NEW YORK— Scharff Weisberg has named Tony Rossello senior account representative. He had been senior event manager for the company for the last nine years. In his new role, Rossello will develop the company’s video and audio business and serve as the primary sales contact for those markets.
CINCINNATI — Sapsis Rigging, Inc. founder and president, Bill Sapsis, has been named a Fellow of the USITT. The presentation was made during the Fellows address and award ceremony on at the USITT’s annual conference.
LOS ANGELES — The grandMA2, the new console from MA Lighting, has received TÜV-NRTL-C/US Certification. The TÜV-NRTL (Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory) mark is equivalent to the UL, ETL or CSA mark.
KARLSBAD, Germany — GLP announced separate recruiting agreements with lighting designer Mark Ravenhill and optical specialist KaiChang Lu.
TORONTO — In today’s troubled economy every client group is looking to hold down costs — and no one more than the Big Three auto manufacturers. When Christie Lites (Toronto) began working on plans for lighting the General Motors booth at the 2009 Canadian International Auto Show (CIAS), keeping the budget lean but replicating the successful design elements in years past was a tough order to fill.
CHERRY HILL, NJ — Starlite Productions, a production and integration company, helped accounting firm Bowman & Co. LLP transform a conference and training room into a simple yet multi-purpose facility. "We wanted to use new technology since we expanded the room to make it more user-friendly," said Robert E. Biddle, Bowman & Co.’s president.
CHICAGO — Lightswitch Architectural, an architectural lighting design firm, participated in Earth Hour on March 28 and encouraged clients, colleagues, associates and friends to do the same.
LAKEWOOD, NJ — RDM Rigging recently renovated the rigging system for the Strand Theater. Since 1922, the theatre has been a center for plays, musicals and touring productions. As part of the rigging renovation, all the on stage circuitry and associated support structures were replaced.
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Palco 5 Full Color looks like other fixtures in the Palco line, but has the ability to create a new kind of look. The fixture uses REBEL LED, a light source with a maximum performance of 80 Lumens. There are 105 LEDs in a matrix of 35 lenses, each 9 watts of power, for a total brightness of 5,500 lumens. The space-efficient color mixing system mixes the red, blue and green Rebel LED with a choice of three different lenses: narrow, medium and wide. The fixture works as a color changer with powerful beams of light, even color on the illuminated surface and an elimination of color shadow effects, with color uniformity evident even when viewing the fixture’s LED matrix directly from the front.
WORCESTERSHIRE, U.K. — From the outside, Worcester Cathedral rises above the nearby River Severn. Within, the cathedral's features are majestic as well. They are now lit by LEDs, including 80 custom-built PixelPups.
HOUSTON — A curved, 8-foot-by-27-foot projection screen at Marathon Oil Corporation's headquarters forms an immersive environment called the “Visionarium.” Geologists, engineers and drilling experts use it to review seismic data and other findings important to oil exploration. To keep the projected graphics looking sharp, the oil company installed Christie Mirage HD6 DLP® projectors and Vista Systems' Spyder.