LONDON – Pharos Architectural Controls has restructured its management team with Simon Hicks promoted to Technical Director and Chris Hunt taking the role of Managing Director. The other directors are founders Richard Mead and Nick Archdale, both of who remain actively involved in the company.
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BRISBANE, Australia – Brisbane’s Family Nightclub spreads out over four floors and five bars, and has hosted big names in the DJ world from DJ Tiesto to Paul Van Dyk. In the club’s latest reinvention, Josh Frey Productions installed an all Martin lighting package consisting of 8 MAC 700 Profiles, 8 MAC 101 LED moving head wash lights and 4 MAC Aura compact LED moving head wash lights with zoom.
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ORLANDO – LD Justin Geiger of California-based Impulse Creative Group used 16 Clay Paky Sharpys for the concert portion of the GreenWavesIII event at the University of Central Florida. Featuring electronic artists and notable DJs, the interactive concert took sustainability to the next level by using a PowerLeap dance floor, which uses “Piezo” flooring technology to convert the energy from the crowd into reusable energy for the concert.
Read More »NASHVILLE – Visitors to Nashville July 12-14 will have access to two simultaneous business events. Summer NAMM and PLASA Focus: Nashville have arranged for attendees to easily gain access to both events with just one badge, and at no extra cost.
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DEVON, UK – S+H Technical Support again supplied its LED Video Floor to television game show, The Cube. The floor of The Cube becomes a volatile and unpredictable physical boundary with which contestants have to deal and overcome while they perform the tasks. The Video Floor uses three RGB LEDs positioned next to each other to populate the LED PCBs – as opposed to SMD boards – which produces a specific quality of pixel suited to the gaming video content displayed on the floor.
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LOS ANGELES – Elation is hosting an open house July 18 in its new showroom here. The facility is designed to show how new products will work in real-world applications. The open house, set for 11am- 4pm for dealers and 4pm to 8pm for end-users, will include hands-on demos, programmed light shows, free swag and raffles for some of Elation’s leading products. Products from sister company Acclaim will also be on hand.
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LOS ANGELES – Martin Professional’s MAC Aura played a heavy role in the Golden Gods heavy metal awards show, broadcast on VH1. LD Lee Rose, in his third year with the awards, chose the Aura to create a “wall of light” as a backing / scenic look to the turntable stage by placing four rows of fixtures in a matrix over a divider wall.
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