KANSAS CITY, MO – All three ETCP exams – for entertainment electrical, arena rigging and theatre rigging – will be offered to USITT attendees this year, starting on March 31 and ending April 1. The deadline to apply is March 1.
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LONDON – Cover It Up has been appointed as a "preferred" drapes and soft goods supplier to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. Events and functions are routinely staged in places like the museum's Central Hall, home to "Dippy," a 26-meter-long Diplodocus skeleton.
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SACRAMENTO, CA – Capital Christian Center, one of the biggest Assembly of God (AG) churches on the West Coast, can seat close to 3,000 and stages full productions for annual events such as the two-day Northern California/Nevada Youth Convention.
Read More »NEW YORK – ESTA has added two Control Protocols Working Group draft standards to the public review page on the ESTA Web site: BSR E1.30-1-20xx, EPI 23. Device Identification Subdevice, and BSR E1.20 – 201x, Entertainment Technology — Remote Device Management over USITT DMX512.
Read More »NEW YORK – Trade publisher Penton Media – publisher of titles including Live Design, Sound & Video Contractor, Mix and producers of the annual LDI show – announced that it is filing a "strategic" Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Read More »MIAMI – Four volunteers were injured in the parking lot of Sun Life Stadium on Feb. 2 when a section of staging being prepared for the Super Bowl XLIV halftime show tipped over. The injuries were serious enough to warrant hospitalization but none were life-threatening, according to reports.
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How has the live event production industry changed over the last ten years?
For starters, it now has PLSN.
Ten years ago this month, PLSN launched its very first issue of its now familiar 11-inch-by-17-inch tabloid-formatted industry news magazine.
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LAS VEGAS – WET Design's Lumia fountain in front of the Aria Resort and Casino, part of the recently-opened CityCenter complex, relies on custom Syncrolite 7000W Xenon fixtures. As the embedded video below demonstrates (the video is provided as a visual reference, and was not created by PLSN), the fixtures, hidden from view, light up streams of water for effects that are visible even in the middle of the day, including mid-air water collisions with a variety of color changes.
Read More »NEW YORK, NY – Behind the Scenes and Light Relief announced that a number of additional LDs have pledged to support of the charities' fund raising By Design Day 2010, including Jonathan Deans, David Gallo, Derek McLane, Tony Meola, Hugh Vanstone and Tony Walton. They join Ken Billington, Paule Constable, Rick Fisher and Ken Posner as signatories to the event, scheduled for Saturday April 24.
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Elation's new Opti 30 UV, a blacklight powered by 12 1-watt UV LEDs, runs on 20 watts from 100V to 240V, 47-63 Hz. It can be operated manually or with two channels of DMX. It has a 25-degree beam angle and features 0-100 percent dimming and a strobe effect.
Read More »The rapidly-increasing capability and miniaturization of the computer is putting enough power in our pockets to change the world as we know it. It wasn't… Read More »Answer the Call for New App-ortunites
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LOS ANGELES – For Lady Gaga, who performed with Elton John at the 2010 Grammy Awards, Pyrotek Special Effects provided a custom six-foot outer diameter flame ring. Multiple cryo jets also cued streams of industrial-looking smoke to accent the set, cued in sync to the beat.
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