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USA - DJ/lighting designer, Arnoldo Offermann, in conjunction with American DJ, will be conducting a full day of training on ArKaos GrandVJ at the LDI show in the Las Vegas Convention Centre (17 - 23 November 2014).

Arnoldo will demonstrate video mapping and show how this real-time video mixer software allows the composition of up to eight layers of video on the fly. ArKaos Grand VJ presents a VJ solution for all DJs, VJs, musicians and content creators looking to add a video track to compositions during live performance. For more details and booking links visit: www.ldishow.com

The ArKaos range of video mixer software products has been created especially for VJs, DJs, clubs and musicians. ArKaos VJ-DJ software is compatible with Mac and PC and has been designed to combine state of the art real time video mixing technology with intuitive interfaces adapted for various user sit

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USA - At the LDI 2014 tradeshow, 21-23 November, in the Las Vegas Convention Centre, ETC will feature a variety of new products and "a gravity defying design" on stands 2891 and 2991.

LDI 2014 will be the first time that ETC is demonstrating Vortek technology, which will become available internationally in the near future. In September, ETC acquired the Vortek rigging division of Daktronics, which expanded the ETC Rigging family of products to include a variety of custom engineered, heavy lift, high lift and high speed rigging solutions, such as orchestra shell, grand drape and scoreboard lifts, synchronised acoustic panels and motorised packaged hoists.

ETC's LDI 2014 stands will also include GDS luminaires for the first time. ETC is the North and South American distributor of GDS products, including award winning ArcSystem LED products, ArcLamp screw based replacem

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UK - A.C. Special Projects (ACSP) have provided a full scale LED lighting system and various audio equipment to Kennet School in Berkshire, as part of a major upgrade aiming to reduce energy consumption and offer modern, flexible lighting for drama pupils to learn on.

ACSP's Lance Bromhead visited the school to discuss their project requirements. Having worked on numerous ACSP school drama LED lighting installations, Lance suggested that Kennet School's Head of Creative Media and Film, Peter Scoggins, and Dave Yates, drama technician, visited a recent system installation at Passmores Academy in Harlow, Essex.

He commented, "Passmores Academy had required a similarly efficient, low maintenance, user-friendly lighting solution. Fortuitously, the day we visited Passmores, they were putting on a show production, so it provided a good live demo of the lighting system."

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South Africa - Clay Paky's Massimo Bolandrina and Giovanni Zucchinali spent two weeks in South Africa carrying out demos everyday as they introduced the super heroes of lighting, The Projectors, to the market. In fact, a photo taken during this roadshow of a SuperSharpy beam projecting onto a cloud reached the second most "Likes" ever recorded on the Clay Paky Facebook page. It was liked 819 times (the number one pic has 859 likes) but also was 'shared' more than the other photo.

The Clay Paky Roadshow, put together and run by DWR's Robert Izzett was a wonderful success. Instead of having a central venue where clients were invited to see the products, The Projectors consisting of Supersharpy, Mythos and Stormy were taken to rental companies and theatres in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.

"This has been an amazing experience for the Clay Paky team," comm

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France - ETC's Cobalt control desk is becoming increasingly popular in France, with ETC partner Avab Transtechnik France (ATF) supplying a Cobalt 20 desk to the Avignon Festival and a second sold for the EQI Cheval Libre equestrian show.

The Avignon Festival has invested in a Cobalt 20 desk for their main performance space with a Congo jr powered by Cobalt as online backup during the shows. Back in 1996, the event's organisers bought the first Avab desk to use in the Cour d'Honneur (Court of Honour) of the Palais des Papes (the Pope's Palace) and they also own 25 further Avab style desks that they use each year for their other spaces. So it was fitting that, when the Cobalt desk was released earlier this year, they were keen to try it out.

Says Jean Louis Pernette, commercial director for ATF, "The festival's technical managers realised they needed to modernise their main

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South Africa - Cape Town headquartered event production specialists Kilowatt AV recently specified 36 x Robe LEDWash 600s and 12 x LEDBeam 100s for a nationwide 5-city FLS (Financial Lifestyle Solutions) roadshow by leading South African financial services and investment group, Old Mutual.

Kilowatt was the technical solution designer and provider for all shows, the largest of which was staged at Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg for 2000 delegates, with lighting equipment subcontracted by locally based MGG Productions.

The other four shows - Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth and Durban - also featured the Robe LEDWashes and LEDBeams plus Robe Pointes.

Kilowatt's team, led by project director Rhys Pughe Parry and technical project manager Jonty Mylne collaborated closely with live brand experience agency Hero to create the entire event environment.

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USA - Wireless Solution Sweden AB will promote its three latest products at LDI (Booth 1715) in Las Vegas later this month.

New on display will be the W-DMX UglyBox MK2. This is a compact new wireless signal tester, which is a valuable tool for users of wireless products, providing proof of a solid signal and piece of mind in the absence of visible cable.

The UglyBox MK2 is housed in an attractive compact body, resembling a gaming control with a 4.3" Touch LCD Screen. It supports 2.4GHz, 5.2GHz and 5.8GHz and is a transceiver solution, which means that it can be used as both transmitter and receiver. It has a complete DMX tester that provides all data in live format directly on the screen. It also has a built in DMX controller as well as an RGB Fixture to simulate LED fixtures on the LCD Screen for quick testing. In history mode you can also see over time that you have a

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South Africa - Leading South African lighting, sound and video rental company MGG, based in Johannesburg recently designed and supplied full technical production - rigging, trussing, lighting, sound, video - including a large Robe moving light rig and 360 degree projection for the annual conference of a large investment bank.

The one day event was produced by South African based, production house, O'MAGE with technical direction from CI-Nation. Staged at the Sun City Super Bowl, the format saw a daytime conference session followed by a gala dinner in the evening, attended by around 1200 top executives from the organisation.

Lighting for the event needed to be flexible, dynamic and multi-purpose, so MGG asked one of the country's top LDs - François van der Merwe - to come on board as Lighting Designer. Robe was chosen as the majority of the fixtures on the rig on which van der

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USA - RENNtech, a professional automobile performance tuning company that specialized in tuning of Mercedes-Benz cars, presented their latest car concept, the #DJVan, at this year's SEMA Show from at the Las Vegas ConventionCentre last week.

The #DJVan is a modified Mercedes Benz V-Class, the latest version that is available j since end of May 2014. RENNtech modified the van to a mobile DJ stage. Besides the adaption to the whole look and design, they implemented a DJ stage, including the latest Pioneer DJ equipment, some strong PA speaker system and multiple different lighting effects.

As a highlight, RENNtech implemented two Laserworld DS-1800RGB lasers which they mounted in a safe way to the top roof of the DJ booth. The laser setup is controlled by Pangolin Quickshow to create great effects, text and logo projections.

The DJ booth of RENNtech's #DJVan is hidden in the re

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Namibia - Mikel-Jes Productions, one of the top three rental companies in Namibia, has recently invested in Robe's latest technology, including Pointes, LEDWash 300s and LEDBeam 100s.

The company, based in the capital Windhoek and run by Michael Verrmulen and Johann Swart, has been operating since 2006 and has built up a great reputation for providing complete technical solutions including design and lighting, sound, video, staging and rigging equipment.

The business is currently experiencing steady growth and at the moment servicing between eight and 10 large events per year plus numerous smaller ones.

The company is active across all sectors, from music festivals to B2B events, presentations and experiential, however the last three years has seen a particular upturn in corporate business, prompting the need to expand the equipment stock.

The fixtures were purchased via R

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USA - USA - Main Light Industries, Inc., which offers lighting equipment rentals to the professional entertainment business from its base in Wilmington, Delaware, has taken delivery of 34 new Clay Paky Stormy CC fixtures. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky products in North America.

The innovative Stormy CC uses the latest LED technology while retaining all the charm of the classic strobe. Its light source is a strip of powerful white LEDs, which perfectly emulate a bright Xenon linear lamp. The flash effect is enhanced by the Stormy's parabolic reflector, like a classic strobe's, which does not project the light directly forward like other LED strobes.

"The Stormy CC fills a hole in the market with a realistic strobe-style fixture that isn't just a brick of LEDs," says John DiEleuterio at Main Light Industries. "Having a strobe that'

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Spain - A.leda B-EYE K20, Sharpy and Alpha Profile 1500, provided by Spanish rental company Cinelux, were responsible for illuminating the premiere of Pequenos gigantes, a Mediaset TV show.

Pequenos gigantes is a TV show where children between four and 12 years old, compete to show their best abilities in dancing and singing.

It is the first time that A.leda B-EYE K20 has appeared in Spanish television. In the centre of the stage there was a great frame formed by several A.leda B-EYE K20 where the contestant was staging. Some Sharpys and some Alpha Profile 1500 completed the light and effects of performance.

Alberto Martín was the lighting designer, Oscar Jiménez, Catalyst technician, and Javier Mosteiros and Javier Perea, moving lights technicians.

The Clay Paky's equipment, whose official distributor is Stonex in Spain, were provided by rental Compa

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Band Aid - One Direction, Ed Sheeran and Elbow are among the acts who will take part in a fourth version of the Band Aid charity single, Do They Know It's Christmas. Announcing the project, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure said the song's lyrics would be changed to reflect the Ebola crisis. The original was released in 1984. It sold 3.7m copies and raised £8m for famine relief in Ethiopia. The new version will be recorded this Saturday and should be available for download on Monday morning. "It's not a bad line-up so far," said Midge Ure. "As long as Bob and I stay off the vocals, we'll be fine."

Germany Calling - The first European edition of US music festival Lollapalooza is to be held in Berlin next year, organisers have announced. The main event, held in Chicago since 1991, will land in the city's Tempelhof airport site in September 2015. Foun

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UK - More than 20,000 music fans witnessed the Red Bull Culture Clash at London's Earls Court where four music crews battled it out amidst lighting controlled by Avolites Sapphire Touch and Tiger Touch II consoles and networked by Avolites Titan Net Processors.

Jamie Corbidge was the LD for the event, with equipment supplied by Storm Lighting. He had overall control from his Sapphire Touch as competitors including Harlem rap squad A$AP Mob, grime collective Boy Better Know, Jamaican reggae act Stone Love and Rebel Sound, and a collaborative made up of bass superstars Chase & Status with MC Rage, World Clash champion David Rodigan and jungle pioneer Shy FX performed.

Stephen "Sven" Jolly operated for Boy Better Know and Stone Love on two of the four stages, jumping from one Tiger Touch II to another. Shaheed Litchmore was LD for A$AP Mob, using a Tiger Touch II for th

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Denmark - At Danish DeeJay Awards this year, Kongsted took home three awards among these the much-coveted title as Danish Favourite DeeJay of the Year. Kongsted has indeed been on a roll the last few years. As a DJ/producer he is also the lighting designer of his own shows - most recently introducing a new concept 'Kongsted in Koncert', where his new hit track R.E.D. was recorded as a music video.

"With 'Kongsted in Koncert' we are creating an experience for the crowd that is different from my other shows," the artist explains. "Here we can control more parameters - light, sound, visuals, production design, décor etc. - in a way that is not possible on my more standard live shows. This gives us the opportunity to create a very unique experience linking together my music and playing style in perfect harmony."

To match his vision of creating an environ

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USA - The Funfetti from Chauvet DJ is a wirelessly controllable professional confetti launcher, designed for weddings, concerts, parties, holiday celebrations and special events of all types. Unlike many confetti launchers, it does not require CO?or compressed air to run - just add confetti, says the company. With no need for special propulsion substances, the Funfetti can be used safely and easily virtually anywhere. Compact in size, it can be set up and operated by a solo entertainer, making it a great way to add an exclamation point to your next event.

Although lightweight and easy to use, the Funfetti blasts out a torrent of confetti that can cover an area as large as 540sq.ft (50M²). It has a throw distance up to 30ft (9M) and its powerful bursts last as long as 25 seconds each.

"Breaking out the confetti is an instant way to ramp-up the fun factor at any party or e

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USA - When an extremely powerful fat beam effect is required for those impactful aerial looks, the new Platinum BX from Elation Professional delivers in a big way. Featuring new lamp technology from a Philips MSD Platinum 17RA 350W lamp and new wide lens optics for a thicker beam look, the Platinum BX powers out over 15,000 lumens of concentrated light along a tight 3-degree beam, comparable to much higher wattage fixtures and four times the output of previous dedicated beam models from Elation.

Housed in an efficient compact design that means the Platinum BX is also surprisingly fast, the wider lens produces a thicker beam of light that looks great mid-air, making it ideal for high-impact long throws. This small but powerful moving head is ideal for a variety of applications from the largest stages at concerts, stadiums and festivals to TV shows, special events and more.

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USA - Lycian Stage Lighting will introduce its two newest followspots, the model 1274 Superstar 1.2 Short and Superstar 2K, 2000W MSR at LDI.

The Lycian 1274 was unveiled at PLASA London 2014 and is now available for sale. The Superstar 1.2 Short brings all the controls favoured for years on its sibling, the 1275 Superstar, one of Lycian's best-selling followspots, but in a more compact form factor and with a smaller diameter front lens.

With its short overall length the 1274 offers a remarkable size to output ratio.

As a short throw, optically the 1274 is designed for throws to beyond 100 feet/ 35 meters. It utilizes the OSRAM Sharx series 1200W double-ended lamp positioned in a dichroic glass reflector.

The Superstar Short is capable of beam widths from head shots to two person circles or greater in much of its optimum operating range. The 1274 top mounted control cluste

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Poland - In August, the PWA (Professional Windsurfers Association) Indoor World Cup took place in the National Stadium of Warsaw. The games lasted for three days and more than 40,000 spectators came to cheer.

Adam Tyszka prepared the hands-on light set-up for this event, implementing his and Sebastian Pachciarek's lighting design vision. Sebastian Pachciarek elaborates on this vision: "Our goal was to create a show that displayed the windsurfing competition in a new and unexpected way. This type of event is most commonly held on coastal areas, but in this case it was in a pool, specially built for the purpose."

As an essential ingredient in the lighting design for this project, the two designers chose SGM's popular SixPack pixel array with a powerful RGBA LED light source. They allocated no less than 100 pieces of the fixture in two different locations. The first gro

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The Netherlands - More dreams are coming true in the world of Painting with Light as Luc Peumans has created another memorable lighting design for the current Albert Verlinde Entertainment production of Dreamgirls - a lively, action-packed musical story full of Motown rhythms and legends based on the rise and phenomenal success of The Supremes during the 1960s and 1970s.

Luc, who has a vast experience of lighting high profile musicals and has worked with the producers on previous shows, has developed his own distinctive style for lighting this genre of musical theatre.

The challenge for Dreamgirls, which is touring The Netherlands, is that the main setting is backstage at a theatre. All the locations flip between this, various onstage performance scenes and other connected places as the story unfolds, however the set - designed by Eric Van Der Palen - does not es

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UK - As The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night settles into its new home at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End it continues to receive rave reviews.

The technical elements are breath-taking as Paule Constable's lighting interacts with Finn Ross' video designs, Ian Dickinson's sound design and Bunny Christie's versatile set design allow us to join Christopher's world. Many of the technical lighting achievements are done using RC4Magic wireless DMX, and would not have been possible without tiny RC4 dimmers.

The National Theatre was an earlier adopter of wireless DMX and dimming and have used multiple generations of RC4 Wireless products. Nearly every show produced by the National Theatre has incorporated RC4Magic devices. Additionally, each theatre space operates its own individual set of unique digital IDs to ensure no interference from other systems. Only the RC4Ma

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Suriname - The brief for designing the lighting at Next nightclub in the Ramada Paramaribo Princess Hotel in Suriname was to make it funky, fun and classy, explained Michael Pereira from Streamline Systems. To this end he chose Robe and Anolis for the main elements of the lighting installation.

Streamline Systems is headquartered in Trinidad & Tobago and specializes in the design of high quality sound, lighting and video systems throughout the Caribbean, and Michael has been using Robe and Anolis products in his work for some time. He appreciates the quality, features and cost-effectiveness of both brands.

For Next - the seventh venue for which Streamline has designed and specified technical systems for their client Princess International - he chose 72 Anolis ArcSource 4 MCs and six Robe Robin LEDBeam 100s which were at the heart of the lighting rig.

The club occupies a sing

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USA - Things are looking up for the lighting rig at the legendary Firestone Live!, the largest nightclub in Orlando. As part of a remodelling project, the club's stage was lowered three feet to make room to hang additional lighting fixtures. At the same time, a new trussing rig was installed over the dance floor, creating four extra feet of space for overhead lighting.

A design team from Complete Production Resources and Impulse Creative Group (both of Orlando) utilized this expanded area to inject a new level of dynamism and energy into the storied club with a beefed-up lighting rig that features an array of fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

Located in the 86-year-old Firestone Tire and Auto Building, Firestone Live! cut its teeth as a nightspot and concert venue during the early EDM boom of the 1990s. Rolling Stone and Billboard ran flattering pieces on Fires

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USA - Fifty-three contestants walked the walk on stage at Boardwalk Hall for the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City in September. Two dozen Clay Paky Sharpy Wash fixtures were on hand from Atomic Lighting in Lititz, Pennsylvania for the gala telecast on ABC Television. Allen Branton was the lighting designer for the pageant with Felix Peralta and Kevin Lawson the lighting directors and Laura Frank the screens producer and media programmer.

"It was our eighth year doing the pageant," says Peralta. "It's always a challenge to recreate the excitement of the show; we're looking to enhance and improve the previous year's telecast. With three days devoted to pageant preliminaries, which are not broadcast, we got an opportunity to build the show on site. Friday and Saturday were camera rehearsal days then Sunday was the live show."

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