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14 December 2016

World premiered at The Spiegel Theatre in Zwolle, Netherlands, the action starts on 10 March 2011, the day before the earthquake off the Pacific coast of T?hoku which triggered devastating tsunami waves up to 40m high sweeping up to 10 Kilometres inland, annihilating large areas of Japan's East Coast and claiming over 15,000 lives.

Acclaimed international lighting designer Yaron Abulafia was an integral part of the talented creative team who have helped deliver the piece directed by Malcolm Rock, and he chose an all Robe lighting rig to help sculpt the drama and the intense range of emotional, atmospheric and location

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SHoW DMX Multiverse provides "unprecedented levels of wireless DMX data transmission in a tiny package", for the first time, allowing the realistic possibility of a professional quality wireless DMX chip in every DMX device. The SHoW DMX Multiverse chip is tiny, low in cost, and has the ability to carry multiple universes of DMX data (as many as five universes in a 2.4GHz transceiver or four universes in a 900MHz transceiver), along with full duplex wireless RDM, and the ability to combine DMX slots from any streaming ACN universe into any of the broadcast universes.

DMXcat is a device used to control, analyse, and test DMX lighting gear. The system combines a small hardware dongle connected by a wireless connection to a suite of Android or IPhone apps. Drawing on a built-in database o

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Collectively, the group brings an extra level of juice that comes from "having been there" when they take the stage. This was readily apparent when they performed recently at the Corona Ranch and Rodeo Grounds outside Phoenix. Keeping pace with their high-octane performance was a searing nonstop lightshow created by John Garberson, using a collection of fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

Garberson, owner of Creative BackStage, used a collection of 24 Rogue R2 washes, eight Maverick MK2 Spots and four STRIKE 4 multi formatted warm white LED fixtures to turn the Stageline 260 stage at

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"In response to the growing interest in our complete line of LED video solutions, we are very excited to continue the growth of the PixelFLEX project management division," said Monty Rains, president and COO. "Capitalizing on his vast industry experience, Jon joins our team of talented project managers with a special focus on LED video design and event execution for our clients working in a number of different industries."

As a graduate of Full Sail University, Chavez started his career as a freelance lighting designer, and has since held posit

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14 December 2016

As with TV Burp that ended in 2012, Tea Time is sprinkled with all hallmarks you would expect from the mind of Harry Hill. In each episode Harry is joined by a celebrity guest to assist him in the kitchen as he presents a master class in classics such as chicken a la Tom Jones and sponge finger prison. In between such gastronomic delights, there are the TV clips from the celebrities past tossed with the usual Harry Hill flair as well as inane games and celebrity impersonations.

The first episode was a smorgasbord of comedy and farce featuring Paul Hollywood, who joined Harry for Greek Night. In between BGT favourites Stavros Flatley dancing in to music from

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Lighting was designed by Tim Oliver, who balanced the diverse requirements of candy pop, theatre and drama as the story of love juxtaposed with cultural values and differences plays out, complete with a full live band who brought a richness and resonance to the piece which has just concluded a six-month UK tour.

HSL's project manager John Slevin commented, "It's a pleasure working with Tim and the BKL team on another great musical. We had a good efficient prep at HSL and the tour ran smoothly right

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14 December 2016

Garth Brooks' triumphant 2016 was capped off with the highest honours of the night as he was crowned Entertainer of the Year for the fifth time, the last being nearly 20 years ago. Bandit has served as Garth's lighting vendor since the beginning in 1988 and provides the lighting for Brooks' monumental tour, which has been smashing records including 5m tickets sold in two and a half years.

The country star shows no signs of letting up as he was recently awarded his seventh Diamond Award from the RIAA for having seven albums sell more than 10m units, the only artist to do so and surpassing The Beatles. Additionally, Garth launched his own Sirius

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Five towers of nine Mozarts each, arrayed in 3x3 clusters serve as individually controlled backdrops for band members and also combine for a canvas of content and special effects. "The whole show is built around them," explains tour LD Conor Jacob. "They travel easy, are robust, IP rated, very versatile, and easily manipulated as a light fixture and for content output.

"We're merging five universes of Art-Net DMX control and media server outputs, managed entirely with ProPlex IQ nodes and six Mozart 10-way PSUs. Controlled by an Avolites Tiger Touch I

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Those involved in putting on the two-day celebration, however, also saw something beyond the free-flowing party. For them, the event was another step on the way back for the hard-pressed Hunts Point section of the South Bronx.

"Robot-Heart is the first event ever held in this building, which used to be a fertilizer warehouse," said Lazer of DNA Illuminations (New York). "The plan is to turn this place into a permanent event venue, so it can help bring people into this neighbourhood. Being part of something like that definitely added an ex

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14 December 2016

The ESTA Control Protocols Plugfest is an educational opportunity for control manufacturers and developers to gather together in person and test their products for interoperability with the latest versions of the CPWG ESTA Control standards. Our goal is to assist you in ensuring that your customer is purchasing products that interoperate and communicate correctly on the same control network.

The scheduled hours are 4:00-11:00pm on Friday, 9:00am-11:00pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 9:00am to noon on Monday. The event is attended by

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It was chosen thanks to its ease of installation, flexible use, reliability and cost effectiveness and is now providing enhanced lighting control for both the theatre users and onsite lighting maintenance staff.

With the incumbent lighting control system at the theatre proving increasingly problematic and costly to maintain and repair, the contracted lighting maintenance team led by Daniel Strachan at Mitie, decided to seek out an alternative lighting control solution. Following discussions with electrical wholesaler, Edmundson Electrical, and further liaison with experts at Hager, a suitable LCM answer was identified; one which could b

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At 300m (980 ft.) tall, the Gran Torre Santiago, designed by architect Cesar Pelli, is the highest building in Latin America.

BMFLs positioned approximately 220m away were utilized to achieve this goal, the brainchild of the event's creative director Esteban Icardi, working with lighting designers Tony Amoros and Manuel Guzman.

Esteban's technical production company, Icardi Productions, purchased 12 x BMFL WashBeams the month before the event from Robe's Chilean distributor, VGL, four of which were used to spectacularly brand the tower.

The four BMFL WashBeams were positioned on platforms built on the west side of the tower so t

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14 December 2016

This fundraiser was held by Beyond Pink, a non-profit dedicated to early breast cancer detection . As part of its Old Hollywood theme, the event featured 12 different humorous fashion show vignettes, such as Bra Wars, which showcased Star Wars-inspired characters dressed in custom-designed bra costumes.

A collaborative design by the women of Beyond Pink, the fundraiser provided those in attendance with a fun-filled evening. Creating a show-time feeling around the proceedings, which raised roughly $160,000 (in part by auctioning off the bras seen on the runway), was a lighting and video rig designed by Justin Haas of AMP'D Entertainment t

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The fixtures were specified and installed by Mediatec, now a US owned Swedish company and specialist in exhibition and conference technical production, headquartered in Kung?lv just outside the busy port city of Goteborg. The project manager was Mattias Berglund.

Volvo - both cars and commercial vehicles - has been a Mediatec client for some time. The company has designed specified and lit numerous shows, expos, activations and launches for the world-renowned brand - one of Sweden's most successful. Volvo knows what it wants and demands the hig

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The show is currently playing in Liverpool and will continue to visit cities and towns across the UK well into 2017. As one of the leading lighting suppliers to UK touring theatre, White Light was approach to provide the lighting equipment.

The lighting designer for the show is Olivier Award-winning Tim Lutkin, whose credits include Chimerica, Elf the Musical, Les Blancs and The Girls. He was also the lighting designer for the original West End run of The Full Monty. He comments, "My brief on the show was to make the lighting as realistic and indu

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The concert, held 19 August at General Assembly Hall at the United Nations in New York City, starred American actor and singer Leslie Odom Jr., winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Aaron Burr in the hit musical Hamilton.

Methot is principal lighting designer at Design One Lighting Design, a full service lighting design and consultation firm based in New York City that stocks its own lighting gear. He had worked with production company One Dream Sound the year before on the same project and was asked by One Dream Sound CEO David Ferdinand to help out on this year's event.

Methot chose to use 12 Elation WW Pr

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The recently announced Plessey Orion PLWS3000 series module represented a size and performance breakthrough for LED lighting modules giving architectural and industrial lighting designers a new level of design freedom. By integrating the LED and optics into a tiny module, the Orion module delivers over 3000 lumens from a unit just 5.6mm thick and 82mm in diameter. It uses Plessey's Stellar beam forming technology to achieve a powerful and highly directional beam from such a slim module. Key features include im

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14 December 2016

Ayrton's latest innovative creations were shown in a dramatic 300-fixture showpiece display on the shared Morpheus Lights/Ayrton booth.

The demonstration featured the new, 15:1 zoom-equipped MagicPanel-FX projector and the new MagicBurst 240,000 lumen graphic strobe luminaire, along with IntelliPix-XT, VersaPix-RS and AlienPix-RS fixtures.

The display also introduced two exciting new additions to the MagicDot family: joining the original MagicDot-R, winner of Live Design's 2016 Product of the Year Award for Effects, were the scaled up MagicDot-XT and the zoom-equipped MagicDot-SX. Also presented were recent Ayrton favourites: DreamPanel -Twi

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The design allows the light to be easily extracted for a post-decorative fit or service; a solution that has not been previously made available until now. Developed from Ecoled's Eyeconic range of miniature and modular LED downlights, the plaster-in version of the Eyeconic Trimless allows the light engine, free of a spring clip, to be inserted or fully retracted from the front using Ecoled's custom tool.

James Cadisch, marketing director at Ecoled, comments, "This is one of the smallest and most powerful luminaires on the market. Coupled with our latest innovation, the Eyeconic Trimless is not only elegant, but also pra

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The Plessey LEDs are being used in the Consol Solar Jars which are manufactured by Suntoy, a South African based company. Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park are using 1000 Consol Solar Jars as one of its key set pieces. Plessey's GaN on Silicon LEDs are being used as they offer manufacturers flexibility when designing custom light fittings due to their compact, eco-friendly and sustainable nature.

This is the first time globally, that wireless DMX technology has been used to activate so many solar powered lanterns in an art exhibition of this magnitude. The technological challenge was made easier in collaboration with UJ (University of

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When lighting designer Travis Shirley was tasked this summer (his fifth year with the festival) with lighting the festival's Main Stage - called the Ranch Arena - he knew he also had an experience mission: to offer an equal opportunity lighting rig for both daytime and nighttime artists. To do this, he designed and specified a lighting rig that would cut through daytime ambience and that would also do justice to light up embellishments of the stage design. Longtime festival vendor Christie Lites (rep Robert Roth) worked closely with

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A must-stop venue for many of those visitors was the LePlur Stage, epicentre of the festival's EDM centric acts, a stellar group that included The Chainsmokers, Party Favor, Die Antword, DJ Mustard, Black Tiger Sex Machine and Cakes Da Killa, to name a few.

Leaving no doubt that this was a major EDM stage was the eye searing lightshow created by the team at Solomon Group. Their power-packed rig was anchored by a beefy collection of Chauvet Professional fixtures. The production design of the LePlur stage was done by the brother team of Jonathan and Matthew Foucheaux.<

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Organisers, The Enchanted Forest Community Trust, have ensured that for each of its 15 years, a fresh theme using the very latest in technology, has been designed to bring the forest and loch to life.

This year appears to be no exception. Running from 29 September to 30 October, the event has so far scooped awards from the Scottish Events Awards (Best Event Marketing), CIPR Pride Awards Scotland (Best Integrated Campaign & Outstanding Small PR Consultancy) and the Perthshire Chamber of Commerce Business Star Awards (Business Growth Award) to name but a few. For the sixth year, lighting designers Kate Bonney and Simon Hayes joi

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The company was founded by Hans Willems in 2006 to 'tackle all those challenging, crazy and innovative projects that occur in the industry - with style, flair and imagination'.

Back in 2006 Willems had a big dream, which was to work with like-minded people to realise ambitious projects that pushed the technical envelope and required custom solutions.

Now with 14 full time staff, all with multi-disciplinary knowledge, a team of top project managers, an extensive R&D department, an international portfolio of clients and numerous projects, large and small, standard and esoteric on the CV - there's every reason to celebrate the first decade of WIcre