HSL Travels with Lemar U.K. Theatre Tour
BLACKBURN, U.K. — HSL supplied lighting gear and crew for Lemar’s recent U.K. theatre tour, HSL’s first tour with Production North.
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Elton John/Billy Joel “Face 2 Face” Tour Lit with Martin Gear
WASHINGTON, DC — Steven Cohen Productions, in conjunction with Epic Production Technologies and Syncrolite are supporting the reunion of piano men Elton John and Billy Joel for their Face 2 Face tour with a lighting rig that includes gear from Martin Professional.
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Goboland Offers Free iPhone App for Gobo Info
LONDON — Goboland released its full catalog as a free App for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Named "Black Steel Gobo Catalogue 1.0," the App can be downloaded through iTunes at no cost.
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Vibrant Design Helps High School Gear Up for MTV’s “Made”
COVENTRY, CT — Vibrant Design LD Christopher Landy used a grandMA console with a grandMA Lite on hand for backup for the lighting that turned a high school auditorium into a hip hop performance space for MTV’s Made series finale.
Read More »Comedy Festival Roof Collapses, No One Hurt
QUEBEC CITY — An outdoor roofing structure for the Grand Rire Comedy Festival collapsed amid wet, windy weather at about 7:30 a.m. June 30 in Quebec City’s Place d’Youville, near the city’s historic district. No one was hurt.
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Da-Lite Founder Wins Inaugural InfoComm AV Award
ORLANDO — InfoComm International announced that Adele De Berri, the founder Da-Lite Screen Company, has been posthumously awarded the first InfoComm International Adele De Berri Pioneers of AV Award.
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MediaMation Supplies Gear for Toyota 4D Motion EFX Theater
DETROIT —The Detroit Science Center recently opened the Toyota Engineering Theater (TET) with X-4D motion EFX seats, projectors, screens and other gear supplied by MediaMation, Inc.
Read More »Broadcast Pix, First Option Capital Offer Financing
BILLERICA, MA — Broadcast Pix and First Option Capital announced a new financing program designed to help U.S.-based dealers and customers upgrade to new technology without a large initial cash outlay.
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HSL Supplies Gear for Britain’s Got Talent
LONDON — Scottish singer Susan Boyle is emblematic of the out-of-the-ordinary talents that turn up on Britain’s Got Talent, a show that features dancers, comedy, and sideshow acts along with vocalists.
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Barco Creates Transformable 360-Degree LED Screen for U2
BARCELONA, Spain — Barco’s wrap-around LED screen for U2’s 360° tour is the world’s first transformable screen, able to change shape in all directions during the concert, and it’s also the biggest LED screen used so far in concert touring, with more than 500,000 pixels of video in a screen measuring 24 meters by 16 meters.
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CMT Music Awards’ “Negative Space” Lit by PRG Bad Boys
NASHVILLE — Video and lighting filled the void left by the absence of traditional scenery for this year’s CMT Music Awards, broadcast live from the Sommet Center.
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In Memoriam: Michael Vergauwen, 52
Michael Vergauwen, 52, died June 28 in a drowning accident in Lake Michigan. Vergauwen was executive vice president and COO of AVI Systems and secretary/treasurer of InfoComm International.
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