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 07.12.07 Digital Lighting Shines on Minneapolis Dance Recital |
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| Description: Ruehling Associates, Inc. provided a customized digital lighting system and tech support to LD Blake Childs as he lit Northland Dance Studio’s Annual Spring Recital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. RAI’s Andrew Atienza created timecode triggers for a Catalyst Pro Media Server feeding 3 edge-blended DL.1s. Visit www.ruehlingassoc.com for photos and more information. | | Date Posted: July 12 2007 |
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| 07.12.07 Ruehling Associates, Inc. Adds Vari*Lite Fixtures |
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| Description: We now stock select VL fixtures including the VL-3000 Spot and VL-3500 Spot.
Visit www.ruehlingassoc.com for more info. | | Date Posted: July 12 2007 |
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| 07.12.07 Ruehling Associates, Inc. Welcomes New Rental Manager |
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| Description: Randle Farris joins the Ruehling team as rental manager. Randy joins us after serving as Production Manager/Technical Director for Park Square Theater in St. Paul. He is an adjunct professor and resident designer for North Central University in Minneapolis. Randy is originally from Wyoming and enjoys cooking, fencing and competitive roller skating.
Visit www.ruehlingassoc.com for a complete bio and you can contact Randy at Randle@ruehlingassoc.com or (763) 420-7778
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| 07.12.07 Ruehling Associates, Inc. Adds 6" Color Kinetics LEDs |
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| Description: We now stock Color Kinetics ColorBurst 6" round LED fixtures. Our units are white with frosted lenses and feature custom floor bases and a 50' 4-Pin XLR cable. ColorBursts are IP-66 rated and we offer flexible power/data supply options including stand-alone effects and wireless DMX! | | Date Posted: July 12 2007 |
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| 07.12.07 Ruehling Associate, Inc. Adds Cast Software to Line Card |
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| Description: We are now an authorized dealer for WYSIWYG and VIVEN software. WYSIWYG is the industry standard for lighting design, paperwork and 3-D visulization. Purchase your WYG subscriptions and upgrades from RAI and save BIG!
VIVEN is a ground-breaking event design suite producing automated seating layouts, inventory tracking, floor plans and 3-D renderings.
Visit www.ruehlingassoc.com for more info. | | Date Posted: July 12 2007 |
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| 07.12.07 Ruehling Associates, Inc. Adds Atomic 3000 Strobes & Colors |
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| Description: We now stock Martin's Atomic 3000 DMX strobea and Atomic Color Scrollers. | | Date Posted: July 12 2007 |
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| 07.12.07 Ruehling Associates, Inc. Doubles Inventory of HES Axons |
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| Description: We have doubled our inventory of HES Axon Media Servers which feature the graphics engine of a DL.2 in a rackmount package.
Our Axons ship in custom racks with an I/O panel and drawer mounted keyboard and LCD monitor.
We have also updgraded the projectors in our DL.1s so you can mix and match DL.2s and Axon/DL.1s to create panoramic colleges up to 8 x 8!
Visit www.ruehlingassoc.com for more info. | | Date Posted: July 12 2007 |
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| 07.12.07 Ruehling Associates, Inc. Co-sponsors & Lights Winter Show for Circus Juventas |
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| Description: Ruehling Associates, Inc. provided 18 HES moving lights and an iPC console for Circus Juventas’ Pazzanni. RAI’s Andrew Atienza designed, programmed and operated lights for the encore run during St. Paul’s Winter Carnival. RAI was a corporate sponsor for Pazzanni.
Visit www.ruehlingassoc.com for photos and more info. | | Date Posted: July 12 2007 |
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| 07.12.07 Ruehling Associates, Inc. Adds Dimming and ColorCommand Accessories |
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| Description: We now stock ETC's SmartPack 1.2kw DMX Dimmer Racks. These units feature 12 channels of 1.2kw dimming with socapex outputs. They are ideal for HES ColorCommand or Lekos with HES ColorMerge.
Also now in-stock is 10" accessory holders for HES ColorCommand. These frames allow barn doors, top hats, CTB filters, diffusion, silks and more. | | Date Posted: July 12 2007 |
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| 07.12.07 Ruehling Associate's Design Department Offers New Services |
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| Description: Our new design department offers drafting, programming and visualization services.
Our Services Include: 2-D & 3-D Drafting ; Paperwork Creation; 3-D Scene Rendering; 3-D Visualization; Hog 2/3 Patching; Hog 2/3 Palette, Cuelist & Submaster Creation; Custom Effects Creation; Complete Hog 2/3 Show Programming. For more information, contact Travis in our design department at Travis@Ruehlingassoc.com or (763) 420-7778. | | Date Posted: July 12 2007 |
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| 07.12.07 Ruehling Associates Inc. Adds City Theatrical Wireless DMX Systems |
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| Description: We now stock City Theatrical WDS Wireless DMX Systems. We offer both stand-alone receivers or built-in receivers in our PDS-375 TRw power supplies for Color Kinetics ColorBlast or ColorBurst LED Fixtures | | Date Posted: July 12 2007 |
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| 01.22.07 DL.2’s Pay Tribute to Mural Artist at Concordia College |
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| Description: Moorhead, MN- Concordia College recently produced its 80th Annual Christmas Concert which featured a 425-voice choir and a full orchestra. The event has drawn national attention in recent years and was televised on PBS stations in 2006. Since 1978 the show’s visual centerpiece has been an original mural by liturgical artist David Hetland. Hetland passed away this spring and as a tribute, this year’s concert featured digital slides of his past murals projected on a custom-built screen behind the choirs and orchestra.
Concordia Lighting Director Bryan Duncan selected 6 DL.2 fixtures from Ruehling Associates, Inc. in Minneapolis to project the images onto a 20 foot high by 63 foot wide screen during the concert. Duncan had originally planned to use traditional fixed projectors for the project, but when he saw the capabilities of the DL.2 fixtures running Collage Generator Software, he realized the potential of digital lighting not only for this year’s event, but for future projects as well. “For this year’s concert we kept things pretty simple with no movement and basic cross fades for transitions,” Duncan said. “As event producers on campus see the quality of image projection and the flexibility digital lighting fixtures can provide, I can envision us potentially incorporating this technology in the future. The creative possibilities are really amazing.”
Ruehling Associates not only provided the DL.2 fixtures, but provided a total production service package including system design, content manipulation, programming and on-site operation. Ruehling’s Digital Media Specialist Travis Slyter oversaw the design and programming of the system and assisted Duncan with customizing content. “This was a ground-breaking project in many ways,” Slyter said. “We did a lot of experimenting with image size, resolutions and projector placement. Even though we didn’t move the projectors during the show and only used 1 or 2 layers at a time, the DL.2s provided more control over image attributes, easier projector alignment and simplified media playback than a traditional fixed projector system. Plus we were able to key a video clip of a dove flying over one of the digital slides in real-time within the DL.2 which would have been difficult to do without pre-producing a separate video loop or using a complex video switching system to produce the layering effects we needed.”
The 6 DL.2 fixtures were configured in dual arrays 3 wide x 1 high which were overlaid for brightness and redundancy. Control of the digital fixtures was handled by a Wholehog III Console and a Hog PC system was used during set-up and rehearsals as a wireless remote focus unit. Ruehling’s Andrew Atienza, who serves as the company’s Digital Lighting Technical Support Specialist, traveled on-site to complete programming and operate the system during the show. “The DL.2s performed very well,” said Atienza. “We simply updated the palettes we had pre-built in ½ scale in our showroom to match the full-scale of the venue. The Collage Generator Software combined with the keystoning control of the DL.2s allowed us to compensate for minor differences in throw distances and projection angle without moving projectors or climbing up on a truss to tweak settings. The wireless Hog PC system networked to the Hog III worked great and was very helpful as it allowed me to be close to the stage while fine-tuning the arrays during set-up.”
Content preparation is an important part of digital lighting and Slyter said the success of this project was attributed to collaboration and careful preparation of the media before loading them into the digital fixtures. “It was a team effort and our pre-production work was the key to things going smoothly on-site,” said Slyter. “Bryan had selected about 60 slides from the 6000 photos he had of the murals. Fortunately, the images were very high resolution digital photos or scans. He sent a few images to me, I calculated the pixel count of the collage layout we were using and we sized the images to fit. Consequently when we loaded the stills into the DL.2s and put the fixtures into 3x1 collage mode we were actually showing the images in their native resolution. The increased resolution of the new Collage Generator Software allowed us to keep the images sharp even when spread across three projectors showing very large images. Because we were trying to recreate the murals as accurately as possible, image quality and aspect ratio preservation were crucial. The DL.2s delivered a sharp, vibrant image even from our final throw distance which was about 48 feet.”
Additional support for the project was provided by Ruehling’s service manger Joshua Wood and rental manager Jeff Gallenbeck. Company president and owner Ron Ruehling was excited to see digital lighting introduced to a new market in a unique way. “This project showed the flexibility and image quality of the DL.2s,” said Ruehling. “They are just as impressive producing subtle effects in a theatrical or presentational environment like this as they are in a concert or club application producing special effects. This was a great opportunity to introduce digital lighting to a new community of potential clients.”
Duncan was also very pleased with the results. “We can’t replicate what Dave did, but this allowed us to give people a taste. High End’s equipment allowed us to showcase the intricate details of the murals. It wasn’t just big splashes of paint.”
In addition to the images used during the concert, additional photos were displayed in an automated presentation prior to the performances which ran from December 1-December 3 at the Memorial Auditorium in Moorhead, MN.
Visit www.ruehlingassoc.com for photos and more info. | | Date Posted: January 22 2007 |
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