LAS VEGAS — Each year PLSN honors regional lighting production companies with our Hometown Heroes awards. These awards honor the best regional lighting production company in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest and Canada. The best part about this is that PLSN readers — the people who actually work with these companies — get to decide who’s really the best.
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FORT WAYNE, IN – Apollo Design Technology hired Michael Kretschmer as the company’s mechanical engineer. He will be involved at all stages of a product, from research and development to design and manufacture through to product release. The company also promoted Rita LeFavour to customer relations specialist. LeFavour has been with the company for more than 15 years.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany – For the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, which ran annually from 2003 to 2010 before returning in 2014 with races held in Abu Dhabi (Feb. 28), Rovinj, Croatia (April 12) and Putrajaya, Malaysia (May 18), relied upon a signal distribution system built by Riedel engineers for video, audio, communications, and data. The MediorNet real-time media network includes seven MediorNet Compact frames and three MediorNet Modular frames. Technicians interface audio signals via MADI and Riedel’s RockNet digital audio network solution in combination with MediorNet to integrate the event’s main mixing console, located in the OB van that provided the big-screen mix for the live audience. Riedel also supplied the wireless video links and HD cameras for the racing planes’ onboard cameras, thus enabling pictures to be delivered from the pilots’ perspectives. The 2014 series makes several more stops before finishing in China in November.
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ATLANTA — Even through the new Atlanta Falcons football stadium isn’t scheduled to open until 2017, NanoLumens and ICG have teamed up to create an immersive “sensory surround” curved LED display installation for the stadium’s Preview Center. The installation features a 303” long elliptical LED NanoCurve display that features a 5MM pixel pitch and measures 219” wide and 42-5/8” tall.
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LOS ANGELES – Hedwig and the Angry Inch’s use of grandMA2 lighting consoles keeps the production on track at the Belasco Theatre. The lighting and video for Hedwig were programmed on two grandMA2 full-size consoles. During rehearsals Kevin Adams, video designer Ben Pearcy, associate lighting designer Paul Toben and second assistant lighting designer Jimmy Lawlor used grandMA onPC stations to monitor the production. Now, both lighting and video run nightly on a single grandMA2 light with an onPC command wing and an NPU as back up in the compact booth.
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Getting the right mix of lighting for both TV and live elements was crucial for the final of Germany’s 2014 Next Top Model so LD Manuel Da Costa turned to Robe’s ROBIN CycFX 8 fixtures. He used 44 x CycFX 8s in total, mostly rigged to the side stage wings and used to wash parts of the catwalk as general illumination and also to create some bold and distinctive effects.
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For One Direction’s latest stadium tour, Brilliant Stages delivered a series of staging elements designed around a central theme of a skatepark. The 3-dimensional diamond-shaped ‘skate park’ features multiple performer levels that spread across the 54m wide x 21m deep main stage. The set incorporates pairs of ego- and band-risers, perimeter ramps and screamers arranged either side of a steep central slope, which rakes upstage at a 19° angle to a height of 4.5m, and is fronted by a 34m long skate thrust to the B-stage.
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PERTH, Australia – LD Flynn Talbot utilised the intense colour of three Philips Selecon PLprofile1 LED luminaires to add another dimension to his latest stunning light installation ‘Primary’. “It was integral for this project that the triangles to appear to glow,” says Talbot. “This meant I needed a luminaire with the ability to shape the beam to precisely the edge of each triangle as any spill light would detract from the effect. The PLprofile1 luminaires delivered a perfectly defined beam, even at their widest beam angle of 44º, which was ideal for lighting the large structure from a relatively short throw distance.”
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NASHVILLE — LD Tom Kenny used a variety of Robe fixtures to light the 2014 CMT Music Awards, broadcast live from Bridgestone Arena here June 4. This year’s rig featured 55 x Robe ROBIN Pointes plus Robe LEDWash 600s and MMX Spots — supplied by VER, together with the rest of the lighting equipment and video elements.
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BRADFORD, Yorkshire, UK — Mediatec Solutions UK, the UK division of the Mediatec Group, used their Calibre UK LEDView530 scalers (a unit is pictured here) to process graphics and live images from the audio races across three LED screens at the FIA World Endurance Championships at Silverstone Racetrack, UK.
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