Lighting designer Per Sundin has been in charge of lighting the event for the past 10 years, but this was the first year Clay Paky fixtures were brought in for it. Interlite AB supplied eight Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500 fixtures for the banquet. The lighting was designed to be eleg
This visual extravaganza was the first ever such post cricket match entertainment event, and also celebrated the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Indians in Africa. Over 40,000 cricket fans saw India narrowly beat the Proteas (South Africa), simultaneously making history as the biggest live crowd ever to watch a cricket match on the African continent. The concert was televised live worldwide on ESPN, opening up the potential audience to several million.
Lighting, stage set and visuals were designed by Tim Dunn and full technical production for the concert was supplied by Gearhouse South Africa, working for p
Managing director Colin Cuthbert explained: "As has been previously reported, Northern Light is performing extremely well in spite of the current economic climate and the board felt that the time was right for the expansion of our strategic management team."
Cooper has been with Northern Light since 2002 and has been responsible for the successful delivery of some of the company's most high profile projects including the Young Vic, Wexford Opera House, the Roundhouse, the London Coliseum and Aylesbury Waterside Theatre.
Cuthbert continued: "We felt it was imperative that project delivery, as
An Anolis LED lighting scheme is an integral part of the new look and feel for the popular bar and eatery, owned by local entrepreneur Rene Doricak and frequented by sports enthusiasts and a lively young crowd from the local area.
Duel is adjacent to a busy sports hall run by the city of Zubri, located in-between two bustling Moravian towns - the historically significant and beautiful Ronov pod Radhot?m and the buzzing commercial centre of Valaské Mezi?í?í.
Jan?a approached Anolis's Czech & Slovak Republic sales manager Petr Kolma?ka, and together they discussed the best possible LED lighting solution.
Jan?a wanted to use power-efficient 'green' lighting to ad
The license applies to W-DMX G4 BlackBox F-1, BlackBox F-2, WhiteBox F-1, WhiteBox F-2, Micro F-1 and ProBox F-2500. All units are standard with RDM. The license also covers the Micro OEM PCB and PRO OEM PCB for W-DMX OEM manufacturers. OEM partners are "very happy" with the new license agreement, say Wireless Solution.
Wireless Solution is the only company to offer dual band 2.4 and 5.8GHz with RDM and adaptive frequency hopping in both OEM single PCB or Standard Transceivers with FLEX function to change a unit to be both transmitter and receiver. All F-Models a
Employed as the primary source of back lighting for the beauty contestants were 16 Martin MAC III Profile moving heads, specified by lighting designer Allen Branton. Chosen for their lumens output, gobo selection and big aperture for a hard-edged fixture, the 1500W MAC IIIs provided full coverage from up-, mid-, and downstage positions, says Felix Peralta, who served as lighting director on the show.
"We were really impressed by their compact size and their output, and they looked fantastic on camera," Peralta stated. "They were consistent in colour, output, and overall performance - we were extremely pleased."
The MAC III Profiles featured in the opening performance number involving all of
Entertainment lighting specialist White Light sponsored the Best Lighting Designer award once again; this year it was presented to James Farncombe for his design for Ghost Stories at the Lyric Hammersmith and then at the Duke of York's theatre, where the show continues to surprise and scare audiences nightly. His fellow nominees in the category were Neil Austin for The Prince of Homburg and Women Beware Women, Paul Keogan for Novecento, Paule Constable for Bl
Three hundred guests, including brand ambassadors John Travolta and Wayne Gretzky as well as hockey player, Mark Streit and NFL star and broadcaster Boomer Esiason attended the event in Manhattan on 15 January.
The sidewalk outside of the boutique was transformed in to a VIP reception area. Truss structure provided by PRG was erected housing a red-carpet area for staff to meet and greet VIP guests and the media. GDS LiteWare UL wireless battery uplighters were incorporated in to the design of the st
LumenRadio's proprietary CRMX products are available in a variety of form factors and feature levels to meet the requirements of the entertainment and architectural lighting markets alike. All products provide Lumen's proprietary automated cognitive coexistence; error correction; synchronization; encryption; deterministic latency of 5ms; and outstanding range and reliability.
Protocol support includes DMX, RDM, DALI, Art-Net, sACN, ETCNet2, ETC Net3, Strand ShowNet, and Pathport. Two consecutive PLASA Awards for Innovation and accolades from industry experts and the industry at large, as well as a very impressive reference list of high profile installations and events, have firmly established LumenRadio as the undisputed wireles
Lighting designer Martin Kempton continues to originate the show, lights are provided by Richard Martin Lighting and supported by TSL Glasgow. This season was operated by BBC board operator Julia Smith.
The design specification includes Stage Zoom 1200s, Stage Profile Plus's, MAC 250s, MAC 600s and Chroma Banks.
(Jim Evans)
Lighting designer Daniel Bocking designed the production with video projections and a rig dominated by 18 Alpha Beam 700s positioned in clusters of three to create a classic rock and roll feel for the band. The lighting was designed and programmed around bespoke video footage developed by content designer Colin Rozee of R2 Digital Productions and projected onto sails suspended from the rear truss.
"I needed really tight beams because I didn't want to throw too much light around and risk washing out the video," says Bocking. "The Alpha Beams were brilliantly effective - just so narrow in the beam. The fixture creates highly defined, parallel beams that are clearly visible against other
The three-week paid training programme will give candidates a thorough induction to some of the most popular and industry-standard lighting, audio, rigging and video entertainment technologies stocked by AC-ET, which supplies over 200 brands to dealers, distributors and end users in 80 countries worldwide.
Successful candidates selected from the training course will then follow a development programme over the next 12 months, depending on their individual level of industry experience.
Originally launched in 2003, the training programme has proved extremely successful, with 6
Nexus provides the ability to convert between the two most popular Ethernet protocols namely ArtNet and Streaming ACN (SACN) and DMX512. Nexus allows users to: merge two universes onto a single port on an LTP or HTP basis by universe or by slot (channel); softpatch across multiple universes; autoswitch between two assigned universes for redundancy purposes and merge two universes and resend these as new ArtNet or SACN stream.
Three models are available - a single port portable Ethernet / DMX converter, a five-port rack-mount Ethernet / DMX512 converter and a five-port truss-mount Ethernet / DMX512 converter. Powercon power input connectors are available as an option on the five-port units. The single port unit is powered via Power over Ethernet (PoE).
The units are supplied with
This year, 42 commercial LED lighting products were recognised for excellence. Out of 138 entries from 61 different lighting companies, 33 were chosen as 'recognized' winners and four were chosen as 'best in class'. An additional five products were deemed 'notable', a new category created for those NGL entries that might not yet be considered specifiable but nevertheless have at least one out
Lighting Design International's (LDI) work on premier office headquarters, The Peak, in London's Victoria, has been shortlisted in the Exterior Lighting category. Along with architect, Shephard Robson, and installers, Emcor, Architainment supported LDI as it worked to transform the site's identity. Following a bespoke mock-up of the cladding, LDI specified approximately 700 fixtures of Philips Color Kinetics iColor Cove MX Powercore to light up the outside of the building.
LDI Design associate, Nishi Shah, commente
Mill Bridge, a charming wooden bridge used by cyclists and pedestrians alike, is located just outside the city centre of this northern Swedish town. The Municipality of Kramfors sought not only to secure the bridge at night and increase safety across the popular pathway but looked to reveal the beauty of the bridge with an aesthetic nighttime illumination.
Nine 300mm IP66-rated Tripix luminaires are mounted on the underside handrail on each side of the bridge. The Tripix 300 uses single lens tricolor RGB color mixing - a colour wash system that projects a more uniform wash of colour across a surface.
"The Tripix has exception
Arc3design's lighting incorporated CTI's new PDS-750 TRX for controlling many of the Philips Color Kinetics ColorBlast 12 TRX LED fixtures used in the system, and he complimented these with battery powered CTI PDS-50 and MasterBlast units driving additional individual ColorBlast 12 TRXs. The SHoW DMX wireless technology provided in these systems allowed Arc3design to locate gear wherever it was needed, and the fully featured SHoW DMX Receivers built into the PDS-750 TRX Power/Data
Situated in the heart of the West End (below the Phoenix Theatre on Charing Cross Road), the Phoenix Artist Club will play host to Zero 88's regular training sessions and product demo days.
To mark the beginning of the collaboration Cooper Controls recently sponsored the winner's prize for Talent 2011 at The Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly Circus, in aid of The Theatrical Guild - the charity for front of house and back stage staff.
Organised by Stand Well Back and The Phoenix Artist Club, Talent 2011 was the gala finale of the search for the West End's next musical theatre star, with guest judge Elaine Paige. The event was won by Rosanna Colclough, who beat ten other talented finalists with the song
The opening and closing ceremonies were held at the site of the Float at Marina Bay, the world's largest floating stage located in the heart of Singapore. A live audience of 27,000 plus the 3,500 athletes and an estimated 2bn television viewers watched a spectacular light, video, laser and fireworks display with the Singapore skyline serving as a backdrop.
The floating stage was surrounded by a ring of shipping containers, a reference to Singapore's prominence as South East Asia's largest harbour. In front of the containers a 5000 m2 floating 'lake' was created; at the rear a 32m high lighthouse, which held the cauldron for the Olympic flame. Lighting and video were positioned around the ring to create the pe
Martin Werner, CEO of Laserworld says, "We plan to integrate this solution as 'standard' and free of any extra charges for the customer. Apart of the new laser systems pre-equipped, we plan to offer transmitter upgrade options for older systems."
Laserworld currently offers W-DMX as an option for the SwissLas, Purelight, Purelight Blue Beam, Moving Head and Revolution product series. W-DMX will be unveiled as standard at Prolight + Sound 2011 in Frankfurt.
Niclas Arvidsson, CEO of Wireless Solution adds, "We're proud to add yet another OEM partner to our growing list, but especially laser technology for the first time. And Laserworld makes some phenomenal products. Lasers always wow audiences but the addition of wireless capability just give
Orkelbog-Andresen moves from the position of market manager architectural for the Nordic countries where he has successfully developed Martin's project market since August 2008.
Villads Thomsen, VP for Martin EMEA, states, "With his proven track record from the Nordic countries, Leif will bring valuable insight and guidance to our European sales team, increasing the success of Martin in the project market."
(Jim Evans)
ENTECH 2011, which takes place at SCEC on 19 - 21 July 2011, will now include a new stream in its educational program featuring international speakers from PLASA's extensive global membership base.
Over 4000 visitors are expected to register for ENTECH 2011, and attendance at the seminars will be offered on a first come, first served basis. Visitors will be able to secure their seats for a seminar via the ENTECH website in the coming weeks.
PLASA's CEO, Matthew Griffiths said: "We are pleased to be involved in one of the premium industry events in Australia. We see this alliance as a great opportunity to support the future development of our indust
Don't Scare The Hare is a new game show produced by Endemol which will be aired in April on BBC1's 5.30 p.m. Saturday slot. Lighting designer is Tom Kinane, with whom HSL has worked on numerous past projects. The show sees two teams of contestants pit their wits and their physical agility in a series of games which involves not scaring a large animatronic hare.
Lighting and colour psychology plays a key role in the production - if the hare takes fright during any of the games, the whole environment turns red for danger.
HSL's Sean McGlone project managed the supply of the equipment which includes Vari*Lite moving lights, white lights, LED sources, cyc lighting and follow spots. He
The company's owner (and lighting designer), Ammar Jano, knew that the white marble façade of the six-storey building would be a suitable projection surface for SGM's IP55-rated Palco 5 architectural LED fixture - and that it would provide a dazzling wash which could clearly be seen from the nearby Damascus-Beirut highway.
In total 18 Palco 5's were mounted - either on the ground, or positioned at roof level - to deliver a stunning crossfade colour wash.
Ammar Jano, who has been working with SGM products for almost a decade, then turned his
