ATLANTA — Six Flags over Georgia’ 27-year-old Monster Plantation attraction recently underwent a multimillion-dollar upgrade and was reopened recently as the Monster Mansion. Gary Goddard Entertainment (GGE) produced and designed the new attraction, with Lightswitch providing the new lighting design.
Read More »WESTAMPTON, NJ — Lighting Science Group Corp. and Martin Professional A/S have announced a distribution agreement that will give Martin access to Lighting Science’s X16 DOTZ LED strings for global distribution.
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NEW YORK — Major public radio station WNYC wanted more than a broadcast studio when it relocated to a new Manhattan facility earlier this year. So the station devoted the ground floor of its building to a multi-media room where concerts, theater performances, Webcasts and radio broadcasts could be held before live audiences.
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QUINCY, WA — For their first tour in almost five years, with 19 shows in 16 cities across the U.S., the surviving members of The Grateful Dead, now simply known as the Dead, incorporated PixelRange gear along with an eclectic array of moving lights in a rig dominated by circular truss features and mesh scrims.
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CARDIFF, U.K. — HSL supplied moving and digital lights plus LED elements for the latest series of 0 and 1, a Welsh language travel quiz show produced by Boomerang for S4C. Lighting designer Martyn Rourke specified the rig and the eight shows were recorded in a week at Omni Studios.
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STRATTON, VT — Capron Lighting & Sound Co. used a Robert Juliat 4000W HTI Lancelot to project a Burton logo at the 27th annual U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships. Burton is a leading manufacturer of snowboards and the founder of the event.
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MOSCOW —Staging specialist JSA Company provided a combination of Layher and Prolyte equipment for the green room serving the largest Eurovision production to date in mid-May.
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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional’s 300-watt Design Spot 300E CMY color-mixing moving head is available in an upgraded version, the Design Spot 300E PRO, with features including wireless DMX.
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DALLAS — You don’t have to be good at math to count all the Syncrolite Xenon fixtures that the U.S. Navy recently ordered to wash the West façade of the American Airlines Center for an event promoting www.navyformoms.com. In fact, you could count them with the fingers on one hand.
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SYDNEY — Clifton Productions provided over 200 Robe moving lights for Australia’s Future Music Festival 2009 tour, headlined by Basement Jaxx, N.E.R.D, CSS, Paul Oakenfold and Grandmaster Flash and featuring local DJs on up to nine themed stages.
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JOHANNESBURG — Gearhouse South Africa supplied stage and set design plus all technical production, including staging, lighting, audio, video and power, to the 2009 Africa Day Concert staged in Mary Fitzgerald Square.
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CORAL GABLES, FL — Atomic Lighting provided an assortment of Coemar Infinity and ParLite LED lights to heat up the visuals for Univision’s 21st annual Premio Lo Nuestro a la Musica Latina awards show, broadcast live from the 8,000-seat BankUnited Center at the University of Miami.
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