NEWS PROJECTION LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS 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 <strong>com</strong>pany 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. Ad info:http:// www.plsn.<strong>com</strong>/instant-info 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 <strong>com</strong>mittee and to the <strong>com</strong>mittee that reviews Behind the Scenes applications for assistance. ESTA president Bill Groener <strong>com</strong>mended the membership <strong>com</strong>mittee 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 <strong>com</strong>mittee 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.
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