LOS ANGELES – GLP US Inc. named Greville Kellett West Coast Sales Manager within the company. Originally from the UK, Greville moved to the U.S. a number of years ago, settling in California. He comes to GLP having had positions with soft goods manufacturer Dazian, California based Big Hammer Productions and UK based, White Light, with whom he worked for a number of years before moving to the US.
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EU – The Europe-based Knight of Illumination Awards, which celebrates outstanding achievements in lighting design, is expanding internationally with the launch of ‘KOI South Africa’ in 2015.
SYDNEY – Mojo Barriers has partnered with event supply company EHQ to supply crowd barrier products throughout South East Asia. The first show of the Mojo/EHQ partnership was Future Music Festival 2014, where Mojo provided 200m of barrier sections to meet the whole event’s requirements.
Read More »NEW YORK – Quince Imaging announced plans to transform the entire basketball court of the Barclays Center into a three-dimensional projection display on April 18. The company has teamed up again with Think Media Inc. to merge Quince’s 3D animations with traditional 2-D video content.
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NEW YORK – For the 10th anniversary of the Hemsley Lighting Portfolio Review here March 15-16, 4Wall NY once again hosted an automated lighting seminar and a Manufacturers Showcase. The annual event held at Lincoln Center was attended by 32 graduating lighting design students from 15 university programs across the country.
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BELGOROD, Russia — To bring to life its complex fireworks design element, design firm Heliocity Heliocity installed 16 of Harman’s Martin Professional Exterior 400 Image Projectors at the newly built Belgorod Airport. “After analyzing several fixtures, we decided on Martin Professional’s Exterior 400 IP due to its durability and convenient programming capabilities,” commented Anton Karpun, Project Designer, STK Heliocity. “To create the fireworks scene we ordered a special set of gobos for firework imitation. The gobos paired with the Exterior 400’s extremely robust light allowed us to successfully create a beautiful scenography of dynamic color that can be easily activated with a single button.”
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BRUSSELS – Robe lights played a vital part of the lighting for The 2013 Music Industry Awards. The rig included 60 Robe ROBIN Pointe and 36 ROBIN LEDWash 800 moving lights for the all-action show that included nine live performances and presentation of the awards. “They gave me so many possibilities in terms of look, colour, etc.” says LD Luc Peumans.
Read More »SAN DIEGO – The first-of-its-kind training and simulation experience, The Jordan Flight Lab, allows fans to interact and train with life-size holographic projections of professional basketball players. AV Concepts designed the holographic content in collaboration with Magnetic Creative, and executed the technological design, specified and overseen by Hologramica.
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BARCELONA – XL Video has recently supplied LED and plasma screens and control for two separate events for Taiwanese global technology brand HTC – the first was for their exhibition stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, followed shortly after by the high profile London launch of the One M8 flagship smartphone at Olympia.
Read More »Elite Training is a unique opportunity for student and early career USITT members to receive tuition-free hands-on training with industry leaders in five disciplines: automation, rigging, sound, projection, and a new category this year, stage management.
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LONDON —For the seven-week X-Factor Live UK arena tour, which featured live performances by the top eight finalists from the 2013 series, the visuals included two video walls and 59 Clay Paky Sharpys. With all that luminous firepower, the production needed an even brighter followspot. LD Jonathan Rouse chose five Robert Juliat Lancelots, a 4000W HTI discharge unit, and a Robert Juliat Manon as a truss spot.
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