SANT’OMERO, Italy — After initially showcasing its brands in lighting, video and audio at its home base here on Oct. 5, newly-formed Proel Group Professional is hitting the road with its Roadshow series, with stops in Cattolica (Oct. 16) and Trezzo sull’Adda (Oct. 27) before a visit to Palermo Nov. 10.
Read More »March 24-27, 2010 Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre Frankfurt, Germany www.musikmesse.de
Read More »March 30-April 3, 2010 Kansas City Convention Center Kansas City, Mo. www.usitt.org
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ARLINGTON, TX — The huge video display hanging in the center of the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium isn’t the only video element fans have been encountering lately. The football team’s management also opted to install eight Daktronics portable modular LED displays on their new stadium’s outdoor plaza.
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LONDON — The second annual Knight of Illumination Awards, organized by Clay Paky in collaboration with the Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) and the Society of Television Lighting and Design (STLD), was held at the Ibis Hotel during PLASA 2009.
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LAS VEGAS — Voting for the 2009 Parnelli Awards has begun! Go to www.parnelliawards.com/vote and let your voice be heard. There are four new Indispensable Technology “IT” award categories along with returning categories for Lighting Company of the Year, Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year, Lighting Designer of the Year and more. To purchase tickets, go to www.parnelliawards.com/reservations.
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The FLEX-10 is a thin, bendy LED display that is well-suited to a variety of LED designs. Made with silicone rubber and flexible PCBs, the FLEX-10 Creative LED display can be bent and flexed to fit curved surfaces.
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NEW YORK — Scharff Weisberg lit “Learning Tents” for two professional golf events this summer, working on behalf of Momentum Worldwide. The events were the US Open 2009 in Farmingdale, N.Y. and the 91st PGA Championship in Chaska, Minn., where a second hospitality tent for corporate VIPs was added. Scharff Weisberg supplied all the lighting and A/V equipment for the venues.
Read More »LOUISVILLE, KY — ZFX Flying Effects and Las Vegas-based Stage Technologies have announced a strategic alliance to offer automated solutions for productions that require complex flying sequences.
Read More »NEW YORK — ESTA’s Technical Standards Program has posted BSR E1.23 — 20XX Entertainment Technology — Design and Execution of Theatrical Fog Effects on its Web site for public review. It is a proposed revision of the existing ANSI E1.23-2006 standard related to glycol, glycerin or white mineral oil theatrical fog effects.
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PLOCK, Poland —Aram Multimedia supported the finale for three beauty pageants that took place here recently, Polish Miss 2009, Miss Supranational 2009 and Miss Teen Poland, with nearly 80 square meters of LED curtain.
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LONDON — Since 2003, when Rosco introduced #313 Light Relief Yellow to its Supergel range, the company has contributed more than $19,000 to the U.K. charity Light Relief, and at PLASA09 one of the charity’s trustees, John Simpson, accepted a check for the latest donation of over $4,100 (about £2,500).
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