LumenRadio Upgrades with Art-Net 3
LONDON — Artistic Licence Engineering announced that the latest version of its Art-Net protocol, Art-Net 3, will be supported in all of LumenRadio’s Ethernet-enabled products.
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LumenRadio Upgrades with Art-Net 3
DPI Announces Fall 2011 Road Show Dates
ATLANTA — Digital Projection International (DPI), together with display manufacturer Delta Group and software developer Mersive, announced a multi-city “Displays at Your Doorstep” road show with the following cities/dates confirmed: New York (Oct. 11-12) Orlando (Oct. 18-19), Washington, DC (Oct. 25-26), Atlanta (Nov. 2-3), Dallas (Nov. 9-10) and Los Angeles (Nov. 15-16). The events will demonstrate a variety of display technologies for commercial AV integrators.
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USS Midway Serves as AV Concepts Projection Surface for Patriot Awards
SAN DIEGO — For the 5th Annual Midway American Patriot Awards, a gala honoring senator John McCain, vice admiral James Stockdale and naval aviators, AV Concepts transformed the above-flight deck portion of the aircraft carrier USS Midway with large format projection.
Read More »The Show Doesn’t Always Have to Go On
This summer has turned out to be a costly one. The recent stage collapses have brought to light a call for stricter standards and a closer inspection of rigging practices. It is heartbreaking to hear about the number of people that lost their lives to these devastating events. Could these tragedies have been prevented? We may never know.
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Nocturnal Sea Life at the O2 Arena
Sensation events — immersive DJ-supported dance extravaganzas where participants adhere to an all-white or all-black dress code — made their U.K. debut at the O2 arena Aug. 13 with an event themed “An Ocean of White.”
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College Students Form Non-Profit Production Company at ASU
There’s a new live event production team in Tempe. And you’ll find their prices quite reasonable — likely even free. But you’ll have to be on the campus of Arizona State University to take advantage of it …
Students looking for experience, an opportunity to work with better gear, and a selfless desire to help their fellow students increase the production value of their events have formed Lighting Audio Video Arts (LAVA). It’s a student-led and student-crewed production group. Read More »
The Book of Mormon
Brian MacDevitt Lights Three Distinct Worlds
Fresh from the minds of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q composer/lyricist Robert Lopez, Book of Mormon is the hottest ticket on Broadway right now, and with good reason. The profane-yet-profound send-up of religious faith is ripe with hilarious humor as a naive Mormon elder seeks to get sent on a mission to Orlando, FL but ends up in Uganda, Africa — with a socially awkward and annoying peer. Read More »
80’s Rewind Festival
U.K. Designers Evoke the Past with Pastels
Pop culture’s love affair with nostalgia continues. Launched in 2009 at Henley-on-Thames, England, The Rewind Festival boasts what is perhaps the largest lineup of Reagan/Thatcher era artists this side of the US Festival.
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Alex Koch, Adam Frank and “Goodbar”
PLSN: Can you tell us the story of Goodbar briefly?
Alex Koch, video designer: Goodbar is based on the gruesome murder of Roseann Quinn, a young school teacher by day, club fiend by night who was murdered in NYC in 1973. Judith Rossner retells the story in her 1975 novel Looking for Mr Goodbar. The book’s 1977 film adaptation directed by Richard Brooks affirmed the story’s hold on the public conscious and it was something of a cultural touchstone. Read More »
Xtreme Structures Rocks Through Xtreme Growth
Mike Wells had an enviable successful career as an entertainment engineer consultant. After all, he’s engineered and designed for the likes of Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, U2 and Disney Live! among many others. Yet it wasn’t quite enough. “I always wanted to be an entrepreneur,” he stated quietly from his home recently. “I always wanted my own company.”
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Parnelli Visionary Award Winner Jim Fackert
“Jim Fackert is the MacGyver of the entertainment business,” states Bob Peterson, owner of Real World Lighting, and formerly of Upstaging. “With an idea, a pile of parts and a tube of RTV, anything could happen. Many things did. Cyklops moving lights, color changers, parametric EQ for audio consoles, bump buttons, Rainbo lighting consoles, slide matrix dimmer patching, working variable intensity pin matrices, control multiplexing, high density modular dimming, solid state dimming, Littlites… just a few of his many offerings!”
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2011 Regional Lighting Company Winners
When the votes for the 2011 Hometown Hero nominees were tallied, PLSN readers once again came up with a good mix. There are some new faces in this crowd along with some companies that have been around a while (one since 1948!). They have their differences, but they share a lot of festival and corporate work. One thing they all have in common can be summed up by what Paradigm Production Service’s Jorge Valdez said: “I can say I clearly love what I’m doing, and I don’t do it for the money, that’s for sure.”
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