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14 March 2016

Stonex is a long time leading distributor and installer of lighting and entertainment technology in Spain and distributes a host of top brands such as ETC, MA Lighting, Clay Paky, and Anolis.

"Our open house with LumenRadio last year sparked enormous interest in the CRMX technology.

Several of our largest theatres and venues have since then gone wireless with the products from LumenRadio; establishing CRMX as the de-facto industry standard in Spain", says Javier Latorre, manager of the engineering division of Stonex. "It is also very encouraging for us to watch how fast the wireless trend now spreads throughout the rest of the entertainment and general lighting community here - the CRMX products have become 'must hav

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Adam Beaumont, head of AC-ET's rigging sales division, James Bawn from the lighting division and Stuart Moots from the audio division co-ordinated the event, which involved their collective skills, experience and resources, plus some of the industry's leading rigging, lighting and audio products. The equipment was taken to the college for the day and set up a series of live interactive demonstrations in the purpose built Grange Arts Centre performance facility. Both Moots and Bawn are former students of the college.

The courses being studied are for Entertainment Technician and Stage Technician qualifications, and include modules on lighting & sound enginee

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14 March 2016

Based in Latvia, Atlantic Star specialises in designing and manufacturing practical, low maintenance, and reliable LED lighting systems for event designers and architects. Architainment will be distribution partners for the entire ORBIS range as it grows and develops, but will initially focus on the distribution of the ORBIS-120.

A series of 360° viewable pixels, the ORBIS-120 is made up of LEDs and control circuits, housed inside a white diffusing plastic sphere. The fitting has been designed to build up three dimensional structures, two dimensional backdrops and also curved or irregular 2D/3D shapes. Fibre optic technology is

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14 March 2016

Usher's futuristic, high-concept show presented a complex challenge for lighting designer Peter Morse and associate LD Eric Wade. "We had to design around a lot of fly gags and moving set pieces," notes Wade who heads FOHShow, a lighting services company. "The rig is designed to look big but not be completely massive; it's large but not over the top. It fills two trucks and features between 160-200 fixtures."

For the OMG Tour, the designers selected 24 Clay Paky Alpha Beam 700s, supplied by production company Upst

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14 March 2016

Running throughout the second half of the year, The Judds' tour proved to be both a finale and a reunion, as mother Naomi has largely been off the road since 1991.

As the tour's production designer, Featherstone worked closely with production manager Art Rich, lighting director Dennis Connors, lighting suppliers Upstaging and Vision Visuals (who provided the video equipment).

To ensure the stage concept was sympathetic to the occasion, the designer called on a rich armoury (and eclectic mix) of cutting-edge generic and moving lights, as well as LED washlights , employing products from the GLP range to d

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On display was the new PixelSmart LED multi-role luminaire amongst other LED innovations. Now in production, PixelSmart has featured on the televised Royal Variety Performance as well as recent tours with Andi Watson - the LD behind the ideas for the product.

Also available for preview was JTE's new X-Truss that can be flat packed to be 60% more space efficient - saving both time and money.

Paul Young, general manager for the two companies, commented, "The day was a great success. We were able to ta

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14 March 2016

On the day of the flood, Bryan and a number of other Opry staff members were floating through the Opry House in canoes to survey the damage. Determined to make the anniversary celebration a reality, Bryan called upon his longtime dealer, Bandit Lites, and together they developed a new rig that consisted of 55 Vari*Lite luminaires from Philips Vari-Lite.

"We were looking toward upgrading our system at some point, but we never thought it

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14 March 2016

The Moving Head panel - the EPV762 MH - attracted much attention. The lightweight moving tile boasts 4096x 3-in-1 3528 SMD LEDs with total 2000 nits @ 2,000hz refresh rate and 16 bit processing depth while adding 540 x 265-degree pan and tilt capability via DMX. European sales manager, Simon Gasch, described it as, "the absolute highlight of the show".

The EPV15 FLEX also generated interest with its flexible design for creating curved video walls. Indoor and outdoor-rated to IP65 at the front (IP54 at the back), the EPV15 flexible tile features an in-built PSU for drivi

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Aimed at the 100"-plus market, the new display pays homage to the fact that recently, brighter, more powerful projectors have become available. This has given rise to new challenges, such as how to prevent hot-spots showing up on the screen, while at the same time improving contrast / brightness uniformity and balancing viewing angles. This has been achieved with a low gain (of 2.2), along with more tint, and an anti-glare surface that minimises reflected ambient light and produces optimal 'eye-gonomics', says the company.

Proof of concept at ISE was in the form of a 128" Zenith display in partnership with Hitachi 5000 ANSI lumens projectors.

Drawing on the engineering services of their UK

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Love Never Dies, which received mixed reviews when it opened in March last year, is also nominated for best lighting, set and costume design. Its nominations follow a four-day closure in November, during which some changes were made to the show. Love Never Dies and Legally Blonde will compete against Fela! and Love Sto

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Directed by Jeremy Sams, choreographed by Arlene Phillips and designed by Robert Jones, the creative team behind Lloyd Webber's earlier revival of The Sound of Music in the same theatre, the production will feature the classic Harold Arlen-E Y Harburg songs from the MGM film alongside new songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and his original writing partner, lyricist Tim Rice.

The lighting for the show is being designed by Hugh Vanstone, the Olivier Award winner for best lighting in 1999, 2001 and 2004, Tony Award nominated in 2005 and 2009, and whose lighting for Shrek

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The band has recruited Hollywood visual effects specialist John Attard who has worked on films such as Gladiator, Last Samurai, Harry Potter, Holes and many more. Attard realised that by augmenting the shows with 3D elements he could bring the level of audience involvement in the show to a whole new dimension.

The 3D used in TAPFS is the same as that used in cinemas. The Audience wears 3D polarised glasses, stereo images are then sent to the eyes and the brain sees the whole thing in 3D.

(Jim Evans)

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The Live Action Arena - the largest indoor tri oval racetrack in the UK - took up the entire hall, with a performance area of approximately 120m wide by 100 deep, and was the focus of the exhibition for the most serious petrol heads, speed freaks and performance car enthusiasts. They were treated to a series of races and stunts by some of the fastest vehicles on four - and three - wheels for 55 minutes of burning rubber, screeching brakes and adrenalized excitement. The five show-a-day schedule on the two public days attracted up to 4700 people per session packing the grandstand to capacity!

It was the third year that Wan has lit the show - working for

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The 90P is extremely quiet, compact, lightweight and durable, making it suitable for use in theatres, rock 'n' roll, installations, corporate functions, live music events and TV studios, says the company.

Features include gobo morphing, motorised iris and 16-bit pan and tilt. The flat field allows for sharp focussing across the full width of gobos and eliminates the 'hot-spot' that many discharge models suffer from. The rotating gobos are extremely smooth in operation, giving you the functions required for professional use.

The twin flightcase is designed to accommodate the lights with the hookclamp fitted and Powercon connectors are provided for daisy chaining power, making rigging quick and secure.

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14 March 2016

The Color Web 125 joins HSL's already substantial stock of over 400 panels of Color Web 250mm. They first purchased the product when it was launched five years ago and since then it has been in almost constant use on a diverse range of shows and events.

HSL MD Simon Stuart comments: "We've enjoyed such a great success with the Color Web 250 and know from experience that it's a robust, reliable and quality engineered product, so it's been a fantastic investment. With a huge demand for the 125 version as it is increasingly integrated into designs and specs, we also wanted to be able to offer this choice to all our clients."

HSL's Color Web has bee

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14 March 2016

The project was conceived when Alessandra Toscani made an offer to a priest in Parma who wanted to project a nativity scene onto the façade of his church (known as the Oratorio dei Rossi). Following this, the city council (through its appointed bodies Gecc and CCN) assessed the possibility of replacing the traditional festive illumination with projected Christmas scenes.

The artistic design was funded by the shops in the street, sponsored by IRES (the power company) and Parma city council, and was entrusted to Alessandra Toscani's agency ....And Arts, with the technical support of Giuseppe Cavatorta's Top Service and Italo Bellocchi's Brait Acoustic. Equipped with these luminaires, the creative team decided to innovate the concept of

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In London, Madame Tussauds' show services manager, Simon Morris, augmented the press launch lighting with the latest Philips Selecon LED lighting fixture - the PL1.

Morris's brief was to achieve high energy, live music atmosphere that would excite the media without compromising the press photographers' ability to capture clear shots of the Lady Gaga figure. "My brief for the main lighting state was to emulate a photographic studio shoot," says Morris. "Our biggest challenge was achieving the same colour temperature as studio flash lighting, while conveying a theatrical and suitably dramatic style.

"The PL1 certainly delivered on its promise. Its ful

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14 March 2016

Overall responsiveness of the Stagebar 2 has been improved for more reactive dimming, colour fades and visual content response like pixel mapping. Additionally, fan noise from the automatic heat management system has been reduced for the benefit of TV studios and other noise-sensitive environments.

Useful for displaying imagery and video or for floodlighting surfaces and stages, the Stagebar

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14 March 2016

Mikki Kunttu once again relied on two grandMA2 light - one in Tracking-Backup-Mode - and one MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) for the necesary processing power. His project was called Grace. Kunttu explained,"Grace originated from a religious or spiritual point of view. After creating two works on the Helsinki Cathedral in previous years, I wanted to make a piece that completely supports the universal message of the church. We tend to look at this building and appreciate its architecture, but this time I wanted to bring the heart of the churc

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14 March 2016

"This is the only event of its kind in Scotland," says Black Light's head of company development, Phil Haldane. "Our annual open days have always been really popular and this year's will be the biggest and best yet. It will be a great opportunity to see the latest developments in the industry and will save people in Scotland the trouble of going down to the London shows."

The event, which will run from 10am until 4.30pm on each day, is designed to be of real value to anyone working in the theatre, events or architectural sectors. Over the two days visitors will be able to talk to manufacturers and get a ha

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14 March 2016

Last summer, LOCOG announced the appointment of Danny Boyle as artistic director of the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, and a team of executive producers led by Steven Daldry to oversee the Olympic and Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies in 2012.

Now roles within the London 2012 Ceremonies Team working at Three Mills Studios in East London are being advertised on the London 2012 website.

Creative roles include producer of the Olympic Opening Ceremony, head of audio visual, head of costume, head of casting and design studio manager. Applications must be made by 23 February 2011 for these roles.

Bill Morris, LOCOG directo

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The City Of Helsinki considers Season Of Light to be one of their major annual events with this year seeing over 50.000 spectators walk along the light path from the Senate Square to the Parliament House during its 10 day showcase. The project was covered by CNN International news as well a

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The Wybron Mobile Light Lab will first head to Fresno, Calif, where it will host events at Michael Garrison Associates and Live Light Inc. on 14 and 15 March respectively. It will then head to Musson Theatrical in Santa Clara, Calif, for a 16 March event and Holzmueller Productions in San Francisco, for a 17 March event. It will wrap up the week on 18 March at Sacramento Theatrical.

The Mobile Light Lab will then head north to Oregon and Washington. Its first event of the second week will be hosted by Bud's Lites, a Molalla, Ore., dealer that will hold a 21 March event at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Ore. Then it's off to Portland, Ore., for a 22 March event at Stagecraft Portland, and Seattle, Wash., for a 23 March event at Hol

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The idea was to re create the family favourite BBC show Strictly Come Dancing for which RML is lighting supplier. RML donated MAC 700's and Alpha Wash 300's to the charity event held in Canterbury. The MAC 700's include the animation wheel, often required for optimum lighting effects within a television studio.

Lighting designer Oz Andrews of ZeeLight said, "Thank you so much and the RML team who provided us with MAC 700's and Alpha Wash 300's for Strictly St Edmunds 2011. We raised an impressive figure for Great Ormond Street Charity thanks to the support of so many. The night was a huge success and looked stunning."

(Jim Evans)