NORTH CREEK, NY — Creative Stage Lighting has announced that it has become an authorized dealer of Vari-Lite and Strong Entertainment Lighting products. Both brands are now available from Creative Stage Lighting to CSL dealers.
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HONG KONG —AV company PCCW chose a Medialon control system for the digital planetarium system installed in the Stanley Ho Space Theatre at the Hong Kong Space Museum. The theatre, sheltered beneath the museum’s egg-shaped dome, is part of the planetarium area of the museum.
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NEW ORLEANS — Train’s fall tour, supporting the band’s new album, Save Me, San Francisco, is rolling across the U.S. with lighting, video and audio support from LMG Touring.
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LONDON — HSL supplied lighting and video equipment plus crew, and designed a custom DJ booth for two recent sold-out performances by The Swedish House Mafia at Brixton Academy. The shows were presented and produced by Cream and Loudsound Events and HSL was working for technical co-ordinators, BPM, who also supplied pyro and lasers.
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NEW YORK — The lighting team on Comedy Central’s The Sarah Silverman Program are using ETC’s Ion lighting control system to deal with the high-pressure, fast-paced challenges of single-camera television production.
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LONDON — A demonstration of Clay Paky’s Alpha Spot HPE 1500 took place recently at the Royal Albert Hall. The fixture, which Clay Paky calls its “top spotlight,” is joined in the Alpha range by the Alpha Profile 1500 beam shaper and the Alpha Wash 1500 washlight.
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BOCA RATON, FL — With one part-time and two full-time employees, BocaTV, the local cable channel covering city council meetings here, is not about to be confused with CNN, or even C-SPAN, for that matter.
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Carl Massano, creative director at SKB Corporation, passed away on Dec. 2, 2009 after a lengthy illness. A graduate of Queens College, CUNY, Massano founded Massano Design with his wife, Carolyn, where he began producing graphics for SKB Corporation. In 1992, SKB acquired Massano Design.
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BERLIN — For this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards, held at the O2 World in Berlin, XL Video’s U.K. and French offices worked together to provide an interactive video backdrop that would give the set a multi-layered sense of visual depth.
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WASHINGTON, DC — Scecon, a Virginia-based design and fabrication company, used Robe DigitalSpot 7000 DTs to project onto a “floating touch screen” at the center of a large booth at the 2009 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Convention held in the Washington Convention Center.
Read More »The iPhone MAXRemote from Martin Professional is a personal assistant that can be used to remotely control lighting devices from an iPhone or iPod touch. It is designed for use with the Martin Maxxyz lighting console and Maxxyz PC.
Read More »The economics of luminous art is a reflection of that of the art world in general: it’s a tightrope between searching for grant funding and… Read More »The Economics of Luminous Art
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