The latest Lightconverse 3D Virtual Show Platform lets users integrate and visualize multiple show-related disciplines in real-time, including lighting, video, laser, pyro and DMX controlled moving objects.
Read More »Da-Lite Screen Company says it has increased the gain on its 3D Virtual Grey projection screen by over 40 percent, for a gain of 1.85 vs. the previous 1.3 gain fabric. That means a dramatic improvement in the brightness of the projected image, while maintaining the 99 percent polar retention of the previous material.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. — “I never want to light a cyc again without it!” That’s what London-based LD Peter Mumford said after using Martin Professional’s EvenLED RGB LED panels on the new opera, Prima Donna, at the Manchester International Festival.
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NEW YORK — The newly-rebuilt 1,016-seat Henry Miller’s Theater is staging the musical Bye Bye Birdie, lit by Ken Billington and programmed on the theater’s new ETC Eos and ETC Ion lighting control consoles.
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ST. LOUIS — Dodd Technologies, Inc. (DTI) produced Valpak Direct Marketing Services Inc.’s annual national sales meeting and awards event for the sixth consecutive year, known as Coupon U, and staged in America’s Center in St. Louis.
Read More »BALTIMORE, MD — Event Tech named Jeremy Meyers account executive. Meyers comes to Event Tech after 13 years at Entertainment Sound Production, where he started as a system tech and monitor engineer and worked his way up to be the lead account executive.
Read More »TORRANCE, CA — GLP announced a new office serving the North American market, to be led by Mark Ravenhill, who will retain his position as GLP’s director of global key players. Elation Professional will remain GLP’s distributor for the Impression range.
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LINZ, Austria — LD Lui Helmig specified 130 Robe moving lights as the main work-horses of the rig for Die Ärzte’s two recent stadium shows. Helmig arranged the fixtures — a mix of ColorSpot and ColorWash 1200E ATs and ColorSpot and Wash 2500E ATs — across 9 finger trusses above the stage and on a front truss.
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LONDON — White Light is no stranger to London’s West End, but the company set something of a record for itself recently by supporting three different productions at the same theatre over the course of just a few days.
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NEW YORK — It won’t be that long before Dutch apparel manufacturer G-Star Raw’s 2010 spring and summer fashions are being worn by its customers. But for the company’s recent showing at the recent New York Fashion Week, Scharff Weisberg helped project a look that went much farther into the future.
Read More »Anyone who has ever looked after lighting a musical artist will eventually find themselves having to work in strange surroundings, with a light rig and… Read More »Being a Guest LD
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In January of 2002, Ed Wannebo resigned from his production manager position for Tim McGraw to be the manager of a new production, the first headlining tour of McGraw’s opening act, Kenny Chesney. Since that tour eight years ago, Chesney has evolved into one of the biggest names in country western music and the touring industry at large.
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