ORLANDO – Alcorn McBride has promoted Larry Howard to director of sales. Howard, who has more than 25 years of experience in the industry, joined Alcorn McBride in 2010 most recently serving as the company’s sales manager.
Read More »MONTREAL – After working on Jay Z’s two nights show at Carnegie Hall last year, Moment Factory was tasked by Roc Nation (entertainment company founded by Jay-Z) and Willo Perron to work on one of the biggest stadium tours of the summer: Justin Timberlake and Jay Z’s “Legends of the Summer.” For this fast-track project, Moment Factory had the mandate to create original video content that would enhance the artists’ performance onstage and maximize the impact of the sizeable scenography.
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NEW YORK, NY — TMB joined the Behind the Scenes Pledge-a-Product program last spring by pledging 10 percent of global sales of their ProXS professional lighting fixture accessories to the charity. They have placed special displays in dealer showrooms around the world so customers know they are helping when they make a purchase of something as simple as a gel frame. As a result, TMB has now made two donations to the industry’s charity.
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CLEVELAND —Colortone Staging & Rentals (CSR), an audiovisual production company, has promoted three staff members: Andrew Kramer, John Monroe and Dave Netzel.
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LOS ANGELES – Adobe Max 2013 “The Creativity Conference,” took a creative set design and projection mapping approach to deliver visuals to an audience of some 5,000 Adobe users and software developers – and more than 100,000 who watched the gathering’s livestream. WorldStage helped Adobe Systems, Inc. meet its creative goals providing AV support for the event at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live.
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JACKSONVILLE, FL — Northern Florida’s Immaculate Conception Catholic Church recently saw an upgrade in gear — the first in three decades — with the addition of about 20 Chauvet fixtures. A selection of Chauvet Professional Ovation E-190WW ellipsoidal-style fixtures, COLORado 1 VW Tour and COLORado 1-Tri Tour PAR wash lights comprise the church’s permanent inventory, used for services and special events.
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CINCINNATI – Chad Kuney of Full Spectrum specified four Robe ColorSpot 250 AT moving lights to illuminate the interactive Shark Bay Ray Dive Theater at Newport Aquarium, just outside Cincinnati, OH. The four ColorSpot 250 ATs are rigged off the ceiling grid at the back of the theatre.
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DALLAS – Philips Strand Lighting introduces the S21 LED Raceway, a configurable power and data distribution system for use with all types of luminaires from LED and moving lights to conventional lighting sources as well.
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NEW YORK CITY – While “Matilda The Musical” packs the house at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre, backstage a grandMA2 console controls the conventional and moving lights, scrollers, LEDs and video cues for Tony Award-winning LD Hugh Vanstone.
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LONDON – Philips Entertainment has formalized its current UK distribution network for its range of Showline LED luminaires. A.C. Entertainment Technologies, Architainment Lighting, Batmink, Flashlight, Stage Electrics and White Light will now hold an agreed amount of Showline stock and provide full technical support for Showline products.
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LONDON – LD Rob Sinclair is using Clay Paky’s Sharpy Wash 330 as the lighting workhorse for the Pet Shop Boys’ “Electric World Tour.” “We specified the Sharpy Washes because I needed an extremely bright workhorse light that was small enough to travel with us on the numerous plane journeys around the world,” says Sinclair. “They’re working great, and we’re very happy with them.”
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ROSKILDE, Denmark — Around 1025 AD, a fierce 120-foot Viking warship of the Danish fleet rode the northern waves. Excavated in 1997 from a Roskilde fjord bed, the ship has now been partly restored. A steel skeleton has been built around its wooden remains. Roskilde 6 makes a new “voyage,” in the National Museum of Denmark’s exhibit Viking, June 22-Nov. 17, 2013. ETC’s Source Four LED fixtures, controlled by an ETC Ion console and Unison Paradigm system, bring the vessel to light.
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