NEW YORK — Traxon Technologies — an Osram Company, the joint venture firm formed by Osram and Traxon Technologies Ltd., named Monte Spencer as director of North America sales for e:cue lighting control products and systems.
Read More »SECAUCUS, NJ — ARRI CSC is relocating its New York camera rental department to a 36,000-square-foot facility here, bringing the department to a building that adjoins its lighting and grip division. The total footprint of the buildings is over 91,000 square feet.
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LAS VEGAS — Entertainment Labor Force, dba ELF Labor, named John C. “5ive” McInnis as director of operations of the company’s Las Vegas office. McInnis brings 20 years of experience in large theatrical and rock arena installations to the company. He has previously handled staffing, project management and production support and labor.
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ASHLAND, VA — Milos America has relocated its corporate offices and warehouse. The 18,000 square-foot facility handles sales and support for North, Central and South America. The address is: 10520 Lakeridge Parkway, Suite A, Ashland, VA 23005; Phone: 800.411.0065, Fax: 800.411.0165.
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When Walt Disney World®’s Facility Asset Management (FAM) group came to Walt Disney World Entertainment’s in-house lighting designer Charley Pogue with a query about replacing the lighting on Disney’s iconic Cinderella Castle, he had little idea what might lie ahead. FAM wanted to see what it might take to replace the 700-watt arc source fixtures that have been lighting the Castle for 10 years. The fixtures had served their purpose and parts for the discontinued luminaires had become scarce, while the labor to keep them working had increased. And there were far more environmentally friendly options available.
Read More »Having to light an act with a skinny budget and limited physical space is not the ideal gig. But the good news is that lately… Read More »Brighter, Cheaper Lighting Options for Small-Budget Bands
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FRANKFURT, Germany — The worldwide economy may be in a funk, but there was plenty of innovative lighting ideas on display at Prolight + Sound this month. Pictured here is Robe’s booth, where the Robin 3 Plasma Spot took center stage. Chauvet, PR Lighting and SGM were among the many others bringing new ideas to this year’s show.
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SPLIT, Croatia — Six Robert Juliat follow spots were used at the 21st World Handball Championships held here recently — two 1200W RJ Korrigans, two 1200W RJ Super Korrigans and two 1800W RJ Victors. The championship also helped open the 28,500-square-meter Spaladium Arena, which seats 12,000. Rhino Production supplied the gear.
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Martin’s Maxxyz Modules is a lighting controller system based on a series of modules that can be used in different combinations to create a custom console to fit individual needs. Five modules are available to build a custom console or can be used with Maxxyz PC™, Maxxyz™ or Maxxyz Compact™.
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Pre-Broadway productions are as high tech as their Broadway counterparts, with projections and LED walls helping to expand the scope of imagery in a cinematic way. For Dirty Dancing: the Original Story on Stage, which has played around the world and recently ended its pre-Broadway run in Chicago, such technology helped to recreate the film onstage.
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“This is unsafe. Somebody’s going to get hurt.”
Nick Scirocco, the 6-foot-2-inch plain-spoken IATSE Local One crew chief and John Yorke, lighting designer for the Red Bull Snowscrapers event in New York City, were standing at the top of a 90-foot high structure, the wind howling all around them, when Scirocco made this pronouncement. The structure in question was the Red Bull Snowscrapers Snowboarding ramp, a thin composite of plastic and nylon decking sheets at East River Park in Manhattan.
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A few years ago, I toured with a lighting system that had several Chroma-Q™ Color Block™ LED color mixing fixtures lighting a white backdrop. They worked well for washing the 40-by-20-foot surface with color and, because they are small and draw little power, they set up quickly and trouped easily.
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