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Jonathan Adkins has returned to Lighting Technology Projects Ltd (LTP). Terry Reeves, general manager of LTP stated: "Jonathan’s departure from LTP, in advance of its acquisition by the PAI Group, left a void in the organization’s skill base. Everybody within the PAI group and Jonathan’s customers are extremely pleased he has chosen to return to the fold." Paul Adams, chairman of the PAI Group, added: "We are pleased to have Jonathan joining us, and know that he will prove an invaluable asset to both LTP and the PAI Group."

(Ruth Rossington)

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Following the sale of its Vari*Lite product manufacturing and sales division to Genlyte Thomas Group (as reported on this site last week), Vari-Lite International, Inc has announced organizational expansion and investment plans for its rental division, VLPS Lighting Services.

"We have provided professional rental services to the entertainment industry for 21 years and we will continue to build on this well established foundation," commented Rusty Brutsche, CEO of Vari-Lite International, Inc. (to be renamed VLPS Lighting Services International, Inc.). "The sale of our manufacturing division enables us to focus all of our attention and resources on pursuing and developing growth opportunities in the rental market." VLPS will continue its strategy of providing equipment for rental along with commitment to customer service and support. The company will also continue

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Syncrolite is offering a $10,000 reward for the return of an SX7K Xenon Skylight which was stolen from LDI 2002 in Las Vegas on October 22. In addition, the reward rises to $25,000 if information is provided which leads to the arrest and conviction of the thieves.

The SX7K is the flagship product of Syncrolite’s award-winning Xenon Skylight line and one of the largest theatrical lights in use today, so not something easily concealed. Its case measures 57" x 39" x 39" and weighs 560lbs. The company guarantees that all leads will be treated in confidence and the reward will be paid in two parts, $10,000 immediately on return of the light and $15,000 upon arrest and conviction of the perpetrators. If you have any information, contact Gary Carnes at Syncrolite on the e-mail below.

(Ruth Rossington)

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S. Leonard Auerbach, ASTC, founder of Auerbach + Associates Inc. has announced that both of the company’s divisions have changed their names to more accurately reflect recent company expansion. The name of Auerbach + Associates, Theatre and Media Facilities Design Consultants, has been changed to Auerbach · Pollock · Friedlander, Performing Arts/Media Facilities Planning and Design. Auerbach + Glasow, Architectural Lighting Design, is now Auerbach · Glasow, Architectural Lighting Designers and Consultants.

"The new name recognizes the firm’s growth and evolution from a San Francisco-based consultancy to a national entity with a thriving New York City office and a busy Minneapolis project office, marking yet another step in the ongoing development of the firm," said Len Auerbach.

The change of name also reflects the rise of two of the company’s principa

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transtechnik Lichtsysteme is expanding its national sales network, adding four new dealers to further serve the German sales regions. The dealers will be authorized to sell an extensive portfolio of transtechnik Lichtsysteme, ETC, and Avab brand products.

The new transtechnik Lichtsysteme dealers are WIBA Theater-und Studio-Equipment of Cologne; Think Abele of Nufringen; Fischer Vertriebgesellschaft of Berlin and Lucifer of Wolfenbüttel. In Germany, ETC Source Four-line luminaires will continue to be distributed exclusively by Paderborn-based Lightpower, whilst WYSIWYG lighting-visualisation software will remain exclusively distributed by Arcus Licht-und Präsentationstechnik of Hoevelhof. transtechnik Lichtsysteme, which also supplies advanced studio automation systems and components, was acquired from parent company transtechnik GmbH by ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.) in Ma

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Lighting Services Inc, a leading US manufacturer of track, accent, display and fibre optic lighting systems, is opening a UK operation.

The New York-based architectural lighting company, whose new BP150 Series Metal Halide Image/Framing projector won the award for Debuting Product of the Year for Architectural Lighting at the recent LDI show in Las Vegas, already enjoys success in Europe through distributor Enliten. However, with the products in demand throughout Europe, and equipment in retail stores across the continent, plus other installations such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the company is keen to establish a more formal presence in the European market. A UK operation will also enable the company to work directly with the designers who are now doing work all over the world.

"Lighting Services collaborates with designers worldwide and in recent years we have become

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Twenty-year laser industry and special effects veteran, Kevin McCarthy, has launched a new firm, Holo-Walls, specializing in producing large holographic environments and effects that are available for sale or rental to the entertainment and display industries.

Previously with Laser Media until 2001, he moved on to work with Hiro Yamagata, producing spectacular holographic art installations throughout the world - the largest being the critically acclaimed 'NGC6093' at the Ace Gallery in New York, which comprised of 25,000sq.ft of holographic mylar panels covering floors, walls and ceilings.

In his new venture McCarthy has a total of eight patterns with five patterns producing varying multi-coloured effects while three patterns simulate the raw look of steel such as galvanised metal, diamond deck or brushed aluminium. "Holo-Walls are basically a product that incorporates a thin fi

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This season’s opening at Madison Square Garden for the New York Rangers was a spectacular theatrical mix, featuring kabuki drops and FireFly projectors, along with dozens of moving lights. The Firefly projectors were used by Dierson to project large format images of the season’s players on to free-floating white drapery which then dropped, right on cue, to the ice.

Lighting designer Patrick Dierson and assistant lighting designer/programmer Demfis Fyssicopulos pre-programmed the entire show at the Prelite Studio in New York City. Their console of choice is the grandMA from MA Lighting, distributed in North America by A.C.T Lighting Inc, and supplied, along with the rest of the lighting equipment by Light Action of Willmington, Delaware.

"This was a pretty interesting show from the control point of view," said Dierson. "We were using the main grandMA console

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Mellow rock band Toploader have been wooing audiences all over the UK this autumn on their latest tour – with a little help from Pulsar. Lighting designer Rob Davies (aka Bobby Dazzler) has worked with the band on and off for three years, having also designed shows for the likes of Marillion. For the current Toploader tour he was looking for a visual effect that had not been widely used and that would appeal to the band’s varied audience.

As a result, Davies designed no less than 32 Chromapanels into the tour set - and even went as far as creating an arch to use as a frame for any centre-stage action. "It turned out to be a very cost-effective way of covering a big area of the stage," he explained. The entire lighting system was supplied by Colour Sound Experiment, who helped Davies to prepare the ChromaPanels for life on the road. "The panels are very lightw

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Stagetec, the Slough-based pro lighting and audio sales and installation specialist, has launched a new website and two new logos. The logos represent Stagetec Distribution and Stagetec Sound & Lighting Projects, the two principal divisions within the Stagetec Group.

Having progressed enormously since the launch of Stagetec's first website in 1998, expanding from 10 pages to over 300, managing director Andy Stone explains that it was essential to "move with the times". The new site at website is quick, easy and logical to navigate, and is designed to offer visitors far more than just product and company information. It's been developed as an industry resource, containing a wealth of technical information on all types of sound and lighting products, which is available free to sound and lighting professionals and technicians.

Full technical support for the Compulite and LSC l

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Entec Lighting continues its long and successful relationship with Jools Holland, for whom it has supplied lighting equipment through production manager, Andy Salmon for several years. This year's Small World Big Band Tour Part II two-month UK tour by Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra once again covered all corners of the country, and was completely sold out soon after tickets being released.

Entec's touring relationship with Andy and Jools is in its eighth year and Steve Major, a veteran of all eight, has seen the rigs change each year. Lighting designer Simon Chandler-Honnor has illuminated Jools for the last 3 years, during which time the lighting rig has steadily grown from a basic Par can format to include several moving lights.

Last hear (Honnor's second pushing the buttons) he utilized Vari*Lites supplied by Entec, and this year he chose 10 Martin MAC 600s

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Following the release of version 7.5 software for its Frog range of desks, Zero 88 has announced new dates for its user training days. The new dates available are 18 December (limited space left), 22 January, 19 February and 19 March.

The courses are open to anyone wishing to develop their Frog skills and will teach a full understanding of the Frog range of desks. The day is structured around the Fat Frog and teaches generic programming (including manual control, memories, chases, submasters, patching and saving) and fixture programming (including basic control, palettes, the effects generator and partial memory recording). More specific courses tailored to individual needs can be arranged on request.

The courses run from 10am - 4pm and are held in our training facility at our headquarters in Cwmbran. For further details or to book your space on a free course, please contact Lorna Pa

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The management of the Ampco Flashlight Group, led by CEO Eric de Bruyn, has announced that it has purchased all shares in Ampco Flashlight Holding Ltd. The deal makes the group of 10 sound and lighting sales and rental companies, and three service and support companies, with combined sales of €40 million in 2002, one of Europe’s largest privately-owned audio and lighting groups.

All shares in Ampco Flashlight Holding Ltd have been taken over by a new group of investors, consisting of members of the current Ampco Flashlight Holding management team and a number of managing directors of the 13 separate commercial units within the group. Ampco Pro Rent director Fred Heuves commented: "Rumours about this transaction have been circulating in many varieties lately, so we are very pleased to be able to make this official announcement to the world. The group is in an excellent finan

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The Moving Light Company has recently supplied equipment to shows at three of Britain's leading regional theatres: the Royal Exchange in Manchester, the Crucible in Sheffield and the Theatre Royal in Plymouth. In each case, the lighting designers were seeking to combine equipment from a variety of manufacturers - a speciality of The Moving Light Company, which has rental stock including products from Vari-Lite, Martin, High End, City Theatrical, DHA Lighting, Amptown and others.

For the Royal Exchange Theatre, The Moving Light Company, together with White Light North supplied lighting designer Robert Bryan with four Vari-Lite VL1000s and four City Theatrical Autoyokes for a production of Othello. Both were specified for their tungsten light sources and low running noise - a particularly important consideration with the in-the-round arrangement of the Exchange. As with many other lighti

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The iCAN range from iLight Ltd has a new user interface and programming tool to complement its powerful and easy-to-use iCANsoft software. iCANpalm is designed for use with a Palm Pilot and allows control of each area of an iCAN system via the control panel infra-red receiver. iCANpalm can be used for programming scenes, fade times, naming scenes and channels and setting channel load types. It’s also an ideal user interface for scene selection.

The product is aimed at those who need a quick method of system programming without resorting to a PC. The functionality is enough to allow serious scene programming with portability and ease of use.

(Ruth Rossington)

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Several years ago Théâter Zingaro, the French equestrian theatre troupe travelled to the United States and mesmerized sell-out crowds in Brooklyn with their ballet/equestrian art form. The troupe returned for exclusive West Coast performances of Triptyk: Dance of the Centaurs - top bill for the recent Eclectic Orange Festival, Orange County, California.

Bartabas, lighting designer and founder for Théâter Zingaro, and Loïc Merrien, lighting manager have made full use of 70 Selecon Acclaim Zoomspots and 24 Acclaim PCs in creating a surreal, living, theatrical picture, which aims to portray the horses as almost magical creatures. The precise beam control of the zoomspots and crisp edge and clarity of the PCs help provide the dramatic results demanded in this, the seventh Zingaro production created by Bartabas portraying the mystical relationship of man and horse.

The month-l

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Bandit Lites UK is supplying the king of horror-rock theatre Alice Cooper with a dramatic, and somewhat gruesome lighting rig for the European section of his current Dragontown World tour. The lighting designer for this spectacular heavy metal mayhem is Mick Thornton, who has designed a colourful contrasting show that captures a myriad of moods.

These include all the normal Cooperesque antics like the nightly baby massacre, a melange of cod violence and destruction, lunatics being straight-jacketed and hauled off to the asylum (bit like a day in the L&SI office). The onstage entertainment culminates with the guillotining of Pop Princess Britney Spears - the ultimate axis of evil in Alice’s dark world - as played by his daughter Calico.

Thornton needed a versatile lighting rig to match the intricate stage set and the manic pace of action onstage. At the aorta of the set is the

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American DJ has released the Centurion - a DMX512 Intelligent moonflower effect, which features 14 revolving gobos, including 12 solid colour and 2 multi-colour gobos. Featuring a beam spread that covers a wide area, American DJ’s Centurion is ideal for use in larger clubs and venues, as well as on a musician’s stage, roller rink or bowling alley floor. Yet, it is compact and lightweight for easy transport by mobile DJs.

To add to this versatility, the Centurion offers three operation modes - DMX, master/slave and sound activated. In the intelligent DMX mode, a unit can be individually programmed and controlled with any universal DMX512 controller to craft a customized light show. In the master/slave mode, up to four lighting units can by linked by XLR connection. In the sound activation mode, the Centurion will chase to the beat of the music using its own built-in programs

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James Thomas’s new Pixelrange LED fixtures are making a high profile debut in the world of retail installations - as part of the current James Bond 007 window display at Harrods.

Spread across two full windows, the 007 montage includes the special agent’s fantastic silver Aston Martin V12 Vanquish and General Zao’s electric green Jaguar XKR from the latest movie Die Another Day. The latter vehicle is complete with reclining blonde spread-eagled on the bonnet! Other window props include 007 dummies, plus several plasma screens showing action from the various Bond movies.

The display is highlighting a special Bond video promotion offered by Harrods, celebrating 40 years of the UK’s favourite special secret agent. Paul de Ville, MD of Lightfactor Sales, was called in to design the lighting scheme for the windows. He was approached by AV installer Andy Evans from

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When Audi launched the A8 at the British Motor Show this year, it wanted to steal the limelight from its competitors. Prima ballerina Darcey Bussell was called in and the rest is history. While most of us only saw Bussell on the front page of our newspapers, the guys at Fourth Phase London got to see her in the flesh.

Having already worked together twice on Audi projects, event organizers Pandemonium chose Fourth Phase London to supply lighting, including a selection of Source Four Pars and Zooms, a Jands Event Desk and ETC SmartPack portable dimming, for the occasion at Audi's London showrooms in Piccadilly.

As photographers surrounded Bussell, her luxurious 11 metre silk cloak fell away in a stunning reveal of both the car and Bussell's striking Scott Henshall dress, made of the same leather as the A8’s upholstery. Bussell, who is a fan of Audi's cars and has driven one since

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Martin Professional has appointed Mark Frihagen as international business development manager for Jem smoke machines.

The role is a new position created in order to further develop sales of the Jem product range. The position, effective as of November 18, involves the sale, marketing and development of Jem products worldwide. Frihagen has been sales manager for Traded Goods at the Martin Professional headquarters in Denmark for the past two years, a role he has successfully expanded and made profitable. His skills are expected to help Jem develop in new directions, creating success and profitability in Martin’s entertainment smoke segment.

Jem is one of the leading producers of entertainment smoke products with a product line that includes smoke, haze and heavy fog machines, as well as a complete line of fog fluid and accessories. The Jem product line is developed and manufac

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Lightfactor Sales has collaborated with design and installation specialist Entserv to supply a series of high contrast lighting for temporary interactive maze attractions at Thorpe Park (The Freezer and Freakshow) and Chessington World of Adventures (Pirate Jack) theme parks.

Entserv’s Steve Richley was approached by The Tussauds Group Studios to design the show and electrical systems for the three mazes and to carry out the lighting and electrical installations. Both Lightfactor and Entserv are regular technical contractors to Tussauds, and engage in some of their most demanding and exciting projects.

Entserv also supplied the audio, pneumatics and technical infrastructure to bring The Freezer to ‘life’, with Lightfactor supplying the lighting. The overall concept design for the three mazes was by Sudden Impact Inc from the USA, who were in the UK for the first tim

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Uno di noi', the new prime-time TV variety show by RAI UNO, hosted by veteran pop idol Gianni Morandi with Lorella Cuccarini and Paola Cortellesi, is now Italy’s most-watched Saturday night television programme, with peaks of over 10 million viewers. The programme's guests include top Italian and international artists, including Craig David, Mark Knopfler, Tom Jones, Anastasia, Phil Collins, Franco Battiato, Piero Pelù, Lucio Dalla and Daniele Silvestri.

'Uno di noi' is one of RAI's biggest productions in terms of both the complexity of the audio and lighting systems and the studio dimensions. The studio (which holds over 1,000 spectators for each show) is 85m long and 35m wide, with a total area of approximately 3,000sq.m, and is 14 metres high. The lighting rig, designed by Pino Quini, includes 350 motorized fixtures, of which no less than 264 are from Italian manufacturer SG

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The Jiri Myron Theatre in Ostrava is one of the Czech Republic’s leading theatre venues, and the home stage of operetta, drama and ballet ensembles of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre. During the recent summer recess, the theatre partially upgraded its ageing control system, choosing ADB control and dimmer systems after comparing competitive products from various local and international suppliers. ADB’S Czech representative Zat Easy Control supplied the equipment.

The lighting crew and the head of the lighting department, Stanislav Dvorak, had already worked with a complete range of ADB equipment in the Antonin Dvorak Theatre, which is also part of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre. ADB’s top of the line console Phoenix 10 was chosen for the control desk. This allows enough flexibility to harness the mix of moving and conventional fixtures installed through

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