A chance meeting with Jonathan David, secretary of the Society of Light and Lighting, at ARC back in February unwittingly led me down memory lane to Ready-Steady-Light, held at Rose Bruford College, surrounded by the ghosts of college past as an ex-Bruford myself.
Turn a corner and you could step back a decade by mistake, to when RBC was incubating its first fully-fledged lighting design graduates (myself included), the first batc
As to the mootedMilan / Rimini rivalry, Besio was another exhibitor strongly in the Rimini camp.Product-wise, LDR introduced pole-operated versions of its architectural and theatrical fresnel products, the PO versions being complete new units with their own part number. The 230V version of the new Canto MK2 was officially introduced in Europe: there are various new features, including the side-handle, a drop-down lamp holder and new reference markings for the manual dimmer.
Also new was Colour commander - a dedicated remote control for controlling the Xpress colour scroller. A touch panel offers immediate col
With the tubes now shipping, Gallinghouse says: "When White Light's Bryan Raven saw these at PLASA he said, 'Oh no, you are going to make me spend money!'.
Product pages will include user-friendly hot links to downloads, tutorials and other important documentation about ETC's acclaimed line of lighting equipment, including the award-winning Source Four family of luminaires; Sensor+ and Unison dimming systems; ETC and IES SineWave technology, compact Smart Solutions light
The show was staged at the National Tennis Centre in Bratislava in front of a live audience of 4,000, and broadcast live on Saturday night by Joj (pronounced 'yoy') - Slovakia's largest private TV channel. It attracted an audience of up to four million (80% of the country's population) making it one of the highest profile media events on the Slovakian TV calendar.
Kubanka has designed the show's lighting for the last eight years, and Q-99 has provided lighting and sound for the same duration. Each year the visuals have evolved in complexity and in terms of technology, and Kubanka explains that it's a collaborative
PLASA and the PLASA Show played a key role in the evening, sponsoring the new Entertainment Lighting Award, designed to give lighting designers recognition for their creative work. Following a rigorous judging process, the Award went to the Old Man of Storr in Trotternish on the Isle of Skye, which became the centrepiece for an extraordinary night-time event as an average of 200 people nightly took the midnight walk to the spectacular rock pinnacle. The Storr forest, cliffs and corrie provided the backdrop for a subtle and imaginative light and sound installation by Dave Bryant.
Peterborough Cathedral, which dates to 1118, won the Heritage Lighting Award for a scheme,
Designed by lighting designers Licht Kunst Licht, the installation is a fantastic example of how LED can be used creatively to transform buildings and identify them as distinctive landmarks. Licht Kunst Licht understand lighting design as an integral part of architecture by emphasizing its effect on spatial quality as opposed to stressing the formal lighting fixture design. At night the tailor made content for Uniqa brings the building to life and ensur
The highly creative set design was built around two OLite 510 LED displays totaling 30sq.m of modular LED blocks. Set back from the OLite were a total of 8,000 MiPIX blocks which gave the set depth. Two SLM R12+ projectors provided the 4,600 capacity crowd with a front seat view of what was happening on stage, as well the MTV short animation film that played at intervals throughout the show.
All Barco products were supplied and installed by Tedtronic Pte Ltd of Singapore, one of Barco's la
This extraordinary discharge scanner effect houses the highest quality optical system for maximum light output and true high-definition image quality. It combines with a long life 150W discharge lamp (6000 hours, included) to kick out an impressively powerful array of graphics and color. And for easy serviceability, the lamp in the SCX700 is a breeze to replace.
The SCX700 features separate colour and gobo wheels for a multitude of brilliant effects. Included are seven
The project - for Scottish environmental arts organization nva Arts - involved the design of an eco-friendly lighting installation for eight weeks of live promenade performance highlighting the breathtaking darkness of The Storr Footpath on the beautiful Isle of Skye (link to full story on Avo website).
DB says: "I was surprised to be nominated let alone to win the Award! It's fantastic that such an unusual project should receive such an accolade."
The project led to Avolites developing a new rechargeable battery powered dimmer which then went into production a
The Mac CMA is designed for OS 10.4.6 or later and supports G4-, G5- and Intel-based Macs.
HES DL2 product manager Scott Blair says: "We recognized the large and loyal existing Catalyst user base - many of whom started with us on the Catalyst years ago. We wanted to show our support for them by offering this software to allow them to use their existing show content on DL2."
The free software is now available for download on High End Systems' D
Mark White, regional manager for ETC UK and Ireland says: "I am very pleased to note that with the installation at the RFH, ETC equipment will be dimming and switching most of the theatre installations on the South Bank. Adding the existing installations - Unicorn Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal National Theatre - this new installation will bring our total number of Sensor dimming channels in central London to just over 16,000 and the total of Matrix SineWave channels to just under 2,000."
White added: "I'm pleased to say that we a
Nolan explains: "I wouldn't normally take both roles on the same show. However having become involved I realized that production designer Jonathan Park and composer Jeff Wayne had very strong ideas of how they wanted the show to look and I felt another creative could muddy the waters. Although I am first and foremost a lighting designer, due to the complexity of the staging and my responsibilities as production manager, I needed an associate LD/programmer who I could trust to t
ENEC is considered by member countries as the valid approvals mark for their own national market. John McDonnell, managing director at Harvard says: "This is an extremely significant approval within the lighting industry. Our HID range is the first set of HID ballasts in the world to have gained ENEC approval.
"The approval confirms the ability of our in-house design team and our UK based production line to design and manufacture high quality and high performing products."
Harvard Engineering makes a wide range of electronic ballasts recognised as being at the cutting edge of t
The starry sky in Athens is made up of 45 cloths of 3m by 12m, creating a total of around 1,600sq.m of LED starcloth, containing some 10,000 LEDs, connected by 12.5km of electrical wire.
This is the latest event to boost ShowLED's growing international reputation. Recent additions to the company's growing international distributor network include Gerriets (Germany & Austria), Azur Scénic (France) and Peroni (Italy). Other recent projects include Night of the Proms and some 1,000sq.m of starcloths for several TV shows at Dubai Television.
A full report on the Eurovision production will appear in the July-August iss
The new L2Optics OPT lenses are compatible with a wide range of leading high power LEDS including Luxeon K2, Osram Golden Dragon, Cree XLamp 7090 and the Nichia Jupiter. Each lense comes supplied with a quick and easy 'peel and place' assembly system, together with a highly efficient base module-typically 85%.
An interchangeable sub lens system provides multiple beam angle options covering spot diffuser, wide angle and oval, as required. Optics are produced to PMMA grade.
Gordon Routledge, Dialight Lumidrives' managing director, says; "L2Optics' new range of OPT Optics meets the growing need for high performance optics at competitive prices."
(Chris Henry)
Ribbonlift's patented lift equipment is used to position cameras, lights, projectors, communication devices and more for motion picture shoots, live events, construction, industrial, military and other applications. Based in Owatonna, Minnesota, its clients include Walt Disney Imagineering, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Defense.
Founded in 1998, all employees of Ribbonlift are expected to remain with the new company in Owatonna - a wholly owned subsidiary of Imagility - while certain corporate functions such as finance and strategic
The 700 Wash is a powerful 700-watt Fresnel luminaire with a remarkable light output. It features a full CMY colour mixing system and variable CTC plus eight position colour wheel. Other useful features include a wide range variable zoom, continuous and indexable beam shaper, and extremely smooth and fast dimmer shutter system. It also boasts the same service friendly modular design and silent cooling as the MAC 700 Profile.
The MAC 700 Wash houses a superior and highly efficient optical system powered by a 700 watt short-arc discharge lamp. The durable short-arc HTI 700 D4/75 lamp is
Headlining artists included Razorlight, The Streets, The Editors, Muse, Snow Patrol, Mylo, Pink, Keane and the Sugababes. For the first time, the event was recorded for broadcast on the digital channel, BBC 3.
The high profile two day event - Radio One's biggest Weekend to date - was the first time that Jevons has used a Diamond 4 - although he is experienced on other Avo consoles. "I always like pushing the technical boundaries for these shows," he enthused. "I needed a powerful desk and it was an absolutely ideal opportunity to use a D4," he says.
A week beforehand, he went into Avolites' training room for the day in London and did a crash course on the console - which he f
Studio Command 1200 shares the same features as the 700 model with the exception of the lamp source. Studio Command 1200 uses a proven long-life Philips MSR 1200 source offering a colour temperature of 5900K, or may be fitted with an MSR 1200/2 source for a colour temperature of 7200K. These models also offer a variable mechanical and electronic strobe, boosted with the Light Burst effect, and a mechanical douser for smooth fade to black. Both use 14 channels on a DMX link.
All three models of Studio Command feature a large exiting beam with a compact head. All use a patented lenticular array
Freihoefer will take care for supporting the existing e:cue distributors and providing support service for special projects.
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Gregor returns to Northern Light, after an absence of 12 years, as events services manager. During his time away he ran his own company - Liquid Lighting - supplying lighting to the nightclub and events industries. After a chance meeting with Northern Light's managing director, Gregor was wooed back to the company and will liaise with clients to plan the production of their events.
Ferguson joins Northern Light as marketing manager from her own freelance marketing consultancy. With experience in the private, public and voluntary sectors, Lois will put in place Northern Light's strategic marketing and communications plan and address the day to day marketing
Established in 1994, the Open Days take place every third year and have become a leading German forum for lighting professionals from all disciplines. Lightpower says it "always aims to talk and listen to the users, whether they are convinced by the products distributed by Lightpower or critical about them. The only important thing - they had to be profes
