Professional Lighting April 2013 Newsletter

Westbury National Revamps Web Presence

Westbury National, a Toronto-based show services and AV systems integration firm, has launched a fully redesigned company website. Accessible at www.westbury.com, the company’s primary goal for this site is to better communicate its many service offerings to both new and existing clients and showcase the work of the company’s Show Services and Systems Integration divisions.

Designed by Toronto’s Climax Media, the redesigned site offers a number of visual and functional enhancements. Key features include: a revamped visual design; easy-to-navigate user interface; home page banner images highlighting major projects; an enhanced New and Used Equipment sales page; a Portfolio section providing details about past projects; a Careers page listing available employment opportunities; and a live Twitter feed and instant access to the company’s other regularly-updated social media pages.>

Westbury National is planning to add additional features in the coming months with the intention of improving the visitor experience. Visit the site at www.westbury.com

Nearly Time To Tee-Off For 2013 Pro AV Golf Tournament

Members of the pro AV community are invited to come together for a day of networking at the 13th annual Pro AV Golf Tournament, set to take place May 28, 2013 at the Glen Eagle Golf Club in Caledon, ON.

All the money raised from the tournament will go to Friends of Music Therapy, which supports the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children Music Therapy Program. The registration fee for golfers in $145 and that includes green fees, power carts, lunch, and a barbeque dinner, plus all taxes and gratuities.

Glen Eagle is a 27-hole championship golf course northwest of Toronto, which has been one of the premier courses in the Greater Toronto Area for more than 40 years. For more information and to register, go to www.proavgolf.com.

Project Update

The Killers Choose ArKaos For Battle Born World Tour

The Killers’ Battle Born tour, which has so far crossed North America, Australia, and Europe to promote the band’s fourth album, has taken ArKaos MediaMaster 3 with its new VideoMapper extension along for the ride.

Show designer Steven Douglas has worked with The Killers before and has this time made an advanced use of live camera feeds from various sources mixed with visual content in real time.

Taking advantage of the multi output capabilities of the ArKaos VideoMapper, Douglas has set up an upstage video wall composed of Pixled F-15 NT, which splits into two separate video screens with the top section measuring 4.6 m x 14.6 m and the lower section 1.8 m x 14.6 m, revealing a wall of moving lights and lasers behind it.

On stage, Douglas incorporates more video screens into some of the set elements. Three band risers are covered in a total of 618 Barco O-lite 510 tiles on 40 strings, controlled by 12 OMIX control boxes.

No less than 10 cameras are dotted all around the stage and their feeds are pre-mixed and cut by Chris Isaacson from XL Video using a Grass Valley Kayak switcher before going through a Thundering Jacks Video Dust system to add some effects.