UPDATED Aug. 4, 2009:
CAMROSE, AB, Canada — A woman attending the Big Valley Jamboree country music festival was killed when a storm caused the main stage to collapse just before 6 p.m. on Aug. 1. An estimated 75 were injured.
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Elation Professional is offering three versions of IP65-rated LED video panels: medium-resolution SMD Tri-Color, EVLED 1024SMD (20mm pixel pitch); medium-resolution RGB Discrete LED, EVLED 1024 (18.75mm pixel pitch); and low-resolution RGB Discrete LED, EVLED 256 (37.5 mm pixel pitch).
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PR Lighting's new XL Beam 300 automated lighting fixture is touted for its long-throw beam, which has been designed to cut through the brightness of stage washes and LED backgrounds.
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Martin Professional’s P3-100 System Controller for LED screens lets designers treat LED screens like lighting instruments. Brightness, image position, image rotation, etc. can be adjusted and changed instantly, independently from the video source. The P3-100 is not a media server but an interface between the source and the screen.
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The GT-Plasma MT-12 from Global Truss is designed to securely fasten video monitors used at trade shows to square truss. The 2” diameter, meter-long brushed aluminum alloy bar will help attach any 42- to 50-inch plasma or LCD-screen TV to standard square truss using two Narrow Clamps. The monitor, meanwhile, is held in place with two Mini 360 Clamps.
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LAS VEGAS — Full Tilt Poker’s NBC reality show, Face The Ace, gives amateur players a crack at $1 million if they can beat the best professional poker players in the world. LD Justin Garrone of Innovative Show Design used LEDs from Acclaim lighting, supplied by CYM Lighting Services for the set design.
Read More »REDHILL, U.K. — amBX Ltd. appointed TMB as worldwide distributor for its amBIENT XC control system. Launched at InfoComm 09, the amBIENT XC uses amBX proprietary patented technology to provide a full “sensory surround” entertainment experience for architectural installations.
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JERSEY CITY, NJ — Daktronics and Upstage Video are once again supporting the All Points West Music & Arts Festival at Liberty State Park with a set of PST-12HD modular video displays for the main stage.
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IRVINE, CA — For 311’s June and July 2009 Unity tour dates, which promoted the band’s latest album, Uplifter, lighting designer/director Joe Paradise hoisted a lighting rig that included Coemar Infinity Wash XL, ACL and ParLite LED gear.
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ATHENS, Greece — When the Greek Ministry of Culture asked Videotooth Event Engineering to undertake the projection system design for the opening of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, manager / video director Vassilis Leonidopoulos selected Vista Systems’ Spyders.
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ARGYLE, TX — GoVision broke ground on the new headquarters facility it is building in Argyle, Texas, near Dallas-Fort Worth, just east of I-35W. The company will operate with a 50,000-square-foot warehouse, the first building to rise on a 25-acre commercial parcel being developed by Denkmann Associates, LLC as Gateway Business Park.
Read More »CHARLOTTE, NC — For the current Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction tour, NIN|JA Summer Tour 2009, lighting designer Roy Bennett and co-designer Jason Bullock, who is also the lighting director/programmer, chose the ChamSys MagicQ console for control.
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