NORTH CREEK, NY — Creative Stage Lighting reported that CSL dealer sales managers Rick Fallon, John Ebert and Seth Scott have achieved Philips Color Kinetics certifications. Their certifications demonstrate their knowledge of Philips Color Kinetics products and technology.
OAKLAND, CA — AC/DC’s Black Ice tour, the first major outing for the band in the U.S. since 2001, is keeping fans stoked with a 7.3-by-10.4-meter LED video display that splits open to reveal a locomotive set element for the band’s song, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Train.” Screenworks provided Daktronics' LED video display.
LOS ANGELES — Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship, Independence of the Seas, is big enough to house a 1,350-seat theatre, and Hariton/Baral Design needed to come up with a set for 21 musicians performing on stage. Design partners Gerry Hariton and Vicki Baral modeled the set on the concentric arches of the Hollywood Bowl, and worked with LDs Peter Moore and Mark Pranzini from Lightspeed Productions to light the concentric arches of the set with X-Chip LED chips from Acclaim Lighting.
TEHERAN, Iran — The Azadi Tower, made from 8,000 blocks of white marble and standing 50 meters high since it was built in Iran’s capital in 1971, is now being lit at night with a variety of LED fixtures from SGM. The fixtures, supplied by TechnoPro L.L.C., include 56 Genio Mobile units with 8° lenses, 120 Palco 5 fixtures with 8° lenses and 16 Genio Mobile units with 25° lenses.
EILENBURG, Germany — ChainMaster is adding production, presentation and training facilities to its headquarters location. The company expects a 350-square-meter expansion of its production area to be complete by the end of March 2009, and a second phase of construction adding 400 square meters to its production and presentation areas to be completed by next fall.
Training Class: “The Green Challenge”Dec. 11, 2008Streetsboro, Ohiowww.thevli.com
LOS ANGELES — Pyrotek Special Effects punctuated the American Music Awards program with special effects for several of the performers. The 2008 edition of the show, hosted for the fifth time by comedian Jimmy Kimmel, was staged at the Nokia Theatre.
PixelRange Inc announced the appointment of Brad White, who will handle technical sales for the company, supporting the sales network and help it expand to new markets. “This is an exciting time for PixelRange,” said PixelRange president Dave Thomas. “Brad is a well-known industry figure and we are delighted he has joined the team.”
Feb. 7, 2009 West Adams Preparatory High School Los Angeles, Calif. www.stageseminars.com
The Infinity Spot S from Coemar provides an output comparable to a 575-watt fixture in a quiet, energy-efficient and relatively compact package. It measures 459mm in length, 377mm in width and 602mm in height with the head straight up (18.1 x 14.8 x 23.7 inches) and weighs in at 23.5kg (51.8 lbs). The proportional zoom range is from 35° down to 8.5° and its features include CMY color mixing, five colors + open, a CTO filter, 1 aerial wheel, 7 gobos + open, 1 break-up wheel, 7 gobos + open, 3 rotating prisms, iris, dimmer, mechanical and electronic strobe (zap effects), and synchronized, random and pulse effects.
In general, still images are usually pretty easy to create and import into a media server. Moving images, clips, and animations, on the other hand, are a little more involved. There are many applications that can create animations, and not all media servers can read the files they create without converting them to a format that it can accept. In other words, don’t be shocked if that really cool digital animation you just spent days on rendering doesn’t play back in your media server just by dropping it into the resource folder. It may need to be converted to another format like Quicktime, AVI or Flash before it can be used.
—Vickie Claiborne, from “Video Digerati,” PLSN, Nov. 2008
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Over 100 Robe moving lights, controlled by grandMA consoles and other gear from MA Lighting, were used to light “Cat Girls,” a Slovakian TV show that tries to find the sexiest girl in the country. The show was staged in the Expo Arena in front of a live audience and broadcast live on Slovakia’s Markiza network.