While touring the world, I have spent far too many hours sitting at FOH, wondering who in the world designs some of these venues. I decided that I should put my two cents in writing instead of stewing in my own disgust of poor forethought. Here are a few remarks that I would like to make to anyone who is considering designing an entertainment venue.
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LAS VEGAS – The Event Safety Alliance (ESA) and the Entertainment Services and Technology Association (ESTA) have agreed on a joint copyright that will allow a second edition of The Event Safety Guide to be developed as an American National Standard (ANS). To take on the project, a new working group is being created within ESTA’s Technical Standards Program (TSP) called the Event Safety Working Group (ESWG). Leading the new group will be co-chairs Dr. Donald Cooper, Executive Director of the ESA, and Richard Nix, Special Project Manager for ZFX, Inc.
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CZ – The global launch of Robe’s highly anticipated new product and “Next Big Thing” – the Spiider – will take place at www.spiider.cz tomorrow morning – Thursday 15th September 2016 at 12 noon. (CET – Central European Timezone). following an innovative and fun teaser video and a huge amount of chatter that helped ramp excitement within lighting and visuals communities.
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While touring the world, I have spent far too many hours sitting at FOH, wondering who in the world designs some of these venues. I decided that I should put my two cents in writing instead of stewing in my own disgust of poor forethought.
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NASHVILLE – For Toby Keith’s “Interstates & Tailgates” tour, which includes more stops at festivals and fairs this year along with standard amphitheater dates, LD Seth Jackson worked with Bandit Lites on a gear package that includes a lighting pod approach that could easily scale up or down with the needs of each tour stop. The trek runs through mid-October.
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LOWELL, MA – In 1975, Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio held a gathering for young worshippers. The organizers of that event could scarcely have imagined that there would one day be 40 Steubenville Youth Conferences in 11 states. Nor could they have envisioned the kind of dynamic and richly textured stage presentation that engaged thousands of young people at Steubenville East, which was held recently at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Tsongas Center.
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Vectorworks’ 2017 release included English versions of its Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Designer and Fundamentals software products. Ten additional language releases will follow in the coming months.
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DUBAI – Neumann & Müller Event Technology named Kristofer Collier head of lighting operations and lighting design. Collier, who brings over two decades of experience as a lighting designer, engineer and operator in the Middle East, Europe and Far East to the position, is based in Dubai and will oversee projects in the Middle East.
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LONDON – d3 Technologies’ r14 is the company’s third major software release this year. Major updates include real-time generative effects and device recording. Other improvements include improved DMX patching, sACN and CITP support, cue lists, as well as various under-the-hood performance updates. The latest release also features is Gold support for Notch real-time generative effects playback.
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PERTHSHIRE, Scotland – Colour Sound Experiment provided lighting and LED screens to the dance tents at two major UK festivals for the first time this summer – T in the Park at Strathallan Castle in Perthshire, Scotland and the double sited V Festival, for which they serviced both Weston Park in Staffordshire and the Hylands Park site in Chelmsford, Essex in southeast England. Says Haydn Cruickshank, “We were very excited to be offered the chance to contribute to both of these amazing and popular events that are mainstays on the festival calendar.”
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As part of an ongoing partnership with the UK-based GDS, ETC is now shipping CueSystem, a dedicated cue light network that scales effortlessly for any show or venue. CueSystem is backstage communication done right, providing hands-on cue light control and advanced, pre-programmed playback options. With American manufacture, distribution and support now handled by ETC, CueSystem is poised to help venues across the region keep shows on track.
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BURBANK, CA — Kenneth (Ken or Kenny) Stein, a veteran stage manager for major beauty pageants, awards shows and TV programs and specials, died Sept. 8, 2016. He was 74.
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