HORSESHOE BEND, ID — Astera LED-Technology recently named Lori Mehrkens as its East Coast sales account manager. Mehrkens is a 25-year industry veteran with both sales and lighting design experience.
Read More »CLEVELAND — Cleveland’s International Exposition Center, also known as the I-X Center, has contracted with NanoLumens to provide NanoWrap and fixed NanoSlim indoor LED signage. Karen Robinson, NanoLumens executive vice president of business development, made the announcement. The installation of the 22 indoor LED displays, ranging from a 30’ x 17’ flat screen to 8’ x 8’ wrap screens, is set to be complete by April 1, 2014.
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BLOOMINGTON, IL – Clearwing Productions provided production support for Chicago’s free concert benefitting tornado victims.
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AUSTIN, TX – Fitz and the Tantrum’s LD, Chris Smith, added four of Robe’s Robin Pointe moving lights to the band’s rig for a show at ACL Live at The Moody Theatre here in December. He was favorably impressed with the dimming curve, prisms and zoom.
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LOS ANGELES – LD Gus Dominguez used Elation Platinum Beams for the first time at the VGX Video Game Awards. Dominguez used the fixtures in an exterior venue. Weather had threatened the event but the skies cleared 90 minutes before showtime and the gig was able to proceed as planned.
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LAS VEGAS – For Rose.Rabbit.Lie., the nine-room venue at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas that offers visitors a new range of dining, clubbing and theatrical experiences, LD Nick Whitehouse provided a design on behalf of Spiegelworld, the venue concept developer. Whitehouse included Clay Paky fixtures in the grandMA2-driven rig. Justin Spangler of Covington, LA-based PSX Audiovisual Technologies provided the gear and served as the integrator on the project.
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NEW YORK – Barbizon Lighting bathed three Midtown Manhattan buildings in green and orange, team colors for the Atlanta Seahawks and Denver Broncos, shortly before Super Bowl XLVIII. The installation coincided with the Super Bowl Boulevard project in Midtown Manhattan.
LONDON – The Australia House consulate in London was lit in cool blues and white hues to evoke the Antarctica mood for the 2014 Australia Day celebrations.
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