Keeping it Flexible
Visual media is a better communicator than sound, says Rick Cope, CEO of NanoLumens, an Atlanta area LED systems maker, because it’s not constrained by… Read More »Keeping it Flexible
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Robert Juliat Followspots Make the Grade in Educational Venues
WALLINGFORD, CT – US educational facilities are increasingly installing Robert Juliat lighting, specifically the Super Korrigan 1200W HMI followspots and Buxie 575W MSD followspots. Oak Park, IL-based Bill Conner Associates LLC, theatre planners and designers, report on Robert Juliat’s movement into newly-constructed and renovated theaters in high schools and colleges.
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Green Hippo Names Tom Etra Technical Sales Manager
LONDON — Green Hippo named Tom Etra Technical Sales Manager for the EMEA region. Etra, who has been with the company for five years in its Special Projects and Support department, graduated with honors with a degree in Technical Theatre from the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
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Corporate Magic Helps Girl Scout Awards Event
DALLAS – With the 100th anniversary of the Girls Scouts of the USA just around the corner, the Northeast Texas chapter decided to kick off the “Year of the Girl” in style with its Real Girls Real Women Awards Luncheon. Dallas-based Corporate Magic designed the show, while Alford Media Services provided AV gear for the event.
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Entec Laughs for the Polar Bear
LONDON, UK – Entec Sound & Light supplied lighting, sound and video production and crew for the recent Friends of the Earth’s star studded comedy sold-out extravaganza at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo, “Laugh or the Polar Bear Gets It.”
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Sharpys Chosen for X Factor, VMAs
BERGAMO, Italy – Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures are gaining in popularity for television production in the U.S. with exposure on Simon Cowell’s new “The X Factor” music reality show for FOX and on this year’s MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) telecast. LD Tom Kenny used the Sharpys on both.
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Tree Lighting Ceremonies Feature Live Performances, LED Luster
NEW YORK, WASHINGTON, DC and LOS ANGLELES — The 2011 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, held Nov. 30 and broadcast live on NBC, has come a long way since workers at the office complex first pulled out the ladders and plugged in the lights in 1931. (The first ceremony took place two years later.) This year’s tree, a 74-foot spruce from Mifflinville, PA, featured 30,000 sparkling LED lights powered via 5 miles of cabling and topped by a six-sided, 9.5-foot-diameter, 550-lb. star made with 25,000 Swarovski crystals. The star itself was lit with 720 LEDs.
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China’s Tsinghua University Celebrates 100 Years with ArKaos
BRUSSELS, Belgium – To mark 2011 as the centennial anniversary for China’s Tsinghua University, a ceremony was organized in Beijing, which was attended by most of the Chinese political leaders. LD Sha Xiaolin designed a large stage show driven by
ShowPower’s MTL media servers running ArKaos MediaMaster Pro with 3D animations and visuals that entertained the audience. Read More »
ShowPower’s MTL media servers running ArKaos MediaMaster Pro with 3D animations and visuals that entertained the audience. Read More »
Enttec D-PRO
Enttec Pty Ltd’s D-PRO software-based lighting controller, created through a collaboration between Enttec and db Audioware on DMXIS (D-PRO is actually DMXIS-PRO for short), effectively turns computers into lighting consoles, in command-line mode or with a touch screen. Using an app like iDisplay, D-PRO’s Show Control window can run on an iPad. A version of D-PRO is now available for the Datagate MK2 — Enttec’s Ethernet-DMX networking tool. Along with support for a wide range of cues, palettes and groups, D-PRO offers a multi-layered cuelist playback engine, scripting and effects and other new features. D-PRO works natively in both Mac and Windows environments. The introductory price is $299 for eight universes of DMX output.
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Anolis Flowers in South African Architectural Install
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Protea Court, which houses 70 new international and luxury retail outlets, was inspired by the shape of South Africa’s national flower, the Protea. A lighting install of Anolis LED fixtures accentuate the curvy roof and girders of the structure, allowing the architecture to “breathe” with color and movement.
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Elation Art SSC DMX Lighting Controller for Fixed Installs
LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional introduces a new lighting controller targeted for permanent installations. The new Art SSC is a 1024-channel DMX command-line controller with a complete array of features and capabilities to program, operate, record, playback and schedule light shows, in one low-maintenance solid-state unit, without requiring a computer.
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Wysiwyg Steers Vision of Autosymphonic
TORONTO, Ontario – CAST Software’s Wysiwyg was the “steering” force of a celebration marking the 125th anniversary of the first car. The event, named “Autosymphonic,” was held Sept. 10 in Mannheim, Germany, the birthplace of the car.
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