LAS VEGAS — Full Tilt Poker’s NBC reality show, Face The Ace, gives amateur players a crack at $1 million if they can beat the best professional poker players in the world. LD Justin Garrone of Innovative Show Design used LEDs from Acclaim lighting, supplied by CYM Lighting Services for the set design.
Read More »REDHILL, U.K. — amBX Ltd. appointed TMB as worldwide distributor for its amBIENT XC control system. Launched at InfoComm 09, the amBIENT XC uses amBX proprietary patented technology to provide a full “sensory surround” entertainment experience for architectural installations.
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JERSEY CITY, NJ — Daktronics and Upstage Video are once again supporting the All Points West Music & Arts Festival at Liberty State Park with a set of PST-12HD modular video displays for the main stage.
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IRVINE, CA — For 311’s June and July 2009 Unity tour dates, which promoted the band’s latest album, Uplifter, lighting designer/director Joe Paradise hoisted a lighting rig that included Coemar Infinity Wash XL, ACL and ParLite LED gear.
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ATHENS, Greece — When the Greek Ministry of Culture asked Videotooth Event Engineering to undertake the projection system design for the opening of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, manager / video director Vassilis Leonidopoulos selected Vista Systems’ Spyders.
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ARGYLE, TX — GoVision broke ground on the new headquarters facility it is building in Argyle, Texas, near Dallas-Fort Worth, just east of I-35W. The company will operate with a 50,000-square-foot warehouse, the first building to rise on a 25-acre commercial parcel being developed by Denkmann Associates, LLC as Gateway Business Park.
Read More »CHARLOTTE, NC — For the current Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction tour, NIN|JA Summer Tour 2009, lighting designer Roy Bennett and co-designer Jason Bullock, who is also the lighting director/programmer, chose the ChamSys MagicQ console for control.
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McMURRAY, PA — South Hills Bible Chapel uses the Broadcast Pix Slate 3016 integrated production system to provide a live feed of worship services around its facility, including I-Mag for its congregation, and to produce DVDs for broadcast on local access cable channels in the Pittsburgh area.
Read More »SYRACUSE, NY — USITT has announced a partial line-up of speakers and session presenters for its 50th Annual Conference, with events scheduled from March 31-April 3, 2010 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Mo.
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LONDON — A 7.8-meter-high mechanical elephant, which was used to transport band members to their places on the stage during the opening of Take That’s Circus Live Tour, was only part of the high-wire technological feat performed for each of Take That’s 20 Circus-themed stadium shows, which were attended by over 1 million fans in the U.K.
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BALTIMORE, MD — Although outdoor temporary structures can be challenging, with a host of limitations and engineering requirements, Milos said its QuickTruss stepped up to the plate for a recent roof project at Washington DC’s Nationals Park and Baltimore’s Oriole Park at Camden Yard.
Read More »CORK, Ireland — The Everyman Palace Theatre’s original hemp flying system relied on a timber grid, fly floor and access ladders for more than a century, back when boats and their rigging were made with the same materials.
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