ADELAIDE, Australia — The Adelaide Convention Centre (ACC) has recently invested in 90 Robe 575E AT Series moving lights for its facility, which includes 14 meetings rooms, 11 halls, an outdoor performance space and a total of close to 10,500 square meters of pillar-free floor space for conferences, exhibitions and special events.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — Wybron announced a new drive mechanism and new motors for its Eclipse IT series of mechanical dowsers, including the Eclipse IT Shutter, shown here.
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LONDON — XL Video is supplying 180 Spider 40 LED tiles, a Catalyst digital media server and crew for the Kaiser Chiefs current “Off With Their Heads” tour. These elements play a key role in Richard Larkum's lighting and visual design, and take the look and feel of the Kaiser’s almost non-stop touring schedule over the last two years to a new level.
Read More »CINCINNATI — J. R. Clancy’s Promote Safe Sets program will be at USITT to help theatre managers and technical directors promote backstage safety. It includes three steps: Train, Inspect, and Maintain. The session is scheduled for March 20 at 8 a.m. Although the session focuses on rigging, the techniques can be used for all types of safety training.
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AMSTERDAM — The Killers kicked off the first European leg of their 2009 “Day & Age” world tour with a lighting design by Steven Douglas using i-Pix BB fixtures, including 15 BB7s and 27 BB4s that departed from the more classic theatrical lighting looks of the previous “Sam’s Town” tour.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA — For the 2009 Golden Globes, an Eos console from ETC, along with a 2×20 ETC Universal Fader Wing, controlled the conventional and practical lights. Board programmer Gil Samuelian built all of the cue- and submaster-contents in Blind and was then able to modify the lighting smoothly during rehearsals before the show.
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WINNIPEG, Canada — Marc Raymond, Chairman and CEO of Epic Production Technologies announced that long-time associate Burton Tenenbein, has been named vice president concert touring.
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TOKYO — Prolyte announced the launch of a new sales office in Japan. The combined Prolyte and Doughty sales office is a branch of Prolyte Asia Pacific. Despite global economic unfavorable circumstances, PAP sees a strategic opportunity to expand its presence in Asia and venture into the world's second largest economy.
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MIAMI BEACH, FL — The revamped Fontainebleau hotel’s Vegas-style mega-club, named LIV after the year the resort opened (1954), is a focal point for its $1 billion makeover, and while the hotel’s overall budget was sizeable, the multipurpose fixtures make the most of the lighting investment, according to the lighting director who completed the project.
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DUBLIN — Along with news of their 2009-2010 world tour, which kicks off June 30 in Barcelona, U2's Web site, www.u2.com, offers a glimpse of the four-legged structure and wrap-around visuals planned by U2 show director Willie Williams and architect Mark Fisher.
Read More »MEXICO CITY — Prolyte announced that Gonher distribuidora has chosen Prolyte to add to their range of brands for the light and sound market they represent in Mexico. Gonher will distribute the complete range of Prolyte products, including trussing, staging and Prolyft hoists.
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AUSTIN, TX — Barco released Pixellage, a new software feature for two High End Systems pixelation luminaires. This feature allows the ShowPix and StudioPix luminaires to display one image across multiple fixtures. The ShowPix and StudioPix luminaires are hybrid LED wash lights and graphic image display fixtures.
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