International News
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Entec Scopes Out Big Comedy Night
PLSN Staff | International News | June 19, 2012LONDON - Entec Sound & Light supplied full technical production and crew for the recent Big Comedy Night event for charity Scope at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. The line-up included a rare stand-up appearance by comedian Ben Elton, plus a host of other high profile acts.
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Titanic Weekend for PSI
PLSN Staff | International News | June 18, 2012BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Irish lighting rental company Production Services Ireland (PSI) became fully embroiled in the weekend commemorating the centenary of the sinking of the world’s most famous cruise ship: Titanic. They supplied lighting, rigging and crew to three major events to mark this moment in maritime history. On the same weekend, PSI also supplied lighting to three major boxing and wrestling events, so it proved a real brain-teaser for logistics and pre-planning and left PSI’s Belfast warehouse bare.
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PR Lighting LEDs Shine On Ukraine War Memorial
PLSN Staff | International News | June 18, 2012DONETSK, Ukraine - CORTMI Ltd. has carried out an innovative lighting installation at a war memorial in their native city using PR Lighting’s new ARC LED 3216, among other lighting. The three LED spotlights have been placed on specially installed masts around the monument, illuminating it with red light to symbolize the bloody years of war.
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XL Video Steps Up to Stadiums with Coldplay
PLSN Staff | International News | June 15, 2012LONDON - XL Video continues to supply Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto (MX) world tour, which has stepped up to play stadiums shows in the UK and Europe. The expanded design features XL Video’s new Pixled F-12 LED screen product.
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Robe Lights South African Music Awards
PLSN Staff | International News | June 15, 2012SUN CITY, South Africa - More than 200 Robe moving lights illuminated 18th annual South African Music Awards show, staged at the Sun City Superbowl. As part of the main design element, LD Joshua Cutts was asked to energize an inflatable set, comprising giant interlocking circles and tubes which spanned most of the ceiling.
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Robe LEDBeam 100s Make Impact in South Africa
PLSN Staff | International News | June 14, 2012JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - MJ Event Gear is one of the first in South Africa to purchase Robe LEDBeam 100s, which went straight out onto a show for Swedish automotive company Volvo. The event was staged at the Hilton Hotel, honoring the car company’s outgoing president with dinner and entertainment.
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Dry Hire Lighting Gears Up with Clay Paky
PLSN Staff | International News | June 14, 2012LONDON - Dry Hire Lighting has purchased a large number of Clay Paky products in anticipation of their busy summer event season. With the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee just past and the Olympics gathering steam, Dry Hire Lighting is ensuring it is well prepared to service the increase in demand for rental gear.
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SGM X-5 Strobes Give Legendary Hacienda A Birthday Treat
PLSN Staff | International News | June 12, 2012MANCHESTER, UK - To celebrate the legendary Hacienda’s 30th anniversary (though the club has been closed since 1997), a rave was organized in the concrete car park under the original Hacienda venue. Low ceilings and limited power meant they needed high impact from a low energy source. SGM’s new X-5 LED strobes solved their production needs.
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Hippotizers Serve Eurovision Song Contest
PLSN Staff | International News | June 12, 2012BAKU, Azerbaijan - Battling it out for Europe’s highest vote, Green Hippo’s Hippotizers were at the core in pulling off a spectacular show at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. This year the content resolution was really pushed for LED screens with 4000 x 3000 pixels being used, along with the outputs of 6 active Hippotizer HDs genlocked together.
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Mojo Barriers Expands with New Israeli Distributor
PLSN Staff | International News | June 12, 2012TEL AVIV - Netherlands-based Mojo Barriers has appointed Tel Aviv-based Safety Access as its new distribution partner in Israel. The first contract of the partnership is the provision and installation of 400 meters of barrier for the opening date of Madonna’s long-awaited MDNA tour May 31 at Tel Aviv’s Ramat Gan Stadium.
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Philips Selecon, Strand Join Forces at Soweto Theatre
PLSN Staff | International News | June 12, 2012SOWETO, South Africa –The newly built Soweto Theatre, designed by Afritects, opened May 25 with Philips Strand Lighting dimming and Selecon luminaires. The equipment was selected to handle the theatre’s three spaces, which can stage a diversity of performances.
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Pharos Controls Vancouver Landmark
PLSN Staff | International News | June 12, 2012VANCOUVER - Vancouver’s BC Place stadium has become a new landmark, due to the new lighting effects system. Controlling the Lumenpulse LED fixtures is a Pharos LPC 60 programmed with the Pharos Designer software. It allows fine-tuned cues to be executed by lighting consoles for big budget halftime shows and by scorekeepers for touchdowns and crowd messages, while allowing building systems to handle the necessary architectural commands and astronomical automation for pre-dawn and after sunset lighting displays.
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