LOS ANGELES — On his recent three-month tour, Meat Loaf turned to the PixelFLEX LED video screen for part of his stage design. Flexible and lightweight, PixelFLEX LED Curtains are able to bend and shape around structures for a more creative display effect. Meat Loaf apparently wants to wrap up the whole stage with the LED Curtain when he returns to the road in 2013.
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ATLANTA – Production People Inc. (PPi) hired Levi Bulkley as senior production consultant. Bulkley has designed and managed more than 300 local event productions as a production sales executive with another company in Atlanta. He also has experience as an audio engineer.
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LONDON – Tait Technologies was awarded a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest landscape video display. Consisting of 634,500 individual pixels, Tait’s pixel tablet debuted July 27 at the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics and was used for memorable visuals for the other major Olympics ceremonies as well.
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EUROPE — Canadian rockers Billy Talent celebrated their new album in September with an arena run of Germany and central Europe. Lighting Designer Dara Guiney had worked with the band briefly in 2010 and was invited to come aboard. Guiney specified 28 Alpha Beam 1500, 24 Alpha Profile 1500 and 16 Sharpys, supplied by Go Audio Rental GmbH.
Read More »NEW YORK — Seven industry standards are currently in public review at http://tsp.plasa.org. Comment deadlines are either on Jan. 8, Jan. 15, Jan. 22 and Jan. 29, 2013. The standards relate to DMX512-A, fog equipment, GFCIs, gobo projection and the use of chain hoists.
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NEW YORK — An 80-foot-tall spruce that survived the gale force winds of Sandy while still firmly rooted in Mount Olive, NJ, emerged resplendent from worker scaffolding one month later, adorned by more than 30,000 lights and crowned by a Swarovski crystal star. NYC Mayor Bloomberg threw the ceremonial switch at 9pm Nov. 28, and artists performing for the tree-lighting celebration included Rod Stewart, CeeLo Green, Scotty McCreery, Il Volo, Victoria Justice, Brooke White, Mariah Carey, Trace Adkins and Tony Bennett, with appearances by Billy Crystal and Bette Midler.
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AGUA DULCE, CA – Entertainment Sciences Group, a manufacturer of show control systems and VenueMagic Show Control software, has hired Sean Karpowicz as their new Director of Marketing. Karpowicz brings a diverse background across pro audio, publishing, live sound and media. He was most recently product manager at Gemini Pro Audio.
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SANTA ANA, CA – Take1 Entertainment Insurance has amended its policies on software, media and data storage devices to include all reusable media that is part of or attached to photographic, video and sound recording equipment.
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TORONTO – This week, CAST Group of Toronto’s Beta Test Team begins testing out the new features in wysiwyg R30 Beta software. The release of R30 is scheduled for early 2013. There are still a few spots available for additional R30 Beta Testers. To apply or find out if you qualify, contact CAST.
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HONG KONG – Robert Juliat’s Hong Kong distributor, Pacific Lighting (HK) Ltd, reports that many high profile venues in the region are choosing to augment or replace their inventory with Robert Juliat fixtures.
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