Special effects foreman Tom Kittle, who’s based in Ocala, Florida, turns to Look Solutions for his foggers of choice for motion picture and TV work.
Kittle places the compact TINY FX fogger under car hoods for car wrecks and inside stoves to simulate steam. He uses the Viper NT fogger to produce smoke wherever needed in interiors.
“I’ve been using them for years and love them,” he says. “The TINYs are great for small spots - you can stick them anywhere. The Vipers are very tough - it’s hard to kill them!”
Truly small in its footprint, the lightweight TINY FX consists of just two components: the machine and its battery pack. It delivers efficiency and punch in a unit that’s easy to use anywhere.
The Viper NT fogger unites current digital technology with proven technique and power. It more
grandMA and Clay Paky Sharpy lighting fixtures took on a Spanish accent for the 12th Annual Latin Grammy Awards telecast live on the Univision Network on Nov. 10 from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. A.C.T Lighting is the distributor of grandMA and Clay Paky products in North America.
Lititz, Pennsylvania-based Atomic Lighting provided three grandMA2 light systems with fader wings to control the show’s lighting and another two full-size grandMA2 consoles to run 16 universes of Artnet for the video content. Fifty Clay Paky Sharpys formed part of the lighting inventory.
Since its debut on Univision entirely in Spanish in 2005, the Latin Grammy Awards show has consistently increased its ratings worldwide; it is also one of Univision’s highest rated shows as well as the most watched and highly regarded awards event by Hispanics.
DALLAS, TEXAS - Dallas-based advertising agency, The Richards Group, provides some of the nation’s leading companies with creative and innovative ways to build their brands. The firm recently added a 5.1 surround mixing studio, designed by Russ Berger Design Group (RBDG), to augment the post production services offered by their Richards Outpost division.
For more than three decades, The Richards Group has been a leader in corporate branding, handling advertising, interactive, relationship marketing, retail, brand, and business-to-business campaigns. The agency has achieved great success by keeping its approach fresh, from staff to campaigns to the facilities being used to produce the final deliverable for the client. Their “Click Here” division is setting new standards in creative marketing.
The Richards Group’s original in-house audio room was created in 1999 by renovating an existing conference room. The company needed a second more
Middle Atlantic Products is proud to announce that it has expanded its product offering to include Wiremold® solutions from Legrand, the industry’s largest selection of end-to-end wire and cable management and pathway products. With an emphasis on increasing value to its integrator partners, Middle Atlantic’s goal is to help streamline the specifying, ordering and shipment of electronics system support products.
Building on its commitment to ship quickly from its warehouse locations throughout the US and Canada, Middle Atlantic will now stock Wiremold product families ideal for AV applications, including Floor Boxes, Poke-Thrus, and Overfloor and Surface raceways. The company will also offer ordering and support capabilities for Wiremold Vista Columns.
The company has also expanded its capabilities to offer full customer and sales support for the Wiremold product lines, providing a single source for infrastructure needs – the products that provide the framework for supporting and protecting more
Roger George Rentals, the SFX rentals and expendables company in Van Nuys, California owned by Oscar-winning special effects/pyrotechnics veteran Thaine Morris, can’t keep Look Solutions’ foggers and hazers on the shelf.
“We have 100 of them out in other people’s hands, on movie sets and episodic television productions,” says Thaine. “They’re great products and very durable. We have almost no problems with them and never see them coming back for repair.”
Roger George has rented Look Solutions foggers and hazers to director Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar;” the upcoming “Lincoln” from Steven Spielberg and “Django Unchained” from Quentin Tarantino; the superhero “Avengers,” “The Amazing Spider-Man,” the “Star Trek” sequel and “Gangster Squad” due out next year; Ben Affleck’s “Argo,” “R.I.P.D” and “One Shot” slated for release in 2013.
The company has also provided Look Solutions’ products to TV’s popular “Castle,” “House,” more
High Resolution Systems LLC (HRS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dan Renne to the post of lead developer. Previously he served as a software architect and designer for HRS’s Universal Device Control (UDC) software, providing socket-level programming and support and GUI design.
“We’re very happy to have Dan take on the new role of lead developer for our popular UDC product,” says HRS sales engineer Drew Taylor. “We’re confident that Dan and his team will take UDC software to new heights as the product continues to grow and evolve.”
High Resolution Systems’ software-based Universal Device Controller has quickly become the product of choice for the live event, staging and rental, worship, corporate industrial and broadcast markets.
Renne, who hold a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Information Systems from Grand Valley State University, has 10 years of more
Los Angeles, CA - Pacific Television Center (PacTV), a Los Angeles-based independent global transmission and production company, has recently completed major service upgrades for TV New Zealand (TVNZ), Special Broadcasting Service Australia (SBS) and TV Games Network (TVG) in Los Angeles. The enhanced service capabilities allow for increased international content to be delivered and disseminated through PacTV’s extensive, global fiber network.
“As our aggregation capabilities continue to grow, we are making it easier for our clients to access global content eloquently,” says Richard Neri, President, Pacific Television Center. “From a news program produced in England, then broadcast in Australia and New Zealand, to horse racing in Japan that is delivered to TVG Studios in Los Angeles, the PacTV fiber network also enables broadcasters from around the world to instantly share content in a cost-effective manner.”
Electrosonic has successfully upgraded some of the key audio/visual components in the Scottish Government’s Media Centre at St. Andrew’s House in Edinburgh. The Centre has the facility to run presentations, record proceedings and relay images to an adjacent room.
Electrosonic’s Edinburgh office refreshed the essential presentation equipment in “Media 1” (seating 70), “Media 2” (a small briefing/meeting or overflow room), a preparatory “Green Room” supporting Media 1 & 2, a back projection room (for main control and video routing equipment), and a control room (housing video preview and audio equipment). The original equipment was installed around 12 years ago and overdue a refresh.
Carolyne Thomson, Scottish Government Project Manager was very happy with the work carried out by the Electrosonic team. “They listened carefully to what we wanted to achieve and they came up with some very good more
The Spanish company will show new versions of all the solutions included in its ‘Spider’ platform. The innovative VSN’s broadcast architecture allows working in a distributed, multi-site environment, cloud computing, multiplatform distribution and seamless integration among multiple areas.
VSN will be present in the next edition of CABSAT that will take place next February 28th – March 1st in Dubai. Promoting its new generation of broadcast software solutions, the company will showcase new versions of its products in the areas of News Production, Content Management and Distribution and Advanced Graphics. All the new releases will be available at the booth S1-G21.
Included in the Spider platform, the new VSN’s Workflow Manager allows full customization of a TV Channel’s different workflows, thus generating a fully automated production operative. The seamless integration with VSNIPTRANSFER to work in a distributed environment (WAN), and the combination of Web architecture with Windows and more
Few people get a chance to relive history, but visitors to the Apollo/Saturn V Center at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex have the opportunity to experience the tension and excitement of NASA’s Apollo 8 lunar launch in the newly refurbished Firing Room Theater. Electrosonic was contracted by executive producer MAYAD (My Design Inc.) of Orlando, Florida, to design the show control and AV equipment installation, integrate show systems between the control room and supplied lighting and effects systems, and program all new and existing show components.
Visitors to the 100,000 square-foot Apollo/Saturn V Center get an inside look at what it was like to be part of the Apollo firing room during the Dec. 21, 1968 countdown of the first manned vehicle to orbit the moon. The sense of being part of history commences in the bus entry area where Electrosonic programmed more
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Special effects foreman Tom Kittle, who’s based in Ocala, Florida, turns to Look Solutions for his foggers of choice for motion picture and TV work.
