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US manufacturer Color Kinetics has launched Color Kinetics Japan. The new company is the product of a thriving distribution partnership between Color Kinetics and ALS Inc. In the past year as a Color Kinetics distribution partner, ALS has successfully introduced the Color Kinetics range of digital colour-changing lighting to the Japanese market. The new company will market the full product line throughout Japan whilst also contributing to the development of market-specific technologies. Kiyoshi Otsuki, president of ALS Inc, will become president of Color Kinetics Japan, and the office will officially open on April 1 in Tokyo.

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Eastbourne Council has embarked on a general lighting upgrade effective across the town’s three main theatres, The Congress, Devonshire Park, and The Winter Gardens. Knowing from the outset that Strand was the brand of choice to suit their requirements, the theatres’ technical team approached a number of suppliers before opting for London-based White Light - one of Strand Lighting’s trading partners in the UK. The complete order comprised a total of 80 Cantata fresnels and 16 Alto fresnels, all complete with barndoors and other associated accessories, as well as 18 SL15/32 zoom coolbeam spotlights. The fittings were supplied ready to go by White light which, combined with the company’s service policy, was an important factor in securing the sale.

Douglas Morgan, of the Eastbourne Theatres’ technical team, commented: "We had made an informed decision t

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When Tony Hall of Essential Lighting took the brief for a recent annual sales convention at the Wembley Conference Centre, he was challenged with a large and complex ‘gyroscopic’ revolve that was to be a centrepiece of the show. Whilst a mains feed could be run through the various slip rings, Tony needed to incorporate a minimum of 36 ways of generic control and three ways of dimmed neon in the revolve to dramatically enhance the main reveal sequence and create a variety of looks for the show. Aware of the existence of radio DMX technology but unable to find it anywhere in the UK rental market, Tony called A.C. Lighting to help source the product. The recommendation was to utilise a state-of-the-art RadioDMX system manufactured in the USA. AC Lighting’s Glyn O’Donoghue stated: "Using a RadioDMX system provides a ‘cableless’ transmission that permi

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Lightfactor is capitalising on an excellent start to 2001 by expanding the sales force with the addition of Brian Henshall, who will be working as Northern Area Sales Representative with the dynamic team led by Bill Jones. Brian has enjoyed a varied career in the pro lighting and sound production and entertainment industries. Prior to this he has worked in the related areas of electrical wholesale and communications, all of which has contributed to his broad base of experience. Just before the move to Lightfactor, Brian worked with a well known UK entertainment and leisure sales and installation company. Brian’s move to Lightfactor will further his career as well as offering the opportunity for him to work in a flexible, creative and initiative-led sales environment Henshall comments: "It’s great to be onboard with Lightfactor, a company with an impressive track-record a

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Color Kinetics has been awarded US Patent 6,166,496 for a method of augmenting a full variety of digital content - including video games, music, movies and even information - with the company's digital lighting technology. This third patent for the company covers systems and methods of combining and decoding lighting control information with an entertainment signal, so that video games, music, movies, and Internet content can directly drive full spectrum digital lighting to enhance that content. The result is a fully immersive experience where light - in an infinite variety of colours and intensities - interacts with sound, video or information to extend the entertainment experience beyond a television, movie screen, computer monitor or speaker system. Color Kinetics is branding this technology combination ‘Surround Light’. Potential applications cited by the company include

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DHA Lighting continues its international expansion with the appointment of Exton as its stockist in Iceland. As Iceland's leading lighting supplier, Exton H/F, under the leadership of Gunnar Gunnarsson, provides comprehensive support to DHA as a distributor of gobos, moving effects and the DHA Gecko gobo projector. Based in Reykjavik, Exton H/F is involved in theatre, film and television lighting and can be contacted on telephone +354 896 2110 or at the e-mail address below.

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Flying Pig Systems and High End Systems have announced details of the 2001 Automated Lighting Academy - a comprehensive programme designed to educate participants in the fundamentals of automated lighting. The goal of the six-week course is to give each student the necessary skills and knowledge to be experts at using automated lighting to create powerful lighting designs. Those successfully completing the class will be fully prepared to work with leading lighting designers.

The 2001 inaugural course will run from June 25 - August 3, and will be based in Los Angeles. Some theory will be covered, but the focus will be primarily ‘hands-on’. Students will first be taught how to operate automated luminaires and consoles, and gradually the focus will shift to using these tools effectively. This learning will be done through a variety of projects and assignments. In addition, lea

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PLASA Media has today learned that the veteran lighting designer, Michael Northen MBE, died peacefully in the early hours of yesterday morning. Northen, who was Life President of the Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) and one of the best-known figures in lighting design, had been suffering from degenerative heart disease for some time. Credited with being the first professional Lighting Designer, he designed for over 300 productions during his long career, at venues including the Royal Opera House, the Royal Ballet, Glyndebourne Opera House and RSC Stratford. He was awarded the MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List this year in recognition of his services to theatre.

In an announcement today to members of the ALD, chairman Rick Fisher said: "Michael’s thoughts were always with the lighting world. It is entirely characteristic that he wished to celebrate

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Reacting on input from industry lighting designers and architectural lighting specialists, Martin has incorporated a 150W source into its new, smaller exterior housing. The Exterior 200 is a conveniently compact and powerful 150W, short-throw, CMY colour-changer in the same design of weatherproof (IP65-rated) aluminium housing as the award-winning Exterior 300. Its asymmetrical wide-throw flood beam makes it suitable for applications where projection distance is limited. Extremely versatile and housing a long life 6000-hour lamp, the Exterior 200 can be tucked discreetly into architectural design details of buildings or other structures. A built-in light sensor, memory presets and DMX controllability add to its independent functionality.

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Production Resource Group (PRG) has announced that it has established new credit totaling $125 million with GMAC Business Credit, to support its strategic plans. This refinancing was coupled with the sale of PRG's Systems Group consisting of Signal Perfection Ltd and the Ancha and SPL-Integrated Solutions divisions, to a newly-formed entity controlled by shareholders of PRG and Systems Group management. "With such rapid expansion, there have been obstacles and growing pains. None the less, the hard work of the talented people that make up PRG and the new management we've implemented has significantly reduced our debt from $190 million to $110 million," says Jere Harris, chairman and CEO. "I attribute these achievements to the continual efforts of our employees. It's their diligence, dedication and teamwork that has directly resulted in improved performance."

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Clay Paky’s intelligent lighting fixtures played a major role in Italy’s recent Sanremo Festival 2001. Clay Paky was the official lighting supplier for the festival and lit the Ariston Theatre with a large number of intelligent projectors, including 48 Stage Zoom 1200s, 60 Stage Light 300s, 80 Mini Scan HPEs and a number of Stage Color 1000 Halogens and Super Scan Zooms. The Stage Zoom 1200s were used both for general lighting and for a high impact effects, with 20 of the units highlighting the singers and other guests when they entered the Ariston Theatre, via the specially made catwalk. The Stage Light 300, powerful, compact and fast moving body projectors, were installed on the large hemisphere of the back wall, where they formed a synchronised ‘moving wall’ of light.

The Mini Scan HPEs, installed in an arc on the platform, around the walls, along the gallery

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Australian manufacturer of architectural lighting control products, Dynalite, has announced that Dimtek Ltd has been appointed the exclusive distributor of Dynalite Products in the UK and Ireland. Dimtek is a joint venture between Dynalite and a company headed by Jon Theis (formerly lighting controls product manager at Thorlux Lighting, a division of FW Thorpe plc). With an experienced staff of sales people and engineers, Dimtec is in an excellent position to offer full customer support, say Dynalite. John Gunton, managing director of Dynalite, said: "Establishing a joint venture office will enable us to better serve and support our valued customers in the UK and Ireland. A direct representation in these areas will also enable us to align our research and development activities with emerging trends in the UK lighting control market."

Dynalite has a number of new product relea

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More recruitment news from AC Lighting: firstly, Ian Ferguson joins the company’s UK sales division. Ferguson is well known to many people in the industry having spent the past eight years as business manager with Playlight in their London office. With 24 years of industry experience, Ferguson has an encyclopaedic knowledge of equipment and its applications. Phill Capstick, UK Sales Director, stated: "We are delighted to have the opportunity for Ian to join AC Lighting. His experience and skills will make a major contribution to our business development plans."

Strengthening the corporate office staff, meanwhile, is Marie Kent who has been appointed as personal assistant to MD David Leggett. Previously with banker UBS Warburg in London, Marie has an extensive background in senior roles including a period of nine years in Sydney, Australia, working for IBM.

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As from April 1st, Martin Professional will pass responsibility for the distribution of its products in Austria to its German subsidiary, Martin Professional GmbH. Martin says the move has been made in order to open up expanding market segments (such as the architectural lighting sector) more efficiently and quickly, and to profit from the advantages of a worldwide sales and service structure. Martin Professional GmbH will work in co-operation with its Austrian trading partner, MTEC GmbH, located in Wels, Austria. For Austrian customers, advantages will include access to a large distribution organization including extensive inventory, enhanced training possibilities, and a far-reaching service and support system. The new distribution structure in Austria will also make it possible to quickly respond to market changes, and to carry through on projects that require long preparation times a

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Stage Light Design was responsible for the lighting of two very different stands - for RM and Intel - at the recent BETT Show, Olympia. RM is the company dominating the market of supplying computer systems to schools. Lighting designer here was SLD’s John Rinaldi, whose brief included continuing the spacious and airy theme of the stand. The stand comprised a large white metal ground support system overhead, with several display/demo areas below, separated by translucent voile screens, all of which were illuminated with chrome-finished Par 30 lanterns and chrome Minuette fresnels from SLD’s stock. The stand’s ceiling was of sharkstooth gauze, up-lit with chrome 500W Pars. SLD also used three of their Clay Paky Mini Scan HPE fixtures to bounce logos and keywords around the stand’s various projection surfaces. For the Intel stand, SLD’s Alastair Crooks provided

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Martin Professional held its annual Distributor Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner at the historic Danish restaurant Terrassen in hometown Aarhus on March 11. The awards dinner, which bestowed accolades for distributor excellence in the year 2000, was the culminating event of Martin Professional’s Distributor Conference 2001. Martin Professional President and CEO Kristian Kolding welcomed the enthusiastic guests to the ceremony, which included representatives from over 45 Martin distributors (representing 85% of Martin turnover) from around the globe. Sales and marketing director Pio Nahum presented the annual Martin Distributor Awards which included distributor Erikson Pro of Canada collecting the top honor for Martin’s Preferred Partner of the Year. Nahum said: "Erikson Pro deserves this honor because of their outstanding professionalism and excellent performance in an o

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Stagetec held a product day at the Centre in Slough earlier this month. Primary focus was on the Compulite and LSC product ranges, with several new products previewed by both companies. Compulite showed the new CompuDIM 2000 touring version of their high-specification modular digital dimming system. This compact 24 x 2.5kW or 12 x 5kW system includes many advanced features including two DMX and Ethernet inputs, full status reporting both on the built in LCD screen and back to any Compulite desk, RCD protection per module and option of hard wire bypass switches for powering moving lights. New software was previewed for the 4D range with many new features geared to the architectural control market, including an event Scheduler and facility to operate the consoles from macro panels. These new features have already been utilised for lighting control at the BBC Concert Hall in Maida Vale and

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Coe-tech has supplied Harpenden-based installation and AV company Promedia Systems, with 1200m of Poly Optic ‘Polybright’ side-emitting fibre as phase one of an architectural lighting scheme for the exciting Millennium Point project in Birmingham. This will be one of the largest fibre-optic installations in Europe. Opening in September 2001, the £114 million development will house an important new Technology Innovation Centre, where the main attraction will be the Discovery Centre, an interactive science centre dealing with past, present and future technologies. Part government-, part privately-funded, Millennium Point is being driven by Birmingham City Council, the University of Central England and, for the private sector, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Promedia is designing, project managing and commissioning the installation of the fibre optic system and by

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Power Gems Sales & Marketing Division has moved to new, larger premises in Park Royal, London. The company’s new facility provides it with an extensive warehouse and new product demonstration area. The move has been partly necessitated by the company’s acquisition of Quartermaster in July 2000, which expanded both the products and services offered in Europe to include a wide range of ‘daylight’ lighting systems. The company can now be reached at Daylight House, Unit 4, Oliver Business Park, Oliver Road, Park Royal, London, NW10 7JB, UK. Tel: +44 20 8965 0000.

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No less than three of Northern Light's Touchscreen Programmable Stage Management desks are bound for the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. Situated in an award-winning complex centrally located on the Wanchai waterfront, the Academy has a range of flexible performance venues equipped to international standards. Three members of the Northern Light team who developed and manufactured the desks will travel to Hong Kong to install and programme them and provide operational training. Throughout the project, Northern Light's design team worked closely in liason with the Academy's associate director, Philip Soden, customising the desks to meet their specific requirements. Pictured left to right are Steve Courtney, Alan Paris and Dave Webster - three members of the Northern Light team bound for Hong Kong.

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Stagetec has been awarded the contract to design, supply and install a feature architectural lighting scheme for St Johns Beacon in Liverpool. The project, in association with Lee Forde from Liverpool Vision, consists of 10 Studio Due City Beams mounted on the roof tops of surrounding buildings focused on to the Beacon, a 400ft high tower housing the local radio station. DMX distribution will be achieved between buildings using the Interactive Technologies radio DMX units. The system will be controlled from a Compulite SP-4D rackmount replay unit linked to a CompuCall telephone to DMX interface allowing the whole system to be controlled from the building's telephone system. A Compulite SparkTOP system and CompuCAD software is part of the package, enabling the lighting to be programmed off-site and then loaded into the SP-4D. The project is due to be completed by the end of March.

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Philips Lighting’s investment in new technology promises users of halogen lamps a better lighting product for entertainment application. The lamps now incorporate a new technology called P3, which involves coating the pinch leads with a protective coating which results in greater reliability, by reducing early lamp failure caused by overheating. In addition it allows for more freedom and flexibility of the lamp burning position. All lamps with this new technology are now clearly identified with a distinctive P3 logo. To mark its launch, new packaging has also been designed and rebranded ‘Broadway’.

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Destiny's Child, the Houston, Texas-based group, has been out touring the USA during March to celebrate their successful album, ‘The Writing's on the Wall’ and to promote their new CD, ‘Survivor,’ released this spring. For this short stint, lighting contractor Theatrical Media Services (TMS) from Omaha, Nebraska, has provided LD Shane Preston with a rig of High End Systems products including 25 Studio Spot 575s, 13 Studio Color 575s, eight Dataflash AF1000s and one F-100 fog machine, along with some conventional gear. Lighting crew chief Raymond Werthmann says the show is "constantly moving" with a moving backdrop, kabuki drops, and lots of "extra surprises." The High End gear is on every truss, Werthmann says, with eight of the 24 Studio Spot 575s on the floor and all Cyberlights in the air. Werthmann comments: "The equipment is working w

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In order to continue supplying customers in London and the South East, Playlight will be moving into new premises in North West London following the auction being held in its existing warehouse on Friday 18th May. Dan McMullan is setting up the new base with Jim Ewart who will head the new operation. Ian Duff and Andrew ‘Chunk’ Charters will be providing logistical and technical back-up. The new office will be concentrating on the dry hire of lighting, sound, drapes and starcloths to the conference and theatre markets, as well as the dry hire of film gear to the industry. It will be up and running by July and operations will carry on as normal out of the existing warehouse up until that point. The northern end of the company has also come under the spotlight and will be concentrating on the above areas, but in addition, will have a division handling OBs, festivals and studio
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  5. GE Lighting and Koto Electric Collaborate
  6. Selecon & the Gilbert Collection
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