White Light Supports Breakthrough’s Gala for Breast Cancer
LONDON — White Light supported One More Time, the theatrical gala held at the Piccadilly Theatre in support of Future Dreams and breast cancer charity Breakthrough.
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All the Pool’s a Stage at Borgata Water Club
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — Staging Dimensions, Inc. helped the Borgata Water Club optimize usable floorspace for special events. The clear pool cover involved coming up with a modular system that was easy to assemble, disassemble and store.
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Elation Platinum Spot 5R
Elation Professional credits a new light source technology for giving its Platinum Spot 5R the ability to emit an output comparable to a 575-watt fixture in a moving head fixture that’s half the size and weight of a typical 250-watt fixture, while using less than half the energy.
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Evo Hoist Controller by Kinesys
The Evo variable speed chain hoist controller from Kinesys is designed to comply with the BGV C1 life-safety standard and offers zero-speed performance for ultra-slow movement cues and instantaneous starts. An integrated loadcell provides precise load information while dual encoders offer accurate and secure positioning. A metal enclosure houses the controller, with truss and rack mounting options.
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Christie MicroTiles
Christie MicroTiles are modular digital display tiles that can be stacked and clustered like building blocks to create display walls of various shapes and sizes. Christie cites color and image reproduction, wide viewing angles, and a near-absence of seams on display walls as advantages, with only a 1mm gap between the tiles.
Read More »Traxon/e:cue Names Burstein Director of Technical Sales and Project Management
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — Traxon Technologies and e:cue lighting controls has named Matthew Burstein director of technical sales and project management. Burstein is a 20-year lighting veteran with experience in entertainment, event and architectural lighting and also theatrical lighting and controls.
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I don’t understand why everyone doesn’t use a fly loop when they wire and fly their truss. In a nutshell, a fly loop consists of… Read More »Cable Management: Use a Fly Loop
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Book Signing at LDI: Battle of the Titans
ORLANDO — Authors Richard Cadena, James Moody and Steven Shelley will be squaring off later this week — not in a boxing ring or octagon, but at PLSN’s LDI booth #1506 (Friday, Nov. 20, from 3 to 4 p.m.).
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Robert Juliat Marks 90 Years at SIEL-SATIS 2009
PARIS — Robert Juliat celebrated its 90th Anniversary at SIEL-SATIS, and to commemorate the occasion, created a “museum” at the entrance to Porte de Versailles in which were exhibited an array of historic lanterns and lighting products.
Read More »Hitachi SK-HD1000 HD Cameras Head To Olympics
VANCOUVER, BC — Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd. announced that Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, the Canadian broadcaster of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, will use 39 new Hitachi SK-HD1000 multi-standard, multiformat studio/field cameras for its coverage of the Games.
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DBN Supports “Good With Food” Awards Gala
MANCHESTER, U.K. — Pete Robinson from Manchester based lighting company DBN was asked to light and provide scenic elements for the 2009 Co-Operative Good With Food Awards and gala dinner, staged at Manchester Central (formally the GMEX).
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In the 1950s, George Izenour designed an electronically-controlled line shaft system for the theatre at Hofstra University. It was a very flexible system in which the sheaves and blocks could be moved around using a matrix of bolt holes on a series of beams in the fly loft.
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