BEIJING – As part of its presentation at the 2016 Beijing Motor Show, which runs from April 25 to May 4, Ford turned to Tait Towers for a hydraulic scissor lift that ascends 23 feet into a video surround. Dubbed the “Ford Experience,” the ride lasts three minutes and accommodates up to 15 people.
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MIDDLETON, WI – Electronic Theater Controls (ETC) turned to Marshall Bissett to profile well-known LD Lee Rose, who has used many of the company’s products over a 46-year career. Rose has delved into the intricacies of lighting the stage for theatre, dance and rock productions, starting with Atlantis Philharmonic, the opening act at a Styx concert back in 1974. By the 1980s, Rose had ventured into TV and film lighting. Bissett’s profile of Rose follows:
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HANNOVER, Germany – The Harting Technology Group, which is affiliated with Harting USA in Elgin, IL, was honored April 24 with the 2016 Hermes Award. Harting and four other companies had been nominated for the 2016 honor. Harting won for its MICA (Modular Industry Computing Architecture) mini-industrial computer. Pictured here from left are Dr. Karsten Walther, Harting IT Software Development GmbH & Co. KG, Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka, Federal Minster of Education and Research, and Philip Harting, CEO, Board Connectivity & Networks, Harting Technology Group.
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KNOXVILLE, TN – While the name may suggest otherwise, The University of Tennessee Medical Center’s annual fundraising gala, ‘An Evening in Orange’ was a glittering evening of white, with a lighting package donated by Bandit Lites. The black tie event and dance party took place April 16 and benefited The Cancer Research Endowment, where UTMC’s CEO Joe Landsman announced that, during this year alone, the Cancer Research Institute raised over $4 million.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Since just before Christmas 2015, The Bank nightclub has been operating three days a week out of the art deco QV54 (54 Queen Victoria Street) building in downtown Cape Town. The lounge style environment – with comfortable, sociable seating areas and strategically placed dancing surfaces rather than a central dancefloor – is attracting crowds with a mix of hip hop Caribbean, Miami and deep house. Lighting and effects are provided by a combination of Robe MiniMes and miniPointe fixtures.
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MEXICO CITY – The 489-foot-high tower that’s part of the Paragon Business & Residential Suites in Mexico City’s Santa Fe district is adding a new dose of color to the Mexico City skyline with an architectural lighting project completed by Hermes Music México. The design called for LED color washes from one of their principal suppliers, PR Lighting. Hermes Music Mexico lighting specialist Ricardo R Segura de la Cruz made use of four of PR Lighting’s Arc Led 3216 fixtures to light the top of the building and XPar 390 fixtures to light the base.
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DUBAI, UAE – On April 1, the day before the UN-designated World Autism Awareness Day (April 2), Protec LD Aaron Russ lit Flo Rida and Tyga on a temporary stage dubbed the “Autism Rocks Arena.” Kicking off Autism Awareness Month, Austism Rocks awareness-and-fundraising concerts were launched by British born businessman and philanthropist Sanjay Shah, whose young son, Nikhil, was diagnosed with autism in 2011. Since Autism Rocks concerts began, performers have included Lenny Kravitz, Joss Stone, Drake and Prince.
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LOS ANGELES — Empire Pro’s EPU (Empire Pro University) training program continues with an Educational Training and Product Workshop set for the company’s facility at 5675 Mansfield Way, Bell CA in the Los Angeles area. The event is the company’s 18th in-house event workshop, and it is open to AV and Lighting professionals. It will take place May 5, 2016 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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Kramer Electronics USA’s K-Touch 3.2 is the latest software upgrade for the K-Touch Control Platform. K-Touch 3.2 promises ot further simplify the system design process and reduce the time it takes to build advanced, user-friendly room control systems over Ethernet for lights, screens, sound, any AV equipment, HVAC, thermostats, and more. K-Touch 3.2 is designed to save time on both new installations and upgrades of existing installations with support for Kramer’s new FC-28 Ethernet Gateway.
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Blizzard Lighting calls its wiCICLE AnyFi a “teeny-tiny yet mighty powerful DMX receiver with no cords attached,” and notes that it will help users free themselves of the burden of untangling DMX cables.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Beach Park in Florida’s famous spring break city is 893 miles from Ryman Auditorium, birthplace of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. But for three days this April, the eyes of the country music world were on Fort Lauderdale, as the Tortuga Music Festival welcomed Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Joe Nichols and Dierks Bentley and a host of other hot country artists to its main stage.
ARLINGTON, TX – For WWE’s WrestleMania 32, held at AT&T Stadium (home of the Dallas Cowboys) on April 3, Syncrolite provided an arsenal of luminous firepower including MX4, SXL and XL fixtures. The setup for the 101,763 fans packing the stadium (a WrestleMania record) also included 40 of Syncrolite’s newest fixture, the SyncroMITE Beam. Introduced at LDI last October, the SyncroMITE Beam is now in full production and available for immediate rental and sale.
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