Draper's FocalPoint is a portable video screen designed for smaller venues. Its modular frame is constructed of extruded aluminum and used no hinges. All available sizes are built from combinations of the same frame segments, including the legs.
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Pixled's new F-37L is a flexible 37 mm LED mesh video display that can create LED displays of any shape including wide flat screen backdrops. It delivers 2300 nits with a 37mm pixel pitch and 57 percent transparency factor.
Read More »SEOUL, Korea – A Kinesys automation system has joined the Korean national tour of Mamma Mia!, which opened in May and will run until February 2011.
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GUANGZHOU, China – The Guangzhou Ballet Group's performance of "Night Returning through Whirling Snow" won the coveted Wenhua Award at the 9th China Art Festival. LD Sun Tianwei provided the lighting design, with a Compulite Vector Red and two Vector Violets chosen for control.
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DALLAS – With the primary visuals limited to a hole in the ground, groundbreaking ceremonies aren't always big on visual drama. So for the official unveiling of the future 42-story Museum Tower upscale residential building in Dallas, the ceremony organizers relied on GoVision's GoBigger mobile HD LED screen for large-scale artist's renderings along with I-Mag of the proceedings.
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CABRAMATTA, Australia – The Australian government's Building the Education Revolution (BER) plan is paving the way for hundreds of multipurpose halls to be built in support of the arts. Sacred Heart School, a Catholic primary school, was the first to open in New South Wales.
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NEW YORK – Scharff Weisberg provided AV support for producers KCD Inc. for a memorial service for Christo's wife and artistic collaborator, Jeanne-Claude, who passed away in November.
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ORLANDO and DALLAS – American Audio Visual, which ordered a dozen of Chauvet's Legend 300E Spots off the LDI show floor last year, used the fixtures for two events – the Salvation Army Youth Council in Orlando and the 2010 National Annual Meeting of the Boy Scouts of America in Dallas.
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GUANGZHOU, China – The Guangdong Song and Dance Theater's "Arcade," recognized this year with the Wenhua Special Award at the 9th China Arts Festival, was lit by LD Liufeng Shu with Coemar fixtures as part of the rig.
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NEW YORK – American Idiot, which received Tony Awards for "Best Scenic Design of a Musical" and "Best Lighting Design of a Musical," relies heavily on video displays and projections as scenic elements, driven by a system including 17 Hippotizer HD media servers.
Read More »CONCHO, OK – High winds are being blamed for ripping down a tent, injuring six crew members and causing extensive damage to gear on the afternoon prior to a July 6 show featuring Peter Frampton and YES. None of the injuries were life-threatening, but two crew members were hospitalized, one with a broken leg.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – DBN Lighting supplied lighting design, equipment and crew for the main stage and two other tented areas for the two-day Parklife music festival, staged at 100-year-old Platt Fields Park and organized by The Warehouse Project and Ear To The Ground.
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