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 | | The new Elation Platinum Spot LED |
LOS ANGELES-Elation Professional will unveil three 3 new fixtures in its Platinum Series (the Platinum Spot 5R Pro, and Platinum Spot LED) and introduce a new LED par can, the Opti Quad Par, at the 2010 LDI show in Las Vegas.
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 | | A Christie Nitro Solution digital luminaire on a single-arm yoke. |
LONDON-Christie is releasing a new product series, Christie Nitro Solutions digital luminaries, at PLASA. The modular series of motorized moving yokes can provide up to 20,000 ANSI lumens of video projection, creating high brightness imagery on any surface from anywhere. With the optional Xenon or LED lighting heads, the system can produce up to 50,000 lumens of lighting. Nitro Solutions can be installed at ground level or rigged to a truss.
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LONDON-Robe has launched another seven new environmentally friendly products at PLASA 2010. The products are all part of Robe's new "Think of the Future - Consider Nature" drive, which underlines the company's commitment to developing truly unique, genuinely power saving products that are smaller, lighter, brighter and utilising the latest lightsource technology and control systems, but with all the intensity and output of their predecessors that used more powerful lamps.
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NEW YORK-To
maintain ETCP certification, an ETCP Certified Technician must accumulate 40
renewal credits of continued training/professional development or retake the
certification examination and accumulate a minimum of 10 renewal credits of
continued training/professional development over the 5 year period following
the examination to maintain certification.
LDI 2010 provides many opportunities to gain renewal credits at the 2010
show, which will occur October 19-24, 2010. Details and descriptions are below.
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TORONTO-CAST Software of Toronto, Canada
will be debuting their newest technology, BlackTrax (patent pending), at PLASA,
September 12-15 at Earls Court
in London. BlackTrax is a motion tracking system for people and objects that
operates in real time. BlackTrax is designed to work with CAST's BlackBox
system of multi-directional high-speed control coordination.
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 | | The cover of Exit Press' inaugural volume, Ten Plays, by Mark Jackson. |
SAN FRANCISCO-Ten Plays is the first publication by
Exit Press, the new publishing arm of Exit Theatre, San Francisco's stalwart producer of new and
classic experimental theatre since 1983. Ten
Plays is the first published volume of plays by award-winning playwright,
director and performer, Mark Jackson.
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 | | The touring production of In the Heights will factor into several theatres plans to let students experience touring Broadway as a form of artistic expression and as an educational tool. |
NEW YORK-The
Broadway League has announced the recipients of its 15th annual
National Education Grants. These grants support innovative programs that enable
students from coast to coast to experience touring Broadway as a form of
artistic expression and as an educational tool. The 2010 National Education
Grants program bestows $5,000 to 10 presenters of touring Broadway shows across
the U.S.
for the development or support of education programs associated with touring
productions.
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 | | The Robe Robin 600 LEDWash |
LONDON-Robe will launch its
new Robin 600 and 300 LEDWash fixtures at the upcoming PLASA show in London. Both products
reinforce Robe's commitment to providing carbon conscious products for the
lighting industry. Apart from the low energy consumption, both fixtures
incorporate a smooth, homogenized light engine and emit a quality of light
similar to that of a conventional source, but hugely brighter, at a fraction of
the power, according to manufacturer testing.
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 | | Rigging situations like this one are dangerous for the operators and the people onstage. That's what J. R. Clancy hopes to bring to theatre managers' attention by posting photos of bad rigging on its Facebook page. To see more, visit www.facebook.com/JRClancy . |
SYRACUSE,
NY-J.R. Clancy has begun a new
feature on their Facebook page where each week, they post a new photo of a
rigging accident-waiting-to-happen at http://www.facebook.com/JRClancy. These
photos are meant to stand as vivid examples of amateur errors, often involving
hardware that was never meant to bear weight.
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 | | Aviom's Pro16 personal mixing system with its A-16II personal mixers is in the orchestra pit on Broadway's Promises Promises |
NEW YORK-Aviom's Pro16 personal mixing system is
increasingly a big part of a big show on Broadway, where it is being used as
part of the monitoring setup by three of the season's hottest musicals - Promises, Promises; Come Fly Away; and La
Cage aux Folles - to help the orchestra to stay on cue.
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; "The new Elation Platinum Spot LED")
; "A Christie Nitro Solution digital luminaire on a single-arm yoke.")
; "The cover of Exit Press' inaugural volume, Ten Plays, by Mark Jackson.")
; "The touring production of In the Heights will factor into several theatres plans to let students experience touring Broadway as a form of artistic expression and as an educational tool.")
; "The Robe Robin 600 LEDWash")
; "Rigging situations like this one are dangerous for the operators and the people onstage. That's what J. R. Clancy hopes to bring to theatre managers' attention by posting photos of bad rigging on its Facebook page. To see more, visit www.facebook.com/JRClancy .")
; "Aviom's Pro16 personal mixing system with its A-16II personal mixers is in the orchestra pit on Broadway's Promises Promises")
