NORTH CREEK, NY — Compulite’s console, Vector, has a new software release, 3.17, designed to accelerate programming and operation. Features include the ability to organize editing and playback screens in multiple workspaces, organized on tabs, and the ability to customize views and panes.
Read More »NEW YORK —George Mueller, a co-founder of Color Kinetics, has launched EcoSense Lighting, Inc. and will serve as its founder and chairman. The new company displayed its first series of EcoSense white light products during Lightfair International.
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NEW YORK — LPR head lighting designer Ethan Kaplan is using 18 Wybron CXI IT color-mixing scrollers to provide vibrant hues for the Le Poisson Rouge, an eclectic club once known as the Village Gate.
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MOSCOW —Eurovision 2009 set records for the annual song contest in terms of LEDs, pyrotechnics and lighting, and Procon Event Engineering GmbH added to the visual interest with six Pufferfish PufferSpheres, making their first Eurovision appearance above a crowd of 16,000 at Olympiyski Stadium.
Read More »ORLANDO — Digital Projection is set to unveil 14 new projectors with advances including WUXGA Native resolution (some equipped for Active 3D), increased Lumens, additional Active 3D models, improved efficiency, LED illumination, broader input connectivity and lower entry prices.
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CARDIFF BAY, U.K. — Lighting designer Tim Routledge of Blue Lens has won a BAFTA Wales Award (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) for Best Lighting Director. The Award was presented at the BAFTA Wales Awards 2009 held at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay.
Read More »ORLANDO — A.C. Lighting Inc. booth 1453 at InfoComm 2009 will feature products including Chroma-Q Color Block 2 LED fixture and Magic Box EtherSwitch 7 Ethernet switch, the Color Web LED video effects display, the Jands Vista control system, the Artistic Licence Art-Net range of Ethernet solutions and the D.T.S. Delta 7 RGB LED moving light.
Read More »ORLANDO — TMB announced plans to showcase a variety of new products at InfoComm Booth 1143, starting off with UberPan from Green Hippo, which is a multi-server control system letting multiple Hippotizers work as one, creating a single virtual canvas.
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LEEK, The Netherlands — Prolyte has named Gert Felten, previously production manager, managing director of the Prolyte Products Group. Hans Kiewiet has been named commercial director. Prolyte founder Fokko Smeding remains a shareholder and will stay active within the company.
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NEW YORK — The James Beard Foundation chose “Women in Food” as the theme for its annual awards ceremony, and Unlimited Visibility Lighting Design (UVLD) was asked to bring “the look of a polished modern awards show” to the venue, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, according to UVLD lighting designer Gregory Cohen.
Read More »NEW YORK — I. Weiss provided a new stage rigging system with a motorized line shaft-operated fire curtain, 56 single purchase counterweight line sets and a new house curtain and valance for the Henry Miller Theater on Broadway.
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COPENHAGEN — Created in the mid-19th century, Tivoli is one of the world’s oldest amusement parks and Denmark’s most popular tourist attraction. Visitors come for the rides, concerts, parades, gardens, and, since 2002, the “Tivoli Illuminations,” a half-hour light show at the end of each day in summer.
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