ST. LOUIS – For an outdoor production of “Dreamgirls,” LD Seth Jackson called upon wireless and battery-operated CHAUVET fixtures to light six 16-ft. mobile truss towers that freely move across its 94-ft. stage. “The truss towers are large pieces. Cables or anything even close to that would have just been impossible to deal with,” said Jackson.
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ASHLAND, VA – Czech Republic-based trussing and staging manufacturer Milos Group has acquired two leading trussing and staging brands, Litec and TOMCAT. The new deal makes Milos one of the largest global aluminum trussing and staging groups, with the addition of major manufacturing bases in Italy, Slovakia, Mexico and the US.
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SUNRISE, FL – CHAUVET promotes John Dunn to Business Development Manager of the West Coast. In his new role, Dunn will focus on two CHAUVET sub-brands, CHAUVET Professional and ILUMINARC. He joined the company in 2010 as West Region Business Manager.
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Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK – Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) supplied lighting for five main ‘operated’ stages and about 30 other performance areas dotted around the site at the 2012 Secret Garden Party. The boutique festival, now in its 10th year, battled with wet weather on the set-up. The resulting large volumes of mud restricted access around the site, making it more of a challenge to ensure that all was rigged-and-ready for the sold-out festival to open on time.
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ESSEN, Germany – German lighting designer Nik Evers has been using GLP’s impression Wash One and impression 90 for “The Dome,” a popular music TV show in Germany. Evers uses the GLP fixtures not only to highlight the architectural elements of the show’s theatre interior – as a former industrial facility – but also for the stage lighting, preferring to light the artists like a concert rather than as a TV show.
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REPUBLIC OF MALDIVES – The holiday resort destination of the Maldive Islands, in the Indian Ocean, has provided the exotic location for PR Lighting’s latest foray. Local event management company BeamOn is using the XS1200 Spot on the celebrity TV show, Tharinge Rey 2012, broadcast by Maldives TV station DhiTV.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – South African technical production company Blond Productions supplied Robe ROBIN MMX Spots and 600E Beam moving lights to a new games show, “Musiek Trivia,” recorded at ZSE Studios in Johannesburg. The music trivia-focused game show needed lighting to create a mood with drama and some ‘wow’ moments rather than provide flat, clinical lighting for TV.
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SHELTON, CT – Lex Products Corporation expands its EverGrip product line with the EverGrip 7-pin molded Socapex compatible motor control cable extensions. EverGrip cable assemblies feature a proprietary two-part molding process that encapsulates the interiors of the male and female connectors to prevent spinning and eliminate non-mating or mismatched connections. This construction also encases conductors to avoid short circuits and prevents pins and contacts from pushing back into housing, which helps to extend cable life. The EverGrip process bonds the cable to the connector to provide strain relief and maintain secure connections.
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AUCKLAND, NZ – LightFactory controls software version 2.10 is now available with with new features to make programming shows faster and more streamlined. This release is a free upgrade, available for download now, for existing version 2 users.
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LOS ANGELES – Scenex Lighting, a division of GLP, now offers LED tape with black backing, as an alternative to the more common white backing. The black LED is made for staging applications, set pieces and other instances where the LED tape needs to be kept as hidden as possible. It now provides an IP67 rating for greater environmental tolerance.
Read More »NEW YORK – Three draft control protocol standards are available for public review on the PLASA website until early October. They may be downloaded for free at http://tsp.plasa.org/tsp/documents/public_review_docs.php.
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OMAHA, NE – After a summer off, the Dave Matthews Band is back on the road on their North American tour with 16 Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures in the rig. Longtime LD Fenton Williams specified the fixtures to replace the ACL-type fixtures used in the past. Lighting supplier is Theatrical Media Services Inc.
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