SALVADOR, Brazil – Rental company Luzbel Iluminacao supplied more than 150 Robe moving lights for the 2013 Summer Festival de Salvador. Luzbel purchased the latest Robe fixtures to use them on the four-day event.
Read More »NEW YORK – Arup and Artec announced the integration of their Acoustics, Audio Visual, and Theatre Consulting practices. A spokesman noted that, prior to the Feb. 2013 merger, the two companies operated separately, with Arup founded in 1946 and Artec founded in 1971. Instead of one company buying another, the merger combines the two practices, which now operate as Arup. The move also brings 13 acoustics, audio visual and theatre consultants under the Arup umbrella.
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Compulite Systems has released their new, improved Vector iControl App which remotely controls and edits basic functions for all Vector lighting consoles. The App, for iPhone, iPad, iPod and Android devices, has been completely redesigned with a full GUI makeover.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Electrosonic supplied and installed equipment for Washington, D.C.’s National Building Museum exhibit, “House & Home.” Running through spring 2017, “House & Home” presents an array of photos, objects, models and films that show visitors the changes in domestic life over the centuries and what it means to be at home in America.
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INDIA – Clay Paky’s range of fixtures are increasingly being used on India’s major events, supplied by Mumbai-based Jagmag Electric Co. Jagmag LD/ general manager Atul Sonpal is known for his work on Bollywood award nights and shows in India, and last year Jagmag and Clay Paky collaborated to light a number of those awards shows.
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LONDON – UK lighting rental company Neg Earth Lights invested in five new Kinesys DigiHoist controllers and two remote handsets, which went directly out on Muse’s ‘The 2nd Law’ world tour, together with a Kinesys K2 control and Elevation 1+ automation system that they already owned.
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NASHVILLE – ETC’s recent training session for factory representatives on their new Prodigy variable speed rigging featured a Bandit Lites’ installation at a Nashville school. Bandits’ director of sales, Chris Barbee, was on site to offer insight into installing the new rigging system.
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LOS ANGELES – Following their successful UK arena tour in fall/winter 2012, Mumford & Sons headed to the US for a short East Coast tour. The ‘Tour Of Two Halves’ world tour features more than 2,500 of XL Video’s new FX-200 LED spheres together with Pixled F-11 LED screens, HD cameras/PPU and crew.
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DOMINGUEZ HILLS, CA – Rent What?, a rental drapery supplier, has outlined a few examples of how its clients have been able to adapt less-than-suitable venues and spaces to their needs using pipe and drape solutions. Partner Megan Duckett cites examples including an occasion when the Dalai Lama was visiting California, and the client needed to establish a peaceful setting for meditation within the Long Beach Convention Center.
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VENTURA, CA – Total Structures announces a two-day Structure Education class featuring structures and hoists, with an optional two-day Columbus McKinnon hoist road technician certification program. Classes in the four-day event, April 15-18, are ETCP approved and will provide credits toward a rigging qualification renewal.
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SAN DIEGO – San Diego State University’s School of Theatre, TV & Film has acquired three Robert Juliat Lucy followspots for the Don Powell Theatre on campus. The new followspots will debut in April on “A Little Night Music,” the last production of the school’s season.
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LONDON – LD Andrew Voller used ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ luminaires to light ‘Lift’, a play running at the Soho Theatre, which explores the thoughts of eight strangers who happen to end up on the same elevator. Voller was first introduced to the Source Four LED spotlight by the Layers of Light presentation at ETC’s PLASA 2012 tradeshow booth in September.
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