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A New Green Glow for Tampa’s Skyline
PLSN Staff | News | December 11, 2008TAMPA, FL — If you watch the sun setting over Florida’s Gulf coast, you can sometimes see a brief green flash. Bay Stage Lighting designed and is supplying the LEDs that have been lighting up the top of SunTrust Financial Centre in a shade of green all night long — or any other energy-efficient color the building’s owners and managers want. Read More... -
Paulson and Sapsis Teach Three-Day Rigging Class
PLSN Staff | News | December 11, 2008NEW YORK — Rigging instructors Rocky Paulson and Bill Sapsis recently conducted a three-day master class at Madison Square Garden. The class was attended by members of the Madison Square Garden staff and riggers from IATSE Local One. Read More... -
Using Lighting to Raise Diabetes Awareness
PLSN Staff | News | December 11, 2008NEW YORK — See Factor Industry, Inc. created a blue wash for the United Nations headquarters building for World Diabetes Day, Nov. 14. The U.N. also led a concerted effort to use lighting to wash 1,101 monuments and landmarks around the world in blue as a way to raise diabetes awareness. Read More... -
A “Simulcast” for Rauschenberg Memorial at the Met
PLSN Staff | News | December 11, 2008NEW YORK — A memorial service for artist Robert Rauschenberg at the Metropolitan Museum of Art relied on video support from Scharff Weisberg to create an A/V “simulcast” linking images for two separate parts of the museum, the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium and the Egyptian Temple of Dendur. There was also a delayed Webcast of the event. Read More... -
Vortek Hoists and Controllers Now ETL Certified
PLSN Staff | News | December 11, 2008VICTOR, NY — Hoists and controls made by Daktronics’ Vortek division now have ETL certification. “Carrying an ETL mark proves our commitment to quality products and safety in our industry,” said David Rossi, Vortek’s operations manager. Read More... -
Elation Impression XL
PLSN Staff | News | December 11, 2008Since they were introduced a little more than a year ago, Elation’s Impression line of fixtures have been used on tours for Jay-Z/Mary J. Blige, John Mayer and Melissa Etheridge. This fall, Elation extended that line of fixtures with the Impression XL, which packs an output comparable to 1,200-watt fixtures in a fixture that measures 21.65" x 20.27" x 7.87" and weighs 48.5 pounds. Read More... -
New Lighting Control for SouthBrook Christian Church
PLSN Staff | News | December 10, 2008MIAMISBURG, OH — SouthBrook Christian Church, busy with two campuses and six services each weekend, consolidated to one location in March 2008. The staff was also looking for a way to create an “edgier” feel to its services. They opted for a lighting system with moving lights and ETC controls. Read More... -
Staging a Tribute to Veterans and President Bush
PLSN Staff | News | December 10, 2008NEW YORK — It may not have attracted as much national attention as Barack Obama’s election victory a week earlier. But when President George W. Bush received the Intrepid Freedom Award at the Veterans’ Day reopening of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, there was still plenty of fanfare and media exposure. See Factor was responsible for keeping a tight ship with the stage roof system and lighting package. Read More... -
Dormant Volcano Erupts in Las Vegas
PLSN Staff | News | December 9, 2008LAS VEGAS — After a $25 million facelift, MGM’s Mirage casino relaunched its Volcano attraction, which features a choreographed dance of flames, lighting, fountains and fireballs comparable to WET Design’s other big Strip attraction, the Fountains of Bellagio. Read More... -
Eco-Minded Art Fair Uses LED Lighting
PLSN Staff | News | December 9, 2008MIAMI BEACH, FL — Energy-guzzling conventional fixtures would have clashed with the shade of green that prevailed at Green Art Fair Miami, part of Art Basel 08 held recently at the Miami Beach Convention Center. So Nick Assunto, CEO of Visual Formula, lit the fair using 82 solar- and biodiesel-powered Chauvet LED wash fixtures instead. The gear included ColoRado 1, ColoRado 3, LEDsplash-2 and Q-Wash LED fixtures. Read More... -
Coemar, grandMA Gear Aboard as AC/DC Pulls Into Venues
PLSN Staff | News | December 9, 2008PITTSBURGH — “Rock ‘n’ Roll Train” is the first track on AC/DC’s Black Ice album, and the set for the band’s first world tour in eight years was designed with a locomotive theme in mind. “The five curved trusses represent the roof beams of a railway station,” said Dave Hill, co-lighting designer, of the 100-foot-wide arches custom made for the tour, used to form a curved array of gear including Coemar Infinity Wash XLs. Read More... -
ESTA Announces RDM Interoperability Plugfest
PLSN Staff | News | December 9, 2008WESTLAKE, TX — The ESTA Control Protocols Working Group is hosting an RDM Interoperability Plugfest in conjunction with ESTA’s Technical Standards Program meetings Jan. 23-25 at the Dallas/Fort Worth Solana hotel in Westlake, Tex. This free event is geared towards the numerous manufacturers that are adopting ANSI E1.20 Remote Device Management (RDM) technology in their products. Read More...
