Kinetic Lighting Adds Dena Cerino
GLENDALE, CA — Kinetic Lighting announced that Dena Cerino has joined the company. Cerino will be working with existing clients and develop new rental business.
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LumenRadio Upgrades with Art-Net 3
LONDON — Artistic Licence Engineering announced that the latest version of its Art-Net protocol, Art-Net 3, will be supported in all of LumenRadio’s Ethernet-enabled products.
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DPI Announces Fall 2011 Road Show Dates
ATLANTA — Digital Projection International (DPI), together with display manufacturer Delta Group and software developer Mersive, announced a multi-city “Displays at Your Doorstep” road show with the following cities/dates confirmed: New York (Oct. 11-12) Orlando (Oct. 18-19), Washington, DC (Oct. 25-26), Atlanta (Nov. 2-3), Dallas (Nov. 9-10) and Los Angeles (Nov. 15-16). The events will demonstrate a variety of display technologies for commercial AV integrators.
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USS Midway Serves as AV Concepts Projection Surface for Patriot Awards
SAN DIEGO — For the 5th Annual Midway American Patriot Awards, a gala honoring senator John McCain, vice admiral James Stockdale and naval aviators, AV Concepts transformed the above-flight deck portion of the aircraft carrier USS Midway with large format projection.
Read More »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 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
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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WE Fest Features Upstage Video, Daktronics Screens
DETROIT LAKES, MN – The annual three-day WE Fest country music festival roped in more than 48,000 music fans with a lineup ranging from Miranda Lambert, Willie Nelson and Lynyrd Skynard to Brad Paisley and Lost Highway. Upstage Video helped bring the artists closer to the fans with HD LED video screens from Daktronics.
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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.
Read More »W-DMX Built into New Clay Paky Products
UDDEVALLA, Sweden – Wireless Solution Sweden AB has announced Italian lighting manufacturer Clay Paky SpA as the latest OEM partner to offer W-DMX built into select products. The technology will be installed directly at their factory in Bergamo, Italy.
Read More »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 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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