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Chaos Visual Productions Provides Video Gear for Josh Groban Tour

LOS ANGELES — Chaos Visual Productions provided video support for the North American leg of Josh Groban’s 2011 Straight to You Tour in the form of four double stacks of 20K projectors projecting seamless, edge-blended imagery onto an 80-by-30-foot screen. The North American tour, with dates in North America from May 12 to Labor Day, will resume in October after making several stops in Europe. Peter Mensch, Cliff Burnstein and Tony Dicioccio of Q Prime-NYC are the tour managers.

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Elation Opti Tri White LED Par

Elation Opti Tri White LED Par

Elation Professional’s Opti Tri White LED par features Tri White technology, which lets the LED par fixture produce white light in cool, warm and amber shades for precise lighting requirements in stage, theater, concert, video and display applications. All shades of white are also designed to be bright and flicker-free, making the fixtures well-suited to television and video production lighting.

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Martin MAC Aura

Martin MAC Aura

The Martin Professional MAC Aura is a new compact LED moving head wash light with zoom that offers “eye-candy aura effects.” It also functions as a single-lens wash with fully pre-mixed color. The Aura’s new optical system combines two illumination systems in one luminaire – multicolor beam LEDs and a backlight LED lens array – to produce new visual palette designed to take the synthetic look out of LED wash lights.

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Batman Live

Tait/FTSI Seminar at PLASA Details Production of Batman Live

LONDON — Key members of the Batman Live production team joined Tait Towers staff to reveal the details behind the show at a seminar Sept. 12 during this year’s PLASA exhibition in Earls Court, London. Production director Jake Berry and set designer Es Devlin, who sought out Tait Towers for the ambitious live touring production, were joined at the seminar by James “Winky” Fairorth, president of Tait Towers, along with Dana Bartholomew from Fisher Technical Services (FTSI), also part of the Tait Tower’s group.

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Rose Brand Announces a New Scholarship Program

SECAUCUS, NJ — Rose Brand has announced the Rose Brand Scholarship Program, which is awarded to a student in the amount of $5,000. A Rose Brand credit for $2,500 will also be given to the student’s school to help enhance the theater program. The scholarship is intended for students who wish to pursue a career in scenic design, theater direction, or scenic art.

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Creamfields 2011

Creamfields 2011 Gets an Assist from LarMac Live

DARESBURY, U.K. — The Loudsound-produced dance festival, Creamfields, returned for 2011 with LarMac Live (LML) coordinated technical production for a second year. LML also facilitates production on Rockness, Bestival and other Loundsound-produced events. For Creamfields, production manager Ian “Lar” Greenway played a key role, assisted by Anthony Norris.

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Peter Pan with lighting from PCE

PCE Supports “Peter Pan” with Clay Paky, Elation and ETC Gear

LOS ANGELES — LD Michael Gilliam’s design for McCoy-Rigby’s national touring production of Peter Pan is using Clay Paky, Elation and ETC gear provided by Pacific Coast Entertainment (PCE). Clay Paky’s Sharpy fixture is used to represent Tinkerbell. The rig also uses 14 Elation Design Wash 1400E and 16 Power Spot 700 CMY II fixtures.

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Staco VAR mini

StacoVAR Mini from Staco Energy Products

The StacoVAR mini from Staco Energy Products is an automatic power factor correction bank that lets users maintain the desired power factor level through the use of a microprocessor-based controller that adjusts to system load conditions.  StacoVAR mini is designed to accurately regulate power factor automatically, making it well-suited where there are power factor penalties. It’s also engineered with a compact size and footprint.

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