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Stolzle, PDA Event Highlights Design Ideas
PDA used the Stolzle event to showcase its staging technology and lighting design concepts.
CHARLESTON,
SC —The Stolzle
glassware company
and Production Design
Associates (PDA)
co-hosted an event
at Memminger Auditorium
recently that
served as a showcase
for PDA’s staging
technology and
design ideas. The
theme for the evening
revolved around
the four elements — air, fire, earth and water.
Using LED fixtures, curtains, an LED dance
floor, projectors, video servers and circular
trussing, PDA created vignettes of a fullyequipped
concert stage, giving guests the feel
of rocking the house as a Guitar Hero. The gear
list included four Martin MAC 250 Entours, eight
Coemar LED Pars, five Source Four Par Bars, fiberoptic
star curtain, a Christie 5K projector and
a 7.5-foot-by-10-foot LCD screen from Da-Lite.
PDA’s Wedding Vignette, by contrast, which
included a kabuki reveal, offered a more serene
setting with Asian-inspired florals, bamboo
flooring and red and gold décor accents that
used video as a décor element as well. The educational
portion of the evening also included a
segment on Stolzle’s wine glasses and how they
are designed and made.
Live entertainers included aerial acrobats,
fire breathers and costumed dancers, and
the food and drink also followed the event’s
four-element theme. The party room included
Airstar Lunix balloons suspended like planets
overhead, a Coemar medium-resolution LED
curtain and backdrop, a fiber-optic ice sculpture
from Ice Age, four 10K+ DLP projectors, Apollo
gobos and Applied Electronics/Staging Dimensions
Pixel Panel LED staging.
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ESTA
Announces
Winners for
New Award
Contests
LAS VEGAS — ESTA announced the winners
of its first annual Rock Our World Awards and
the Frank Stewart Volunteer of the Year Award
during ESTA’s Annual Dinner on Oct. 23. The association
also announced the winners of its first
annual Members’ Choice awards on Oct. 25.
The ESTA Rock Our World awards recognize
ESTA members for innovative products, product
applications or projects. Over 30 potential
award winners were nominated, and a panel
of judges, including Rick Baxter, Ken Billington,
Cory Fitzgerald, Elaine J. McCarthy, Rocky Paulson,
and Bruce Rodgers and chaired by Mike
Wood, trimmed that list down to nine finalists
and three winners.
The Rock Our World winners include: The
Carallon Limited for the Pharos LPC X, as used
in the “Cloud” sculpture in Heathrow Terminal
Five, Element Labs, Inc. for the Versa RAY Screen
as used at the 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar
and Pyrotek Special Effects Inc. for its Aqua Visual
FX water screen.
ESTA presented its 2008 Frank Stewart Volunteer
Award to the ESTA membership committee
and to the committee that reviews Behind
the Scenes applications for assistance.
ESTA president Bill Groener commended
the membership committee for recruiting 88
new members within the past year. Bob Luther,
Fred Mikeska, Dinna Myers, Eddie Raymond,
David Taylor, Steven Way and Richard Wolpert
received the award recognizing their volunteer
efforts.
Eddie Raymond of IATSE Local 16 and a previous
recipient for his work on ETCP announced
the award to the committee that reviews Behind
the Scenes applications for assistance, but
the identities of those honored was kept confidential
due to the nature of their work.
ESTA’s first annual Members’ Choice Awards
were presented to makers of entertainment
technology products in three categories: Expendable,
Widget and Equipment.
In the Expendable category, the winner
was the BTH Lamp from Osram Sylvania. The
Widget Category resulted in a tie between the
Lex 3 Phase 3Fer from Lex Products and the Gel
Swatch Library for iPhone from Wybron, Inc. The
winning product in the Equipment category
was the Firefly Energy Series 5 Channel LED Illuminated
Cable Protector from Firefly, a division
of Industry Advanced Technologies, Inc.