Wallingford, CT – Acey Decy Lighting, a sales and rental company in San Fernando, has added Robert Juliat 1159 Victor and 1459 Flo 1800W followspots to its rental inventory. The fixtures are especially useful for the feature film and television industries, which Acey Decy has been servicing since 1963.
MOSCOW, Russia – The Museum of Moscow Railways completed a renovation, including all A/V systems, which were installed by Russian company a3vision. Alcorn McBride products feature heavily in the project, including a Digital Binloop and two Digital Video Machine HD video players.
NEW CASTLE, DE – Pete’s Big TVs is providing video support, for the fourth year, for “How Sweet The Sound,” an annual competition for church choirs. Equipment used on the tour includes four Barco FLM 20k projectors, Green Hippo HD Hippotizer media servers and Barco SLM R12 projectors.
ASTORIA, NY — Working with designer Josh Weisberg of Scharff Weisberg, Electrosonic provide an AV installation for the Museum of the Moving Image that included a 50-by-9-foot projected video mural for a seven-minute video art piece, City Glow (2005) by Chiho Aoshima in collaboration with animator Bruce Ferguson. The upgrades are part of a three-year, $67-million remodel and expansion.
NEW YORK — SenovvA opened its New York office and production design/pre-visualization studio in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) with a flurry of activity in and around the DUMBO Arts Festival 2011, which ran from Sept. 23-25.
ATLANTA — Digital Projection International (DPI), together with display manufacturer Delta Group and software developer Mersive, announced a multi-city “Displays at Your Doorstep” road show with the following cities/dates confirmed: New York (Oct. 11-12) Orlando (Oct. 18-19), Washington, DC (Oct. 25-26), Atlanta (Nov. 2-3), Dallas (Nov. 9-10) and Los Angeles (Nov. 15-16). The events will demonstrate a variety of display technologies for commercial AV integrators.
SAN DIEGO — For the 5th Annual Midway American Patriot Awards, a gala honoring senator John McCain, vice admiral James Stockdale and naval aviators, AV Concepts transformed the above-flight deck portion of the aircraft carrier USS Midway with large format projection.
LOS ANGELES — Chaos Visual Productions provided video support for the North American leg of Josh Groban’s 2011 Straight to You Tour in the form of four double stacks of 20K projectors projecting seamless, edge-blended imagery onto an 80-by-30-foot screen. The North American tour, with dates in North America from May 12 to Labor Day, will resume in October after making several stops in Europe. Peter Mensch, Cliff Burnstein and Tony Dicioccio of Q Prime-NYC are the tour managers.
MIAMI — In January of 2011, HD House experienced a rental company’s worst nightmare: a new customer, whom they fully vetted and researched, stole $255,000 worth of their equipment in a single day.