NORTH BERGEN, NJ – Drape Kings was honored recently at both the 2015 ISES DC Influence Awards, bestowed on May 11 by the greater Washington D.C. chapter of the International Special Events Society, and the Chicago N.I.C.E. Awards, presented April 20 to honor Chicago area members of ISES and NACE (National Association for Catering and Events).
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Calgary Stampede adds two NanoLumens NanoSlim 6MM 16 X 9 HD LED display platforms for this year’s events.
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UNIONDALE, NY – LD Tom Kenny included 50 Chauvet Professional Nexus 4×4 LED panels for The Who’s North American tour. PRG is providing the panels, along with the other lighting fixtures used for the tour. PRG Nocturne is supporting the tour’s video needs.
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SYDNEY, Australia – For Vivid Sydney, the annual outdoor lighting festival that lights up Sydney landmarks in May and June, Paris-based art and design group Danny Rose worked with Australian artist Rebecca Baumann to transform the facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. The festival runs from May 22 to June 8, 2015.
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NEW YORK – WorldStage provided Chauvet Professional Next NXT-1 panels for JCC New York’s “White Hot Night Through The Looking Glass” fundraiser. Liron David, founder and CEO of Eventique, the visionary team behind the event, used the fixtures to transform a gym on Manhattan’s Upper West Side into a ballroom for the event.
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Philips Strand Lighting’s Emergency DMX Bypass Switch provides Emergency and Panic Lighting control solutions for DMX driven house lights and DMX controlled lighting used in emergency and egress lighting. Each Bypass unit can handle up to four (4) individual universes of DMX and can also act as a DMX splitter handling 1 in 4 out or 2 in 2 out routing scenarios. Bypass handles more than just Emergency and has separate triggers for Panic situations as well..
Read More »LOS ANGELES – After being used for the 2015 Academy Awards, the new Hippotizer V4 performed again for the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards, which was held at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium on March 29. The show was also broadcast on NBC and streamed live online. TMB distributes Hippotizer products in the Americas.
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MIAMI, FL – LaserNet installed 24 Watts of full-color power into downtown Miami’s newest adult adventureland, Club E11even. The extreme high end club features the lighting design by Michael Meacham’s I-Design and now four of LaserNet’s new 6Watt RGBB ScannerPro special effects projectors.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland — Lighting rental and technical event production specialists Blue Parrot have joined Martin Professional’s UK dealer network, adding 12 new Martin MAC Quantum Profile moving heads to their Edinburgh-based rental inventory, which also includes 30 MAC Aura washes, 24 MAC 101s and MAC Vipers (Profile, Performance and Wash DX models).
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NEW YORK – H&M, one of the world’s largest retailers, opens its latest New York flagship at Herald Center where the illuminated storefront gets a dynamic look from lighting designer Christien Methot who used Clay Paky’s new Show Batten fixtures and a grandMA2 onPC system to wrap the structure in a dance of color and light.
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FLOYDS KNOBS, IN – Floyd Central High School used a new Elation lighting package including Arena Q7 Zoom Par wash lights, Platinum Spot 5R Pros, Colour Chorus 48 LED batten washes, and white light Cuepix Blinder WW2 fixtures for a recent production of the staged musical, Mary Poppins.
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