VANCOUVER, BC — ShowFX announced that it has created a number of stage elements for Britney Spears’ current Circus tour, including flying picture frames, circus props, tiger cages, magic illusions, special effects and a 50-seat “Ringside VIP Experience.”
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WINSTON SALEM, NC — Christian artist Chris Tomlin’s “Hello Love” tour is playing arenas across the U.S. into 2010, lit by MAC III Profiles and other fixtures spec’d by Jon Weir of production company and lighting supplier Majestic Productions Inc., Summitville, Ind.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Robe showcased its Robin 3 Plasma Spot, the Robin 300E Spot and Wash fixtures and the REDMix 2-188 Outdoor LED wash light at Prolight + Sound with a stand designed by Robe UK’s Nathan Wan that used a combination of the company’s Digital and RED series products.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO and KNOXFIELD, VIC, Australia — The Institute for Feedback Excellence, www.fbexcellence.org, is the name for a nonprofit organization formed by three manufacturers with a common goal: to help ensure that lighting equipment using industry-wide feedback protocols performs as it should.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — PR Lighting put its new StarBrite LED cloth to work at this year’s Prolight + Sound exhibition, using the product as a shimmering backdrop to its booth, which also featured the company’s XLED 590 wash light.
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NEW YORK — G-Star Raw’s fashion show for its fall 2009 collection, part of the Mercedes Benz Fall 2009 Fashion Week, was lit by Scharff Weisberg. The event was staged by Sightline Productions and Dizon Inc. in New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom.
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ROZNOV, Czech Republic — Some 150 attendees representing Robe distributors from around the world gathered for Robe’s third International Dealer Conference. The event was held shortly before the Prolight + Sound exhibition took place in Frankfurt, Germany.
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LAS VEGAS — Corporate extravaganzas may be less extravagant these days, but people still enjoy a good party. The creative challenge for the party-givers is to do just as much — or more — with less.
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WARSAW, IN — The Da-Lite Design Center is for projects requiring custom projection screens, and also features the screen company’s line of wood products, including media work stations, lecterns and equipment rack carts.
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BRONX, NY — Yankee Stadium opened the season with the latest HD Diamond Vision™ display in center field from Mitsubishi Electric, which has been providing LED video displays for the team since 1983 and for major league baseball since 1980. The screen features 1080 resolution from more than eight million LEDs (light-emitting diodes) for replays, updates from around the league and messaging.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — Wybron’s Gel Swatch Library Version 1.3, which has nearly 1,000 gel colors, now features Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) graphs five times larger than the app’s previous graphs, revealing color details for lighting production professionals.
Read More »NEW YORK — The career of Jules Fisher, a Tony-Award winning lighting designer who won USITT’s 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award in Lighting Design, is portrayed in a new book USITT, The Designs of Jules Fisher, written by Delbert Unruh. It is the fifth in a series of works on living designers produced by USITT.
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