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UK - Global flightcase hardware and 19" racking manufacturer Penn Elcom is launching three new climate control products for 19" racking systems.

The CRC02-DTC, the FT-DTC and the FT01-Q-DTC - are all thermostatically controlled for optimised heat management in 19" racking installations.

Digital control gives refined and super accurate heat management via continuous temperature minoring and 'set-and-forget' fan control. All the products are optimised for quiet running, have over-temperature alarms and benefit from running off a universal power supply.

The units are engineered to the robust and reliable specifications common to all Penn Elcom products

The CRC02 thermo exhaust blower is a completely new 2U virtually silent (22.5 dBA) fan exhaust unit designed especially for use with 19" equipment rack units, to expel air from the front of the rack unit.

It can be

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USA - Video panels frequently serve as fascia in shows on the Vegas Strip. That's one reason why Michael Smalley and Gabe Fraboni of Twin Designs opted notto use them this way in their standout design for Pitbull's Time Of Our Lives Tour at The Axis in Planet Hollywood.

"Video panels are great, and we use them all the time," said Fraboni. "But the opportunity to design a show for an artist of Pitbull's calibre in Vegas requires us to do something different. He's dynamic and the dancers are amazing, so we needed to give them an area to perform on that could convey the sleek, sexy, and sophisticated theme of the show while giving us lots of options to experiment with."

The two designers found what they were looking for in the Nexus 4x4 COB LED panel from Chauvet Professional. "The Nexus panels really reminded us of all the old-school Vegas hotel facades and sig

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Germany - The luxury cruise ship of AIDAprima is the new flagship of AIDA Cruises, built by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding in Nagasaki, Japan to carry a maximum of 3,300 passengers.

Commissioned to design the lighting for the grand launch ceremony at the beginning of May, the technologically advanced onboard lighting was designed by Bj

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USA - Aerosmith's Steven Tyler played a special high profile concert in the David Geffen Hall at New York City's Lincoln Centre called Out On a Limb, in support of Janie's Fund, his new philanthropic initiative to serve abused and neglected girls. Lighting the show was LD Nathan Alves, who used 12 Robe BMFL Spots to produce most of the major signature looks.

It was Nathan's first work with Tyler and the focus was on emphasizing the intimate environment and the delicate subject matter inspiring Janie's Fund and the launch concert. So all the production was centred around the star as he related the narrative of who he is and his personal journey to where he is now.

"Everything I did lighting-wise was designed to be unobtrusive - hiding the technology and highlighting Steven," explained Nathan.

He worked with creative director Jeri Slaughter and art director/set de

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South Africa - DWR Distribution has announced that it has been appointed as the South Africa distributor for the German-made 3D visualisation software program, Realizzer. "I first came across Realizzer at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt two years ago," said Nick Britz of DWR Distribution. "I loved it straight away. I was very impressed by the way it does realistic designs. It is a fantastic visualiser and is even able to design both lighting and laser shows."

Realizzer will assist lighting designers to pre-program their shows. "It also helps with selling the concept to clients, by giving the ability to render out high definition Videos," added Nick. "It's compatible with any console that runs Art-Net as well as various 3D drawing programs such as Vectorworks, Cinema4D, 3DStudio Max and SketchUp. We are very excited!"

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European Guidance - National Campaign for the Arts has launched a guidance document about the sector and its relationship to the European Union. Chair Samuel West said he hoped it would "stimulate debate and encourage deeper thinking". It comes as Arts Council England has also published guidance outlining how funding for the arts can be connected to the European Union.

NCA's document covers areas including funding, artistic exchange and export, and talent development. Because of its charitable status, it cannot express a view on whether the UK remains in the EU or leaves.

But West said, "We do think there are questions that need to be considered carefully by those who care about the arts. For example, if the UK were to leave the EU, how could our arts organisations continue to attract and retain world-class talent? How might our own artists benefit from opportunities to wo

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UK - Next to be released in this year's plethora of new products from Ayrton is the first in its new extreme XT Series, IntelliPix-XT.

Yvan Pe?ard, Ayrton's chief design and technology officer, has developed the XT Series an optimised range of luminaires designed specifically for large-scale venues using the largest and most efficient optics on the market.

Designed in the same creative spirit as Ayrton's original IntelliPix-R, IntelliPix-XT is a versatile fixture that uses Ayrton's new, specially developed, 126mm diameter optics to produce extremely slender, 2° beams.

IntelliPix-XT is fitted with nine ultra-powerful, low-profile, RGBW multichip LED emitters, arrayed in a 3x3 matrix, that produce a parallel shaft of light - intense, sharp and incredibly coherent - over a long throw distance. Each emitter can be controlled individually and, coupled with the new propr

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USA - USA - MTVU's Woodie Awards returned to SXSW in Austin, Texas where Clay Paky Scenius moving head spotlights made their show debut during the performance of London-based electro-pop artist Jack Garratt. Tom Kenny also returned for the third consecutive year as lighting designer of the show, which celebrates the music voted best by college students.

MTVU broadcasts to over 750 college campuses across the US. Woodies/10 for 16was hosted by A$AP Rocky on the main stage in Austin's American-Statesman parking lot. Garratt performed on a remote stage set up on the Anne W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge across Lady Bird Lake.

"I had used Scenius to great effect for Justin Bieber at the MTV EMA Awards in Milan," reports Kenny. "I really love that light. It delivers everything we need, and programmers and operators enjoy using it, too. It's an exciting light to bring i

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UK - From touring productions to festivals and corporate events, Colour Sound has come a long way from the company's early years as a supplier of early moving lights to dance parties and raves. As one of the first companies to invest in intelligent light fixtures in the UK, Colour Sound continues to operate a firm policy of investing in the very latest products on the market to keep the warehouse stocklist bang up to date.

The company has chosen to invest in a number of Robert Juliat Merlin 2.5K HMI Followspots. Project Coordinator, Alex Ryan explains, "Much of Colour Sound's market now is servicing the larger concerts and touring bands, so it is great to have a properly designed followspot that caters specifically for the rock'n'roll market.

"One of the key features that attracted us to the Merlin when we initially discussed this purchase with Lee House from Robert Juliat

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Italy - Paolo Zanarella is a contemporary classical music composer, who loves improvisation and is on the constant look out for new forms of expression, such as hovering with his baby grand piano 50ft above the ground at the Sanremo Casino.

His outstanding, poetic performance of the pianista fuori posto (out-of-place pianist) was organized to celebrate the up-coming Sanremo Music Festival. Zanarella is not new to performing in unusual places and this one-night-only show took place in front of the building's fa

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USA - The Hour of Power broadcast from Shepherd's Grove church in Huntington Beach, CA, has touched countless lives through its uplifting and inspiring messages. Recently, the church decided to enhance the quality of its world-famous broadcast services even further by switching to an all-LED lighting system. A key part of this lighting upgrade is a beautiful and engaging colorwash on the wall behind the altar, provided by a collection of 41 Colorist 12Qa linear RGBA fixtures from the Iluminarc division of Chauvet Professional.

"Chad Blake, the executive pastor of Shepherd's Grove, and his team gave us a clear directive to add a new all-LED lighting system that would lend a fresh look to their worldwide broadcast services," said Kent Flemming, project manager at Pacific Coast Entertainment, which installed the new lighting system. "Since moving out of the Crystal Cathedral, the

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Switzerland - The Institut Le Rosey on the banks of Lake Geneva in Switzerland is one of the world's most renowned private schools. The prestigious boarding school houses a large number of classrooms of different types and a modern concert hall: the Paul & Henri Carnal Hall. This complex comprises the 900-seat Rosey Concert Hall and the 227-square-metre Black Box Studio.

The venue is equipped with a large number of products from ETC that were installed by Electric Claudio Merlo (ECM), ETC's distributor in Switzerland. These include Gio,Ion and Element consoles, as well as Selador Desire D60 fixtures and conventional Source Four Zoom and Source Four Revolution luminaires.

The Rosey Concert Hall is used not only for school assemblies but also for concerts and plays. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic have both performed there. To ensure that

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Italy - With less than 12 months until the tenth Showlight 2017 lighting quadrennial (Florence, Italy, 20-23 May 2017) over 50% of exhibitor spaces have already been filled.

"We are delighted to see Showlight off to such a flying start," says Showlight chairman John Allen. "It's hardly surprising as Showlight is a unique, cross-industry showcase and networking opportunity which offers the chance to spend quality time with designers, manufacturers, practitioners and fellow enthusiasts - many of whom fit into all categories."

Those already signed up to join main sponsor, Clay Paky, at Florence's Palazzo dei Congressi are: AC Entertainment Technologies, Ambersphere, Arri, Avolites, Canara Lighting, Coemar, Chauvet, d3 Technologies, DTS, ETC, GDS, GLP, Hawthorns, HSL, Lee Filters, LSC, MA Lighting, RC4, Robe, Robert Juliat, Tait Stage Technologies and White Light.

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Sweden - Nearly 100 Robe BMFLs - 88 x BMFL Blades and six BMFL Spots - proved invaluable to Fredrik Jonsson's lighting design for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest which was staged in the Globe Arena, Stockholm with a capacity live audience of around 10,000 plus an estimated 180m television viewers worldwide.

Fredrik was lighting his second ESC in three years, having also been LD for the 2013 edition in Malmo. He was also the lighting operator for the last ESC staged at the Globe Arena in 2000.

Significantly, the BMFLs were an essential tool for lighting the show properly. "I needed a high intensity spot with good colour rendering and a framing shutter system that enabled proper key-light from long throws," explained Fredrik. "The BFML Blade fit that specification to the mark, hence their presence on the rig."

Fredrik's production lighting design was crafted together wi

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USA - Elation Professional has announced that industry professional Jean Lariviere has joined the company's sales team as rental and production market manager. Jean will work to build on the success Elation has gained in working with top lighting designers and exposing them to the Elation product line.

Elation sales director Eric Loader commented on the hiring, "We are excited that an industry veteran of Jean's caliber is joining the Elation team. We are confident that his relationship network and industry knowledge will have a positive effect on growth in all of our territories as we continue to expand our efforts into this market."

Jean will work closely with lighting designers as well as Elation's extensive network of rental company partners to add to the continued growth of the Elation brand. He will be continuing the efforts John Dunn started when he joined Elation a

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Belgium - Creative visual design practice Painting with Light helped take Belgium's 2016 Schlagerfestival to a new level of presentational excellence with an impressive multi-dimensional stage, set, video and lighting design.

The massively popular event, which sold out so quickly that a new date was added to make it a run of six shows, was staged at the Ethias Arena in Hasselt, which has a capacity of over 21,000.

The Schlagerfestival, produced by PSE Belgium and Medialaan has been on the national event calendar for the last 10 years, and Painting with Light's Luc Peumans has been involved since its inception. It has been a colossal success and features the best of Belgian and Dutch Schlager artists performing their biggest and best hits to wildly enthusiastic audiences.

This year, to reflect the increased diversity of the artists and their musical reach which included

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USA - High End Systems' Hog Factor 2016 competition is open for enrolment to all qualifying college and university students, and Phase One of the contest will close on 30 June, 2016.

All information, rules and most importantly the programming package can be obtained by going to www.highend.com/hogfactor. Just as in the inaugural 2015 competition, all students are able to take part by downloading Hog 4 PC and the special Light Converse show file by registering at the above link, and there is no charge for participation.

Following Phase 1 of the competition, three teams will be whisked away to the Live Finals, slated to be held on Friday, 21 October at 5pm on the High End Systems booth at LDI in Las Vegas. The finalists will compete to win a $20,000 scholarship and Hog 4 for their university as well as each a HedgeHog 4X for themselves.

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USA - Southern California-based Visions Lighting is one of the busiest production and lighting companies on the U.S. West Coast with an ever-growing client list that includes some of our industry's most influential events and artists. Serving major promotion companies like Insomniac Events, AEG and Goldenvoice, Visions has consistently turned to Elation lighting gear to fulfill lighting briefs and 2016 has been no exception with Elation products lighting this year's Coachella, StageCoach and Wango Tango festivals among other events.

Visions Lighting president Todd Roberts, who serves as the primary designer on many of the projects along with Visions' in-house drafting team of Jake Forbes and Nathan Jones, sums up the reason. "I continue to go with Elation because the products hold up well and they have great customer service."

Coachella delivered another eclectic experienc

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Sweden - grandMA2 control was once again the choice for lighting and video control at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) staged in the Globe Arena, Stockholm.

Four weeks of intense technical, production and artist rehearsals and two televised semi-finals featuring 42 participants preceded the final itself featuring 26 performances, which was broadcast to an estimated TV audience of 180m worldwide by host broadcaster STV, explained lighting designer Fredrik Jonsson.

Jonsson, a freelance LD with a vast fund of experience in lighting the highest profile live TV shows, worked with a team of four lighting programmers utilising eight grandMA2 light consoles. The grandMA2 network was running over 15 x MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) and 28 x MA 8Port Nodes and was controlling around 1, 600 lighting, LED and effects fixtures, consuming approximately 26,000 control channels ov

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USA - Great fashion, as the designer Christian Dior once observed, requires a happy balance between accents and a base. So too does great fashion show lighting. LD Daniel Thibault of Alpha Production Group demonstrated this point recently by blending the warm white light of the Ovation E-190WW with the rich colours of the Rogue R2 Wash at Art 2 Wear, an annual fashion show that celebrates the work of North Carolina State Design School students.

Thibault used the Chauvet Professional fixtures to create complementing and contrasting looks on the fashion show's runway. "I wanted the warm white light from the Ovations with no colour gels, because I felt this gave us the kind of natural look that worked best for most of the fashion designs," he said. "When I needed something cooler for the harder edged styles, I used the Rogues to overlay light on top of the Ovation light. The two

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UK - H Power called upon Blackout's expertise to dress the Royal Box and Castle Arena stage, ahead of the Royal Windsor Horse Show in celebration of Her Majesty The Queen's 90th birthday, May 2016.

Chris Brain, Blackout project director and his three-strong team were entrusted to supply and hang the 18m of red velour swags adorning the Royal Box, onto which a large Royal crest was installed. During the show, which celebrated Her Majesty's historic reign, the Royal Box played host to Her Majesty The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Harry, The Princess Royal, The Duke of York, The Earl and Countess of Wessex and The King of Bahrain.

Blackout provided black drape masking on the Castle Arena's main stage, acting as a backdrop for the large screen and set elements. The Orbit stage, situated to the right

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UK - Up, up and away! Moving light specialist Richard Martin Lighting has flown in to help lighting designer Richard Bowles light the first original studio series created by Sky exclusively for viewing On Demand, DC Fancast: Unmasked.

Each week hosts Rick Edwards, Bec Hill and graphic artist Des Taylor are joined in the studio by an assembly of superfans ready to go over all the latest episodes of Sky's superhero schedule; Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and the latest series Legends of Tomorrow.

Each twelve minute episode is jam packed with more content than Oliver Queen has arrows and viewers can expect riveting recaps, daring discussions, behind the scenes looks of the superhero shows as well as sneak peeks of future episodes.

For the set, Richard has employed an old unsung hero from RML's stock - the Color Kinetic iColor Cove QL. The 300mm LED Strip features col

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