NEW YORK — When LD Fred Bock of Ferri Lighting Design & Associates (FLDA) in New York saw the Nexus 4×4 LED panel from Chauvet Professional at LDI last year, he made a mental note. “I thought they did a nice job and could be a good replacement for halogen matrix panels,” he said. “They seemed like a nice solution looking for a challenge.” Recently, Bock found a challenge that was tailor-made for the Nexus. The Australian band, 5 Seconds of Summer (pictured here) was appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where Bock is the LD.
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MANHEIM, PA — Clair Solutions named Joe Bunting regional service manager for its office here. Bunting will be responsible for handling incoming inquiries regarding customers’ requests to work with Clair Solutions in audio, video and lighting integration projects.
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PLASA ranks as one of the premier shows of its kind, presenting groundbreaking technology to an international audience of pro audio, lighting and stage technology experts. Here are some highlights from this year’s event, staged for the second year at London’s ExCeL Convention Center.
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AMSTERDAM — For the 95th anniversary of KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), The Unit Showcontrol B.V., based here, designed, sequenced, mapped and projected imagery on a passenger plane using 25 projectors using d3 Technologies gear. The design team and crew were able to tackle the project despite the window of time with access to the actual plane was limited to a 24-hour span.
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LOS ANGELES – NBC’s 2014 NFL Sunday Night Football intro, featuring Carrie Underwood singing “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night,” features a lighting design by LD Benoit Richard that makes use of a back wall comprised of 72 Robe CycFX 8 and Pointe fixtures.
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FARMINGDALE, NY — Group One Limited named Sonic Sales to oversee West Coast sales activities for the elektraLite brand. Based in Carlsbad, CA with offices in San Francisco and Seattle, Sonic Sales was formed in 1997 and is led by CEO Josh Carruthers (pictured here, right, with Sonic Sales’ Kenny Andrews, left).
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USITT has launched the new website for its 2015 Conference & Stage Expo, at usittshow.org. The site, branded exclusively for USITT 2015, is designed to make it easy to find info and plan for the big event, set for March 18-21 in Cincinnati’s Duke Energy Convention Center.
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