LONDON – SGM Lighting has expanded its distribution arrangements in the UK, appointing A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd (AC-ET) to work in parallel with existing distributor, LED Projects. The new arrangement takes effect Aug. 1, and AC-ET confirms it will showcase the latest SGM range at this year’s PLASA 2012 exhibition in September.
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NORTH CREEK, NY The new Avolites Sapphire Touch lighting console is now shipping in the U.S. through Creative Stage Lighting, North American distributor of Avolites and Avolites Media. The console has already been used for the Chattanooga’s Riverbend Festival and for the Miss Mississippi Scholarship Pageant.
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DALLAS – Christie Digital Systems is helping the Dallas Police Department fight crime. In its 24-hour Fusion Center, a 72-unit Christie MicroTiles display helps the officers gather and share intelligence information with state-level and Federal Homeland Security. The center selected Christie MicroTiles as it fit their requirements for a video wall that was high resolution, low maintenance and durable enough for round-the-clock usage.
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LONDON – France TV Sport is covering the Olympic Games with a temporary TV studio on the Thames, outfitted with ETC’s Source Four LED profile spotlight providing the majority of the light. The station has rented 48 ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ Zoom 25-50-degree luminaires to help with their energy usage. The technical directors also like the fixture’s color mixing system, which allows them to achieve the natural skin tones needed for TV broadcasting.
Read More »NEW YORK — Behind the Scenes participated at the recent PLASA Focus: Nashville event to raise both funds and awareness about the charity. The fundraising was made by possible by Mainstage Theatrical Supply, Inc.’s donation of an ETC Source Four Lustr+ LED Light Engine as a raffle prize. The raffle winner was Steve Gilbard from coolux. Behind the Scenes raised just over $1,000 in the fund-raiser – enough to help someone in the industry in financial need.
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LOS ANGELES – The new ELAR Quad Series from Elation Professional offers IP-rated RGBW wash fixtures, designed and built for rugged architainment production use. The high-power 10W CREE LEDs with extreme optics Quad-Color Technology offer bright output and advanced color mixing, while offering pixel control for extreme LED matrix effects. The series includes four models of varying shapes, sizes, brightness and beam angles, with maximum power consumption ranging from 75 to 290 watts.
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LOS ANGELES – Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s “Wrecking Ball” tour continues to roll across the country with three Manon, eight Topaze, and four Lancelot followspots from Robert Juliat. Robert Juliat got together with Morpheus Lights, of Las Vegas, the production company for the tour, and created a hybrid that married the RJ heads with a Morpheus electronic power supply – the RJE Electronic Ballast – and produced one-piece truss spots that have been a great success.
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CYPRESS, CA – Christie Digital Systems named Keith Klentz director, visualization and simulation sales, Visual Environments (VE). He will manage the VE sales team in the U.S. and Canada. Klentz has been in the visualization and simulation industry for more than 25 years. Prior to joining Christie in 2009, he worked for Barco for more than 20 years in visual systems engineering, market development and sales.
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LONDON – Green Hippo has added new members to its staff. Suzy Casserley, who started as an intern, officially joins the technical support and product testing team after receiving a BA Hons Degree in Lighting Programming at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance.
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LONDON – Renegade’s Nick Gray combined entertainment and architectural lighting to produce a lightshow for the recent Tree of Light performances, which were part of the London 2012 Festival leading up to the Summer Games. Gray incorporated as many LED and low energy light sources as possible in the design in keeping with the ethos of the project, with some of the lighting actually run via bicycle power.
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MOSCOW – World renowned DJs descended on Moscow June 23 for the annual student Prom Night, lit by more than 100 Clay Paky luminaires. LD Roman Stolyarov of Moscow-based Arlecchino Group used the Shotlight and the Alpha Profiles to create the general atmosphere for the event and the Sharpys to deliver the lighting and set effects in sync with the music.
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FT. LORAMIE, OH – Pete’s Big TVs recently added to its rental inventory 1,200 panels of digiLED MK7 video screens, using 350 of the panels to create five screens for the Country Concert ’12. The MK7 panels provided a solution for daytime ambience. “They have all the features of the 7mm MC7 – popular because of their no Radio Frequency interference – except that the screens are not transparent, which makes them twice as bright,” says Guy Benjamin of Pete’s Big TVs.
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