HOLLYWOOD — Angstrom Lighting named Johnny Cho director of online media. Cho will oversee the company’s Web site and its participation in social media and other electronic communication avenues.
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LONDON —RC4 Wireless has been awarded Lighting Product of the Year by the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) for their RC4BlackMagic wireless DMX and dimming system. Pictured here is James David Smith, president and chief product designer at RC4, with the ABTT trophy and the RC4BlackMagic product.
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LONDON — Kensington Gardens was a favorite haunt of J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan. Now the park is the locale for a new theatrical telling of that story in a 1,000-seat tent with a set designed by William Dudley, lit by LD Mark Henderson with gear supplied by White Light.
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VALENCIA, Spain — VMB named Milan-based professional lighting manufacturer Spotlight as a new distributor for VMB towerlifts in Italy. Spotlight will be responsible for sales, servicing and support in the Italian market.
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ORLANDO — By the time the show floor opened at 9 a.m. on Wed., June 17, dozens of seminars and workshops had already taken place and hundreds of exhibitors spent countless hours setting up in the Orlando Convention Center, including roughly 50 exhibitors from the lighting industry.
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LONDON — Global Design Solutions’ LiteWare product line made its TV debut on the BBC’s Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. LiteWare gear, controlled wirelessly via DMX, lit the underside of the piano and the front of the stage before the lighting crew removed the fittings and deployed them at the front of the performance stage for another performance.
Read More »SYDNEY — Prelite has trained five members of the lighting department at Australia’s Sydney Opera House (SOH) on the venue’s new in-house previz system.
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ORLANDO — Three Christie Roadster HD18K DLP projectors transmitted live, interactive 3D holograms from London and Montreal to Orlando during the InfoComm show, building on the Musion Eyeliner’s previous work for corporate clients such as Speedo, pictured here.
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CINCINNATI — Goodwin Lighting Services recently supplied a number of PixelLine 110s to light a wave set design for an insurance company’s annual sales meeting and party. The event was organized by Accent On Cincinnati.
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CAPE TOWN — Godskitchen’s 2009 world tour included a stop in Cape Town, South Africa, headlined by DJ Armin van Buuren and supported by Gearhouse South Africa.
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MUSCAT, Oman — TechnoPro LLC, which staged the Muscat Festival 2009 at Al Qurum National Park earlier this year, provided lasers, pyro and rigging and a lighting rig that included fixtures from PR Lighting.
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