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Artistic Licence managing director Simon Hobday, says, "We laid our stand out to illustrate some of the key technology prevalent in today's lighting control market and reflected this concept in our new Technical Focus brochure.

"Technologies covered included DALI & DMX, RDM & Art-Net, Colour-Tramp and Interfacing solutions. DALI is a relatively new protocol and there are a lot of technical complications surrounding it as people get to grips with how it works. Our Technical Focus brochure gives more information about DALI and how to avoid common pitfalls when using it, and our customers say the brochure has already proved a useful tool.

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The mid-January event presented the equipment in the real theatre setting of the Central School of Speech and Drama's Embassy Theatre. At different times of the afternoon, visitors were able to play 'hands on' with the products, to watch the products in action in mini-shows designed and programmed by students on Central's lighting courses, and to participate in feature-by-feature run-throughs of each product with the ability to ask to see specific actions (slow fades, colour changes), or combinations of products compared side by side.

Included in the rig were some of the latest LED lighting fixtures

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Reopened in December of 2009, Mumja is a 600 capacity club that features DJs from all over the world and also hosts live music. The new Martin gear was supplied by Martin's Albanian distributor Prosound Shpk and also includes a Magnum 1200 fogger and a PC-based LightJockey for lighting control. Lighting design was by Armand Dosti of Prosound.

"The club wanted high quality lighting but something other than the usual moving heads, so we suggested the MAC 250 Beam which has very good aerial effects," says sales manager Kliton Gjika of Prosound. "It can also be used to highlight the live bands using the fixture's frost effect."

The 250 Beams are the first for any club in Albania and Mumja Club is happy with them.

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The events were attended by approximately a 1000 people. They also included a dinner and a show by the Pepe Lienhard Orchestra.

Matthias Kern of Kernfusion Design, based in Switzerland was responsible for the lighting and media design, operation and programming. Kern used a Compulite Vector Blue and Vector motorized playback wing for the event.

At the back and to the sides of the stage were three scenic elements constructed from different Styrofoam shapes, suitable for lighting and projections. Kern used two of the DigitalSpots 7000DTs positioned each side of the stage to throw projections onto the two 15m S

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In among the house rig of ETC Source Four Revolutions and Vari-Lite VL3500Q moving lights, lighting designer Mikki Kunttu used Selador Vivid for sidelights and cyc lighting and Selador Lustr for lighting set pieces. He comments, "When we first started planning the show lighting, we talked a lot about how to make the production as 'green' as possible. We even considered getting rid of conventional lighting completely, but this proved to be impossible. Using LED for sidelights was something new for me and they worked really well - I was very impressed.

"I was

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The spectacular gala event is broadcast annually on the eve of Chinese New Year by state-run China Central Television (CCTV). It is estimated that this year's show, held on 13 February, captured some 96% of the Chinese television viewing audience on the mainland and had more than 700 million-plus viewers worldwide, including large numbers of people watching the show live via the internet.

The CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which has grown into a genuine cultural phenomenon since its inception in 1982, runs more than four hours and features a colourful assortment of diverse entertainment, including pop songs, dances, crosstalk, stage comedies and drama, acrobatics and other folk arts.

For this year's show, CCTV deployed a High Definition LED

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Mayar Abbas, managing director of Dubai Artistic Innovation, who delivered the lighting equipment together with InHouse Productions reports: "The grandMA2 was chosen as the lighting designer felt it was the best console for the job. The advanced programming functions were extremely useful, as well as the networking, allowing the grandMA2 light and grandMA onPC to become full tracking backup console

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As a lighting partner in Music City Lab, TLS created an Elation showroom at the facility, featuring some of the lighting supplier's leading products and technologies. Included are Elation's EWDMX wireless DMX control system, Impression RGB LED moving head, Platinum Spot 5R with Philips MSD 5R lamp technology, Design Beam 300 spot/wash/beam projector, and Opti Tri Par RGB LED

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Mirage is specifically designed for the rental market, featuring a robust structure and a quick, tool-less connection system that allows it to be assembled and hung on a truss system in a few minutes. Roadies and riggers will appreciate the light weight at ju

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The COLORado 1 Tour is designed for touring professionals, features RGBW colour mixing from 42 1W LEDs. Colour temperature presets range from 3,200 K to 10,000 K. It responds to three, four, five, six or 11 channels of DMX control. Five distinct dimming curves provide smooth dimming to closely match conventional sources. PowerCon connectors as well as direct DMX in and out provide faster and easier connections.

The COLORado 2 Tour, also directed at touring professionals, boasts more and higher powered LEDs (48 2W and 3-watt RGBW LEDs with 15° or optional 30° lenses) than the COLORado 1 Tour, while offering the same improved dimming capability.

The COLORado Batten 72 Tour is a 39-inch long linear wash fixture equipped with 72 1W RGBWA

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There are two wedding suites in this guesthouse style venue, each consisting of a chapel, garden and dressing room (called the Bride's Room), with a Banqueting Hall accommodating approximately 120 seated guests. This allows two weddings to take place simultaneously.

When it came to lighting, the owners were looking for something contemporary and completely different to make their venue stand out from others - the wedding market in Japan is fiercely competitive, and there are more than six other wedding facilities - including hotels - with the facilities to host weddings in the same business complex.

They approached Robe's Japanese distributo

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V2.0 adds the functionality for users to edit the existing library, create their own fixtures and organize these fixtures into an improved Favorites List. New fixtures included in the library include Dedolight, K5600 and Kobold.

Developer Michael Zinman says: "This is our most ambitious update for PocketLD since it was released two years ago. I'm so happy with these changes and I'm confident our world-wide user base will find the new functions a great add."

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Having recently bought his own Avolites Tiger console, Parry emphasised: "It was great to use a desk that I knew wouldn't fall over and the Tiger was the perfect size, enabling me to go from tent to tent programming the lights, and then leaving it backstage for the evening."

The glamorous wedding organised for over 1000 people

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The Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress began its remodel to comply with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Green Lodging programme, a voluntary initiative for hotels and motels across the state to adopt cost-saving green practices to conserve energy, reduce water consumption, protect air quality and reduce waste. In order to become a more environmentally conscious organization as well as to reduce its extensive utility costs, resort managemen

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Located at the historic 63 Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, iSQUARE was built to be Hong Kong's premier shopping destination, providing a shopping and entertainment experience. iSQUARE chose Lighthouse's P10-FA 10mmFront Access SMD panels for their high brightness and contrast ratios ensuring the screen would be clearly visible in the mall's high ambient light environment.

Comprising 30 panels, the 3.84m (w) x 2.4m (h) screen is situated in between iSQUARE's third and fourth floor concourse, a high traffic area where thousands of shoppers pass through every day. Thanks to its wide 140-degree viewing angles, shoppers will be able to view advertisements and promotional messages, and other im

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Acting as a US distributor partner, City Theatrical will sell Vectorworks Spotlight and Vectorworks Designer software through their distributor network of more than 200 lighting dealers in all major cities.

Nemetschek North America, in turn, will be able to offer their customers the product Lightwright 5, a quintessential tool for tracking all aspects of selecting and arranging, numbering and comparing, assigning, and footnoting lighting paperwork.

"The partnership between John McKernon's Lightwright and Nemetschek North America's Vectorworks is a natural fit," stated Gary Fails, presid

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Johnson has used the grandMA2 light on a number of other tours and events this year, including Maximo Park and Tracy Chapman. He likes many features of the grandMA2 light. The screens and faders are a "joy" to use. He's also impressed by the hardware the build quality and the sheer speed at which it saves.

He's now experienced a few tours and software upgrades with the grandMA2 light, and with the latest one, is very happy enjoying the power of the new effects engine within his sequence stacks, and watching them slow-fade in and out as required. "The spe

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Among the new features in v2.0 is 'Stacks', which is a cue-list playback system designed to make it very easy to put together shows for a wide variety of uses. Cues can be programmed directly within Luminair, and also recorded as snapshots from an external console or any other DMX control source. Standard playback life using the device's internal battery can run up to 3.5 hours, and can be extended to over 36 hours using a 3rd-party external battery pack.

Playback will run indefinitely when the device is plugged into a power source. Another major new feature in Luminair 2.0 is the ability to assign images

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The design focused on hiding production elements. Except for the set, every other metallic object was black. The lighting rig featured 18 Studio Beams, 15 MAC 2K washes, 12 VL 3K profiles, four ShowGuns and eight PixelLine 1044s. A 90' fibre optic curtain provided the backdrop alongside a FlexiFlex video wall.

Kenner comments, "Foxx wanted to recreate some of the same elements of the previous tour - as with the economy in its current state - he wanted to keep costs low in order to keep the ticket price low. So we gave him a similar design updated with the latest smart technologies that allowed us to slightly downsize our control crew

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Lighting and stage designer Mamo Pozzoli comments, "This LED screen is a powerful object. Thanks to its three-dimensionality, it can create graphic shapes through the textures it transmits, as well as physical shapes, since the whole structure of trusses and lights accentuates its circular features." It is actually a dual LED screen, since it has two faces - one concave and the other convex - both turned towards the audience. Its inside can also be used thanks to its semi-transparency that simulates 3D effects. No narrative an

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Joining the company's West End roster of shows in January were productions including Jerusalem, transferring from the Royal Court Theatre to the Apollo and lit by Mimi Jordan Sherin, The Little Dog Laughed at the Garrick, lit by Jon Clark, and Six Degrees of Separation at the Old Vic, lit by Jason Taylor.

The long-awaited sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, is also currently previewing at the Adelphi with White Light supplying Paule Constable's complex design; the show is due to open on 9 March. December was also a busy period for new shows, with the openings of The Misanthrope at the Comedy, lit by Peter Mumford, and the RSC's Twelfth Night at the D

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Feldman joins a list of performers including Sting, saxophonists Wayne Shorter and Bobby Ricketts, trumpet player Randy Brecker and violinist Nigel MacLean, who have adopted the 4099.

Feldman himself owns a valuable antique violin, a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume made in Paris in 1862. He was more than happy to use the 4099V microphone's gentle mounting accessory to attach it to his instrument.

"The DPA 4099V attaches to my violin very easily in just a few seconds, and has never damaged the delicate antique varnish," says Feldman. "It captures and reproduces every nuance of my violin so precisely. I love this mic. The sound is amazing; engineer

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The Mobile Showroom has become increasingly popular, and presents a survey of Wybron's stable of products, including the new Cygnus LED Wash Light, in a environment more intimate than a trade show. "The challenge of this industry is to actually get information to the people who will benefit from it," said Wybron CEO Keny Whitright. "A trade show is terrific, sure, but you're often lacking time to connect with all the folks you would like to."

The Mobile Showroom provides hands-on demonstration of Wybron offerings and an opportunity for tΩte-à-tΩte with lighting professionals, including their local dealers. Most importantly, however, the Mobile Showroom offers education on the general theory behind and mechanics of professional lighting to