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projectiondesign Helps Belgium Museum’s War Stories Exhibit

Flanders Fields Museum exhibit

projectiondesign Helps Belgium Museum’s War Stories Exhibit

YPRES, Belgium – Belgium’s new Flanders Fields Museum interprets the regional stories of the First World War using modern museum techniques and multimedia for visitors of today and tomorrow. projectiondesign F22, F32 and F35 wqxga projectors and WB processors were provided by specialist museums system integrator, Ocular BVBA for use some of the exhibit areas, aimed to provide a more in-depth look at how museum visitors deal with war and peace.

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Vienna State Opera lighting booth

ETC Gio Controls Vienna State Opera

VIENNA – Ready to retire their 16-year-old lighting console, the Vienna State Opera has taken delivery of an ETC Gio lighting system, following an extensive search over a number of years. The theater invested in four Gio desks, along with two ETC Remote Processor Units (RPUs) and an ETC Ion system to cover the main stage lighting, auditorium and Kinderzelt, a tent on the roof for children.

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Justin Moore

Chauvet Professional Legend 412 Lights Justin Moore

SUNRISE, FL – Country singer Justin Moore opened for Eric Church’s tour with Chauvet Professional Legend 412 pixel-mapping moving yokes in his rig. LD Sooner Routhier specified 44 Legend 412 fixtures from Special Event Services, placing them on carts behind the singer and both sides of the stage.

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Event Production Directory (EPD)

Deadline to Add or Update EPD Listings is Feb. 28, 2013

The 2013 edition of The Event Production Directory will be published and poly-bagged with the April issues of PLSN and FRONT of HOUSE magazines. If your company hasn’t been listed in the past, now’s the time to do it! Join thousands of other production companies and get listed in the largest resource in the event production industry.  Go to epdweb.com and update or create a new listing today.  Only the most-recent listings and updated records will have a chance of being published in this year’s directory.  Deadline for updates is Feb. 28, 2013.

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David Whitehead, 1953-2013

In Memoriam: David Whitehead, 1953-2013

LONDON — David Whitehead, founder and majority shareholder of Stage Electrics, died Feb. 18 after a 15-month battle with cancer. After founding the company in Exeter in 1979, Whitehead made it his life’s work, bringing to it his abiding passion for lighting design. After his diagnosis, and before stepping down as managing director, Whitehead completed a transition plan for the company. Whitehead, an active member of his church, is survived by his wife, Caroline, and three children.

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Hall of Game Awards 2013

Pete’s Big TVs Supplies Cartoon Network’s Hall of Game Awards

SANTA MONICA, CA – Video equipment rental company Pete’s Big TVs of New Castle, DE, supplied equipment and crew for the Cartoon Network’s Hall of Game Awards 2013 in Santa Monica, CA. Designed for fans to honor their favorite sports celebrities and sports moments of the year, the event design called for a “high energy, off-the-wall, multi-platform experience.” Pete’s Big TVs worked with Dempsey Productions, LD Tom Kenny and set designer Anton Goss to fulfill the experiential requisite, using digiLED high resolution video panels for the visual environment.

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Michael MacDonald

Michael MacDonald Joins Parnelli Board of Advisors

LAS VEGAS — The governing body of the Parnelli Awards announces that Michael MacDonald has joined its Board of Advisors. MacDonald, who has more than three decades of experience in the pro-audio/video industry, was named President of ATK Audiotek, a leading audio production and systems integration vendor, in Sept. 2012.

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