LONDON – The story of Afrobeat musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has moved to London's National Theatre – and according to the National's senior lighting programmer John McGarrigle, an ETS Eos lighting control system helped speed the turnaround from Broadway to South Bank.
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LOS ANGELES – For Usher's OMG Tour, the artist's first big-budget spectacle since 2004, LD Peter Morse and associate LD Eric Wade are using 24 Clay Paky Alpha Wash 700 fixtures – most arranged on the floor, but others rigged along the fly truss – with a grandMA2 console for control.
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NEW YORK – Three recent performances by Elton John and Leon Russell got visual support from LD Tom Kenny, who used gear provided by Scharff Weisberg Lighting. The live appearances supported the recent release of The Union, a collaboration between the two artists.
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Rose Brand's Animation & Video Curtain can be used to render low to medium resolution still images, video loops and flash animations. It's designed with randomly-positioned LEDs to display organic shapes more realistically and also saves money by requiring fewer LEDs to render an image than a grid pattern – and if one LED is burned out, it's less noticeable with the random arrangement of LEDs.
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SYRACUSE, NY – When did the theatre industry move from hemp to counterweights? Who invented the sophisticated automatic release system for fire curtains? What did the first computerized rigging control system look like?
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ROME – EVR Media, one of the companies in Proel Group, opened its new office here with the kind of fanfare it hopes to be providing for other corporate events in the region. The event including sound support for jazz and DJ performances along with choreographed dancers, lighting and projection.
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Pixled now offers Mitsubishi Electric processors as an option for its range of F-6 LED displays introduced earlier this year. Customers can choose to purchase Pixled F-6 displays with a standard proprietary processor or with a range of processors from Mitsubishi Electric.
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SERIATE, Italy – A group of 20 technicians from U.K. stage and rental companies took part in a three-day training event held by Clay Paky at their headquarters here. The training event, held Nov. 9-11, focused on the Alpha 700 range of fixtures.
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SOUTHLAKE, TX – Whites Chapel United Methodist Church (WCUMC) has invested in a new Jands Vista T2 lighting console and GLP LED fixtures to enhance the traditional services in its main sanctuary.
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JOHANNESBURG – DWR Distribution added Dave Whitehouse, an established theatre lighting designer, to its sales team and JC du Plessis, another experienced lighting professional, to its technical crew.
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Da-Lite's new wood and metal video conferencing carts feature monitor mounts for each cart that can accommodate up to a 50-inch diagonal monitors. They also provide 5 degrees of backward tilt, 15 degrees of forward tilt and support 100 pounds. A camera shelf, which can be mounted above or below the flat panel, is also included.
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LONDON – Rihanna headlined the Festive Lights Switch On event, held recently in the main atrium space at Westfield London Shopping Centre in Shepherd's Bush, West London. Cover It Up was there as well to provide draping so the public could continue shopping while those attending the event could enjoy the show.
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