NEW YORK — Prominent TV lighting director Carl Vitelli, Jr., 81, died Jan. 7, 2015. A recipient of IATSE Local One Honorary Gold Card in 2011 (pictured here), Vitelli was also inducted into the Emmy Awards’ New York Chapter Silver Circle in 2001.
Read More »NEW YORK — PLASA noted that 2015 is shaping up to be a busy year for the association’s Technical Standards Program, with eight standards being offered for public review. Available drafts include three from the Rigging Working Group, two from the Photometrics Working Group and three from the Control Protocols Working Group.
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LOS ANGELES – The ADJ Group of Companies, including ADJ, Elation Professional, Acclaim Lighting, American Audio and Global Truss America/DuraTruss, are celebrating 30 years in 2015. It all began back in 1985, when chairman and founder Chuck Davies started out supplying lighting solutions to mobile entertainers.
The Newport Performing Arts Center (PAC) in Oregon has recently installed a Meyer Sound Constellation® acoustic system in its 398-seat Alice Silverman Theatre. With the upgrade, the venue joins the likes of Moscow’s Svetlanov Hall, The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and more than 50 other prestigious venues that rely on the variable acoustics of Constellation to deliver an extraordinary live experience.
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MIDDLETON, WI – On November 16th, 2014, the walls of St. Margaret’s church in Munich, Germany, reverberated with “eternal light,” or Lux Aeterna. Organized by Christian Bischof, organist and choir director for St. Margaret’s, the event featured music from Claude Debussy, Morten Lauridsen, and Gabriel Fauré, and was accompanied by a modern light show controlled by ETC’s Congo Kid® lighting desk.
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SOUTHBOROUGH, MA – Lighting designer Jonathan Lipsy of Integrated Solutions Group is accustomed to dealing with challenges on projects, but even he acknowledges that the video production studio he recently completed for EMC Corporation was “out of the ordinary.” EMC, the world’s largest provider of data storage with 60,000 employees, asked Lipsy to create a free-standing production studio on its campus.
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SUSSEX, U.K. – UK based architectural, commercial and industrial LED lighting manufacturer CLD Distribution has joined Recolight to help encourage customers to dispose responsibly their outgoing incandescent bulbs, tungsten halogen lamps, T8 fluorescent and other discharge lightsources … as they are being replaced by new, more energy efficient and cost saving LED and other lighting schemes.
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MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada – On December 6 the night sky over Montreal was pierced by 14 beams of light in a solemn commemoration of the 14 victims of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre 25 years ago. Montreal-based Moment Factory chose Clay Paky Mythos lights for the touching ceremony atop Mount Royal. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky fixtures in North America.
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DUBAI, UAE – Abacus is an equipment rental and technical production company based in Dubai which is active on the live events scene. Founded five years ago initially as an AV supplier by Vimal Kumar, Abacus is headquartered in the Al Qoz 1 business district of Dubai.
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LONDON, U.K. – The back catalogue of composer Hans Zimmer reads a little like a review of some the best films of the last twenty years. Academy Award winner for The Lion King in 1994; Grammy Awards for The Crimson Tide and The Dark Knight through to the WAFCA Award for 12 Years a Slave in 2013, the list is quite remarkable. So the opportunity to see the man in action with a live orchestra at a venue like the Hammersmith Apollo is one not to be missed.
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BRAS BASAH, Singapore — Taking inspiration from a swarm of butterflies in mid-flight, a group of students from Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) developed the unique ‘Flights of Fancy’ display for the 2014 Singapore Night Festival. The installation, which was the culmination of the University’s 10-week Urban Lighting course, used the Singapore National Design Centre’s expansive space to bring a true on-of-a-kind experience to life with help from HARMAN’s Martin Professional Exterior 400 LED lighting fixtures.
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