DETROIT – The auto industry might have regarded 2009 as a clunker of a year, but there was still enough cash (or at least credit) to stage the 21st North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). UVLD played a role with Hyundai Motor America's Blue-Will concept car.
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PHOENIX – Lighting and video designer Nick West used a Jands Vista T2 console for lighting, I-Mag and video control for the recent tobyMac annual Winter Wonder Slam tour. Axxis Inc. was the tour lighting company.
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VANCOUVER, BC – Light sculptor Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has incorporated Syncrolite fixtures in Vectorial Elevation, a work commissioned by the 2010 Cultural Olympiad, the City of Vancouver's initiative to celebrate artists along with athletes.
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MIAMI GARDENS, FL – With the NFL's Pro Bowl and Super Bowl drawing much attention in South Florida, the recent grand opening for the Calder Casino, which added 1,200 slot machines and three new restaurants to the Calder Race Track complex for horse racing, needed a visual attention-getter.
Read More »KANSAS CITY, MO – All three ETCP exams – for entertainment electrical, arena rigging and theatre rigging – will be offered to USITT attendees this year, starting on March 31 and ending April 1. The deadline to apply is March 1.
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LONDON – Cover It Up has been appointed as a "preferred" drapes and soft goods supplier to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. Events and functions are routinely staged in places like the museum's Central Hall, home to "Dippy," a 26-meter-long Diplodocus skeleton.
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SACRAMENTO, CA – Capital Christian Center, one of the biggest Assembly of God (AG) churches on the West Coast, can seat close to 3,000 and stages full productions for annual events such as the two-day Northern California/Nevada Youth Convention.
Read More »NEW YORK – ESTA has added two Control Protocols Working Group draft standards to the public review page on the ESTA Web site: BSR E1.30-1-20xx, EPI 23. Device Identification Subdevice, and BSR E1.20 – 201x, Entertainment Technology — Remote Device Management over USITT DMX512.
Read More »NEW YORK – Trade publisher Penton Media – publisher of titles including Live Design, Sound & Video Contractor, Mix and producers of the annual LDI show – announced that it is filing a "strategic" Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Read More »MIAMI – Four volunteers were injured in the parking lot of Sun Life Stadium on Feb. 2 when a section of staging being prepared for the Super Bowl XLIV halftime show tipped over. The injuries were serious enough to warrant hospitalization but none were life-threatening, according to reports.
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LAS VEGAS – WET Design's Lumia fountain in front of the Aria Resort and Casino, part of the recently-opened CityCenter complex, relies on custom Syncrolite 7000W Xenon fixtures. As the embedded video below demonstrates (the video is provided as a visual reference, and was not created by PLSN), the fixtures, hidden from view, light up streams of water for effects that are visible even in the middle of the day, including mid-air water collisions with a variety of color changes.
Read More »NEW YORK, NY – Behind the Scenes and Light Relief announced that a number of additional LDs have pledged to support of the charities' fund raising By Design Day 2010, including Jonathan Deans, David Gallo, Derek McLane, Tony Meola, Hugh Vanstone and Tony Walton. They join Ken Billington, Paule Constable, Rick Fisher and Ken Posner as signatories to the event, scheduled for Saturday April 24.
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