SHELTON, CT — Lex Products named Blake Whilden (pictured left) and Chris Singleton (right) to its inside sales team. Whilden will cover the south central region (TX, NM, OK, AR, MS, LA, CO, KS); Wilkerson will cover the western region (CA, ID, MN, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY, HI, AK). They are based at the company’s offices in Sun Valley, CA.
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Fastlane Drop Over Cable Protectors are now available with optional Carpet Kit with Velcro brand fasteners and/or anti-slip rubber pads for use on smooth surfaces. These interlocking cable protectors reduce trip hazards and can be extended to any length. They are designed to be compact for easy setup, disassembly and storage.
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ALINGSAS, Sweden – Martin Professional provided lighting equipment for Lights In Alingsas 2011, an urban lighting exhibition that includes work by international students of lighting design and architecture. A combined effort between the municipality of Alingsas and the Professional Lighting Designers’ Association, many Martin fixtures were used to light structures such as Martin’s Exterior 400 luminaires and Professional Exterior 1200 Image Projectors.
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MOSCOW, Russia – The Museum of Moscow Railways completed a renovation, including all A/V systems, which were installed by Russian company a3vision. Alcorn McBride products feature heavily in the project, including a Digital Binloop and two Digital Video Machine HD video players.
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MOSCOW, Russia – The Moscow A.P. Chekhov Art Theater uses an ETC lighting system, with two Congo control consoles at the helm. Head Lighting Designer Damir Ismagilov chose the consoles and has them operating hundreds of lights, including conventional fixtures and automated fixtures.
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CHICAGO, IL – Barbizon Lighting provided Robert Juliat Topaze fixtures for the suburban Chicago location of Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament, which is now celebrating its 20th anniversary at this location.
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AARHUS, Denmark – Martin Professional is wrapping up its busy summer touring season, which saw their lighting rigs used on various tours around the globe, most notably UK festivals Reading, Leeds, Glastonbury, iTunes and Isle of Wight; Festival De Cornouailles, France; Positivus, Latvia; Northside, Skanderborg, Roskilde, in Denmark; and Summerburst in Sweden.
Read More »NEW YORK, NY – Scharff Weisberg Inc. has provided two TV One C2-2355A Universal Switchers/Scalers to the Broadway productions of Wonderland and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. The units are used to convert the DVI output of a media server and scale it to the proper resolution of an LED video wall processor, and secondly, to convert DVI output to SDI to feed a video matrix.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures and a pair of grandMA desks are joining the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their just-launched world tour in support of their latest release, I’m With You. Premier Global Productions, which toured with the band on their last world tour, has returned as lighting provider with LD Scott Holthaus at the helm, running the grandMAs, one running video from Catalyst and D3 servers, and the other running the lighting.
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NEW CASTLE, DE – Pete’s Big TVs is providing video support, for the fourth year, for “How Sweet The Sound,” an annual competition for church choirs. Equipment used on the tour includes four Barco FLM 20k projectors, Green Hippo HD Hippotizer media servers and Barco SLM R12 projectors.
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LLANELLI, U.K. – Lighting Technology Products has installed LED lighting, including UV graffiti art and UV tubes used as part of an interior design scheme, at the Robert Davies Health and Fitness Centre in Llanelli. The venue features a two-floor gymnasium, sauna, steam and salt inhalation rooms, among many other features.
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