Elation Gears Up for ISE 2015
AMSTERDAM – Elation Professional is featuring its LED and Platinum Series lighting solutions at ISE stand 11-F50. The event is set for Feb. 10-12, 2015.
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Mojo Barriers Debuts High Fence Barrier System at Eurosonic Noorderslag
GRONINGEN, the Netherlands – Mojo Barriers introduced its reinforced barrier system ‘High Fence,’ pictured here, to the European events sector at Eurosonic Noorderslag on Jan. 15, 2015.
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Nashville New Years Eve Rocks with Bandit Lites
NASHVILLE, TN – More than 20 pounds of confetti rained down on 130,000 people in Music City as the sixth annual Jack Daniel’s Bash on Broadway rang in 2015. Bandit Lites worked with LD John Lucksinger and production manager Chris Lisle to provide the lighting for the event.
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In Memoriam: Carl Vitelli, Jr., 81
NEW YORK — Prominent TV lighting director Carl Vitelli, Jr., 81, died Jan. 7, 2015. A recipient of IATSE Local One Honorary Gold Card in 2011 (pictured here), Vitelli was also inducted into the Emmy Awards’ New York Chapter Silver Circle in 2001.
Read More »Indiana Appeals Court Upholds $5 Million Liability Cap
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Tort Claims Act, which limited the state’s liability to $5 million in the wake of the Aug. 13, 2011 collapse of the temporary staging structure at the Indiana State Fair, survived a challenge brought by lawyers for a 13-year-old girl from Ohio who was among the scores injured in the storm-related collapse, which killed seven.
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PLASA Announces Eight Standards for Public Review
NEW YORK — PLASA noted that 2015 is shaping up to be a busy year for the association’s Technical Standards Program, with eight standards being offered for public review. Available drafts include three from the Rigging Working Group, two from the Photometrics Working Group and three from the Control Protocols Working Group.
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ADJ Celebrates 30th Anniversary
LOS ANGELES – The ADJ Group of Companies, including ADJ, Elation Professional, Acclaim Lighting, American Audio and Global Truss America/DuraTruss, are celebrating 30 years in 2015. It all began back in 1985, when chairman and founder Chuck Davies started out supplying lighting solutions to mobile entertainers.
Meyer Sound Constellation Transforms Oregon’s Newport PAC
The Newport Performing Arts Center (PAC) in Oregon has recently installed a Meyer Sound Constellation® acoustic system in its 398-seat Alice Silverman Theatre. With the upgrade, the venue joins the likes of Moscow’s Svetlanov Hall, The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and more than 50 other prestigious venues that rely on the variable acoustics of Constellation to deliver an extraordinary live experience.
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ETC Congo Kid fills Munich’s St. Margaret’s Church with “eternal light”
MIDDLETON, WI – On November 16th, 2014, the walls of St. Margaret’s church in Munich, Germany, reverberated with “eternal light,” or Lux Aeterna. Organized by Christian Bischof, organist and choir director for St. Margaret’s, the event featured music from Claude Debussy, Morten Lauridsen, and Gabriel Fauré, and was accompanied by a modern light show controlled by ETC’s Congo Kid® lighting desk.
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Chauvet Professional Helps Create “Out Of Ordinary Studio” For EMC
SOUTHBOROUGH, MA – Lighting designer Jonathan Lipsy of Integrated Solutions Group is accustomed to dealing with challenges on projects, but even he acknowledges that the video production studio he recently completed for EMC Corporation was “out of the ordinary.” EMC, the world’s largest provider of data storage with 60,000 employees, asked Lipsy to create a free-standing production studio on its campus.
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CLD Distribution Joins Recolight to Encourage Lighting Recycling
SUSSEX, U.K. – UK based architectural, commercial and industrial LED lighting manufacturer CLD Distribution has joined Recolight to help encourage customers to dispose responsibly their outgoing incandescent bulbs, tungsten halogen lamps, T8 fluorescent and other discharge lightsources … as they are being replaced by new, more energy efficient and cost saving LED and other lighting schemes.
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25th Anniversary Ceremony of Ecole Polytechnique Shootings Features Clay Paky Mythos
MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada – On December 6 the night sky over Montreal was pierced by 14 beams of light in a solemn commemoration of the 14 victims of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre 25 years ago. Montreal-based Moment Factory chose Clay Paky Mythos lights for the touching ceremony atop Mount Royal. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky fixtures in North America.
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