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Pixel Depot Opens for LED Display Solutions

Pixel Depot

Pixel Depot Opens for LED Display Solutions

SURREY, UK – displayLED has opened The Pixel Depot, a showroom and resource featuring innovative LED products from leading manufacturers. The Pixel Depot opened this September at the company’s headquarters near Dorking, Surrey. Products on display include solid LED modules and tiles, creative and flexible displays, mesh/curtain products, video controllers, content management software and an LED dance floor. They’re also showing digiLED product applications, including the use of wearable LED and incorporation into objects such as a piano, as used by a leading US performer.

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Kirk Marchwinski

High Resolution Systems Names Kirk Marchwinski Sales Rep

CLARKSTON, MI – Kirk Marchwinski has joined High Resolution Systems as a sales representative.  He will handle all outbound calls for High Resolution Control, which offers integrated Pro AV control hardware and software systems with its Universal Device Controller (UDC).  Prior to High Resolution Systems, Marchwinski served as associate district manager at Automatic Data Processing (ADP) in Dearborn, MI.

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Anschutz Company Puts AEG Up for Sale

LOS ANGELES — The Anschutz Company announced that Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) is for sale. AEG owns more than 100 venues, including Staples Center and London’s O2 arena. Its subsidiary, AEG Live, is the second-largest concert promoter, behind Live Nation. AEG also produces music festivals including Coachella, and its sports franchises include the Los Angeles Kings.

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Innibos Festival

Robe Lights South Africa’s Innibos Festival

NELSPRUIT, South Africa – Robe moving lights were at the hub of the lighting action for a Main Stage design by Johan Ferreira from JSF Productions at the 2012 Innibos Festival in South Africa. The organizers wanted to up the ante on the look and feel of the event – and in particular the Main Stage – so Ferreira set about designing looks with a theatrical feel. This was his seventh year to design the lighting.

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White Light Installs New Dimmers for London’s Lion King

LONDON – A change in the performance schedule of the musical “The Lion King” during the 2012 Olympics gave entertainment lighting specialist White Light just the window of opportunity it required to replace the entire dimming system at London’s Lyceum Theatre – without affecting a single performance of the hit show. The changeover was scheduled across four weekends, taking advantage of the long weekends made possible by the show’s Olympics-influenced schedule, which saw the show dark on Sunday, Monday and during the day Tuesday.

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Mary J. Blige

ILC Hits the Stage with Mary J. Blige

CHICAGO – Daunte Kenner, creative director on the Mary J. Blige and D’Angelo tour, turned to Intelligent Lighting Creations (ILC) to help facilitate his vision for “The Liberation Tour.” The lighting rig was built at ILC’s production facility in Arlington Heights, IL, allowing the designers to pre-program before the first show. ILC is providing equipment and electricians for the tour.

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Sidney Stringer Academy

AC Special Projects Outfits UK Academy

COVENTRY, UK – A.C. Special Projects (ACSP) Ltd. have designed, supplied and installed complete technical facilities for the Sidney Stringer Academy’s (SSA) new theatre in Coventry, UK. ACSP specified lighting, audio and video technologies, and installed a comprehensive Cat5 data network. The academy’s existing kit was also integrated into the theatre.

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Parnelli Awards 2012

Parnelli Golf Tournament, Gala Plans in Full Swing

LAS VEGAS — The 2012 PLSN/FOH Parnelli Celebrity Classic, which will take place Thursday, Oct. 18, and the 2012 Parnelli Awards Dinner, set for Saturday, Oct. 20, may be a month away, but judging by the pace of registrations streaming in, both events could set new attendance records. To ensure that you don’t miss out, be sure to sign up for both of these sought-after events. Go to parnelliawards.com today!

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Peter Johansen

SGM Finds its G-Spot with Upcoming LED Product Range

LONDON – Word leaked out during the recent PLASA trade show in London that the SGM R&D team had been developing radically different LED Spot, Wash and Beam fixtures. SGM’s Head of R&D Peter Johansen came clean about it, saying that the G-Wash and G-Beam will, of course, be joined by the G-Spot. The range is set for an April 2013 release at the Prolight + Sound Show in Frankfurt.

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Matthew Wheeler with a Kinesys DigiHoist.

National Theatre invests in Kinesys DigiHoist Control

LONDON – London’s Royal National Theatre has three theatres under its control. It recently invested in two new 8-channel Kinesys DigiHoist controllers to upgrade its existing system at its Cottesloe Theatre venue. The sale follows on from the purchase of a 21-channel Kinesys Elevation 1+ motor system, which is used regularly across its two other venues, the Olivier and Lyttelton Theatres. The National Theatre’s Rigging Resources Supervisor, Matthew Wheeler, specified the purchase.

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