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14 March 2016

The size and sweep of an Olympics opening ceremony, the event highlighted the tremendous economic growth of Turkmenistan in the last two decades and linked its history and cultural heroes with its future prospects. It was staged by Filmmaster Events, Milanin the capital's Ashgabat Stadium, which was recently enlarged and refurbished.

Lafortune, a lighting designer with nine shows currently running, including top Las Vegas productions, was brought on board in July. "It was a very short turnaround for a show of this magnitude," he notes. "Designing lighting for a theatre in Vegas is

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Released at Frankfurt last year the company will be featuring their latest products, the MultiSpot GII HP3/30, MultiSpot GII HP5/34 and the new MultiWall GII HP5/62. All these products are available in two versions - IP20 rated using PowerCon and XLR5 connectors or IP65 rated using cable glands and screw terminals for hard wiring.

The company will also be displaying two new products, scheduled for production later this year. MultiSpot HP LS1012: Successor to the iconic LS1009, this new light source uses 12 x 3W RGB TriLEDs in a convection cooled extruded aluminium housing with the replaceable rear mounted PS20A powe

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"I think I can safely say Artistic Licence has just enjoyed its most successful ARC show to date," enthuses company founder, Wayne Howell. "This year, we exhibited as Artistic Licence Integration, which is our projects division. The response has been overwhelming, firmly establishing our integration credentials in the buildings management arena - a sector that we now consider core to our business."

Emphasising the diversity of markets for which the compan

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14 March 2016

Located just outside the town of Longyearbyen (the world's most northerly settlement with a population greater than 1,000) is an old mining station owned by Norwegian coal mining company Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani. The building is a Norwegian cultural historic landmark and was once used to transfer coal from mines in the surrounding hills down to the harbour.

Located at 78 degrees north latitude, Longyearbyen lacks sunlight for almost four months of the year and during that winter period the town's most conspicuous building disappeared beneath a blanket of total darkness. Conse

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These are all in Robe's eco-conscious Robin range - with the emphasis on smaller, brighter, lighter and utilising genuinely more energy efficient technologies - underlining Robe's 'Think of the Future - consider Nature initiative. All of the products also use high powered RGBW LEDs.

The Robin DLX Spot is an RGBW LED Spot moving head, its smooth and seamless colour mixing achieved by using the RGBW LED system, with a virtual colour wheel and a series of pre-programmed 'real' whites at 2700, 3200, 5600 and 8000 degrees Kelvin.

To complement and widen the already comprehensive Robin range, Robe launches the DLF which is a fresnel wash fixture. This is aimed at theatre, TV and all professional markets needing very versatile fresnel style lights.

It has a zoom t

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High End Systems and Arcus will be demonstrating the capabilities of automated and digital lighting with an interactive display and hands-on opportunities. Visitors to the stand will have opportunities to fully experience the power and capabilities of High End Systems lighting controllers and fixtures.

Continuing the development of digital lighting, High End Systems will feature the new DLV Digital Light. This addition an already substantial portfolio represents the next evolution in creative, video-based lighting, says the company. Built on the same industry standard software as the DL.3 Digital Light and Axon Media Server, the DLV bri

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Dyer has been working for UK manufacturer GDS since 2007, when he was taken on as a full-time employee after enjoying work experience with the company. His BTEC apprenticeship in Technical engineering, combined with a workplace NVQ qualification was sponsored by GDS and completed last year.

Currently in the position of design engineer, Dyer is responsible for the SMConsole stage managers desk and CueSystem show control ranges. Both ranges are being supplied across the world, from London's West End to Sydney and across the USA. They have been used in prestigious shows including the Michael Jackson Arena tour and Broadway's

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The AC-ET stand will provide the EMEA tradeshow unveiling of the new Jands Vista L5 flagship media and lighting control console. The design includes a 21" HD Wacom pen tablet display, which makes it easy to manage today's mix of moving lights, media servers and LEDs. To celebrate the launch, there is a competition to win a MacBook Pro running the Vista v2 software (www.jandsvista.com/L5). A selection of other models from the extensive Vista control range will also be featured.

Also showing on the AC-ET stand is the Chroma-Q range of LED lighting solutions. Latest additions include the new Studio Force D (6,100K CCT daylight) and V (3,000K - 6,100K CCT variable) white light sources.

Both versions are

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Working with PRG's Robin Wain, lighting designer David 'Fuji' Convertino, is touring a system that utilises a selection of PRG's proprietary products and on the European dates marks the touring debut of PRG's new Best Boy 4000 Spot Luminaire.

Recently launched at LDI, the Best Boy 4000 is a physically smaller, lighter brother to PRG's Bad Boy Spot Luminaire, but remains a precision-engineered automated light with an all-inclusive feature set.

The UK & Ireland arena tour used PRG's BAT Truss and Series 400 Power and Data Distribution System to allow fixtures to trave

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14 March 2016

Maxim Balashov, technical director, leading lighting designer and one of the founders of ALIGHT, selected Clay Paky Sharpys for season four of Star Factory which aims to raise the lighting design bar and put TV lighting on a par with the show's high-end video elements and production design.

"Our company always goes with the times,

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Olympic Countdown - The London Olympics and Paralympics could boost West End box offices, according to a survey of theatre-goers. In the Whatsonstage.com poll of more than 32,000 theatre-goers, 70% said they would attend as much

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Recently, the Production Park launched their display of a series of sculptures across the 14-acre site. The sculptures on show have been supplied by the Cass Sculpture Foundation, a charitable organisation which aims to commission and display the very best contemporary outdoor sculptures. The pieces on show have been created by five international artists: Antony Gormley, Steven Gregory, Marcus Kleinfeld, Tim Morgan and Jilly Sutton.

For the launch event of the exhibition, the sculptures were lit by entertainment lighting specialist White Light. The project was delivered by White

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Stage Electrics is supplying a full video production for the tour, featuring a 6 x 5m high definition 6mm pixel pitch LED video screen that forms an upstage backdrop, as well as full video production.

The rig includes two Hothead cameras controlled by a Catalyst V4 media server, a Grand MA2 Lite console for programming, and the latest Grand MA 2 on PC command wing for show operation.

The tour is the second on which Stage Electrics has provided live video production for producer Michael Harrison Entertainment, along with video designer Jack James, the same creative team behind the highly-successful musical Chess, and lighting designer Ben Cracknell. Mark Sherwood is production manager for the tour, which opens at N

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Serving clients in the theatre, television, concert touring, corporate and special event markets, this new location provides space for meetings, pre-production and even WYSIWYG, within a stone's throw from many of London's studios, theatres and venues.

The new office is open from this week and located at Sussex House, 143 Long Acre, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9AD.

(Jim Evans)

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Nashville is the latest event to be launched under the PLASA Focus banner, and follows the hugely successful PLASA Focus: Austin, held in February of this year. The current series of North American regional events are modelled after PLASA Focus: Leeds (UK), which, in its third year, topped 2500 attendees.

PLASA Focus: Nashville 2012 will bring regional entertainment technology communities together to do business and network in a relaxed and friendly setting. While regional exhibitors and visitors are set to benefit from the new event, PLASA Focus: Nashville will also give those involved the opportunity to mix with a wider audience than has ever been possible before as PLASA Focus: Nashville will

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14 March 2016

Dodd Technologies of Pendleton, Indiana created a dazzling lighting design for the Village, using W-DMX by Wireless Solution to send a flawless signal to 134 Elation Platinum Beams with W-DMX cards built in. Nine W-DMX Pro Box F2500 sent signals with directional antennas.

Ninety-six of the Platinum Beams were spread out across three city blocks. At the beginning and end of each block there was a W-DMX transmitter, six in total. Each transmitter broadcast to half a block worth of lights and was fed w

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14 March 2016

Yde Girl died between 54 BC and 128 AD at an approximate age of 16 years and her body was remarkably well preserved in the peat bogs near Yde in the Netherlands. Drents Museum's new Yde Girl drama is an interactive exhibit with sound, lights & projections used to illustrate the story of this girls life all those years ago. The museum needed the installation to run automatically and be low maintenance and energy efficient. The Project Manager from Lic

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The event was held at the sea front of the Bahrain National Museum. Lighting designer Luc Peumans from Painting with Light, Belgium, specified one grandMA2 full-size, one grandMA2 light along with two MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) for the show.

For the musical, a large orchestra, 100 dancers plus nine aerial artists performed on a multilevel stage. The show used the largest low-res LED screen (300sqm) ever used in the region.

Eclipse Staging Services from Dubai supplied all the lighting and video equipment.

(Jim Evans)

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"We've been looking for an excuse to buy Victors for a couple of years," says Chuck Spector, Upstaging's purchasing and rentals manager. "We had some experience with them on Batman Live in Europe, and our crew chiefs have had positive experiences. Victors were specified for Reba McEntire's tour, and that gave us th

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14 March 2016

Prior to the bout, the 50,000 spectators in Düsseldorf's Esprit-Arena, along with the around 12m television viewers, experienced an awe-inspiring staging of music, light, and laser effects.

Eight, full-colour, RYGCB-laser systems from tarm, each putting out 25 Watts, for projecting the laser presentations, plus another laser system for projecting the specially designed 'tunnel' accompanying the champion's and contender's entrances, were installed in the arena.

Full-colour laser graphics, adapted to suit the television broadcast produced by RTL, were projected onto a 144-sq.m. gauze screen.

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Staged at both AC-ET's southern HQ in High Wycombe and northern office in Leeds, a good mix of people from many different industry sectors took up the opportunity to visit - including schools and educational establishments, theatres, venues, individuals working in broadcast and a cross-section of freelancers.

In a fast-moving industry constantly demanding quicker and more flexible control of multiple video sources and playback surfaces, the events emphasised the on-going creative and technical fusion between lighting, LED sources, 'pixels' and video technologies as a complete visual environment.

Attendees were able to delve deeper into the award-winn

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The MA onPC command wing paves the way for mobile use of the highly flexible and powerful grandMA2 control system, says the company. In combination with the free-of-charge grandMA2 onPC software, the MA onPC command wing is a portable 2,048 parameter control solution that can be used in virtually any location - all at an affordable price.

(Jim Evans)

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The Battle of the Hogs competition showcases the showmanship, timing and talent of Wholehog programmers and operators. Each participant will have 90 seconds to perform on the main console in the performance section of the High End Systems / Arcus booth. Utilizing state of the art lighting equipment such as Technospot, TechnoArc, trackspot Bolt and DLV Digital Lights, the contestants will demonstrate their individual playback abilities on a Road Hog Full Boar lighting console. Each round will feature various tracks of music to ensure the battles are energetic and fierce.

The competition will take place daily from 21-23 March at the following times: 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 3pm, 4pm and

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Lighting designer Dan Hardiman of UK-based THC Design is using more than a dozen Sharpys as part of the upstage floor lights. He positions them in pairs on draped cases and utilizes them for aerial lighting effects and to back light the band.

"Amy Lee is very creative; it's great to work with an artist who wants to be involved in all the creative aspects of a live show," says Hardiman. "The music has strong contrasting elements: Amy's soaring angelic vocals, the crunchy guitars, the haunting piano sections, the etherea