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Lighting designer Abigail Rosen Holmes worked with production designer Tom McPhillips of Atomic Design to develop the tour design.

"Tom McPhillips' fabulous set design was the great starting point," says Holmes. "Martina is also very involved in the creative process. She has a very good eye and a real knowledge of what works for her, which makes it a huge pleasure to work with her."

Holmes suggested that a key component to the lighting design was working with McPhillips to create a set that co-ordinated with the lighting scheme. McPhillips chose the Barco MiTrix panels because they are reasonably see-through, so lighting can work behind and through them. He explained that the recent advances in LED, like video scrims, strips and pixel blocks, that can be used as integral set e

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The concert was the only show in Germany that the artist played during his current tour. Lighting designer and director Kevin 'Stick' Bye uses two grandMA full-size, one as backup.

With the console, Bye controls a lighting rig including 40 VL3000 spots, 12 VL 1000AS, 12 VL2402, 10 VL6c, 32 MAC 2000 washes and a 60ft wide and 33ft high Mainlight Soft LED curtain.

The co-designer of the show is Benny Kirkham who is also is responsible for the media server content. Demfis Fyssicopulous and Benny Kirkham work as grandMA programmers.

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The tour kicked off in the US and Canada and is currently scheduled to run until February 2008, hitting the UK and Europe in September and October. There are two formats for the lighting rig - to fit both arena and stadium sized shows.

Nolan was asked onboard by Woodroffe back in January 2007, so was involved right from the very beginning. Woodroffe came up with the whole show design including the set concept, and he and Nolan shared the lighting design credit. "Patrick's idea was not to make it too techie," Nolan expl

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The Theatre has been Waterford's main centre of culture and entertainment since the mid Seventies, providing the region with a varied programme of professional and community-based music, drama, dance, variety, pantomime and other live productions.

DBL's Dirk Baumann was appointed to re-design the existing lighting grid and provide a much more flexible system to suit the theatre's current and future needs. Once the lanterns, grid and dimming were in place, Baumann was also asked to specify a more powerful console to make the most of the new lighting infrastructure.

The Theatre has purchased a Vista T2 console for its ne

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The wall is adorned with 2ft and 3ft square openings running the entire circumference, giving the building a Spanish Mission look. This architectural parapet detail is accentuated with LED lights from Acclaim Lighting, which are mounted inside the wall and fill each square with a palette of slowly-changing colours.

MOLAA's colour-changing parapet is the artistry of Richard Rutherford. Asked by the museum to come up with a cost-efficient, easy-to-run solution for lighting the new façade, Rutherford chose Acclaim X-Bar LEDs.

A DMX-controllable RGB-colour-mixing LED tube, t

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The Abbey can trace its origins back to 907 AD and remains the largest parish church in Hampshire. Recently named as one of the 100 best loved places of worship in Britain in a national newspaper survey, the Abbey also hosts several high profile concerts a year and various community activities.

The Abbey approached A.C. Lighting to provide a complete turnkey solution to address the poor general lighting and expensive running costs of the Church's existing system. As the project's primary lighting contractor, A.C. employed David Atkinson Lighting Design (DALD) to design and specify a new lighting system, then supplied, installed, commissioned, and programmed the system.

To increase the general lighting levels along the nave,

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Prior to joining Vari-Lite, Kibbe was the national sales manager for Rosco Laboratories. He has also served as a project consultant with Theatre Projects Consultants, as well as a regional sales manager for Strand Lighting.

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Patrick Woodroffe was the global designer for the project, creating a formal plot that would be developed into the flagship London rig. As it was impossible for him to be present at all the events, he appointed a team of lighting designers - one in each hosting country - to re-create individual designs based on the availability of fixtures in the various locations.

In New York, Performance Environment Design produced the show and lighting designer Patrick Dierson explains, "We were approached not only out of trust, but also due to our past efforts in promoting environmental sustainability within live entertainment production. The crux of Woodroffe's vision for

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La Parrilla is owned by Daniel Tercero, who commissioned Swansea-based interior design practice Thomas Parry to create the interiors, who in turn asked PAI to come up with the relevant technical infrastructure. The PAI team has worked with Thomas Parry on many previous projects, and on this one they collaborated closely with main designer, Matt Bailey.

High production values were at the core of the technical installation, for which a C-Burn computer music system wa

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"For the complex setup that was spread over a long distance, the grandMA control system proved to be an invaluable tool. Its huge pre-programming abilities saved a lot of time during the design as well as during the programming part of the project development," says lighting designer Pawel Pajak.

One grandMA full-size and one grandMA light were used for the stage lighting and video server control. Additionally, another grandMA light controlled the searchlights using two wireless DMX lines. Two MA NSPs and grandMA 3D were also included in the event.

"Since the setup consisted of intelligent lights and video on stage with the searchlights being set on the other side of the river, we found working with the MA Net etherne

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Bandit Lites founder and CEO Michael Strickland comments: "We were trying to find a console we thought could be our go to standard and the Vista received unanimous approval from the LDs at the demo. We did the demo in March and now have Vistas out on three major tours, with other large tours in the pipeline as well."

Chief operating officer Pete Heffernan adds: "We'd been very interested in the Vista since our UK office purchased one and we then got a demo at LDI, but it wasn't until we started seeing lots of interest from LDs that we realised it was tim

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The EvenLED (100 x100cm) can be built to different specifications. The maximum number of modules is vertically limited by 12, but horizontally unlimited. Depending on the back projection screen, the average distance is 300mm. Additional features of the EvenLED are the low power consumption (150W), the very low maintenance, the low weight and heat and the long lifetime. Special flightcases for eight modules in

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Collaborating with lighting designer Butch Allen and working with James Lars, Kirk and Rob Adams' effects list consists of 18 Red mines, 40 Fireballs, 21 Stadium reports (for a loud bang effect), 16 Red flashes, 24 Ack Ack bursts, 24 silver comets with tails, 24 Red comets, and 24 White flashes with bang.

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For Tony-nominated lighting designer Chris Akerlind, creating the complex effects of this unconventional lighting rig meant employing a comprehensive control console, ETC's new Eos. "The entire lightplot on 110 consists of some 200 fixed units and between 40 or 50 moving lights (VL 2000 wash units), 20 of which are committed to the lightbox," says Akerlind. "There were very limited hanging positions for the rest of the lighting rig. Next to no over

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"We will also create the first centre for new energy technology in the arts. It will be a knowledge incubator with dedicated workspace where engineers can develop initiatives to tackle climate change. Arcola Energy will be a hub for new thinking and cross-fertilisation between art and science, bringing together artistic, entrepreneurial and technological creativity.

"As a theatre we have a longstanding tradition of innovation, inspiration and deep integration with the local community. Working to the same principles, Arcola Energy will integrate

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Engaged by the Hong Kong Tourism Commission, Laservision has recently completed its fourth phase of integrating new buildings into the show in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Hong Kong Island now boasts 23 featured buildings while Kowloon's ever increasing contribution now totals 20. The show includes an arsenal of LED fixtures, searchlights, high powered lasers, floodlights, fibre optics, pyrotechnics and an original soundtrack that combine to represent the spirit and energy of Hong Kong. The expanded show was launched by the acting Financial Secretary, Mr Stephen Ip.

Phases three and four have seen the incor

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TitanTurbo is available from Marl Optosource to lighting application designers in two models - a 3000°K 'warm white' version equal in light output to the widely used 75W halogen PAR-30 and equally popular 100W R-20 flood lights; and a 4700 degrees K 'daylight white' (cool) model - twice as bright.

Delivering more than 2,000 lumens in daylight white and more than 1,000 lumens in warm white light, TitanTurbo LED light engines are designed for all general lighting applications. The TitanTurbo Warm White has an enhanced red and orange colour spectrum that makes it suitable for a halogen or incandescent replacement.

The units feature a standard 60° beam pattern with additional wide, medium and narrow o

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US patent number 7,229,027 is for a waterfall producing device that incorporates a light chamber to house LED lights to illuminate the water stream coming from the waterfall.

The second patent, US patent number 7,244,037, is for a detachable LED pool light that builds upon prior Nexxus Lighting patented technology that provides for an LED lighting fixture to be installed into the wall of the pool without a niche, and features an underwater connector that allows the light fixture to be connected or disconnected while the light is submerged in water with the power off.

"Illuminated waterfalls are used in a number of applications including swimming pools, portable spas and fountains," stated Steve Faber, Nexxus Lighting's director of engineering. "Incorpo

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"For our new double production of the operas L'Heure Espagnole and Gianni Schicchi, the American lighting designer Mimi Jordan Sherin asked for a number of scrollers in our FOH positions," explains Royal Opera House lighting manager Simon Bennison. "Unfortunately for the Opera House and auditorium conditions this was not really possible - but it left us with a sizeable FOH lighting issue to solve - we needed a powerful and silent colour mixing solution for a tungsten unit."

Subsequent research by the ROH's Michael Scott and Paul Hornsby led them to the SeaChanger Colour Engine. "White Light supplied a demo unit which impressed us all enough for us to order eight SeaChangers, the first in the UK."

The SeaChanger colour engine

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Named in honour of the late Tony Gottelier, the industry innovator and commentator who passed away in 2006, the Gottelier Award is aimed at those members of our industry who have made significant and sustained contributions to the advancement of entertainment, presentation or installation technology - whether in audio, lighting, rigging, staging, or any other related field.

Following a six-week period of gathering nominations from across the industry, the shortlist of leading nominees can now be revealed, ready for the voting process to begin.

The nominees are as follows (in alphabetical order):

• Tony Andrews is a highly regarded designer and manufacturer of high quality point source loudspeaker systems, w

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Sims brings with him over 25 years of lighting industry experience, his early years spent running his own lighting consultancy firm. After a 10 year run with Strand Lighting where he worked as architectural product manager, he became the regional specification sales manager for the Juno Lighting Group.

When not on the road, Sims, who started in the new position on 16 July, will work from a home office near Orange County, California while also spending time at Martin's West Coast office in Simi Valley.

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"The show is the centrepiece of a huge music festival that draws fans from all over the world," says lighting director/programmer Mark Butts. "When ABC started to broadcast it a few years ago it really upped the ante in terms of design and production. For us, the show is an interesting hybrid of on-the-fly, festival-style lighting and tightly-cued, precise television lighting. It's difficult trying to work in both worlds simultaneously, but it sure keeps