FORT WORTH, TX – The finalists in the USITT 2014 Architecture & Theatre Student Design Competition will present their designs for a college theatre at USITT’s 2014 Annual Conference & Stage Expo, set for the Fort Worth Convention Center here March 26-29. Michigan-based American Seating sponsored the 2014 competition. Additional support came from San Francisco theatre consulting firm the Shalleck Collaborative.
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JERUSALEM – Robe continues to be a popular choice for Israel’s top TV lighting designers. A case in point: LD Ronen Najar’s design for the singing contest show, Rising Star. The rig for the first 24-episode series included Robin MMX Spot and LEDBeam 100 fixtures. The show was recorded in the Globus Group Studios in Jerusalem and broadcast on national Channel 2.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – HSL supplied the inaugural BBC Radio 6 Music Festival staged at Victoria Warehouse here, providing gear and crew for both lighting and rigging to meet the needs of the event’s production lighting designer, Tim Routledge, along with producers SJM and BBC Events.
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LAS VEGAS – For the Interactive Achievement Awards at the D.I.C.E. Summit, honoring video game designers within the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino here Feb. 6, LD and programmer Chris Lose pixelmapped the entire stage with stock graphics and custom content cued by a grandMA2 console. The pixelmapping enhanced sets crafted by creative director Chris Wu. The console also drove the lighting rig, which included Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 1500 fixtures. Lose used the same brand of fixtures and console for AVN Awards, held a few weeks earlier at the same casino.
ETC’s Cobalt 10 lighting console shares some of the same features as the company’s larger Cobalt 20 desk, including short commands and on-the-fly lighting control. But as ETC notes of its more compact Cobalt 10, those features can now be accessed in a road-ready, portable package. Those compact dimensions are also a boon for fitting the Cobalt 10 into control rooms with limited space.
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BRISBANE, Australia — LD Heath Williamson collaborated with Jono Perry, technical director of the Brisbane Festival, on a lighting installation at the heritage-listed Newstead Gas Ring here. The project involved more than 500 Anolis LED lighting fixtures.
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TORONTO – The Cinema club in Toronto’s Liberty Village isn’t located in a former movie theater. Instead, its creators chose the name because they wanted a club that evoked “big screen” looks. An example can be seen on the ceiling over Cinema’s second story dance floor. There, a metallic looking structure houses 16 Intimidator Beam LED 350 moving heads from Chauvet DJ.
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