UK – Philips Entertainment Lighting has promoted Amber Tomlin to the position of key account manager for the UK, effective immediately. For the past five years Tomlin has been the company's demonstration and training manager for Philips Strand Lighting's range of Palette consoles.
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Christie's L2K1000 10,000-lumen HD digital projector is designed for medium to large venues, including government facilities, houses of worship and higher education multi-purpose rooms and auditoriums. The Christie L2K1500 targets the rental staging market with 15,000 lumens and HD+ resolution. Both feature Christie 4DColor technology, which is designed to expand the color gamut and to provide higher contrast ratios and true-to-life colors and skin tones.
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LOS ANGLES, CA – The grandMA was out in force when the New World Symphony opened its new Frank Gehry-designed home in Miami Beach. The New World Center is the first American concert space built from the ground up to integrate sophisticated video, theatrical lighting and flexible stage space, and a grandMA2 full-size and a grandMA2 ultra-light play a key role in lighting control on the campus. A.C.T. Lighting is the exclusive distributor of the grandMA in North America.
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FRANKFURT – Coemar's latest product took center stage in their booth at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt Germany, the Reflection Ledko. The Reflection technology (patent pending), is based on a multi-LED light source producing uniform beam with no pixels, dots, or multicoloured shadows. This has made the LED light generated by Reflection identical to that of a traditional lamp, eliminating defects (dots and multi-shadow light) and achieving great advantages: energy saving, durability and zero maintenance. Reflection Ledko also has a smaller dimension and allows to act on the modulation of light without using dimmers and scrollers.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – With the December, 2010 dedication of Brigham Young University-Idaho’s new 15,000- seat auditorium, BYU-Idaho Center, the campus is now home to one of the largest production theatrical facilities in North America built for the primary purpose of supporting weekly student devotional services. Brigham Young University-Idaho is part of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day Saints’ education system. Auerbach Glasow French worked under the direction of FFKR Architects to design, document and commission the architectural lighting and related controls for the lobby and auditorium audience chamber within the building. The school also turned to Stage Technologies for rigging solutions.
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Martin Professional's ultra-compact MAC 101 LED moving head wash is now available in three white light versions. The new variants incorporate cold and/or warm LEDs instead of RGB for a better white light quality and greater output. Ideal for highlighting skin tones, textiles, or set pieces, the MAC 101 white light variants are already finding use in touring applications, TV Studios and corportate events.
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ATLANTA – Tomcat participated in the 62nd Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), the third year the truss company has been involved. During the event, Tomcat showcased its products, co-sponsored a design/tech mixer and donated two dance towers as giveaways.
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MIDDLETON, WI – Electronic Theatre Controls, (ETC) has introduced three new fixtures to their lineup of entertainment lighting products. The Selador Desire LED luminaires, Source Four Fresnel, and outdoor Source Four XT.
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PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA – One of South Africa's biggest stage equipment distributors is supporting the lighting designers of the future by donating a Philips Strand Lighting 200 Plus lighting console to a local lighting school. DWR Distribution, which has been the exclusive South African distributor for Philips Entertainment brands Selecon and Strand Lighting since December 2010, made the generous gift to the Moonbox Theatre – a 40-seater venue and lighting laboratory at the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria.
Read More »BURBANK, CA – Chaos Visual Productions provided video support for 10 touring productions last summer. One of the largest, the John Mayer Battle Studies Tour, traveled with a 50-by-20-foot LED video wall comprised of 45 Martin LC 2140 panels, designed for indoor use. The tour performed 122 shows in 331 days in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. For a late July performance, Chaos set up the wall in an outdoor venue. Although the weather had been clear and sunny, it suddenly turned, and a monsoon-like squall swept through, completely destroying the video wall.
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ADB Lighting Technologies launched its Freedom and Liberty lighting control desks at Pro Light+Sound 2011. The Freedom, for theatre, opera, television and other applications, can support up to 2,048 channels and 32 universes, while Liberty supports up to 1,024 channels and 16 universes.
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LISBON, Portugal – Working once again with designer Mark Fisher's studio, Stufish, Brilliant Stages has supplied three inflatable puppets and a circular projection screen for Roger Waters The Wall Live tour. The company provided both the puppets and automation representing the Teacher, the Wife and the Mother for the tour. Each is over 9 meters tall, and equipped with inflatable skins from Air Artists.
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