AARHUS, Denmark – Martin Professional is wrapping up its busy summer touring season, which saw their lighting rigs used on various tours around the globe, most notably UK festivals Reading, Leeds, Glastonbury, iTunes and Isle of Wight; Festival De Cornouailles, France; Positivus, Latvia; Northside, Skanderborg, Roskilde, in Denmark; and Summerburst in Sweden.
Read More »NEW YORK, NY – Scharff Weisberg Inc. has provided two TV One C2-2355A Universal Switchers/Scalers to the Broadway productions of Wonderland and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. The units are used to convert the DVI output of a media server and scale it to the proper resolution of an LED video wall processor, and secondly, to convert DVI output to SDI to feed a video matrix.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures and a pair of grandMA desks are joining the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their just-launched world tour in support of their latest release, I’m With You. Premier Global Productions, which toured with the band on their last world tour, has returned as lighting provider with LD Scott Holthaus at the helm, running the grandMAs, one running video from Catalyst and D3 servers, and the other running the lighting.
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NEW CASTLE, DE – Pete’s Big TVs is providing video support, for the fourth year, for “How Sweet The Sound,” an annual competition for church choirs. Equipment used on the tour includes four Barco FLM 20k projectors, Green Hippo HD Hippotizer media servers and Barco SLM R12 projectors.
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LLANELLI, U.K. – Lighting Technology Products has installed LED lighting, including UV graffiti art and UV tubes used as part of an interior design scheme, at the Robert Davies Health and Fitness Centre in Llanelli. The venue features a two-floor gymnasium, sauna, steam and salt inhalation rooms, among many other features.
Read More »They’re less than 140 characters each, so we can pack all of the Quick Tips from the PLSN Sept. 2011 issue into a single newsletter.… Read More »Make that TIPS of the week…
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LAS VEGAS, NV — With the live event industry’s most anticipated event just weeks away, the Parnelli Board of Advisors announces the presenters of this year’s awards. “We’re pleased to have such a star-studded group be part of the show,” says PLSN/FOH publisher and Parnelli Awards executive producer Terry Lowe. “With former Turtles members Flo & Eddie also presenting some awards in addition to handling Masters of Ceremonies’ duties, it’ll be a great, entertaining evening.”
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LIVERPOOL — Production and lighting designer Roy Bennett is using 112 Martin MAC 101 wash lights for R&B singer Rihanna’s current Loud world tour. The fixtures work within a key visual element within the show’s design: moving half-sphere video pods, with the MAC 101s shooting beams through semi-transparent video.
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ASTORIA, NY — Working with designer Josh Weisberg of Scharff Weisberg, Electrosonic provide an AV installation for the Museum of the Moving Image that included a 50-by-9-foot projected video mural for a seven-minute video art piece, City Glow (2005) by Chiho Aoshima in collaboration with animator Bruce Ferguson. The upgrades are part of a three-year, $67-million remodel and expansion.
Read More »AUSTIN, TX – High End Systems, a Barco company, has announced that ARCUS Lighting, the exclusive distributor of High End Systems and Flying Pig Systems in Germany, is now a certified Wholehog training center. Starting in October 2011, ARCUS will hold monthly two-day training courses free-of-charge at their Paderborn, Germany offices. ARCUS Lighting staff members have been certified by High End Systems to teach programming and operation of Wholehog consoles including the Wholehog 3, Road Hog Full Boar, Road Hog and Hog 3PC software. Utilizing the latest software, students will learn in-depth procedures for setting up and operating shows on Wholehog consoles. Each class utilizes Road Hog Full Boar consoles connected to WYSIWYG for hands-on learning. Students work 2 per console as they partake in lessons designed to replicate real world situations.
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