HUNTSVILLE, AL — Janet Wilks Milly, wife of Theatrical Lighting Systems (TLS) founder and 4Wall executive David E. Milly, died Feb. 19, 2014. Before retiring as its chief financial officer in 2004, Janet Milly had played an active role at TLS, Inc., which David Milly founded in 1981. TLS’ assets became part of 4Wall in 2012, when David Milly joined 4Wall as executive vice president and co-owner of its newly-launched Nashville operation.
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Celebrating 100 years of passenger service at Grand Central Station, New York City commuters were treated to a festive display on the west side of the station’s main concourse. The installation was comprised of 354 Martin Stagebar 54™ LED fixtures displaying video content driven by a single Hippotizer HD media server.
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MIAMI – At 2pm EST on Jan. 28, free tickets (actually, $1, with those proceeds going to charity) became available for a Feb. 15 DeadMau5 show at Miami’s Ice Palace. It took all of about a half-minute for those tickets to be snapped up. LD Scott Chmielewski used Beachsound and Lighting gear for the event. Among the fixtures in the rig: Eurolite PMC 16×30 LED matrices, distributed in the U.S. by Inner Circle Distribution.
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NEW YORK – Even before the matchup between the Seahawks and Broncos on Feb. 2, 2014 became dubbed the “not-so-Super Bowl” due to the lopsided performance on the field, the Super Bowl party sponsored by Heineken, Esquire and All In magazine at Canoe Studios here had already planned a “game free” party area for those who, for whatever reason, just weren’t that into the game. And the space was anything but dull. Canal Sound and Light added to the visual energy with PVP S7 panels from Chauvet Professional.
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MUNICH – BMW World features a dynamic lighting design using LED-based Exterior 430 luminaires from Martin Professional. Florian Felsch, general manager, Livebau Solutions, noted the the attraction is now using LEDs to show off the autos in their best light indoors as well, with LEDs calibrated at 5600K. He credited the fixtures for lowering maintenance costs by 90 percent, and allowing for a 1.5 year ROI.
Read More »CAMBRIDGE, MA – Visitors to Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ new corporate headquarters here get an immediate sense of the biotechnology company when they spot the impressive 2×8 videowall, comprised of 55-inch PrimeviewUltra Narrow Bezel monitors, in the ninth floor Welcome Center. The videowall’s content is supported by a Spyder X20 0808 image processor from Vista Systems.
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HOUSTON – Bruce Aleksander, the project lighting designer/director working on behalf of Telemundo-owned KTMD-TV here, oversaw a strategy to bypass the costs of traditional dimmer and cooling systems for the newsroom by specifying an all fluorescent and LED lighting rig. To fulfill the need for hard-edge profile fixtures, he opted for Robert Juliat TIBO 533 75w LED Profile fixtures.
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