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Christie HD10K-M

Christie HD10K-M

Christie featured its HD10K-M at LDI 2014. It is designed for fixed or rental staging applications including live events, theme parks, and other applications, the Christie HD10K-M, part of the celebrated Christie M Series, has built-in image blending and warping capabilities, operates in full portrait mode, and offers a 3D upgrade path.

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QolorFLEX Brand LED Tapes from City Theatrical

CTI featured an expanded line of their QolorFLEX brand LED tapes at LDI 2014, including the addition of 23 new tapes with outdoor versions, 24V versions, and new colors and color temperatures. CTI’s QolorFLEX LED tape has been used on high profile productions around the world in 2014 including motion pictures like The Amazing Spiderman 2, and TV shows like The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Night Show Starring Seth Myers, Saturday Night Live, Gotham, and many other shows and studios.

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Show Distribution’s gear is equipped with Harting’s Han-Yellock modular connectors.

Giving Rigging Components the Torture Test

The show must go on. In rare cases it doesn’t, of course, because of an act of nature or man, but Show Distribution, based in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, has taken a stance with zero tolerance for equipment failures. So when the company chose a modular connector to do the job of three single-purpose connectors on the controllers of a new high-speed servo hoist, it put the new connector through a torture test of sorts.

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Generico supported the Hubble @ 25 exhibit at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum with 300 pieces of truss.

Sea, Air, Space – and Truss

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, located at Pier 86 where New York City’s 46th Street meets the Hudson River, offers visitors a range of interesting things to see aboard the USS Intrepid that starts with the Intrepid itself — a WWII-vintage aircraft carrier. Also featured: the submarine USS Growler, a Concorde SST, a Lockheed A-12 supersonic reconnaissance plane and the Space Shuttle Enterprise.

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PLSN editor Justin Lang

Economic Indicators

Our economy is one of the driving forces behind our happiness and well-being.  Since the late 2000s, the entire country has been on edge with the fear of the dreaded “R” word, Recession.  And for good reason: a Federal Reserve report released two years ago showed that the median net worth of U.S. households dropped 39 percent —$126,400 to $77,300 — in the three-year span from 2007 to 2010.

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