Women in AV Recognizes Achievers at InfoComm 2014
LAS VEGAS — Women in AV (WAVE) announced that Theresa Hahn, director of marketing & business development of Verrex, has been selected to receive WAVE’s 2014 Mentoring Award. The award was presented June 18 at the Hard Rock Hotel here during an event that coincided with InfoComm 2014. WAVE also honored Cory Schaeffer, Listen Co-Founder & Vice President of Business Development Worldwide, with a Women in AV Award.
Read More »Aspiring LDs Attend PANSA Seminar Supported by Philips Selecon in South Africa
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa — The next generation of South African theatre lighting designers have got hands on with Philips Selecon’s PL range of LED luminaires as part of a two-day seminar focusing on the future of LED technology at The Savoy theatre in Adcockvale. The attendees, between 15-25 years in age, were part of The Performing Arts Network of South Africa’s (PANSA) Youth Theatre Project in the Eastern Cape province.
Read More »Barco Projectors Create Immersive Visuals at Vancouver Aquarium
Swedish Alt Rock Band Kent Tours with SGM Gear
Neon Trees Tour with PixelFLEX LEDs
KANSAS CITY, MO — Although songs like “Text Me in the Morning” speak to the quirks of romance in the digital age, the design for Neon Trees’ current tour, in support of their April 2014 Pop Psychology album release, started with a low-tech napkin sketch by frontman Tyler Glenn. Production Manager Mike Bangs relied upon four 8-by-4 foot panels of PixelFLEX FLEXCurtain to help bring Glenn’s sketch to colorful fruition.
Read More »Parking Lot Shooting Leads to Lockdown Outside Red Rocks
MORRISON, CO — A police search following a parking lot shooting incident that injured three members of rapper Schoolboy Q’s entourage led to a lockdown of all roads leading to the Red Rocks Amphitheatre here late on June 19 while police tried to find the shooter. Although Schoolboy Q had been in the car at the time of the shooting, he was uninjured. The shooting occurred at about 10:30, as the concert featuring Nas and Lotus along with Schoolboy Q came to and end. The shooter remained at large despite a roadblock and car-by-car search of exiting concertgoers that continued until about 3 a.m.
Read More »Ludus Launches Ticketing Program for Theatres
PR Lighting XLED 1061
Darien Koop Lights Pentatonix Vocalists with Chauvet Fixtures
Ayrton MagicBlade R, MagicPanel R and MagicRing R9
Morpheus Lights featured Ayrton’s MagicPanel R (pictured here), MagicBlade R and MagicRing R9 LED Beam Projector fixtures at InfoComm 2014. They are collectively known as Ayrton’s new Radical Series.
Read More »Martin Professional Features MAC Quantum Wash, Profile Fixtures at InfoComm
LAS VEGAS – Among the products on display the InfoComm 2014 are Martin Professional’s MAC Quantum Wash and MAC Quantum Profile fixtures, the family of VC-Grids and the VC-strips and M-series consoles with the latest version 3.4 M-Series software.
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