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Georgia - Built in 1971, the 2000-capacity Philharmonic Concert Hall in the Georgian capital Tbilisi hosts many of the city's highest profile live concerts, operas, ballets and theatre productions. Recently the venue has undergone a major facelift, which has included the installation of a large exterior Lighthouse LED screen.

Located above the venue's main doors, the screen comprises 63 panels of Lighthouse P12-ER screen, in a 9 x 7 panel (14.4 9(w) x 8.4m (h)) landscape format. It is mounted on a steel framework, which was designed and installed by local company Stage Design, with Lighthouse Europe installing the screen itself.

"The Concert Hall's management had seen Lighthouse P12-ER panels at other installations and knew about its tremendous potential as an advertising medium," says Lighthouse project engineer Olaf Mineo, who oversaw the installation together with

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New Zealand / Netherlands - Philips Selecon has announced the release of a new generation of tungsten halogen ellipsoidal luminaires. SPX represents "a fresh new look at the ellipsoidal profile, taking advantage of the advances in manufacturing technologies and the core technology of Philips Specialised Lamps".

SPX has been designed to complement the existing Philips Entertainment ellipsoidal inventories (Pacific and Acclaim), while at the same time offering a more efficient, reliable and safer solution for everyone working in a hands-on capacity in a theatre lighting environment regardless of age, experience, amateur or professional status. Available in 15°-35° and 25°-50° Zoomspot and 14°, 19°, 26°, 36° and 50° Fixed Beam models the SPX is the first ERS to fully exploit the output and successfully deal with the high heat associated

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Canada - At Canada Place in downtown Vancouver a special Annual Light Show on the Canada Place Sails plays nightly courtesy of Martin Professional and Moment Factory. Visible from multiple points across the city, the Canada Place Sails light up in a dynamic display of imagery, light, colour, texture and animation.

Designers of the visual event are Moment Factory of Montreal. The installation consists of 10 Martin Exterior 1200 Image Projectors illuminating five sails; two carefully aligned Exterior 1200 projectors for each of the 90ft tall by 160ft wide sails. The Exterior 1200s, which were supplied locally by Christie Lites, are mounted on 10ft poles at a distance of approximately 90-100 ft from each sail.

"It was an eight month process to design and realize the light show on the sails but the result has exceeded my expectations," comments Gabriel Pontbriand,

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USA - The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (MSI), lets guests understand the science behind some of nature's most compelling phenomena in the new 26,000sq.ft Science Storms exhibit, which opened in March 2010. For two of the massive interactive elements in the exhibit - a 40ft tornado and 20ft avalanche disk - Production Resource Group (PRG), working closely with Christopher Wilson, senior project manager at MSI and the exhibit's general contractor, Norcon of Chicago, engineered, fabricated and installed the designs of environmental artist Ned Kahn; and Architect Jack Pascarosa, AIA, of New York-based firm Evidence Design.

At 60ft tall, 27ft diameter and 75,000lbs, the tornado display is the largest effect in the hall. The 40ft vortex of swirling air and vapour rises continuously from the floor and is able to be controlled by guests through a series of dampers that

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The Netherlands - Elation Light Shaping Filters attach to a gel frame or the inside of an LED's casing in minutes - to add 10°, 20°, 30° or a linear beam shape effect to its beam angle that's suitable for stage or wall grazing, without requiring complicated or permanent alterations to the fixture.

Dirk Kast, general manager for Elation Europe, comments, "Customers have been asking for wider diffused LED lighting fixtures without losing a lot of output, and our new Lighting Shaping Filters provide an easy, cost-efficient way to attain this. Using one of these filters, you can widen the beam of a narrow beam angle LED par like our Opti Tri 30 and convert it into a fixture suitable for a stage or wall wash."

Elation Light Shaping Filters have been designed to preserve as much power as possible while dispersing light. The Elation products provide up to 92% li

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UK - Pixled has launched the F-37L - a flexible 37mm LED mesh display offering the benefits of being able to create LED displays of any shape whilst also being suitable for wide flat screen backdrops.

The quick roll-out design enables "ultra fast installation/breakdown with minimal labour", and the 2300 Nit light output delivers mega-bright, high-impact, full-colour video images, says the company.

The high transparency factor enables video and lighting effects to be layered, as the surface becomes near invisible with lights shining through from behind.

The product is robustly engineered and has been developed to extend the already extensive Pixled range which is popular for music concerts, trade and fashion shows, product launches and presentations of all types as well as theme parks, visitor attractions and other permanent installations.

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USA - The week of June 7-11, the Wybron Mobile Showroom begins its ninth leg, hitting New York-city area locations.

The Mobile Showroom 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, Inc. 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 will continue with nearly two years of planned stops across North America, with the next being in Massachusetts and the Boston areas.

(Jim Evans)

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Denmark - The Black Diamond, a concert hall at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, has started using ETC Source Fours with enhanced definition lens tube (EDLT) to provide backdrops for the stage.

Purchased as part of an ongoing project to equip the venue with ETC equipment, the venue found that they could mount the two new luminaires in front of the backdrop and project a Rosco Fiery Sun gobo for a bright, precise effect.

The Black Diamond technician S°ren Jacobsen says, "I have worked with sound for over 25 years, but it's only in the past three years that I have started working in lighting. Our local ETC dealer, Bico Professionel, has been really useful in helping me select the products I need and assisting with design and set up of the systems. We only needed a couple ETC Source Fours equipped with a 36º EDLT to provide a stunning effect. We projected the light from

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Europe - Alicia Keys' 2010 Freedom Tour of North America and Europe has seen a stunning set design from Baz Halpin, using multiple GLP impressions for the first time.

Running until early summer the tour was designed to promote Keys' 2009 album release, The Element Of Freedom.

Touring much the same production as on the American leg (the prime difference being the scaling down of the nine video screens to five), the show has been programmed by Bryan Barancik (of Luxious Design) who has been with the tour from the beginning, and has been tasked with bringing the best out of Halpin's creative concept.

The set designer was first shown the compact LED washlight by GLP's director of key global players, Mark Ravenhiil, when he was searching for small fixtures to be placed on top of the curved set pieces. "I needed something light and bright - and the impressions f

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Qatar - TechnoPro's fleet of PR Lighting fixtures were out in force for the Qatar Emir Cup 2010 at Khalifa International Stadium last month. Spectators - including His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani and other local dignitaries - saw Al Rayyan defeat Umm Salal 1-0 to claim the title.

The automated lighting was used in two locations. The event at the stadium itself was managed by Q Media Events, an events management company based in Qatar, with TechnoPro (Qatar) providing a multimedia light and laser show at the closing ceremony and installing light, lasers, LED screens, audio and truss structures.

They based their design around 40 fully-featured XL1200 automated Spots with 20 XL1200 Wash providing a colourful backdrop. These conventional moving lights were augmented by 40 XLED 590 moving LED colour wash fixtures (each housing 30 red, 30 green and 30 blue s

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Israel - Over 100 Robe moving lights were utilised for the Israeli Opera's production of Verdi's Nabucco, a site specific work staged in a purpose built open air arena at the foot of Masada Mountain at the Dead Sea in Israel.

Robe also made custom reflectors and special framing gobos for its ColorSpot 2500E AT fixtures, to facilitate the very specific requirements of Israeli lighting designer Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi), who wanted to have a super-tight beam to isolate different areas onstage, whilst retaining the intensity of the light path.

The 84 ColorSpot 2500E ATs, 20 new ColorBeam 2500E ATs and 24 REDWash 3-192s were supplied - together with all the other stage lighting equipment for the event - by UK-based HSL, working for Tel Aviv and Jerusalem based Stage Design, the event's overall technical provider.

It was a seriously tough operating environment for any piece o

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UK - White Light and Arcola Energy have announced the launch of HyLight, a new portable lighting and power supply that offers the ability to run lighting in locations away from the electrical grid silently and without the emissions of traditional noisy, polluting diesel generators.

Externally the first model, HyLight150, is a compact, wheeled flight-case, rugged for transportation and easy to deploy where required. Internally, it contains the new Hymera hydrogen fuel cell generator and two new lightweight hydrogen gas cylinders, both from global industrial gas supplier BOC; a choice of low energy LED lighting systems suitable for architectural, live event or safety applications completes the system.

White Light's HyLight150 packages will include either four Pulsar ChromaFlood fixtures, with wireless DMX remote control if required - suitable for creating stunning outdoor lighti

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UK - Lighting hire and sales company London Light Production Services continues to expand, with the appointment of a project manager. Tom Grant has been involved in the industry for over six years, working on all a wide range types of events from corporate functions and theatre to live music and touring.

He started his career in lighting as a casual electrician at his local theatre, becoming a freelance technician when he finished college. Although he will be working alongside directors Sam Crook and David Buffham, Grant will manage the projects that he is working on from concept to completion, so that his clients know they will have a single point of contact at all times.

Grant explains, "As a small company, we can offer a personal and friendly service for both rental and sales customers. Having previous experience as both a supplier and a client to the production indust

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UK - MilTec will be launching its new range of MT Audio multi-channel amplifiers at the ABTT show. There are five amplifiers in the range, incorporating four- and eight-channel models. All of the new amps are lightweight and have high power output, active crossovers and input linking. These units will be shown along with the established MTA catalogue of speakers and lightweight two-channel amplifiers.

Built to MilTec's own specification, the MTA range gives professional sound quality for venues and rental companies operating on a tight budget.

Also on display will be the new StageWash144 LED wash. Suitable for both stage and architectural use, (IP65 rated), it has 48x 3W RGBW LEDs, giving a powerful beam with pastel colours and excellent colour mixing even at short range,l says the company.

Another new addition to the MilTec catalogue is the LEDHead moving head LED profile.

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USA - Billing itself as a "church for people who don't like church," Real Life Church didn't follow a conventional path when it built its own facility after nearly a decade of holding services in, first, a movie theatre and, most recently, a high school auditorium. Everything about the Valencia, CA church's new 40,000sq.ft building was carefully planned to serve the 'real life' needs of its congregants and the greater community - from a coffeehouse in its basement, to its strategically centralised location for touring concerts, to the environmentally-friendly design of the structure itself, which sits largely underground to reduce energy requirements for heating and cooling.

At the hub of the building is Real Life Church's main sanctuary, an amphitheatre-style auditorium that seats 1,200. In addition to accommodating worship services, the room was required to function

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USA - In the continuing goal of being one of the industry's green leaders, Bandit Lites reports a number of achievements.

All Bandit Lites offices' computer equipment and components are recycled though Scotts Recycling in Knoxville, TN. They accept complete and partial computers, phone systems, TV's, household electronics, cables, UPS Systems, printers, cameras, VCRs & copy machines. They also accept a wide range of metals, utility equipment, subassemblies, scrap wire and system components. Parts that can be re-used are sold and everything else is separated and recycled.

Office printers and copiers have been replaced to allow for energy efficient units and toner savings. Duplex printing, toner saver modes, and standby modes have been adjusted to allow for the efficient use of supplies and power when not in use. All office computer monitors have been set to turn off when idle a

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UK - Blackburn-based HSL continues an active 2010, supplying lighting and crew to the current UK and European tour by Australian drum 'n' bass rockers Pendulum, whose distinctive hi-energy sound and performance is storming around the world with their third album Immersion.

The show, a fusion of video and lighting, is designed by Mark Calvert of Immersive (formally known as Pixel Addicts), together with his colleagues John Munroe and Dave Green. It features a striking set architecture constructed from special dollies containing Barco MiStrip LED screen, which has its own set lighting system some parameters of which are controlled, along with the video content, by Immersive's Addict show control system. Additional lighting onstage is controlled through a 'traditional' lighting console operated by lighting designer Simon Barrington.

Mike Oates is project managing for HSL.

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USA - Martin Professional has confirmed that a deal has been reached between Inner Circle Distribution (ICD) and Martin Professional, Inc. (MP) that sees industry veterans and ICD owners Nick Freed, Noel Duncan and Gary Mass trading in their circle for a yellow triangle and rejoining the Martin US team.

During their time at Inner Circle Distribution, Freed, Duncan and Mass, all of whom have previous work experience at Martin US, emerged as key players in the US rental market.

Inner Circle Distribution has been involved in the entertainment industry since 2005 as a distributor of primarily moving head lights throughout the USA, Canada and the Caribbean.

"Through this agreement, a circle has been closed (no pun intended) as all three owners have worked for Martin in the past, effectively earning their stripes here," stated Brian Friborg, president of Martin Professio

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UK - Since its launch as an independent UK company at ABTT 2009, Goboland UK has reported increasing business and flourishing sales in both custom and catalogue gobos. The company's directors, Wyatt Enever and Vicky Fairall, will be attending this year's ABTT with a selection of both.

"We established Goboland UK as a gobo company dedicated to the UK market," says Enever, "which is something that our customers have really responded to in a very positive way. We find people like the local nature of the company and the rapid response to their enquiries and gobo needs that we provide. We offer the same quality of product, attention to detail and customer service which have always been the key to our success and the business is increasing rapidly as a result."

Last year's ABTT saw the launch of the company's Credit Crunch Gobo to celebrate the formation of Gobol

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UK - As the countdown begins to arguably one of the BBC's most controversial and best loved chat shows, Richard Martin Lighting (RML) continues to support lighting designer, Chris Kempton, on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.

The TV lighting specialists have been providing an evolving inventory of dynamic industry standard effects since 2002 - and now the GLP impressions have joined the production.

They recently provided the main focus when Groove Armada (featuring Will Young) performed their latest hit, History.

The special chrome GLP impression XL - purchased in July 2009 - offers 240 LEDs, making the light output almost three times as bright as the original RGB fixture while maintaining all the other advantages.

"I was delighted with the performance of the GLP units on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross," said Chris Kempton. "We always tr

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USA - An LED-powered version of Elation's popular Design Spot 250 Pro DMX moving head, the Design Spot LED is "loaded with all of the performance features required to deliver an unforgettable light show". Yet, at the same time, it's also "a no-nonsense practical fixture that saves energy, lowers shipping costs (because of its light weight) and simplifies maintenance".

At 48.5 lbs./22 kilograms, the Elation Design Spot LED weighs less than the original Design Spot 250 Pro, yet produces a light output comparable to a 250-watt discharge lamp. It also offers the easy maintenance typically associated with LED fixtures, since its extended lamp life is 50,000 hours.

Like the original Design Spot 250 Pro, the new Design Spot LED features a variable Frost Filter, which allows it to function as a hybrid spot/wash effect. Other features include a motorised iris, motor

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France - For the past 12 years, Cyber Fest Noz has taken place in Brittany as one of the major cultural events for Bretons. For seven hours on 22 May, multiple bands had Breton people all over the world dancing via the Cyber Fest Noz website.

This year, over 200,000 people were connected via the Internet to the event, which took place at the Music Hall in Rennes. To transmit the concert via the Web, broadcast staff used eight high definition cameras, as well as a package of Martin lighting and control gear provided by rental company MES of Nantes at the request of SIWA director Jose Nedelec, who handled technical direction and audio for the event.

Lighting designer was François Guillet of Lumières Utiles who chose to use a Martin Maxxyz Compact lighting controller along with three MaxModules: MaxModule Button, MaxModule Submaster and MaxModule Playback. The Martin ran

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Norway - For many years LSC has been associated with the Eurovision Song Contest, supplying TDS 48-channel touring dimmers, e24 dimming systems and DMX distribution.

For this year's event, The National Broadcaster of Norway, NRK utilised a maXim M supplied by Multitechnic in Oslo for Stage Motion control, drapery, silks and drop downs.

The maXim finished up controlling a Kinesys K2, Chain Master products as well as six Wahlberg DMX controlled Winches, six Wahlberg DMX controlled curtain rollups designed specifically for the ESC and three DMX Beamslides.

(Jim Evans)

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Ukraine - Coemar has helped to unearth new stars in Eastern Europe. Successfully Got Talent, the talent show for amateur artists, has just finished in Ukraine, duplicating the success of the previous year which attracted 13m viewers.

For one evening the various contestants were illuminated by the same lights as those used for the great world artists, a deliberate contribution to the show by the lighting designer Maksim Balashov who used various Coemar projector models in order to create different atmospheres and emotions.

The impressive lighting installation created entirely by the Italian company, comprising over 120 projectors, illuminated a whole range of talents - dancers, singers, musicians, actors and many others.

Fixtures included the follow spots Testa 2500 and Testa 1200, and every moment of the performances was highlighted by 60 iWash 575, 30 I Spot 1200 and

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  2. White Light transforms the V&A Museum
  3. PSI supplies Fatboy first in Belfast
  4. wysiwyg R25's App on Apple website
  5. Bandit keeps busy in Europe
  6. ADB Lighting appoints distributor for China
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