Atomic Rental's new modular Pinwheel Panels were designed by Atomic's Tom McPhillips. While researching the iconic child's toy pinwheel for a scenic element used at a Japanese summer music festival, McPhillips became intrigued by the shape and began playing with ideas for a modular scenic product.
Read More »Up until now, control systems have been one-way (unidirectional) commands sent to a machine to control the on/off, duration, and sometimes the intensity of the… Read More »Two-Way Control Systems for Fog Machines
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CHICAGO – Chicago's Navy Pier has selected GES and its strategic partner PRG as recommended providers of exhibition and audiovisual services through 2012. With 170,000 square feet of exhibition space, meeting rooms and banquet space, the facility hosts the Chicago Flower & Garden Show, HSMAI's Affordable Meetings Mid-America, the Instore Show and other major events.
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LONDON – GLP's Impression 120 RZ Zoom made its touring debut recently with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' U.K. theatre tour, in a lighting design by LD Matt Arthur that lit the distinctive "eyeball" features used on the band's set.
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LOS ANGELES — Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Wisin y Yandel wanted their La Revolución tour to have a “big look” when they hit the road in the U.S. Todd Roberts, lighting/scenic/video designer with Visions Lighting LLC, used a war-like theme.
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EL SEGUNDO, CA — Wireworks LumaVue Custom Panels were used for the STARS Launch Room at the Aerospace Corporation’s Launch Operations Center, a federally funded research and development center for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office. It provides information on launch vehicles, satellite systems, ground control systems and space technology.
Read More »LUTON, U.K. — White Light supplied the new UK Centre for Carnival Arts with lighting gear, both for its installed lighting needs and for its grand-opening launch.
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SAN DIEGO — Catering to a clientele that wants to see and be seen, Voyeur, an electronic music nightspot in San Diego’s Gaslamp district, has been equipped with lipstick cameras placed throughout the venue, feeding imagery of patrons onto nearly two dozen plasma TVs.
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LAS VEGAS — LMG Systems Integration hired Tony Grant as a sales engineer in the firm’s Las Vegas office. Grant’s duties will include developing new business, maintaining client communication, and advising clients on the optimal equipment to meet design and budget needs.
Read More »SAN FRANCISCO — The Long Reach Long Riders announced their seventh annual charity motorcycle ride. The ride, which benefits the ESTA Foundation's Behind The Scenes program and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, begins in San Francisco on July 24, 2010.
Read More »ATLANTA — The fifth annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday, an all-day lighting workshop, is set for Jan. 16 at the North Springs Charter School for Arts and Sciences, 7447 Roswell Road (at Dalrymple Road) in Atlanta.
Read More »FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — LED Source, working with project manager Derek Warner of Funa International, equipped Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Oasis of the Seas with the latest in LED lighting technology. The ship, among the world’s largest, left on its maiden voyage Dec. 5 from Port Everglades.
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