Rob Barber Joins Atomic Rental Team
LITITZ, PA – Rob Barber has been named general manager of Atomic Rental. He will oversee new rental products including R&D, quality control and testing, and also supervise customer service operations.
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CBN TV Studios Gets Upgrades
CNB Studio in Virginia Beach, VA
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – One of the longest-running programs in broadcast history, CBN’s The 700 Club, had been using an analog lighting system for much of its run — the last 30 of 45 on-air years. The show, which is accessible to 1.5 billion people around the world and airs weekdays, was due for a technical overhaul from lighting fixtures to control. Their new future-proofed system includes a hybrid lighting rig of ETC Selador LED luminaires and conventional fixtures controlled by an ETCNet3 network with an Eos system at the front. It was recently installed with the help of ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.) and 4Wall Entertainment and without interrupting the live schedule.
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XL Events Supplies Screens for Royal Wedding
LONDON – XL Events installed two large LED screens in London’s Trafalgar Square, one of the main public viewing areas for the live TV broadcast for the wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton. XL Events worked with event producers Jack Morton Worldwide, which also arranged for four similar format/concept sites across London for the wedding. An estimated 1 million people lined the streets, and the broadcast was seen by close to 2 billion people.
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Alfred University’s New Miller Theatre Using Robert Juliat Topaze Followspots
ALFRED, NY – Alfred University’s new Miller Theatre has been equipped with a pair of Robert Juliat Topaze followspots. Barbizon Lighting NY was the integrator and supplier for the lighting, working with Beck Studios, the rigging company. The Miller Theatre is the latest addition to the Miller Performing Arts Center, which features the C.D. Smith III Flexible Theatre, a black-box space; The Rod Brown Acting Studio; dance and instrumental music rehearsal halls; a scene shop; and faculty offices.
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Impact Video Provides Displays For Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards
BURBANK, CA – Impact Video was called upon to provide the Nickelodeon TV Network with Large Screen Video Displays for the 2011 Kids Choice Awards. This year’s show was broadcast live on April 2, 2011 from the Galen Center at USC in downtown Los Angeles where talent from across the entertainment industry gathered to honor their youngest fans. The Kids were in control as their voting across all categories determined the evening’s winners.
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Student Center at Clarkson University Equipped with Christie MicroTiles
POTSDAM, NY – The amphitheater at Clarkson University’s Student Center has been equipped with a video wall from Video Visions made with Christie MicroTiles. Students voted to increase their own activity fees to help fund the center, and wanted to make it both welcoming and technologically advanced.
Read More »Traxon Technologies Introduces iPad App
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Traxon Technologies announced the release of a new Traxon & e:cue application designed specifically for the iPad. The app is a resource for delivering information including Traxon & e:cue products and project details, as well as general lighting industry facts, tips and trends.
Read More »Lumenpulse Appoints Gorm Teichert to Executive Team
MONTREAL, QC – Lumenpulse Inc. announces that architectural and entertainment lighting expert Gorm Teichert has joined as executive vice president of international sales. This addition comes on the heels of the recent appointment of intelligent LED illumination pioneer Bill Sims to its board, as well as the formal introduction of its executive team, which Teichert now joins.
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Enrique Iglesias Tour Features MAC 101s
Photos: Robert Hollingworth; The O2, London, March 25, 2011
LONDON, UK – Lighting designer Travis Shirley, who has been with Enrique Iglesias for six years, is using an all Martin rig on the current "Euphoria" world tour, a rig that includes over 200 of the remarkably small and super light MAC 101 washes.
Read More »White Light Supplies Shrek The Musical
NEW YORK, NY – White Light has been chosen to supply the lighting to Shrek, the musical adaptation of the Dreamworks Animation film that has already been greeted with acclaim in New York and on its current US tour. The stage version of Shrek has been created by a hugely experienced theatrical team, including directors Jason Moore and Rob Ashford, choreographer Josh Prince, designer Tim Hatley and lighting designer Hugh Vanstone. Shrek marks White Light's second ‘green' collaboration with Vanstone this year, having also supplied the lighting equipment for his design for The Wizard of Oz!
Read More »Algerian Autos Come Alive With Pr Xl Beam 300
ALGERIAN – Algerian distributor, NEOSUN, has supplied production specialists, HANS Company, with quantities of PR Lighting's XL Beam 300's to enable the production company to showcase a number of leading car brands at the recent Salon International de l'Automobile d'Alger.
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Clay Paky Alphas Used In Wartime Rock Opera, Pietro e Lucia
SERIATE, ITALY – The 360-degree staging of Pietro e Lucia, based on the 1920s anti-war novel by French novelist Romain Rolland included Clay Paky's Alpha Beam 1500. Focusing on the impact of the First World War on the lives of two lovers, the show is a monumental multimedia combination of dance, film, rock and opera, featuring soloists from Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, Italian opera stars, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Choir, together with rock musicians.
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