ST. LOUIS – Swank Audio Visuals was honored June 14 as Supplier Partner of the Year by the St. Louis Area Chapter of Meeting Professionals International (MPI). On the same occasion, Lisa Schmidt, director of business development for Swank’s Event Services division, received a scholarship to attend MPI’s World Education Congress.
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SYDNEY – Christian Marclay’s The Clock is a 24-hour video collage that is attracting audiences in the art world. Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art hosted the Southern Hemisphere premiere of the piece, working with Jands’ staging department to create the proper curtained cinema environment for the three-month art installation.
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LOS ANGELES — For this season’s American Idol, LD Kieran Healy has added Prism Projection’s RevEAL LED Profiles to keylight the three judges -Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson – as they sat at their table. “The light provided me with a beautiful, flat field and … I could choose any color temperature that I wanted—and maintain that balance,” Healy says.
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LONDON – Clay Paky equipment figured heavily in rapper Example’s first arena tour. LD Graham “Grum” Leesmith spec’d 50 Alpha Spot QWO 800 fixtures, along with 30 Sharpys and 20 Alpha Wash 1500s, all from rental house Neg Earth.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Irish lighting rental company Production Services Ireland (PSI) became fully embroiled in the weekend commemorating the centenary of the sinking of the world’s most famous cruise ship: Titanic. They supplied lighting, rigging and crew to three major events to mark this moment in maritime history. On the same weekend, PSI also supplied lighting to three major boxing and wrestling events, so it proved a real brain-teaser for logistics and pre-planning and left PSI’s Belfast warehouse bare.
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BOIRARGUES, France – Spanish tower lift manufacturer VMB and France-based ESL have signed a deal for the exclusive distribution of all VMB products in France. ESL will now also be the official service center for all VMB lifts.
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TORONTO — Staging elements for a June 16 Radiohead concert at Downsview Park partially collapsed, with falling structural elements pinning and killing drum tech Scott Johnson, 33, at the scene. Another crew member was hospitalized with a non-life-threatening head injury, and two others were treated at the scene.
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