PORT MACQUARIE, Australia – Designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects and opened in mid-2009, the $50 million Glasshouse arts center includes a 600-seat performing arts theatre, a 600-square-meter regional art gallery, a studio theatre, conference facilities and a community workshop. Jands served as head staging contractor for the project.
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LONDON – For the fifth time, Entec Sound & Light is supporting the U.K. and European tour for The Australian Pink Floyd Show (TAPS), providing lighting and video equipment plus crew.
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ROCKLAND, ME – The interior walls of the Farnsworth Art Museum aren't the only things about the place that are green. So are the decisions to seek alternatives to pesticides on the lawn outside and to switch from halogen to LED light bulbs for all the museum's galleries.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Production Services Ireland has completed the supply and installation of lighting and sound equipment at the new 400 seat Theatre At the Mill in Newtownabbey.
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SECAUCUS, NJ – Rose Brand has announced a second blog post on fire safety in the entertainment industry. The posting discusses flame tests, flame retardant fabric terminology such as IFR, DFR, FR, and the procedures and manufacturing techniques that make a fabric flame retardant.
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NEW YORK – Lighting designer Scott Wolfeil of LDG (Lighting Design Group) used gear supplied by Scharff Weisberg for Thin Ice, which was broadcast live on ABC from the Premier Ballroom of the MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, Conn.
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DALLAS – The first clue that the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center in the Dallas Arts District, is more skewed toward invention than tradition is the exterior. It is housed within a 12-story cube with an outer shell of perpendicular aluminum tubes.
Read More »COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – This year, Wybron celebrates 30 years since it first offered its scrolling color changer. Invented by Wybron CEO Keny Whitright in 1980, the scrolling color changer sparked changes in the way lighting rigs were outfitted, designed and employed.
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LAS VEGAS – Although its name might suggest otherwise, not all eyes at the Vanity nightclub at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino are focused on the club's mirrored surfaces. Instead, they naturally gravitate to a custom-made LED chandelier/sculpture made up of 20,000 LED points driven by a Martin Maxedia Compact media server.
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PORT CANAVERAL, FL – Carnival Cruise Lines's 1,004-foot Carnival Dream has been equipped with Chauvet and Iluminarc LED fixtures, lighting the ship's Lido Deck and main lobby. Carnival Cruise Lines's Carnival Spirit and Carnival Miracle also feature Iluminarc lighting.
Read More »DULLES, VA – Christie was recognized at the invitation-only 2010 InfoComm 100 conference with a Green AV Award. Newly created by InfoComm International, the Green AV Award recognizes organizations for their commitment to social responsibility, sustainability and the environment. The award was presented April 30.
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INDIO, CA – The crane carries a universal message of peace, so it's only fitting that the more than 100,000 visitors who attended this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival were greeted by a giant sculpture, Ascension, inspired by the Japanese art of origami.
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