SINGAPORE – Christie is showcasing its MicroTiles along with its Mystique projection-mapping capabilities at Asian Attractions Expo 2017, taking place at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore from June 14-16, 2017. The company’s MicroTiles are also featured at other exhibitors’ booths at the show, including the Falcon Treehouse and TEA booths.
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MIDDLETON, WI — ETC recently broke ground on the latest expansion to their headquarters building in southern Wisconsin, a multi-story 75,000-square-foot addition. A rendering of the project is included here. The new addition is scheduled to be fully operational by spring of 2018.
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SHANGHAI – Christie is featuring a variety of advanced visual technologies NAB Show Shanghai, taking place at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre June 13-15, including projection-mapping, real-time tracking ID-tags controlled by the Christie Pandoras Box media server along with the company’s Captiva Series 1DLP laser phosphor projectors and more.
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LONDON – For the first time, George Orwell’s classic 1984 was read in its entirety at Senate House, University of London on June 6. Having worked on numerous bespoke performances, WL was called upon to provide the lighting, sound and video equipment, supporting a lighting design by Robbie Butler that made use of Martin Aura XB, CORE Colour Point IP65 Battery Uplighter, ETC Source 4 Series 2 Lustr+ LED Profiles and Philips SL PAR150 Zoom RGBW Washes.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Bozzuto Management Company, a leading real estate management company, recently held an employee award ceremony at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. Brett Angstadt of Showtime Sound lit the event with more than 120 Chauvet Professional LED fixtures.
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NASHVILLE – Elite Multimedia added Elation Artiste DaVinci LED luminaires to its inventory. Needing a high-powered LED solution that provided minimal power consumption, the new 270W Cool White LED luminaires were also chosen for their diverse features and design creativity, and are now in stock at the Nashville office of the live event and touring production provider.
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KORTRIJK, Belgium – Barco is noting significant demand for its UDX projectors among rental companies. embraced by the rental community. The prospect of working with 4K laser phosphor projectors is proving attractive, particularly as the projector was developed with key players from the market itself.
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BURBANK, CA.— Bexel is upgrading its lighting inventory, adding 300 Litepanels Astra 6X LED panels. The new lights will be key components in Bexel’s ongoing support of customers who require turnkey lighting solutions in any location at outdoor sporting venues. As announced at the 2017 NAB Show, the next-generation Litepanels Astra 6X LED panel is 50 percent brighter than the first-generation Astra light and six times brighter than Litepanels’ original 1 x 1 panel, which broke new ground in the lighting industry when it was first introduced.
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Acclaim Lighting’s Pixel Bar pixel-controllable, direct-view LED fixtures are rated for outdoor use. They are designed to enhance interior and exterior applications requiring seamless strips of light.
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LONDON – Pink Floyd constantly pushed boundaries and they have again this summer, with Blackout helping organizers of the stunning Their Mortal Remains exhibition take rock ‘n roll into the V & A and the high art exhibition world. Blackout’s project director Kevin Monks began planning the ambitious project in January with Larmac Live and show designers Stufish to deliver the exhibition, presented by the V & A, Pink Floyd and Iconic Entertainment Studios. The show opened to the public in May and will run until October 2017.
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SYDNEY – The past year has been busy for leading visual solution experts, Technical Direction Company (TDC). The company has completed work for the ‘King Roger’ opera, ‘White Night Melbourne’ 2017 and received a Live Design Excellence nomination for their work on Vivid Sydney 2016. TDC has offices in Sydney and Melbourne, and has long been a d3 rental partner. Last year they also officially became a d3 Studio, building their creative space with a 180º curved projection-mapped wall and a d3 4x4pro living in the space. Here is a few highlights from what they have been working on in the last year.
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FLORENCE, Italy – Showlight 2017, the 10th quadrennial conference hosted by Claypaky and others, drew 400 attendees from 25 countries to the Palazzo dei Congressi in Florence, Italy May 20-23, 2017. The unique networking event featured a full lineup of speakers and served as an open forum for lighting and video designers, students, manufacturers and other delegates to discuss a wide range of ideas.
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