions plus all of Canada will be automatically entered on the Parnelli Awards ballot. PLSN readers will then get a chance to vote on which regional company will be awarded the coveted honor of Parnelli Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year.
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ROZNOV pod RADHOSTEM, Czech Republic – Robe formally introduced its 1700W Bright Multi-Functional Luminaire (BMFL) on Sept. 2, 2014 via a worldwide multi-lingual video broadcast across three time zones.
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LOS ANGELES — 4Wall named Darin Cohen service manager for the company’s Los Angeles division. Cohen, a lighting industry veteran, comes to 4Wall from Angstrom Lighting. Along with the addition of Cohen, 4Wall Los Angeles has expanded its tech support services to include 24-hour assistance to any venue in need.
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LONDON — Colour Sound Experiment, based here, supplied lighting to Festival Republic for several stages at the 2014 Reading and Leeds festivals — Lock Up, Dance, BBC Introducing, Silent Disco 1 & 2, Piccadilly Party, the Action Aid and Oxfam tents plus all of EBCs Bars — plus LED screen for the Dance arena.
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Elation Professional’s EMAG 4 Pro is a 4.8mm pixel pitch LED video panel promising quality visuals with road-ready reliability. Made with die cast aluminum, no-tools assembly and a magnetic module design, the EMAG 4 Pro also promises vivid, consistent color and 1,200 nits of brightness for effective use even in applications with high levels of ambient light. The EMAG 4 Pro was featured along with Elation’s EPT9IP 9mm pixel pitch LED panel at InfoComm 2014.
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AARHUS, Denmark — Issuing an Ice Bucket Challenge to its competitors, SGM CEO, Peter Johansen, touted the company’s G-Spot fixture’s IP65 rating by dousing the moving light with a bucket of cold water. Unlike the CEO, who also underwent a “soak test,” the working fixture appeared to be unfazed by the stunt, which had the side benefit of promoting ALS awareness and support.
Read More »NEW YORK – The last day of the three-day Electric Zoo Festival 2013 on Randall’s Island here was canceled after two attendees who had used a party drug died. For the 2014 event, also scheduled for three days, precautions against drug use were ramped up, and there were no reported fatalities. But this year, severe weather moved in, forcing an evacuation.
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ROUDNICE NAD LABEM, Czech Republic – Milos Group, based here, hired Marc Hendriks, a truss industry veteran. Hendriks, who comes to Milos Group after 22 years with Prolyte, will help manage product development for Milos, Tomcat and Litec truss products.
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BERLIN, Germany — Adel Tawil has been touring recently with a lighting design by Bertil Mark (art director), JoJo Tilmann (image director) and Justus Molthan (lighting director), who together form LesUrbanProgressives. The tour rig includes 25 Clay Paky Sharpy Beams and 16 Sharpy Washes along with a control setup that includes two full size grandMA2 consoles, one grandMA2 light, two grandMA2 fader wings and four Network Processing Units (NPUs).
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