PLATTSBURGH, NY – The students of the Communications Studies program at Plattsburgh State University recently unpacked new lighting destined for their upgraded production studio. Litepanels donated the lighting, which included Sola 6 focusable Fresnels and 1×1 panel lights.
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WOODBURY, NY– Gemini Light, Sound, Video (GeminiLSV), a Dallas, Texas-based rental and production company, recently acquired three new Hitachi Z-HD5000 HDTV studio/field production cameras for its expanding video production business.
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL – Intelligent Lighting Creations (ILC) is hosting a free Lex Products “Panel to Plug” seminar on Thursday, April 11. There are three sessions planned: 10 am, 1 pm and 3 pm. Lex Products’ Keith Wilkerson (territory sales manager) and Patrick O’Keefe (product manager) will discuss the complexities and changing power distribution needs of permanent installations and temporary show productions.
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LAS VEGAS – More than 3,400 independent brokers and sales agents for Prudential Real Estate gathered in Las Vegas recently for their annual sales convention. Dallas-based Corporate Magic orchestrated the event for its 12th consecutive year, this time with a production set on Celine Dion’s stage at The Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace.
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STAMFORD, CT — Rosco Laboratories, Inc., based here, agreed to acquire the assets of Los Angeles-based GAM Products Inc. GAM, makers of GAMColor, GAM Patterns, Blackwrap, TwinSpin and other products, has been serving customers in the theatre and film community for more than 35 years. The acquisition promises to dramatically expand Rosco’s offerings to designers, technicians and artists.
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ANDERSON, IN — Associated Controls + Design (ACD) of Indianapolis worked with Daktronics on the installation of an acoustical banner hoist system within York Perfomance Hall at Anderson University here recently. The system lets a single operator control multiple banners simultaneously with multiple targets; there are 15 acoustic banners at the venue.
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LAS VEGAS — “We would like to reinvent fundraising night,” said Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte to the Las Vegas Review Journal, explaining why six of the seven venues hosting Cirque productions went dark on Friday, March 22, at the height of Spring Break tourist season in Las Vegas. The day is designated “World Water Day” by the One Drop foundation, a charity Laliberte founded to save lives among the world’s poor with sustainable clean water and sanitation systems.
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BRUSSELS – ArKaos is forming ArKaos Pro, a new division to serve the large-scale, professional level show and lighting projects which now dominate much of the ArKaos client base. The new division will operate alongside the existing ArKaos organization. ArKaos is officially making the announcement in April at the Prolight & Sound show in Frankfurt.
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LONDON – For One Direction’s Take Me Home world tour, the production team of Production North, Lite Alternative and Wigwam were brought in. They were to transform the cityscape arena concept of creative designer, Elizabeth Honan, into reality. Production designer Paul Normandale used 30 of SGM’s new X-5 white LED strobes for the first time to replace conventional xenon-driven devices.
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LOS ANGELES – Maroon 5’s Overexposed tour of North America includes Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures, which are used as a wall of light upstage of the LED screens; when the screens rotate, 144 Sharpys are revealed. Production designer/artistic director Demfis Fyssicopulos credited the grandMA2 console used for the tour, not just to control the Sharpys, but also “a plethora of media servers and custom Control Freak Systems solutions.”
Read More »VENTURA, CA – Swisson has released a new firmware for its DMX Measurement Tool XMT-120A and for the RDM Controller/DMX Tester XMT-350 adding the functionality… Read More »Swisson Flicker Finder
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LINCOLN, NE — Battling health issues that ranged from the diagnosis of a bleeding ulcer in January to pneumonia in both lungs earlier this month, Morrissey, 53, has been forced to cancel the remaining 22 tour dates on his on-again, off-again North American tour, which had been set to run through May 1. There are no plans to reschedule the shows, said Morrissey’s publicist, Lauren Papapietro.
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