EDINBURGH, Scotland – The Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh (RBGE) is using AV gear integrated by Electrosonic so that the new John Hope Gateway visitor center can get sightseers oriented and explore the facility. Designed by Edward Cullinan architects, the center is also a model for "green" construction and sustainability.
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LOS ANGELES – Chaos Visual Productions is on the road with Alicia Keys' 2010 Freedom tour, which is promoting her 2009 album release, The Element of Freedom with tour stops in North America and Europe this spring.
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HERNING, Denmark – Danish LD Torben Sjoeberg Pedersen has handled the visual look of DR network's Sport awards show since 2003. For Sport09, broadcast Jan. 9 from Messcenter Herning, he turned to Martin Professional's new MAC 401 Dual LED moving head washlight.
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SYRACUSE, NY-J. R. Clancy has updated its iRigging app-the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch app for rigging installers and operators. Users can now download a free app update.
Read More »KANSAS CITY, MO- On the show floor at USITT Mark Engel, president of Rosco Laboratories, presented the ESTA Foundation with a check for $2,252, the second annual royalty payment to Behind the Scenes from a portion of the sales of the color Roscolux 359 Medium Violet.
Read More »SANTA CLARA, CA – The week of April 12, the Wybron Mobile Showroom begins its seventh leg, visiting the Musson Theatrical Warehouse, (Santa Clara, Calif., April 12), Holzmueller Productions (San Francisco, April 13), Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, Ore., April 14) and Hollywood Lighting (Portland, Ore., April 15).
Read More »CARLSBAD, CA – Linear LLC announced the creation of a new audio, video, and control group combining Niles Audio, Xantech, and ELAN Home Systems into a single business unit based here. Mark Terry has joined Linear as president of the new unit. Reporting to Terry are Bob Farinelli, president & CTO, of ELAN Home Systems; Frank Sterns, president of Niles Audio; and Graham Hallett, president of Xantech.
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LONDON – Projection artist and designer Ross Ashton launches his new creative venture – The Projection Studio – which will be dedicated to the specialist art of large format video and PIGI projection.
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TALLAHASSEE, FL – Interested in the evolution of rigging over the last 100 years? Florida State University (FSU) now has a repository for about15,000 project and product drawings from the last century, produced by engineers at J. R. Clancy, Inc.
Read More »NORTHFIELD, OH – Shortly after announcing a master distributor in China for its line of audio and lighting software, Stage Research has reappointed KAVE Theatre Services, Burgess Hill, West Sussex, England, as its master distributor for Europe.
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ADB Lighting Technologies' ALC4 modular LED Cyclorama light uses four RGB+White LED light sources. One ALC4 can deliver the equivalent of 1250W of halogen power while consuming 160W. The ALC4 provides seven user-selectable white light presets from 2700K to Daylight 6500K.
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INDIANAPOLIS – For the second year in a row, an octagonal LED video wall was been suspended above the court for the NCAA Men's Final Four. Fans attending the 2010 NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championships, which culminated in the final Duke/Butler matchup and a victory for Duke on April 5, had a HD view from any seat in Lucas Oil Stadium. Fans watching at home were also able to see the giant screens.
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