JOHANNESBURG – The first South African rental company to invest in Kinesys automation is MGG, based in Linbropark, Johannesburg. MGG was founded by Mark Gaylard in early 1998, and has grown into one of the leading production solutions facilities in the country. Pictured here are, from left, MGG’s Herman Mentz and Electrosonic’s Renier Smit, with the Kinesys system in MGG’s Johannesburg warehouse.
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SIOUX FALLS SD – Badlands Pawn, Gold & Jewelry is a unique experience that opened its doors on Thanksgiving Day (26 November) 2015. Pawn shop, gold foundry, gun range, rock radio station, TV station and a tattoo shop by day, the 70,000 square-foot ‘entertainment fortress’ transforms weekly into a kicking rock venue at night. Las Vegas lighting designer, Drew Giancarli, designed the looks.
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MIAMI – LaserNet Events, a new branch of Laser Productions Networks, participated by donating high powered laser beams and a large inflatable video screen with HD video projector from Twilight Features, at a private locale, for the special game. LaserNet’s Tom Harman, said, “Every time there was a touchdown, we blasted laser beams throughout the party, and at halftime, we added our laser effects to the music of Coldplay, it was almost as good as being there!”
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SALT LAKE CITY – As part of its initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in entertainment production, USITT is offering new sessions on accessibility and the arts at USITT 2016 in Salt Lake City March 16-19.
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MIDDLETON, WI – The lighting world is changing quickly, and ETC is leading the charge with the development of power control equipment to prepare clients for the future. To continue its leadership in this field, ETC has promoted Ned Keitt-Pride to the role of power controls product manager. In his new role, Keitt-Pride will work with ETC’s power controls development team to bring new products to the industry, and he will be responsible for promoting those products and educating end users.
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NEW YORK — Sonny Sonnenfeld, legendary lighting salesman, educator and architectural lighting designer, died Wednesday, Feb. 10 at his home in New York City. He was 96. During his storied career, Sonnenfeld handled sales for Century Lighting (now Philips/Strand), Colortran, ETC, Wybron and again at Philips/Strand.
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MINNEAPOLIS — First Avenue has been a staple of the Minneapolis music scene for closing in on half a century. Originally opened as a dance club in 1970, the club exploded into public awareness outside of the Twin Cities in the mid-’80s when it served as the setting for most of the live performances in the Prince film Purple Rain.
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LONDON – VES, which creates large multimedia and lighting installations, chose a d3 solution for the 26th annual Paszporty Polityki awards in Warsaw’s National Opera House. The ceremony was broadcast live on Polish television network TVP2. Warsaw-based Prolight, which distributes the leading brands in entertainment and architectural lighting, is the distributor of d3 products in Poland.
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McALLEN, TX – When the Holiday Inn Express hotel in McAllen, Texas, changed its brand to Mexican hotel chain iStay Hotel, the occasion called for something special. To announce the brand change and give the hotel a new identity, several upgrades were undertaken including dynamic uplight illumination of the outdoor façade using Elation SixPar 200 IP LED PAR color changers.
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NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites recently added several grandMA 2 consoles, grandMA 2 Lites and grandMA2 NPUs to their touring inventory as spring tours gear up and prepare to load out. North American distributer A.C.T. Lighting facilitated the purchase.
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The Mega-Lite Drama LED W50 is a compact yet powerful ellipsoidal with a smooth, flat spotlight. This single source 50-watt LED fixture has a robust 2557 lumen output, yet only measures 14.5 inches long and weighs less than 5 pounds. It’s just the right size for a small to medium sized stage or venue. The Drama LED W50 has four lens options – 19, 26, 36 and 50-degrees – to best suit the throw requirements of the application. This unit also comes with four framing blades to let the user change the shape of the beam. The fixture also comes standard with a gobo holder used to project patterns and a gel frame holder used to change the color of the spotlight. The projection can be focused manually with the unit’s lens tube. Additionally, a manual iris accessory is available to adjust the diameter of the spotlight. The fixture’s housing is available in black or painted white. And, it is manufactured with a single mounting yoke for rigging. The Drama LED W50 is an on/off lighting fixture or a controllable unit. An external controller is available to control the fixture via DMX 512. It mounts on the side of the fixture’s single yoke. This gives the unit 255 steps of dimming and a flash mode. Additionally, four dimming curves offer varying speeds of fading to black. The controller is made to your specs with either 3-pin or 5-pin DMX connections. The unit houses an auto-switching power supply that operates from 100V to 240V.
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NEW YORK – CNN Heroes, a ceremony and awards program now in its ninth year, was held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The 256-square foot MicroTiles wall, installed by Data Display Audio Visual, a division of ON Event Services, captured the evening’s festivities and served as the visual backdrop for photos, graphics and video to the live New York audience and millions of television viewers during the broadcast.
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