NEW YORK – The eighth-annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday all-day seminar will take place Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City. The annual seminar is designed for everyone involved in stage, architectural or entertainment lighting. In addition to presentations, about 20 manufacturers and technical specialists will demonstrate equipment.
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LONDON – Luc Peumans from Genk, Belgium-based creative visual design practice, Painting With Light, has designed lighting for the new “Ice Age Live” show, a stage adaptation of the 20th Century Fox ‘Ice Age’ animation movies. The show is scheduled to tour internationally for the next five years and has just premiered in the UK, directed by Guy Caron. It all had to fit into one truck, so each fixture spec’d had to be multi-purpose. All lighting equipment is supplied by Belgian rental company Phlippo Showlight.
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LONDON – LD Sean Burke has created an energetic and dramatic design for Jennifer Lopez’s world tour using VL3500 Wash FX and VL3000 Spot luminaires from Upstaging. The fixtures needed to compete with a backdrop of LED video screens. Lighting also needed to illuminate a stage measuring 62’ wide x 48’ deep, filled with the band and dancers.
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LOSNING, Denmark – The recently formed Matrix Group is now the exclusive Danish distributor of PR Lighting’s automated discharge and LED lighting portfolio. Matrix Group has a base in pro audio and has expanded this year into lighting distribution and sales, with PR Lighting becoming its latest acquisition. This will be PR Lighting’s introduction to the Danish market and Matrix CEO Kenneth Bremer anticipates a high demand, both from touring/rental companies as well as mid-range market installation contractors and TV production crews.
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Read More »HONG KONG – Lightswitch has opened a new location in Hong Kong. Under the leadership of Directors of Lighting Design Warren Kong and Alice Tang, Lightswitch Hong Kong will offer a range of lighting and multimedia design services for architecture, events, environments and museums. Says Lightswitch Principal Norm Schwab, “We can now better serve our U.S. clients who have projects in Asia by operating a full-service office that is capable of collaborating with our existing organization. We have designers, project managers and programmers in Hong Kong and are building a network of people throughout the region who can help us work efficiently and economically on projects in both America and Asia.”
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SEOUL, Korea – Chart topping rapper Psy – Korea’s originator of the current “Gangnam Style” phenomena – performed two special concerts recently, both of lit with Robe moving lights in a design by Myeong Soo Kim. With more than 500 million views on YouTube alone, the lighting design had to create the right vibe and live up to expectations. LiteFactory supplied the equipment.
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NASHVILLE – Christie Lites named Richard Willis national account rep. Based in the Nashville office, Willis will work with Christie Lites’ 12 warehouse locations across North America to serve client needs. He comes to Christie Lites from Bandit Lites, where he worked since the early 1990s, most recently as vice president. His career in the lighting industry began in the 1980s as a touring lighting tech, then as general manager, of Theatrelite New Zealand.
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WILKES-BARRE, PA – Mountain Productions has launched its new website to give users a more complete and detailed online experience. Along with an aesthetic redesign,… Read More »Mountain Productions Launches New Website
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