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Prolyte Group’s Halo Glyph Lights Up London

LONDON – Cinimod Studio in conjunction with Prolyte Group’s Special Projects Division, Litestructures, have delivered the most epic of public lighting installations to mark the launch of the Halo 4 Xbox 360 game. Agency AKQA (acting on behalf of Microsoft/Xbox) commissioned Cinimod Studio to create the illuminated structure – based on the Halo 4 Glyph symbol – which would fly over London. Cinimod Studio turned to Litestructures to help bring their concept to life.

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Goodman Theatre, Chicago

Goodman Theatre Calls Sapsis Rigging for Lifelines

CHICAGO – Improving safety conditions for technical staff members has always been a primary goal at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. When timing and budgets came together after the annual production of A Christmas Carol, they called Sapsis Rigging, Inc. Sapsis installed fall arrest equipment in both performance spaces at the Goodman. Daniel Porter, one of the ETCP-certified rigging professionals on the Sapsis staff, supervised the 10-day installation.

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J.R. Clancy/Niscon SceneControl 5000

J.R. Clancy/Niscon SceneControl 5000

The SceneControl 5000 stage automation control system developed by J.R. Clancy and Niscon is designed to serve as a single common control platform for a wide range of stage machinery. The system offers multi-level cueing, submaster control, free and locked groups and an unlimited numbers of axes. Cues, stored show files, and concurrent axes in motion are all unrestricted. The system also can be used for flying performers. Three new operator consoles are available. Password-protected access levels keep unauthorized users out of the system, while offsite secure access allows for remote diagnostics.

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Deep Purple

MAC III AirFX Take a Hammering on Deep Purple

LONDON – Deep Purple lighting designer Louis Ball has just given Martin Professional’s new MAC III AirFX lighting fixture a thorough workout on the band’s November/December European arena tour. Ball, who has been with Deep Purple since 1984, put the fixtures through their paces with a trim height of 10 meters (32 ft.) giving ample room to see what the fixtures could do. There were 24 MAC III AirFX paired with MAC III Profiles across an upstage, midstage and downstage truss with one AirFX on each side of the downstage floor used as side light. TDA Rental supplied the fixtures.

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The LMG team takes delivery of the Barco HDQ-2K40s

LMG Adds Barco Projectors to Rental Inventory

ORLANDO – LMG, Inc. recently added Barco HDQ-2K40 projectors to its rental inventory to support live events. Said Les Goldberg, CEO/president of LMG, “The brightness of these projectors allows us to offer a new level of high quality, large scale projection mapping. When you see these projectors and what they can do, all you can say is ‘wow.’”

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TV One Appoints Two Sales Managers

ERLANGER, KY – TV One, a designer and manufacturer of video and multimedia processing equipment, has appointed Scott Kehoe and Steve Sherk as regional sales managers in the US. Kehoe will manage Central/Rockies region and Sherk will manage the Southwest region.

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ABC Election Night 2012

Spyders, J3 Productions Visually Energize Election Coverage

NEW YORK –  For Election Night 2012 TV coverage, ABC brought in Vista Systems’ Spyders for easy image delivery to a set designed for hosts Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos. John Mims of J3 Productions in Austin, TX, chose the Spyder platform to manage digital video signal distribution and pixel mapping for the background video displays seen on the ABC set in Times Square. Mims selected two Spyder X20 1608 systems running in a parallel configuration to handle Election Night tasks.

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BBC One

XL Events Supplies BBC Holiday Projection

LONDON – When BBC One’s The One Show was chosen to launch the BBC One Christmas line-up, they commissioned arts and technology collective, seeper, to produce a large scale projection onto the front of the BBC. The projection displayed a specially-produced promo film of the BBC’s upcoming Christmas shows on to the building in Wood Lane, West London. To satisfy the requirement for a high lux output, XL Events specified the newest Barco projectors.

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Projection Studio Enchants the Parks

LONDON – Projection artist Ross Ashton returned to Gateshead’s Saltwell Park for the Enchanted Parks 2012 event. His large format show “Glass House,” was a multimedia experience celebrating the work of Victorian stained glass artist, William Wailes. Ashton commissioned a photographer to visit all the churches in the area which still have intact Wailes stained glass windows, including St Nicholas’ Cathedral, Newcastle and others, which he used as original materials for his PIGI artwork.

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Zeus Media Server from Elation Professional

Zeus Media Server from Elation Professional

Elation’s Zeus Media Server is designed to serve as a full-scale media server with two full HD outputs and an Arkaos Media Master Pro 3.0 engine that lets users program and play visuals from any DMX lighting desk, MIDI controller or as a stand-alone unit. Along with Arkaos’ Kling-Net protocol, which automatically configures and distributes real-time video data to remote display devices by pixel and lets users achieve perfect time synchronization with many types of display devices, the Zeus Media Server does away with the expensive hardware converters previously required to send video data.

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BCPA

Jason Reberski Steers BCPA from Tungsten to GLP LEDs

BLOOMINGTON, IL – The Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts (BCPA) in Illinois recently carried out a technical upgrade that has seen a number of GLP’s impression Spot One and Volkslicht Zoom LED fixtures replacing traditional tungsten heads. Jason Reberski of JR Lighting Design supplied the fixtures. He recommended the Volkslichts as he uses them in his own production rental inventory.

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