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NEWS PROJECTION LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS Dragon Flames Keep Detroit Hockey Fans Stoked DETROIT — The number 8, a vertical symbol of infinity, is also an emblem of good luck in sports, from Beijing to Detroit. Hence the 08/08/08 start date for the Summer Games, and the tradition among Detroit Red Wings fans for heaving an octopus out onto the ice. (That tradition is so strong that fish mongers in Pittsburgh refused to sell octopi to anyone wearing a Red Wings logo before the Stanley Cup finals began at the Penguins’ home arena on May 24.) The NHL, which also frowns on the tradition of flinging the oversized mollusks into the rink, has threatened the Red Wings’ Zamboni driver with a fine if he persists in swinging octopi over his head when he’s out on the ice. That crackdown, as unpopular in Detroit as former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s ban on fireworks for Chinese New Year was in New York, is now being observed, but with a workaround solution that helps keep fans stoked. Motor City’s preoccupation with octopi began in Detroit’s run to the Cup in 1952, when a fish merchant created a sensation with the first hurled octopus, signifying the need to win eight more games. Fans are still throwing octopi, and Red Wings crew members scoop them up and bring them back to the Zamboni room. The driver still swings them over his head, but off the rink, and video footage is fed to the score clock. You would expect the off-ice antics to hold only a dim hope of rousing the home crowds. But the Joe Louis Arena doesn’t just have a ho-hum score clock. Sheldon Nueman, the Red Wings’ director of broadcasting, who is with Olympia Entertainment, worked with Lorenzo Cornacchia, vice president of Pyrotek Special Effects, to install Dragon flame units into the score clock. The pyro team, led by Renato Sulmona and including Garry Bishop and Joe Lucier, conducted thorough safety checks. But you’d never know it. “It looks like we are burning up the entire PA system and everything else nearby,” Lucier said. Combined with the visuals of the octopus-swinging Zamboni driver, the effect ignites the crowd — but only in the metaphorical sense. Maybe the good fortune of the installation has something to do with the fact that each of the four installed Dragon units have a double head, creating eight separate flares. The scoreboard shoots fire like an eight-headed Dragon. Dave Reginek DRW/nHLi via getty images “Made in New York” Scholarship Fund Established (From left) Russell K. Hotzler, City Tech president, Katherine Oliver, NYC Commissioner of Film, Theater and Broadcasting and David Smith, City Tech entertainment technology department chair. NEW YORK — The “Made in New York” scholarship fund, jointly sponsored by New York City College of Technology/CUNY (City Tech), Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office and Local 817 of the Teamsters Union, has been established by a $500,000 contribution from Local 817 to the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York. The endowment will provide five students a year with $5,000 grants. The fund aims to support the growth of New York’s diverse entertainment industries, which together inject an estimated $5 billion annually into the city’s economy. City Tech’s programs give qualified students the skills to master technologies needed for the film, television, music and live entertainment industries. “The scholarship program fits perfectly with the mission of this college. We prepare technologically proficient graduates to strengthen our city, our state and our world,” said Dr. Russell K. Hotzler, City Tech president. “This gift will allow us to better serve the large and growing entertainment sector in New York.” The “Made in New York” initiative, spearheaded by the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting, has included tax credits and other financial incentives to support New York as a base of creative filmmaking and the arts, avoiding, among other things, scenarios where movies about New York are filmed in lower-priced locales. Xtreme Structures Doubles Manufacturing Capacity By Frank Hammel SULPHUR SPRINGS, TX — Before relocating to its new facility here in March, Xtreme Structures & Fabrications (XSF) was bumping its head and bursting at the seams at its old facility in Emory, Tex. With 40,000 square feet, the new factory has four times the floor space and twice the manufacturing capacity of the previous facility, according to Tim Kruse, XSF vice president of sales. There’s also enough headroom to fully assemble any of the custom structures XSF makes. That can prove to be a real plus, given Texas’ erratic weather. Before, if XSF was testing a structure outside and an afternoon thunderstorm rolled in, “we’d have to take everything down and lock it down” until the storm passed, Kruse said. XSF’s ability to fully assemble every custom structure it builds inside helps the company test-fit all the parts before any of its structures go out the door. A key benefit related to XSF’s newly expanded productive capacity, Kruse added, is the ability to quickly respond to client requests for different products. “Ideally, we like to be able to say we have it in stock,” Kruse said. The new factory’s multiple loading docks, he added, are another important way XSF’s new facility helps the company quickly respond to customer requests. XSF’s new facility has enough headroom to assemble each of its biggest custom structures inside. XSF custom-makes aluminum, stainless and carbon steel structures for use in the entertainment, worship, theatrical, manufacturing and trade show industries. Its products include standard trussing, circular trusses, pre-rigged truss, ground supports, truss hinges, corner blocks, roof systems, rigging accessories and specialty items. XSF’s custom installations range from smallscale projects to one of the most massive assemblies of aluminum truss in the world — the 400-foot-by-160-foot overhead truss system installed within the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Wash. Recovery Fund Established for Bukovinsky NORTH CREEK, NY — Stephen Studnicky, industrial sales manager at Creative Stage Lighting, has established a recovery fund for Wayne “Wayno” Bukovinsky, who was critically injured in a motorcycle accident on April 19 and is now at Albany Medical Center in Albany, N.Y. Bukovinsky has worked with Creative Stage Lighting for over 15 years. He recently was lighting crew chief on Jill Scott’s The Real Thing tour and Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell III tour. Bukovinsky also served as a lighting technician with Maroon 5. He has also served as a volunteer fireman in North River, N.Y. Contributions can be made to: Wayne M. Bukovinsky Benefit Fund c/o Steve Studnicky 287 Bird Pond Rd., North Creek, NY 12853. Checks should be made payable to “Wayne M. Bukovinsky Benefit Fund. Ad info:http:// www.plsn.com/instant-info OOPS! A news item on Richard Wolpert’s 754-mile bicycle ride in support of ESTA Foundation’s “Behind the Scenes” charity should have stated that Rob Schraft joined Wolpert for the first 72 miles and Jeni Lyn Anderson joined him for the last 274 miles, not the other way around. 8 PLSN JUNE 2008
PROJECTION LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS New Cognac Bottle Debuts with Splash of Color WEST HOLLYWOOD — Remy Martin wasn’t about to roll out its newest version of V.S.O.P. cognac in boring packaging. And the brightly-colored bottle, with graphics by photographer David LaChapelle, got an equally colorful launch at Smashbox Studios. Leslie Short from K.I.M. Media in New York was the producer, ShoPro supplied the lighting, audio, video and scenic projection services and Matt Levesque of firstcircle was the LD for the event, which changed the stark white sound stage’s mood from cool to hot to frenzied after the new bottle was unveiled. The event started out with a green palette to complement the canopy of palm trees at the jungle-themed entranceway. Then, every hour, the colors changed, shifting to blue, then to red as a model who resembled the woman on the bottle appeared for the new packaging reveal. After that, the sound stage burst into multicolor jewel tones for an afterparty. The translucent bar counters changed colors as well, lit from beneath with 12 of Elation Professional’s new Event Panels. Each Event office reported that Houston was not wearing a safety harness and there was no safety net, Cole reportedly said that Houston was “very experienced,” and that he had a safety harness, “but it was not hooked up at the time.” Houston, according to Cole, may have temporarily unhooked the harness to move to a different point above the stage, or may have been on a beam where neither safety line nor safety net was available. The stark white walls of the sound stage were washed in a colorful countdown to the new packaging reveal. Panel is a color-mixing LED panel that can run remotely via its own rechargeable battery pack. With 288 10mm red, green and blue LEDs, they can produce an unlimited array of colors. Featuring a 40° beam angle, the Event Panel has an output distance of 65 to 85 feet. It can run for 10 hours without being connected to a power source. The panel sits on top of a battery-pack base and comes with a 12V power supply for recharging. The panel itself measures just 16.7-by-10.3-by-3.2 inches and weighs in at 7.7 pounds. The battery pack base measures 11.7-by-11.6-by-4.6 inches and weighs 19.5 pounds. Rigger Dies in Mississippi Amphitheatre Fall continued from cover Houston was working alone and no one saw him lose his balance, but Cole said he saw him as he fell, and administered CPR in an attempt to revive him. “He was a close friend,” Cole said. Police officials in Southaven have classified the death as accidental. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is conducting its own investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident. NEWS Ad info:http:// www.plsn.com/instant-info IN BRIEF Jeff Ravitz’s lighting design for the Salute to Teachers Awards 2007 program, which aired on NBC Channel 4 San Diego, has been nominated for an Emmy award…AV Concepts has been named A/V Partner by the San Diego Convention Center…The ESTA Foundation is raising funds for its “Behind the Scenes” charity with a new collection of holiday cards designed by lighting designers Bob Bonniol, Scott Pask, David Rockwell, Bruce Rodgers and photographer Andrew Hefter… eventEQ said it has the Washington, D.C. area’s first and largest inventory of High End Systems’ DL.3 digital fixtures along with DTek mixing systems…High End Systems has also launched a new on-line training center on its Web site, www.highend. com…Bluefin Events’ new name is Bluefin Productions and its new Web site is www.bluefinproductions.com. CALENDAR OF EVENTS Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition June 8-11 Guangzhou International Convention & Exhibition Centre Guangzhou, China www.light-building.messefrankfurt.com Behind the Scenes Tony Awards Party June 15 Cibo Restaurant New York, NY info@estafoundation.org InfoComm ‘08 June 18-20 Las Vegas, NV www.infocomm.org Cine Gear Expo June 20-21 Universal Studios Backlot Universal City, CA www.cinegearexpo.com PLSN University Seminar in the City July 15-17 New York, NY www.plsn.com/university NATEAC Pre-Conference Cruise July 19 Conference July 20-21 New York, NY www.nateac.org Ad info:http:// www.plsn.com/instant-info 2008 JUNE PLSN 9
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