At InfoComm 2014, Harman’s Martin Professional featured additions to its VC-Grid and VC-Strip LED video solutions, including 15, 25, 30 and 60 mm pixel pitch products for architectural installations, stage design, and television set design.
Read More »CANBERRA, Australia — Elite Sound & Lighting recently demoed Robe Robin MiniMe fixtures for the technical team at the Museum of Australian Democracy (MOAD), which is located at the Old Parliament House Building here. MOAD is now using four of the fixtures for a variety of temporary exhibitions and smaller events. Pictured here, from left, are Darren Russell, managing director of Elite Sound and Lighting, and Kevin Abbott, technical officer from Australia’s Old Parliament.
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LAS VEGAS — Women in AV (WAVE) announced that Theresa Hahn, director of marketing & business development of Verrex, has been selected to receive WAVE’s 2014 Mentoring Award. The award was presented June 18 at the Hard Rock Hotel here during an event that coincided with InfoComm 2014. WAVE also honored Cory Schaeffer, Listen Co-Founder & Vice President of Business Development Worldwide, with a Women in AV Award.
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PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa — The next generation of South African theatre lighting designers have got hands on with Philips Selecon’s PL range of LED luminaires as part of a two-day seminar focusing on the future of LED technology at The Savoy theatre in Adcockvale. The attendees, between 15-25 years in age, were part of The Performing Arts Network of South Africa’s (PANSA) Youth Theatre Project in the Eastern Cape province.
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KANSAS CITY, MO — Although songs like “Text Me in the Morning” speak to the quirks of romance in the digital age, the design for Neon Trees’ current tour, in support of their April 2014 Pop Psychology album release, started with a low-tech napkin sketch by frontman Tyler Glenn. Production Manager Mike Bangs relied upon four 8-by-4 foot panels of PixelFLEX FLEXCurtain to help bring Glenn’s sketch to colorful fruition.
Read More »MORRISON, CO — A police search following a parking lot shooting incident that injured three members of rapper Schoolboy Q’s entourage led to a lockdown of all roads leading to the Red Rocks Amphitheatre here late on June 19 while police tried to find the shooter. Although Schoolboy Q had been in the car at the time of the shooting, he was uninjured. The shooting occurred at about 10:30, as the concert featuring Nas and Lotus along with Schoolboy Q came to and end. The shooter remained at large despite a roadblock and car-by-car search of exiting concertgoers that continued until about 3 a.m.
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