NEW YORK — Starting July 15, candidates thinking of taking ETCP’s Rigger/Arena, Rigger/Theatre and Entertainment Electrician certification exams will have a new way to prepare for the tests. ETCP will be offering 50-question practice exams for each test for $35 at www.goamp.com.
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Winfield W. “Buz” Ward III, age 59, who had worked in the music touring industry for more than 30 years, passed away June 20, 2009.
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MIDDLETON, WI — ETC is helping lighting technicians and programmers use their iPhones as lighting controllers. The company has released their iRFR (Radio Focus Remote for iPhone and iPod Touch), and said it would donate all the proceeds to industry-aid organizations Behind the Scenes and Light Relief.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, FL — Okay, maybe it only goes so far in simulating the G-forces and weightlessness. But taking a virtual journey into space via the new Shuttle Launch Experience doesn't set visitors back for anything more than what they already paid to get inside Kennedy Space Center — $38 per adult, $28 per child.
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PITTSBURGH — Four stories above the sidewalk, workers placed lights inside a PNC Bank building to illuminate 10-foot-tall letters that collectively read, “Lets Go Pens,” supporting the Penguins, winners of the 2009 Stanley Cup.
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HOLLYWOOD — Angstrom Lighting named Johnny Cho director of online media. Cho will oversee the company’s Web site and its participation in social media and other electronic communication avenues.
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LONDON —RC4 Wireless has been awarded Lighting Product of the Year by the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) for their RC4BlackMagic wireless DMX and dimming system. Pictured here is James David Smith, president and chief product designer at RC4, with the ABTT trophy and the RC4BlackMagic product.
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LONDON — Kensington Gardens was a favorite haunt of J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan. Now the park is the locale for a new theatrical telling of that story in a 1,000-seat tent with a set designed by William Dudley, lit by LD Mark Henderson with gear supplied by White Light.
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VALENCIA, Spain — VMB named Milan-based professional lighting manufacturer Spotlight as a new distributor for VMB towerlifts in Italy. Spotlight will be responsible for sales, servicing and support in the Italian market.
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ORLANDO — By the time the show floor opened at 9 a.m. on Wed., June 17, dozens of seminars and workshops had already taken place and hundreds of exhibitors spent countless hours setting up in the Orlando Convention Center, including roughly 50 exhibitors from the lighting industry.
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LONDON — Global Design Solutions’ LiteWare product line made its TV debut on the BBC’s Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. LiteWare gear, controlled wirelessly via DMX, lit the underside of the piano and the front of the stage before the lighting crew removed the fittings and deployed them at the front of the performance stage for another performance.
Read More »SYDNEY — Prelite has trained five members of the lighting department at Australia’s Sydney Opera House (SOH) on the venue’s new in-house previz system.
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