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WorldStage supported DC area events promoting science including a gala at the Eisenhower Theater at Kennedy Center.

WorldStage Provides AV Support for DC Area Events Promoting Science

WASHINGTON, DC — WorldStage provided gear and crew from both its East and West Coast offices — a total of 180 people working on 11 installations within seven DC-area venues — in support the “Celebration of Science” initiative sponsored by FasterCures and the Milken Institute. The AV company also supported a related gala event staged at Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater.

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Arcofab CEO, Bernard Theriault and Marc Andre Blouin, project manager, with truss shipment for Christie Lites

Christie Lites Names Arcofab Truss Supplier

ORLANDO, FL and QUEBEC, Canada — Christie Lites named Arcofab its preferred manufacturer of 16-inch spigoted trusses. Prior to the announcement, Christie Lite had commissioned Arcofab to produce Christie Lite’s B Type truss. The initial order of 1,000 sections of truss was followed within weeks by another order for 500 more truss sections.

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Christie Lites Nashville Opens with Holiday Celebration

NASHVILLE – Christie Lites Nashville is open for business at its 12th fully stocked location: a new 50,000 sq. ft. warehouse at 6050 Dana Way in Antioch, TN, just outside of Nashville. Its sales/rental office opens in January of 2013 at the Soundcheck complex at 750 Cowan St. in Nashville. To celebrate, Christie Lites will participate in the Soundcheck Holiday Party Wednesday, Dec. 12, 5-10 pm. All are invited; please RSVP to Alanna Norris ([email protected])

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Billy Williams

Sapsis Rigging Opens MW Region Office, Led by Billy Williams

BOWLER, WI — Sapsis Rigging, Inc. (SRI) has opened a satellite office here, led Billy Williams, an experienced hoist technician. Williams will schedule and perform safety inspections, rigging installations, and hoist inspections and re-certifications for SRI customers, including schools, theatres, performing arts centers, arenas and special events venues.

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PixelFlex Flexible LED Systems

PixelFlex Flexible LED Systems

PixelFlex LED curtains promise to combine the ease of use of a fabric curtain and the output of an LED wall.  There are currently 10 different models ranging in resolution and pixel pitch (18.25, 20, 25, 40, 37.5, 50, 75 and 100mm) along with pixel counts (100-3,000 PSM) and brightness (155-3,680 nits). Most of the panel dimensions are sized at about 4 by 8 feet, with one low-res model closer to 10 by 10 feet in size, and panel weight varies from 4.5 to 19.9 lbs.

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Chromlech Elidy

Chromlech Elidy

Chromlech, the France-based manufacturer of Jarag, Gleamer and Svoboda 2 fixtures, designed the Elidy, a matrix of 5 x 5 very high power LEDs, to serve as first LED wall capable of projecting light. The product incorporates high-output, warm white LEDs with specific optics to generate extremely narrow beams that promise to easily exceed the intensity of conventional LED screens.

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Chauvet MVP Ta8 Curve LED Video Panels

Chauvet MVP Ta8 Curve LED Video Panels

Chauvet Professional MVP Ta8 Curve is a modular video panel featuring tri-color SMD LEDs configured within a relatively tight 8.33mm pixel pitch. By taking advantage of the hardware incorporated into the panels, users can create flat, convex or concave LED screen surfaces with angles up to plus or minus (+/-)18 degrees without losing pixel pitch.

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The set has a realistic, lived-in look, with a de-saturated palette that keeps the focus on the four central characters. Photos by Michael Brosilow

Who’s Designing for ‘Virginia Woolf?’

A rustic, seemingly peaceful New England home erupts into chaos overnight when a bickering middle aged couple (Martha and George) receive a late-night visit from a younger couple (Honey and Nick) after they all attend a university faculty schmoozefest. What begins as mildly sarcastic banter with an undercurrent of middle aged marital anxiety and professional jealousy devolves into a twisted game of emotional cat and mouse as the older couple teases, coaxes, derides, flirts with and tries to dominate the younger couple. Things progressively deteriorate in Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? until the generational clash, fueled by ideological differences, sexual tension and dark secrets, reaches its morbid denouement.

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Cory FitzGerald’s design for Owl City’s Fall 2012 tour included beams of light blasting through barnwood slats. Photo by Cory FitzGerald.

Synchronized Dreams: Owl City Live in 2012

Adam Young, the mastermind of electronic-pop band Owl City (OC), began writing and recording music in his parents’ Owatonna, MN, basement to combat his insomnia, and the cover art for his two most recent albums — as well as his tour visuals — have a dream-like quality that seems well-aligned with his bright, fantasy-infused and often uplifting music.

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Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show featuring Madonna, photo by Brad Duns

2012: A Look Back at Some of the Biggest Staged Events

With both the Olympics and Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee taking place, London was the epicenter for big events in 2012, in terms of lighting, staging and projection. But Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl Halftime Show will also be hard to top in 2013 (it will feature Beyoncé), and while the Olympics required both marathon-like stamina for the opening ceremonies (with more than 100 consecutive nights of programming) and speed (close to 100 truckloads of gear needed to be loaded in within 18 hours for the closing ceremonies), the Super Bowl Halftime Show has long been known as an all-out sprint, with only 27 minutes allotted for load-in, the performance, and load-out. Finally, of course, 2012 will be remembered as a Presidential election year in the U.S., and for the challenges of staging huge political events in hurricane-threatened Tampa (the RNC) and Charlotte, NC (DNC).

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