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Housed in a sturdy compact casing, the unit complements the growing Mania DJ/performer line of effect lights, colour changers, deco effects, strobe lights, scanners and promotional lights, say the company: its 2.3 litre fluid capacity giving impressively long run times.

The Magnum 1500 comes with a flying bracket as standard and an innovative 180° 'Flip Solution' allows for versatile positioning for precise horizontal or more vertical projection. It comes complete with a truss-mounting bracket for easy installation. The bracket also works as a ha

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Circuit Lighting services many major TV shows and events, and their team of four was led by Mirash Lekaj for this event. This award-winning and popular cable talk show, which analyzes football teams and games, was staged in the middle of the Museum's exhibition displays.The fixtures were dotted around across the floor, on the set and on a ground supported trussing system. Being in a museum environment was very challenging - all the work had to be undertaken with great care and skill, and with the safety of the exhibits in mind at all times.

The Robe's - 12 Spot and 12 Wash fixtures, the latter with electronic ballast - were chosen because of familiar

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The venue's owners wanted to appeal to wide mix of students, young professionals and sports fans, and approached Metropolis on the strength of their other work in this field which includes the current Sports Café brand roll out.

For the first floor Common Room - in a converted Post Office warehouse building - they wanted to create a stimulating and lively environment throughout the bars and large pool playing area with the imaginative use of sound, lighting and AV. They also wanted colour changing LED lighting in the street side windows and below the pool tables.

The project was managed for Metropolis by Stuart Clowes. The client's sp

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Since 2004 Charcoalblue, created by Andy Hayles, Jack Tilbury, Jon Stevens and Gavin Green, has also been working on the RSC's new Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.2005 saw commissions from English National Opera and Bristol Old Vic, in addition to being appointed by the National Theatre to work on its new studio redevelopment with Haworth Tompkins Architects. Following this, Aldeburgh Productions appointed Charcoalblue as theatre consultant for a second concert hall space at Snape Maltings, and to Newcastle Theatre Royal for a renewed flytower.

This year Charcoalblue was awarded the

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Leading the list of new features are improved displays with alternate row shading and with new options to highlight each new set of focus groups, channels or cues. Individual lamp-focuses can be flagged to draw attention to those requiring regular focussing. New 'QuickFind' buttons allow direct access to particular focuses, lights, cues or more. New Photo Shoot and Focus Loop functions make it even easier to step through a rig either photographing focuses or

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The festival lighting systems at both venues were exact duplicates of each other - with a pretty standard four horizontal truss set up featuring an array of moving lighting, strobes and generic fixtures. Each band had the opportunity to add to the rig, but the only one that took advantage were - The Lost Prophets.

LD Mark Scrimshaw, who has been in the business since 1990, had six mega pods hung from the upstage truss. Within each of the pods there were six PixelLine 1044s and an Atomic strobe. Each of the pods was hung on two motors and at various points during the set - the pods were moved up and down to various pre-set positions creating a constantly moving blinding wall of light.

Scrimshaw enthuses: "I was looking for a

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The Motor Show - a flagship event for the automobile industry - toured from February to April, visiting all of Australia's major cities. It showcased the latest in automotive design and technology including futuristic prototypes and concept vehicles, and hosted an array of demonstrations and entertainment venues.

Robe's Australian distributor Universal Lighting and Audio (ULA) worked closely with the country's leading production company, Clifton Productions in producing technical and creative solutions for all of the booths. In February, Clifton underwent massive expansion with the purchase of 100 Robe AT series luminaires enabling them to servic

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Studio Spots were specified in the upside down nightclub set for various reasons, says programmer Scott Barnes. "I went with the Studio Spots because I needed the lights to be fairly small and I wanted to do a Gobo Shake (a special effect in Studio Spot) to simulate that the head is jammed or broken. John Seale, the director of photography, loved this feature.

"For the nightclub we just used three Studio Spots. It was a small rig. Before the ship rolls over, there are a number of establishing scenes. One of these scenes is in the nightclub on the ship. This was

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The dmXact software has just finished beta testing at Element Labs following their request for this new capability for use on their video servers. Element has ordered six units for their use in sales and support.

Prior to this time, DMX users wishing to see real DMX output values were generally challenged by the use of a cursor based DMX test device or a full-featured console. With the advent of the dmXact chip, this powerful tool is now placed in the palm of any Pocket Console user.

dmXact allows the user to choose, from one of four methods, how they wish to see the output of the Pocket Console: DMX real values from 0-255; DMX % values from 0-100%; binHex values from 0-FF; No output readout. These choices are easily selected by depressing the last or next buttons while in

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The two effect pipelines for programming effects, as well as an output window offers direct and intuitive access to lighting effects. Madrix can be used for DMX remote-control by any DMX console (DMX-IN). Madrix can be controlled even more simply with a mouse, keyboard or monitor. With a soundcard and the Music2Light effects, it performs a 100% synchronised light show.

Using Madrix, RGB or RGBW light matrices can be controlled. Madrix makes it simple to program effects, colours, gradients, tickers, bitmaps or videos. Madrix is a user-friendly software package for triggering small and big LED- installations through DMX512.

A free demonstration can be downloaded from www

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In addition to his formal education Peter has already amassed wealth of industry experience. He has been involved with productions in the Bristol & Cardiff areas for the last six years. He also launched the online industry forum the Blue Room in early 2003 and continues as one if its key moderators.

Kirkup was a big user of Zero 88 products even before university and has been actively specifying our products to local amateur groups (especially the Frog range) after attending a Zero 88

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All potential bursary applicants should be UK-based designers who have not previously exhibited at the 100% shows. Applicants who can demonstrate craft and design skills in producing commercially viable products for the lighting industry could be eligible for one of this year's 100% Light bursaries. There will be three 100% Light bursaries on offer to the most original and innovative new designer-makers, with the winners each receiving a 50% discount against the cost of stand space at 100% Light 2006.

The 100% Design bursary, launched in 1997 has helped more than 70 designers. Running alongside established sister shows 100% Design and 100% Detail, 100% Light will feature a

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Covering the manufacturer's Northeast region, from Virginia to Maine, CS&A is under the direction of co-founders John Cardone and Mike Solomon, who were presented with the same award by SurgeX only three years ago.

Cardone says: "It is a pleasure representing a product like SurgeX, which provides such reliable performance and clear benefits to the designer, integrator and end user of any AV system."

"Working with such a professional and attentive rep firm like CS&A is certainly a mutually rewarding experience," says SurgeX co-founder and senior principal Michael McCook. "Their broad-based knowledge of system

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The XR series is available in a full range of colours including both warm and cool white and although white LEDs are often criticised for their lack of colour consistency, the CREE devices are all tested and sorted into tightly controlled bins for both colour and intensity. All parts are then supplied on reels of 1000 pieces with each reel only containing parts from one bin.

The Cree XR series also offers a number of other benefits including reduced thermal resistan

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Recent qualifications undertaken by staff to enhance the specialist skills required to work across different sectors include the NEBOSH General Certificate (Hannah Charlton), National Rigging Award A1 Assessor (Simon James) and the Institute of Acoustics Certificate of Competence in Workplace Noise Assessment (Tim Roberts).

TESS managing director Mike Richmond said: "The Investors In People award, along with our new infrastructure reflects a continuing commitment to expand the diversity of areas we work in, and raise the quality of service to clie

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With the creation of this new P/S, specifically for the world market, The Pocket Console DMX can now be used virtually anywhere. Electricians, lighting technicians and designers worldwide can now find out why these very portable units have sold so well from Broadway to Hollywood. From backstage to soundstage, The Pocket Console is found anywhere in the US where DMX is found, says the company. For the professional, this may be the most convenient, economical access to DMX control in the market today.

Each "Wall Wart" comes with a full kit of standard 'clip-on" male A/C adapters making The Pocket Console user friendly around the globe.

The BCi line includes the Original Pocket Console DMX, the Wall-M

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Four legs, made of transparent tubes, were fixed to the ground. Inside each tube leg GRODA placed a Mac 300 washlight, Atomic strobe, and Jem ZR12-DMX fog machine. The MacC 300s worked to color the tubes while flashing Atomics created the illusion of quick motion. Fog from the ZR12s gave the plastic tubes a more solid appearance.

The spider's remaining four truss limbs (decorated with LED) and the round body were movable, which further enhanced the attracti

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Entec has experience of working with several leading Russian artists, and for this show, their crew co-ordinated in advance with Kirkorov's touring crew to ensure the busy show day ran smoothly.

Lighting designer Boris Volkov design involved three upstage trussing triangles, constructed from mini-beam and hung off nine points from two rigging trusses, plus two straight A-type front and mid lighting trusses.

His operating style was based on 'beam technology' with lots of dramatic beam and gobo looks from lighting fixtures spread across all of the trussing elements. These included 26 Vari*Lite VL 200

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"I am very pleased to have Rich guide our marketing team," says Steve Carson, Vari-Lite vice president and general manager. "He has shown a tremendous aptitude for leadership and his marketing knowledge is second to none. Through his supervision, I know that Vari-Lite will once again lead the industry with fresh and unique marketing campaigns."

"When I first began to look into Vari-Lite, I knew instantly it would be marketing prof

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