AUSTRALIA – October saw the United Nations’ 70th anniversary celebrated on landmarks around the world, including the iconic rock Uluru (aka Ayers Rock), the only icon to have the UN logo projected onto it. It was the first time an image had been projected onto the rock face. Darwin-based Dreamedia performed the projection with a single Martin MAC Viper fixture.
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NEW YORK – Christie once again partnered with Barneys New York to create a the holiday window displays on Madison Avenue in midtown Manhattan. Christie’s digital lighting effects were mapped to a Dale Chihuly glass sculpture entitled “Winter Brilliance” and the choreographed projection of light creates the illusion of ice, snow, and moonlight, adding a fluid and kinetic quality to the sculpture.
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EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada – Apparently things aren’t only bigger in Texas. Some things are bigger in Edmonton, too. Recently, the FC Edmonton soccer club unveiled the largest mobile video display trailer in North America, dubbed TITAN. Mounted on a 53-foot trailer, the state-of-the-art LED screen, supplied by Daktronics (NASDAQ: DAKT), measures 39 feet wide by 22 feet high.
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NEW YORK — Production Resource Group LLC, (PRG), which recently announced that Chief Financial Officer/Chief of Asset Strategy Scott Hansen will focus on the asset side of PRG’s business, noted the appointment of Ryan Schroeter, pictured here, as Chief Financial Officer.
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JOHANNESBURG – For #FillUpTheDome, an Oct. 31 concert featuring South Africa-based artist Cassper Nyovest, Gearhouse provided a Robe-centerd lighting rig that included 60 Pointes, 38 LEDWash 600s, 12 PATT 2013s, 11 CycFX 8s and eight CitySkape Xtremes.
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NORTH CREEK, NY– Creative Stage Lighting (CSL) added SGM’s P2 and Q2 fixtures to its rentals inventory. CSL is a wholesale supplier and distributor of gear for stage and theatrical lighting professionals. SGM’s P-2 LED wash light is pictured here.
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CHICAGO – Chicago Children’s Theatre, the city’s largest professional theater company devoted exclusively to children and young families, officially broke ground Dec. 12 on the company’s first-ever permanent home – an adaptive reuse of the former, 12th District Police Station at 100 S. Racine Avenue in Chicago’s West Loop.
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MAPLE GROVE, MN – To provide video that can stand up to the ambient light levels within Lord of Life Church, Excel AV Group provided the church installed a display made with PVP X3 modular indoor 3.9mm pixel pitch LED panels from Chauvet Professional..
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VIENTANE, Laos – The country of Laos celebrated their 40th National Day with a massive celebration on Dec. 2 at the Laos National Stadium in Vientane, Laos. The lighting system, installed by the rental company ProPacific (Thailand) Co., included 200 Raptor moving heads, 40 XR1200 Wash, and 60 x XR3000 Spot fixtures from DTS.
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WAYNE, NJ – The Passaic County Technical Institute (PCTI), an award-winning high school with a 200 course curriculum which includes their School of Performing Arts, upgraded its theatre facility recently with a Philips Strand Lighting retrofit installation that included PLFRESNEL1 and PLPROFILE4 LED luminaires along with a NEO lighting control console, Vision.net Touchscreens, an A21 Dimming System, and CD80SV Retrofit Dimmer Modules.
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MOSCOW – Clay Paky’s lights, including 150 of the company’s Mythos fixtures and more than 100 A.Leda fixtures, were used during the Circle of Light Festival, held in Moscow this year from Sept. 27-Oct. 4.
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