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NEWS<br />
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25th Annual EVVY Awards<br />
BOSTON—Held at the end of May at the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College<br />
in Boston, the EVVY Awards is their own version of the Emmy Awards. It’s also the longestrunning,<br />
student-produced live television show in the U.S. PRG donated 14 High End Systems<br />
Studio Spots, and Advanced Lighting Services and Productions (ALPS) provided assistance<br />
with the production, without which, “the show really would not have looked the<br />
way it did,” according to technical director/production manager Jim Shumway. He added,<br />
“It is the one show we do a year on the theatre side that we do not have any oversight by<br />
our professors, so it is a wonderful testing ground for that which we have learned.”<br />
YONKERS, NY—With close to 100 attendees<br />
during a two-day event, Altman Rentals<br />
recently played host to some of the leading<br />
LED manufacturers who showed their latest in<br />
LED technology as well as discussed current<br />
projects and future developments of LED fixtures.<br />
Attendees had the opportunity to hear<br />
several lighting designers during the panel<br />
discussions talk about working with LED fixtures,<br />
mixing them with conventional and<br />
moving lights, and speculate about the future<br />
of the technology in events, theatre, television,<br />
and film applications.<br />
The Manufacturers Showcase included AC<br />
Lighting, Altman Lighting, Barco, Color Kinetics,<br />
Element Labs, James Thomas Engineering,<br />
Main Light, Pulsar, and Selador. The designers<br />
In Brief<br />
David Stern has added four new MA<br />
Lighting grandMA consoles and another 20<br />
Vari*Lite 3000 Spots to the moving light inventory<br />
at Precise Corporate Staging (www.<br />
pcstaging.<strong>com</strong>). The 20 new Vari*Lites brings<br />
Precise’s inventory for VL 3000 spots up to 56...<br />
AV Concepts recently acquired another High<br />
End Systems Hog iPC lighting console. AV<br />
Concepts is a national, full-service supplier of<br />
audio-visual, staging and technical support for<br />
meetings, conventions and trade shows...ETC’s<br />
new Source Four® fixture ‘mini-site,’ www.etcconnect.<strong>com</strong>/minisite/sourcefour/index.html<br />
features “everything you need to know” about<br />
the lights in an interactive graphic mode. The<br />
home page gives you an end-to-end tour of<br />
the Source Four spotlight...Jeff Ravitz, lighting<br />
designer and partner in the design firm, Visual<br />
Terrain, Inc., was nominated for a Los Angeles<br />
Area Emmy Award on June 22. The nomination<br />
was for his lighting design for El Grito de México,<br />
broadcast September 15, 2005 on KMEX Channel<br />
34 and Univision. Ravitz received the Emmy<br />
for the 2004 telecast of El Grito... High End Systems<br />
debuted its new podcast program, developed<br />
and produced in its in-house marketing<br />
department. Anyone with iTunes, a video iPOD<br />
LED Showcase, LD Panels Highlight Event<br />
who spoke at the designer roundtable included<br />
Jamie Burnett, Rita Kogler Carver, Michael<br />
Fink, Herrick Goldman, Christien Methot, Susan<br />
Nicholson, and Guy Smith.<br />
“We have been renting a lot of LED fixtures<br />
to a wide variety of users for a lot of different<br />
applications,” says Randy Altman, owner of<br />
Altman Rentals. “We have been getting more<br />
and more requests for the gear as well as a lot<br />
of inquiries about newer LED lighting technology<br />
from our clients. This was a way to bring<br />
together a lot of the leading LED manufacturers<br />
in one place along with a variety of lighting<br />
designers who work with the technology.<br />
There was a great deal of interaction between<br />
designers, end-users and the manufacturers.<br />
This was about serving our clients and helping<br />
them make the best gear choices to serve<br />
their design needs. I personally was very taken<br />
by the technology and the advances that all of<br />
these manufacturers were showing.”<br />
or podcasting software such as Juice, iPodder<br />
or iPodderX can download the feeds, which will<br />
include interviews, product demonstrations,<br />
tutorials, new technology “sneak peeks” and<br />
more...In-House Production Hawaii, an entertainment<br />
labor and payroll service in Hawaii<br />
and Las Vegas, Nevada has signed an agreement<br />
with IATSE Local 665 of Hawaii with the<br />
help of booking agent Donovan K Ahuna and<br />
secretary treasurer Eric Mintor to supply qualified<br />
labor for event installations, show run and<br />
strike for tradeshows, conventions, conferences,<br />
corporate or theatrical productions. For specialized<br />
rigging and rigging hardware In-House has<br />
teamed up with Dave Martin of Pacific Engineering<br />
for Stage & Film, LLC formally known<br />
as Hawaii Pacific Rigging. For more information<br />
visit www.in-houseproduction.<strong>com</strong>...Cinelease,<br />
Inc. of Burbank and Las Vegas was the first in the<br />
U.S. to purchase the new Martin MAC 700 Wash.<br />
48 700W wash lights and 60 MAC 700 Profiles<br />
will <strong>com</strong>pliment their previous stock of 14 MAC<br />
700 Profiles. The fixtures have been specified by<br />
lighting designer Michael Veerkamp of Team<br />
Imagination for the up<strong>com</strong>ing season of NBC’s<br />
popular game show “Deal or No Deal.”...Recently<br />
released with a host of updates, Martin Professional’s<br />
Maxedia Digital Media Composer<br />
is <strong>com</strong>ing off a Eurovision 2006 show in which<br />
20 Maxedias were networked to provide video<br />
content for one of Europe’s top television events.<br />
Kelly Clarkson, Sting, Reba McEntire, Lynyrd Skynyrd,<br />
Ozzfest 2006, American Idols Live!, Ricky<br />
Martin, New Cars, Moody Blues, George Strait,<br />
Poison/Cinderella, Gianna Nannini and Hilary<br />
Duff are a few of the current 2006 tours using<br />
Maxedia. Several special events and television<br />
studios are also recently used it including<br />
VH1 Rock Honors, JC Penny Jam, VH1 Decades,<br />
KODO, GLEC Worldwide and the PokerDome<br />
Series...The SeaChanger Color Engine from<br />
Ocean Optics has made its Broadway debut<br />
as part of Disney Theatrical Productions’ Tarzan,<br />
which was specified by Tony Award-winner<br />
Natasha Katz...Look Solutions fog and haze<br />
machines are currently on Tarzan, Hot Feet, The<br />
Drowsy Chaperone, Lord of the Rings in Toronto,<br />
Hairspray, The Wedding Singer, Wicked in<br />
Chicago, Spamalot, the national tour of Movin’<br />
Out, the national tour of Riverdance, The Lion<br />
King, the revival of The Pajama Game, the<br />
national tour of Bombay Dreams, Dirty<br />
Rotten Scoundrels, and The Producers...In July at<br />
New York’s Saratoga Performing Arts Center,<br />
the 2006 summer season of the New York City<br />
Ballet and various weekend SPAC concerts were<br />
working under the control of the BCi Pocket<br />
Console dmx. PRG Lighting of New Jersey<br />
provided SPAC with a Pocket Console on this<br />
year’s rental order for the purpose of remote<br />
control of the work light and orchestra pit lighting<br />
systems. By routing all of the work lights and<br />
the music stand lights through one ETC 12x2.4k<br />
Sensor rack and routing the DMX through an<br />
A/B switch, the building staff gained control, enabling<br />
the local IATSE crew access to the touring<br />
work light and pit light system without turning<br />
on the Obsession or any of the main Sensor<br />
racks, except for one 12 pack...Nemetschek<br />
North America announced that Spanishlanguage<br />
versions of VectorWorks Fundamentals,<br />
VectorWorks Architect, and RenderWorks<br />
12 are now available...The Phantom of the<br />
Opera – The Las Vegas Spectacular opened at<br />
the Venetian Hotel and Casino utilizing<br />
custom-fabricated equipment from Tomcat<br />
USA including three hanging towers plus one<br />
rolling tower for additional lighting positions,<br />
and the front of house catwalk truss. PRG Lighting<br />
in Las Vegas supplied the equipment.<br />
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<strong>PLSN</strong> AUGUST 2006<br />
www.<strong>PLSN</strong>.<strong>com</strong>
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