MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Canada — AV integrator Advanced named Ibrahim Saad director of design engineering. Saad comes to Advanced after serving as a technology consultant/projects lead for ET Group and, prior to that, he spend more than 13 years at Techno Q.
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PixelFLEX’s TrueFLEX 1.9mm flexible LED video panels are well suited for fixed installations that require require an ultra fine pixel pitch and a high-resolution LED video palette in a flexible format. The 1.9mm panel joins the TrueFLEX product line, which also includes panels with pixel pitch resolutions of 2.5mm, 3.0mm, 4.0mm, 6mm and 10mm.
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RAS AL-KHAIMAH, UAE — Every year on Dec. 2, the UAE celebrates National Day. At Ras al-Khaimah, one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, Dubai-based Lighthouse Productions provided a visual assist for the FakhrakYaWatan (The Pride of the Nation) event, where some 800 singers, dancers and actors perform 15 different acts on an 88-by-12-meter stage. To handle 18 million pixels of custom video and graphic content, Lighthouse Productions used three Avolites Ai T Series media servers.
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AUSTIN, TX — Creative Production & Design (CPD) is providing Chauvet Professional fixtures to support a lighting design by Kendall Clark for a tour featuring EDM duo Louis the Child. The rig includes 18 Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures. Andrew Roman serves as lighting programmer for the tour.
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LITITZ, PA — Upstage Video has moved its headquarters to the Rock Lititz complex in rural Pennsylvania. The company, founded in 2005 in Pottstown, PA, is one of the live event production companies occupying Pod 2, near the main Rock Lititz rehearsal facility.
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TUSTIN, CA — WorldStage notes that its new Southern California office in Tustin doubles the size of both its office and warehouse space. The new 58,000-square-foot location is at 1111 Bell Ave., Tustin, CA, 92780.
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Staging Concepts’ SC Pro Riser is a caster-mounted product with towers that combine both bridging from left to right and front to back. It is designed to be both long-lasting and transportable. Optional accessories include step units, handrail, guardrail, field walls and padding, camera or video platforms, and wind load anchors. This system is well suited for large, flexible venues such as sports stadiums or arenas.
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AMSTERDAM – Digital Projection, a manufacturer of digital imaging solutions and leader in the field of solid state laser projection, will be exhibiting at ISE to stand F44 in Hall 1 where four new solid-state laser projection systems will be launched at the event. It runs from Feb. 7-10 at RAI Amsterdam.
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MUNICH – As its centenary year gets underway, ARRI looks back at its rich history, assesses the values and principles that have helped it reach this milestone anniversary, and sets its sights firmly on the future. 2017 marks 100 years since August Arnold and Robert Richter rented a small former shoemaker’s store in Munich and set up shop as a film technology firm. The two young friends started with just one product: a copying machine they built on a lathe Richter had received as a Christmas present from his parents. Taking the first two letters of their surnames, they christened their new enterprise ARRI.
WILKES-BARRE, PA — Mountain Productions named Simon Franklyn, a veteran who has worked as a tour production rigger for top artists including Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac and The Who, as the company’s Director of West Coast Operations. Along with his touring experience, Franklyn has supported complex events including Lotte World in Seoul, the 1996 Olympic Games, an 80,000 square-foot scaffolding system for Universal Studios’ Jurassic Park, and work on the main stages at Desert Trip, Panorama and Coachella, among other projects.
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ARGYLE, TX – GoVision named Patrick Carlile regional account executives. Patrick Carlile (pictured here, left) will serve as regional account executive for Arkansas, Kansas, parts of Texas and most of the Northeast Region. Mike Renfro (pictured right) will assume responsibility for parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and most of the Southeast Region.
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ORLANDO, FL –– Michael Pagan, a former student at Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, has been making creative use of GLP’s state-of-the-art X4 series to light school productions including the musical, Rent, pictured here.
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