NEWTON, KS – Hoopty Lights’ Erich Meitzner got a chance to return to his alma mater for a Newton High School musical production using color mixing LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional. Meitzner showed the high school students how to make the best use of gear including COLORado Batten 72 Tour RGBW wash lights and COLORdash Par-Quad 7 par-style fixtures.
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EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands – Philips Entertainment organized a new partner conference at the end of November. Mroe than 70 international distributors, dealers and rental operators flew into Amsterdam for the two-day networking and engagement event.
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TULSA, OK – Asbury United Methodist Church in Tulsa has chosen an ArKaos PRO Stadium Server running ArKaos MediaMaster 4.0 software to handle the environmental projection mapping at their church. Lighting director Tim Ottley uses it to present some stunning visual backdrops across their 300ft wide/30-60ft tall walls to enhance both modern and traditional services.
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LONDON – Lloyds Bank has commissioned AOL, Kinetic and Projection Artworks to create an interactive projection spectacular as a live experience extension to its seasonal TV and online campaign, Love You to the Stars and Back. The projections on a 12-meter-high Christmas tree-like pyramid includes personalized messages with content including submissions from the general public.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany— Riedel Communications named Ryhaan Williams vice president of sales, eastern U.S. In this role, Williams will be tasked with strengthening existing relationships and creating new strategic alliances for the eastern region in addition to expanding sports markets nationally.
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LONDON – In 2015, along with its support for ongoing West End and UK touring theatre productions, White Light is staying busy with its support for more than 40 seasonal pantomime productions all across the U.K. Pictured here, a moment from Cinderella at Fairfield Halls.
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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional announced its sponsorship of the AV Alliance (avalliance.com). Nico Ubenauf, member of the AV Alliance Board of Directors and CEO of German production company satis&fy, welcomed Elation’s support.
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LONDON – Working with visuals designer Andy Hurst, HSL supplied lighting gear for Faithless’ tour. The setup included 300 Martin VDO Sceptron 10 LED battens, which were rigged on custom structures to form a giant ‘88’ digital clock face.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan – Capping a 34-year singing career that included 60 albums and eight Melody Awards, Jody Giang performed 25 concerts lit by Tokyo based Mitsumasa Hayashi, whose rig included 46 Robe Pointes.
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ADJ’s new free-to-download Airstream IR app lets users turn their handheld device into a universal infrared remote control compatible with a wide range of ADJ products. Recently, the company has added even more products to this list, including the Revo 4 IR and Micro Galaxian II.
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TOWNSVILLE, Australia – Lighting technician Nate Leslie has been putting the eight new SolaSpot Pro CMY fixtures from High End Systems to good use at Townsville’s 967-capacity Civic Theatre. Graeme Hicks of Entertainment Production Supplies worked with Leslie in selecting the gear.
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CHARLOTTE, NC – Andy Bentley, lighting designer at Elevation Church, used GLP’s Scenex LED tape as a stage design element at the Church’s quarterly ‘Student Worship Nights’ events. The student get-togethers are held at two locations in Charlotte – Blakeney and University City.
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