TORRANCE, CA – Luminit LLC, a privately held high technology company specializing in custom and standard holographic light shaping diffusers, announced that its propriety Light Shaping Diffusers (LSDs) have been added to Optis’ SPEOS optical modeling and simulation library.
Read More »LOS ANGELES –Christie is participating in an Emerging Technologies demonstration displaying its latest digital “sandbox.” Attendees will also see Christie projection technology in action across the conference, including lighting up BARTKRESA Design’s Shogyo Muyo 360-degree projection mapping installation.
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LAUREL, MD — Over the last eight months, X-Laser USA has worked to engineer new products that make more possible with less. “Less,” in this case, is the removal of vertical scanning via the Y-Axis in their newly released Aurora laser projectors. Contrary to conventional thinking, removing vertical scanning actually creates the best, brightest and safest version of a “liquid sky machine.” The new Aurora 4C and Aurora 4G models give users the ability to simply and easily make stunning “liquid sky” effects on a flat plane.
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COLOGNE – make.tv is driving the revolution toward cloud-based TV production further forward with its latest development, make.tv ACQUIRE. The new plugin enables third-party solution providers to integrate the functions of the make.tv Live Video Cloud into their own applications. As part of this development, make.tv is pleased to announce that Avid® has certified the integration of the make.tv ACQUIRE plugin within the Avid MediaCentral™ Platform ecosystem, using the Avid Connectivity Toolkit.
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NEW YORK – It’s summer in the city and New Yorkers are celebrating at “Midsummer Night Swing” (pictured here) and “Lincoln Center Out of Doors.” WorldStage is providing lighting support for lighting designer Andrew Grant at the two annual festivals held in Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. WorldStage was awarded the big summer package after supporting a number of Lincoln Center events earlier this year.
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LONDON – On July 22-23, 2015, British electronic musician Goldie and the Heritage Orchestra performed Goldie’s 1995 album, Timeless, at the Royal Festival Hall in London. LD Richard Godin lit the event with gear provided by White Light.
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LONDON – Entec provided gear for Portishead’s summer shows. Entec first started working with Portishead through their previous lighting designer Tony Austin, who also originally asked current LD Niall Hannell to come on-board, initially as a programmer in April 2008. Niall took over as LD last year.
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PRAGUE – Yaron Abulafia’s exciting new book “The Art of Light on Stage: Lighting in Contemporary Theatre” was launched at the 2015 Prague Quadrennial. Robe is sponsoring this work by the artist and award winning lighting designer. The launch – attended by over 300 guests – took place at the Hybernia Theatre in central Prague. The book is the first history and analysis of theatre lighting design that brings the story bang up to date, with Yaron exploring the poetics of light and charting the evolution of lighting design against the background of contemporary performance.
Read More »LANCASTER, NH — On Aug. 3, a day after a Chicago-area storm killed a music festival attendee and injured 15 others taking shelter from a rain and hailstorm in a tent, another storm packing close to 60 m.p.h. winds and hail flattened a circus tent in New Hampshire, killing two — a father and his daughter — and injuring 32.
Read More »PLSN editor Nook Schoenfeld caught up with BML Blackbird crew chief Russ Felton and asked about his plan of attack for handling a gig requiring… Read More »Cables Galore in the Festival Bone Yards
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LAS VEGAS — PLSN readers have chosen the six regional winners of the 2015 Hometown Hero Award competition. These top vote getters from each of five U.S. regions plus all of Canada will be automatically entered on the Parnelli Awards ballot. PLSN readers will then get a chance to vote on which regional company will be awarded the coveted honor of Parnelli Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year.
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