LOS ANGELES — Total Structures recently provided Epic Production Technologies with over 500 feet of its Element 12 and Element 20 truss for the 2,300 capacity, 59,000-square-foot nightclub venue, Club Nokia LA Live.
SYDNEY — The refurbished 230-seat theatre at the Bondi Pavilion near Bondi Beach is using a new lighting control system from LSC Lighting Systems, including a maXim XL lighting desk plus four 12-channel iPro dimmers. Herkes Professional Lighting supplied the gear.
NEW YORK, NY — The ESTA Foundation announced the 2009 Behind the Scenes Holiday Cards created by some industry LDs. Four designs are offered this year by Douglas Schmidt, Beowulf Borritt, Andrew Hefter and Tim Hunter Design.
PHILADELPHIA—The number of bikes registered to ride in the 6th annual Long Reach Long Rider charity motorcycle ride has reached an all time high.
MOSCOW — More than 2,000 square meters of LED video animated the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, the 54th staging of the finals. Procon Event Engineering of Hamburg supplied lighting, sound, video and rigging, rolling in 42 trucks serviced by a crew of 70 technicians.
MELBOURNE, Australia — Clifton Projections used Robe moving lights for many of the 340 cars on display at the 2009 Melbourne International Motor Show, including models from Toyota, Holden, Mazda, Lotus, Honda and Nissan.
LAS VEGAS — SJ Lighting’s award-winning video system design for the Rok Vegas nightclub at the New York, N.Y. Hotel & Casino involved a 360-degree seamless video projection using Axon media servers from High End Systems/Barco.
ATLANTA — Six Flags over Georgia’ 27-year-old Monster Plantation attraction recently underwent a multimillion-dollar upgrade and was reopened recently as the Monster Mansion. Gary Goddard Entertainment (GGE) produced and designed the new attraction, with Lightswitch providing the new lighting design.
WESTAMPTON, NJ — Lighting Science Group Corp. and Martin Professional A/S have announced a distribution agreement that will give Martin access to Lighting Science’s X16 DOTZ LED strings for global distribution.
NEW YORK — Major public radio station WNYC wanted more than a broadcast studio when it relocated to a new Manhattan facility earlier this year. So the station devoted the ground floor of its building to a multi-media room where concerts, theater performances, Webcasts and radio broadcasts could be held before live audiences.
QUINCY, WA — For their first tour in almost five years, with 19 shows in 16 cities across the U.S., the surviving members of The Grateful Dead, now simply known as the Dead, incorporated PixelRange gear along with an eclectic array of moving lights in a rig dominated by circular truss features and mesh scrims.
CARDIFF, U.K. — HSL supplied moving and digital lights plus LED elements for the latest series of 0 and 1, a Welsh language travel quiz show produced by Boomerang for S4C. Lighting designer Martyn Rourke specified the rig and the eight shows were recorded in a week at Omni Studios.