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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LOS ANGELES – LEDtronics founder/president Pervaiz Lodhi noticed that the Los Angeles Coliseum and the Sports Arena marquee was deteriorating in quality and brightness. Wanting to give back to the community, Lodhi brought the sign back from disrepair: he replaced the burnt out fluorescent T12 tube lights with LED T8 lamps, for an overall reduction in energy but with an increase in eye-catching glances from motorists driving by.
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LOS ANGELES – Just 10 days before the 85th Annual Academy Awards, Visions’ President, Todd Roberts, received a call from the producers of Seth MacFarlane’s Oscar After-Party. Roberts was asked to come up with a stage design that could support a huge orchestra and be worthy of Oscar night.
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TOKYO – High End Systems’ new Hog 4 console debuted in February with Japan’s Kome Kome Club’s arena concert tour. Touring LD Makoto Shimizu from Lighting Big1 saw the console at LDI 2012 and was eager to specify it for the band’s 2013 tour.
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GLENDALE, CA – Kinetic Lighting will be hosting its 5th annual open house at its facilities here March 28, from noon to 7 p.m. Learning opportunities include side-by-side product comparisons, new product showcases and grandMA console sessions. Free tickets are available to industry members.
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UNCASVILLE, CT – The Mohegan Sun casino and entertainment resort has purchased a number of Clay Paky GlowUp portable, battery-powered luminaires. “We chose Clay Paky GlowUps because we do a lot of events on the fly in various locations,” says Brian Horne, lead lighting technician. We were looking for a wireless LED that we could connect to a console. One challenge is that since we’re a casino, WiFi can interfere with some of our equipment. The GlowUps…work within our system.”
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NEW YORK – For New York’s Fashion Week, Sapsis Rigging, Inc. (SRI) is the technical management company of choice for designers including Mark Jacobs, Tommy Hilfiger and Kenneth Cole. For the designers’ shows, production manager Michael Sapsis assembled a crew of more than 35 riggers who worked steadily for two weeks, installing 225 chain hoists, 3,000 ft of assorted truss, and one 4,000-pound sodium-vapor lighting effect, contained in a circular truss rig and lifted by a mother grid.
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