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Sharon, based on the US West Coast, is an independent lighting designer with a wide variety of clients. In addition to four years of designing for the Gypsy Kings, he has also designed a wide range of corporate shows for many different clients.

He first used a Jands Vista, on this occasion a T2, when he originally started working for the Gypsy Kings. This was provided by the lighting contractor at the time, PSI Production Services in Denver. He completely "fell in love" with the console and decided to purchase his own Vista I3 from Jands US distributor A.C. Lighting Inc. so that he never had to go back to

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MA Lighting's managing director Michael Althaus commented, "This year's PLASA was the ideal platform for our new distributor Ambersphere Solutions to position itself in the market and to convince with its total support approach. Next to this, the show underlined again the trust the market has in grandMA2.

"We received a lot of positive feedback on the console. Especially the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 has drawn much attention to our control and network solutions that proofed their reliability in this biggest TV-show of all times. Additionally introducing our software release 2.4 at PLASA gave us the opportunity to directly receive comments from our customers who were very content about this

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And the winners are: Best European Partner: White Light Limited, Best American Partner: A.C.T. Lighting, Inc, Best Asia/Oceania Partner: ULA Group, Best European Partner: Lightpower, Highest OEM Sales: Golden Sea Professional Equipment, Best Debuting OEM: Guangzhou Yajiang Photoelectric, Most Promising OEM: Philips Vari*Lite, Best Installation Asia: Laservision for Marina Bay Sands, Best Installation Asia: ULA Group for Marina Bay Sands, Best Installation Europe: Prolight SP.Z.O.O. for Warsaw Palace of Culture.

Niclas Arvidsson, CEO of Wireless Solution says, "We owe so much of our success to the hard work a

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SHoW DMX Neo features the high data fidelity that the multi-award winning SHoW DMX is noted for, as well as fast 7mS latency, ensuring that wired and wireless DMX sources will appear exactly alike on a production. The extensive on board user interface that professionals prefer allows optimized control over output power, full or limited bandwidth broadcast, and the ability to broadcast less than the full DMX packet to shrink the radio "footprint".

For the users who do not want to manually optimize their broadcast, SHoW DMX Neo also has Neo Adaptive Mode that will select only open radio

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Art-Net is supported by 200-plus international manufacturers, and is one of the protocols of choice in LumenRadio's smart and adaptive CRMXTM wireless lighting control system.

"By upgrading to Art-Net 3, we can be confident our products stay way ahead of the data demand curve," explains LumenRadio's Senior R&D Engineer, Michael Karlsson. "For example, one particular project that I recall used a single network to control a media server and distribute its output to a LED wall. Such a set-up could easily break the limit of many of the Ethernet protocols in common use today."

Wayne Howell, technical director of Artistic

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Sunday saw the eagerly awaited launch of the LiteWare Satellite, following a successful teaser ad campaign customers flocked to the GDS stand to see its latest offerings. LiteWare Satellite is the newest member of the LiteWare family and provides a completely flexible new way of thinking for battery based Luminaries, it incorporates a remote, fully adjustable head offering 360 degree pan and 180 degree tilt.

Monday and Tuesday continued to deliver success for GDS with ArcSystem winning an unprecedented three awards; the PLASA Award for Innov

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Coldplay's drummer Will Champion told 6 Music playing festivals gave the band "a chance to win people over". He added, "There's also a strong possibility that people have already made their mind up about you - and no matter how well you play they're not going to be happy about it." Glastonbury, which also saw U2 and Beyonce play headline slots in June, is taking a fallow year in 2012.

In The Saleroom - The Beatles showed their support for the US civil rights movement by refusing to play in front of segr

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Working with the show's lighting designer Michael Gilliam, PCE put together a complement of automated spot, wash and specialty fixtures that included Elation Professional's DesignWash 1400E 1,200-watt DMX moving head wash and Power Spot 700 CMY-II 700-watt DMX moving head spot.

The tour, which will run through 2013, marks a reprisal of the production, starring Tony Award-nominee Cathy Rigby in the title role of this classic tale about a boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up. Olympic gymnast-turned-actor Rigby, who co-owns the production company with her husband Tom McCoy, has been playing Peter Pan since the early 1990s.

"This show is a juggernaut," said PCE's Ryan Steidinger. &quo

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At PLASA 2011, Delwiche presented Light Relief trustee Rick Fisher with a cheque for £12,458, collected over the previous 12 months. A similar amount of money will be presented to Behind the Scenes at the LDI show in October this year. These two cheques bring the total raised by the sale of the iRFR application to a staggering $86,000.

Delwiche was obviously delighted that his idea has paid off so handsomely, while CEO Fred Foster said,"One of the nicest aspects is that each individual who has found our iRFR to be a useful tool has helped raise this money. Chris

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The stand was busy constantly for all four days of the show, with major interest in the new launches as well as the Robin MMX Spot - the first in the next generation of 'workhorse' 1200 series fixtures - and the ROBIN 300 and 600 Spot, Wash and Beam ranges.

All of these reinforce Robe's ongoing and future commitment to producing smaller, lighter and brighter and genuinely more environmentally conscious technology.

Another major featur

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Bestival is a truly eclectic and eccentric universe of entertainment, fun, sociality, music and live performance - from psyco-chic afternoon teas to Bollywood, wooded grottos, numerous fantasy worlds, banging dance environments and a diverse main stage live line up, this year headlined by Pendulum, The Cure and Bjork. There is something for everyone of all ages and tastes at one of the final events on the UK festival calendar, staged in the fabulous grounds of Robin Hill Country Park curated by BBC Radio 1's Rob Da Bank.

For Colour Sound, it topped off a super-hyperactive festival season, with lighting, scenic LED screens and crew sup

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Alon Cohen, 41, said it was a "huge surprise" to hear his name called out over the public address system at the Earls Court exhibition.

"I was so happy, I couldn't believe it. I thought someone was having a laugh," said Cohen who was one of almost 2000 PLASA attendees to try their luck at winning a Sharpy by playing a pair of specially customized slot machines at the Clay Paky stand.

The vintage machines had been carefully restored by Clay Paky president Pasquale Quadri, a long-time collector and slot machine enthusiast.

Alon Cohen was at PLASA in his new role as product manager for lighting console maker Compulite Systems. "It was almost not to be," said Cohen. "I've only been

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Reflection LEDko is especially suitable in segments of the lighting market particularly attentive to innovation, and which are sensitive to the need for energy savings and reduced maintenance - the real strengths of the Reflection LEDko range, says the company.

Reflection LEDko is a further step in the Coemar strategy: after winning the Award for Innovation at the 2010 Plasa Show in London with its Reflection technology, Coemar now aims to revolutionise the profiler market.

The Reflection LEDko range offers three models - Full Spectrum, VariWhite 3000/7000 K and White 3200 K with interchangeable optics, and Soft Profile with Fresnel or PC lens and Profile Zoom 28°

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Organised by The Society of Television & Lighting Design (STLD), The Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) and Clay Paky, the Knight of Illumination Awards provide public recognition for outstanding achievements in touring, television and theatre lighting design, and forge closer ties between designers and the industry as a whole.

This year's winners included Simon Butcher, for the television drama Casualty, Roger Williams for the variety series Tonight's the Night, Matt Carter for the morning talk show ITV Daybreak, Al Gurdon for the Super Bowl Halftime Show, Michael Straun for the Glasvegas tour, Nick Whitehouse for the last Kylie tour, Jamie Thompson for The Script'

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Other speakers will include Free Trade Agency boss Paul Boswell, HMV/MAMA Group's Daryl Robinson and Academy Music Group's Carl Bathgate.

One particularly lively part of the conference programme will undoubtedly be the ticketing session, Selling The Show, following eBay-owned US resale giant StubHub's announcement that it's about to enter the UK, and the surprise takeover of See Tickets by French media conglomerate Vivendi.

"StubHub's arrival will significantly increase activity in the resale sector, especially in the battle for hearts and minds, and general endorsement of the concept," says Summit producer and Audience managing

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SuperNova 2.0 with CRMX Unity had its debut at the show and garnered much interest from a steady stream of visitors to LumenRadio's constantly busy booth. CMRX Unity extends SuperNova's RDM capabilities to wired networks and offers a unified technology and user-interface for systems that utilize a combination of wired and wireless DMX/RDM signal distribution. CRMC Unity also received a nomination for the prestigious PLASA Innovation Awards - a third nomination for LumenRadio that have resulted in two consecutive awards.

The new catalogue released at the show chronicles a broad spectrum of new installations and projects showcasing the versatility and perfor

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The new higher powered light engines available across the full i-Pix BB range of fixtures were particularly well received. Each new BB now emits four times the light output for the same power consumption, and the RGB light engine has been enhanced with a new green LED, improving the colour mixing CIE triangle available across the whole BB range.

The newly launched i-Pix Satellite Mk II, was a hit, also featuring an increased light output, extra functionality and a very handy battery pack for portable situations and challenging locations.

However, the biggest buzz was around the new i-Pix Beamlight which was previewed for the firs

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Officially launched on the stand at a well-attended press call, Kling-Net is a new protocol designed to allow the distribution of real-time video data to remote display devices, such as LEDs or LED panels, over Ethernet.

ArKaos CEO Marco Hinic explained, "We don't want people to feel trapped by technology and are working with leading lighting desk manufacturers to make ArKaos products even more accessible and easy to use. Kling-Net is a major step forward in this about which we are very excited."

The distributor evening, which celebrated this launch alongside a successful year for ArKaos, began with a company presentation which included testimonials from lighting designers for existing ArKaos produc

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"Everyone was thrilled to receive their tokens for a free gobo from the Black Steel Collection of designs," says Goboland UK director, Vicky Fairall, "and some went to extreme measures not to mislay them!". The gobo keyfob tokens were produced to celebrate the newly designed Goboland UK website with its streamlined online ordering system and new Black Steel Collection designs.

"Furthermore, our collaboration with The Projection Studio has resulted in a growing library of Goboland GoboSlides for customers to choose from, with images drawn from The Projection Studio's broad range of source material. Our custom service has gone down particularly well, with orders

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Launched at PLASA 2010, the units started rolling off the production line in the Czech Republic in December of that year, hitting the 5000 target just 10 months later.

Right from the off, Robe's distributors have clamoured to get enough stock of the LEDWash 600, with Germany, France, the UK, Australia, Brazil and Italy all leading head-to-head in the race to get orders placed, processed and delivered to their clients in what has been a truly incredible sales trajectory, says the company.

Says Robe's sales director Harry von den Stemmen, "Axente has been a front runner right from the beginning in the race to get LEDWash 600 permeating throughout all market sectors. From TV studios, theatres and multi-purpose installations to leadin

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"Our team acted as consultants to the project and then sourced and installed the required equipment," sayss Black Light's head of company development, Phil Haldane. "We worked to a very strict deadline as the equipment re-vamp was needed for a televised Scottish Parliamentary election count."

Black Light's team had to be particularly careful in how they installed equipment so as not to damage or compromise the hall's historic interior.

"We received excellent project delivery and very

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Delegates were treated to a humorous but well-informed and interactive three hours by Artistic Licence Engineering's R&D manager, Tim Baarsch. During this time, they were taken step-by-step through the protocol communications, providing them with a solid basis from which to use DMX and RDM with confidence.

Attended by a broad spectrum of designers, technicians and architects, the session covered the history and workings of DMX and RDM, with liberal input from delegates who were free to ask questions throughout. The knowledgeable interjections from fellow delegates and DMX guru Adam Bennette added value to the wealth of information delivered by Baarsch.

The talks were intersp

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Staged on the eve of London Fashion Week, it celebrated 10 years of collaboration between supermodel Kate Moss and Rimmel, together with the launch of Rimmel's new 'London Lipstick Collection by Kate'.

Electric Fly was working for production company Iris Experience, for whom they regularly provide visual design and technical production services. All the lighting equipment was supplied by Blackburn based HSL.

The lighting scheme encompassed both internal and external elements. Explains Jevons: "As one of London's greatest and most famous historical landmarks, it was a real honour to be asked to light Battersea Power Sta

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The show - one of a series of events celebrating Mulberry's 40th birthday - was staged on the rooftop of the Skylight West building in New York's Midtown district.

The recently renovated venue offers the largest private event rooftop space in the city and superlative panoramic views scanning the downtown area. Both Mulberry and Kasabian are regular clients of Gray and his creative live visual design company, Renegade.

Used to working in unusual environments, Gray utilised the steel superstructure of a 60ft wide billboard that resides atop the building. After structural tests, this was used to hang a substantia