FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — LED Source, working with project manager Derek Warner of Funa International, equipped Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Oasis of the Seas with the latest in LED lighting technology. The ship, among the world’s largest, left on its maiden voyage Dec. 5 from Port Everglades.
Read More »Nemetschek North America announced that Landru Design has released two new Vectorworks software plug-ins: VideoScreen 4 and SoftGoods.
Read More »WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA — Back in 2007, stage and show systems supplier LA ProPoint took on a unique project on commission from 3Form — to design and fabricate a steel framing system for a monolithic resin-composite architectural façade for a building located at 8476 Sunset Boulevard.
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J. R. Clancy has turned its rigging slide rule tool into a free iPhone app, specifically for installers and users of theatre stage rigging. The new app, iRigging, also makes it easier for riggers to get the equipment data they need for proper installation and operation of manual and motorized rigging.
Read More »NEW YORK — The ETCP Council announced that paper and pencil test administrations are scheduled for 2010 at the USITT Conference and Stage Expo in Kansas City, Mo. and at InfoComm in Las Vegas.
Read More »WESTLAKE, TX — Building on last July’s Protocols Plugfest, members of ESTA’s Control Protocols Working Group have set their next Protocols Plugfest for Jan. 22-24 at the Dallas/Ft. Worth Marriott Solana hotel in Westlake, Texas.
Read More »ZZYZX, Inc. announced ESP Vision 3.0, which is able to run natively on the Mac OSX without the need for Parallels or Bootcamp. It can run on any system running Mac OS X 10.4.1 or greater, and any video card that supports OpenGL 1.4 or greater. This includes Intel chipsets and legacy Motorola chipset Macintosh computers, including the Mac Book, Mac Book Pro, iMac, Mac mini and PowerPC computers.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. — DBN Lighting designed, supplied and installed lighting for Da Vinci — the Genius, an exhibition at the Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester (MOSI).
Read More »NEW WINDSOR, NY — Formalizing a purchase agreement disclosed earlier this fall, Production Resource Group, LLC (PRG) announced that it has acquired Procon MultiMedia Aktiengesellschaft AG (Procon). PRG Chairman & CEO Jeremiah “Jere” Harris and Procon CEO Morten Carlsson announced the acquisition, which was made through MHG Media Holdings (MHG), a PRG subsidiary.
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT — CorporateMagic may not have pulled any literal rabbits out of any hats, but the turnkey production company coordinated a recent six-day, five-night conference for XanGo mangosteen juice dealers that included general sessions for some 6,000 people, formal events, a Pajama Party featuring the B-52s and an appearance by The Pursuit of Happyness author Chris Gardner.
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KANSAS CITY, MO — LD Dave Boser of Image Technologies Corp. chose a pair of Jands Vista I3 consoles to provide lighting control for the Silpada Designs 2009 National Convention.
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QINGDAO, China — LD Sha XiaoLan of Feng Shang Shiji, who designed the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, specified 159 Robe moving lights for the Ocean Fantasy musical show at the 700-capacity Olympic Sailing Centre Theatre.
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