MANCHESTER, U.K. —Lighting Designer Paul Normandale has added to the number of lighting fixtures used for a series of European stadium shows for Coldplay’s ongoing Viva La Vida tour, including a conversion of eight MAC 250 Washes into new MAC 250 Beams.
Read More »NEW YORK — Lighting & Electronics is using a new program offered by the LDI show as a way to give back to the industry, and the company is issuing a challenge to all LDI exhibitors to follow suit.
Read More »LONDON — TMB is returning to PLASA ’09 with its TMB “Village” concept, with an emphasis on a combination of hospitality and hands-on demos with booth neighbor Bandit Lites.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Located between Golden Gate Park and The Presidio, St. Ignatius Church has been a city landmark for close to a century. Lindsley Architectural Lighting enhanced the visual features of the cathedral with ETC’s Selador Series LED lighting fixtures.
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CHICAGO — After completing the first leg of U2’s 360° tour in Europe, the claw-shaped structure featuring the first transformable LED video screen has been erected for U2’s Sept. 12 show at Soldier Field. U2 quickly sold out all 65,000 tickets for Sept. 12, and an extra show was set for Sept. 13.
Read More »LONDON — White Light and United Visual Artists are sponsoring a debate at PLASA ’09 on the future of the visual media, and whether or not still-separate visual disciplines, lighting and video, ought to be thought of as a single entity titled, simply, “visuals.”
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EDINBURGH, Scotland — HSL once again supplied lighting and power distribution to C venues' performance spaces at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. C venues is the home to the largest theatre and new writing program at the event, featuring a schedule of physical theatre, drama, comedy, dance, music, musicals, mime, opera, children's shows, visual arts and more.
Read More »NEW YORK—ESTA has announced the finalists in their second annual Rock Our World Awards. Winners will be named at the ESTA Annual Dinner & Awards Ceremony at LDI 2009.
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ROZNOV POD RADHOSTEM, Czech Republic — Robe acquired PCB production company Dioflex, its long-term electronic parts supplier, and is expanding with a $5 million logistics center that nearly doubles its warehouse space to about 43,000 square feet. An expansion of the company’s factory includes a new 10,000-square-foot plastics molding area.
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NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA — After five years on the project management team at XL Video UK, Phil Mercer has been named MD of XL Video’s Los Angeles office.
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The UVLED Bar 16 from American DJ is powered by 16 1-watt UV LEDs and draws 30 watts. It features 0 to 100 percent electronic dimming, 3-button menu display and a strobe effect.
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The new Art-Switch PoE4 from Artistic Licence can be used to connect up to four Art-Net nodes, such as Art-Lynx, providing both data and power for the unit and eliminating the need for external power supplies for each node.
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