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Indonesia - Jakarta-based Lemmon Productions has purchased 54 x Robe Pointe multipurpose moving lights, which started work immediately for broadcaster Trans7 on their popular live improvised comedy show, Opera van Java (OVJ)'s Sahur Lagi show, which aired every night during Ramadan, drawing massive ratings.

The OVJ show is based on the concept of 'wayang orang' dance performances in a modern setting, with sketches inspired by a wide range of narrative concepts from Indonesian folklore, celebrity biographies to different genres of fiction or popular culture. The 'Sahur' edition aired in the small hours of the morning, just prior to the pre-fasting breakfast.

Lemmon Productions - founded by Lemmy Ibrahim - run a studio complex in Jakarta and the company is focussed on providing the complete facility for rental with all the technical packages in place, so TV production

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USA - Tomcat, the largest truss and support structure manufacturer in the Americas, has established a new office in Miami, Florida responsible for Central and South America - Tomcat / James Thomas Engineering Latin America. The office will be led by 27- year entertainment industry veteran Jose Luis Rosche, president / owner of Roc-Off Productions.

Tomcat is now able to offer its old and new Latin American customers convenient access to high quality Tomcat products with industry-leading durability and working strength. Through its education and training programs, customers will fully benefit from Tomcat's deep well of experience and acquire valuable information on how to work safely and effectively with its high quality products.

Says the company, Tomcat looks forward to creating a strong partnership with its Central and South American customers, and providing them with inn

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New Zealand - Lexair Entertainment has announced a joint venture with New Zealand based Entertainment Lighting Solutions. The new venture, Lexair New Zealand, combines the strength of Lexair's Australian-based distribution operation with ELS's established and well-respected business as a value-added distributor and integration specialist in New Zealand, providing local customers with proven sales, service, support and training for products from leading manufacturers High End Systems, Elation Professional and TMB.

Alex Mair, managing director of Lexair commented, "Nick Abel and I have worked closely together for years and he shares our vision of creating a truly value added distribution business that keeps prices internationally competitive while providing unparalleled service and support. We now have the opportunity to bundle the strengths of both companies and to offer New Ze

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USA - Every two years in Madison, Wisconsin, ETC hosts Workshop, an educational event used to train and share new information with industry dealers, reps, and distributors. This summer, for the first time, the event was opened internationally. The week-long event started 12 July, and brought 313 dealers, reps, and distributors from 34 countries to the ETC headquarters.

"Workshop is ETC's best opportunity to bring our sales family together. This was definitely ETC's most successful Workshop ever," says Patti Tuttrup, ETC marketing events specialist.

A day of international sales meetings and tours of ETC's Wisconsin-based manufacturing facilities in Middleton and Mazomanie kicked off the event. For many of the international attendees, this was the first time they had seen the ETC factories in person. They were able to see where the products they sell come from and meet the p

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Germany - Focon Showtechnic, the German distributors for PR Lighting, believe the Chinese manufacturer's products have come of age following their successful outing at the recent Electro-Magnetic EDM festival in V

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UK - Alan Ayckbourn's marital comedy How the Other Half Loves recently stormed back into the West End at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Revived by renowned producer Bill Kenwright, the play received rave reviews during its limited run at the venue. Such was its success that it immediately transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre where it is currently running until 1 October. White Light was approached to provide the lighting for both productions.

How the Other Half Loves first premiered in 1970 and was Alan Ayckbourn's first play to be seen on Broadway. The show is set in the Swinging Sixties and focuses on three couples at two disastrous dinner parties all bounded by one secret love affair. It stars Olivier Award nominated actor Nicholas le Prevost along with Jenny Seagrove, Jason Merrells and Gillian Wright.

The lighting designer for the show is Jason Taylor

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Italy - For the first time ever a band of 1,200 musicians performed before an enthusiastic audience in a concert and made it into the Guinness Book of Records.

On the lawn of the Manuzzi stadium in Cesena, Italy, the 1200 musicians played a live concert before an audience of 13,000.

The concert featured music from The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Bowie, concluding with a Led Zeppelin medley.

DTS was there with over 400 moving lights, at the very centre of the impressive light show created by LD Claudio Tappi, who transformed this event into an extraordinary visual feast, in the best traditions of the great rock concerts.

The EVOs were arranged in backlight on a large matrix; The Raptors were positioned along the perimeter around the musicians and on the trusses; The NRG 1201 units coloured the audience.

The DTS moving heads were supplied through AMG Inter

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USA - Belgium-based automations, engineering and scenic construction specialist WIcreations was asked by staging experts StageCo, working for Insomniac the production company, to produce key scenic elements of the main circuitGROUNDS stage at the 2016 Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) dance extravaganza in Las Vegas.

Staged at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway over three days, EDC is one of the largest and EDM events worldwide.

Dutch design company Jora Entertainment has worked on the event for many years and EDC's stage environments are known for their awesome high-impact visual appearance and intricate attention to detail - an area in which WI also excels.

With the scale of the staging projects being so enormous, and following a highly successfully collaboration on the Beyoncé Formation tour a few months previously the WI team, project managed by Yves Vervloet, worked

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USA - Felix Lighting helped Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) celebrate its 20th anniversary with a large complement of Clay Paky lighting fixtures at its flagship Las Vegas Motor Speedway venue.

EDC is one of the biggest electronic dance music festivals in the world. The June 2016 Las Vegas event drew more than 400,000 revellers to three days of the top EDM DJs, carnival rides, art and circus-style performances.

La Mirada, California-based Felix Lighting was the lighting vendor for EDC's Kinetic Field, North America's largest scenic stage, for the third consecutive year. Felix Lighting has participated in EDC almost since its inception.

Felix Lighting hung 96 Clay Paky Sharpys onstage. "There were eight wings on the set piece, four to each side, and Sharpys were on the edge of every wing in quantities from seven to eleven," Karol says. "We also had some Sharpys on the flo

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USA - Beauty is big business in Florida, a state that follows pageants with a level of interest that is unmatched in all but a few places in the US. This year's edition of the Miss Florida pageant generated over $1m for host city Fort Lauderdale.

Recognizing the significance of the event, Abbas Ritscher of cross rental house The Design Oasis and lighting designer Charles Brennan wanted to create new and extra dynamic looks for the 2017 Miss Florida Pageant, which drew a sold-out crowd to the 1,167-seat Parker Playhouse. At the same time, they had to be mindful of budget and the relatively small size of the stage where the televised pageant took place. Taken together, these factors led to the selection of the Rogue R1 FX-B as a central fixture in their rig.

"We had 10 of the Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures in the rig, but to look at the lightshow, you would have thought there were m

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USA - The 2016 annual high school graduation ceremony for the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) - an online public community school- was staged at the Schottenstein Centre in Columbus, Ohio, where around 12,000 people watched more than 1,300 students graduate.

Lighting the event was Zachary Durban, who used 80 x Robe BMFL WashBeams and 28 Pointes supplied by Cincinnati area based Loud and Clear which delivered the event's technical production.

Zach regularly works with Loud and Clear as an LD and programmer, bringing his vast experience working on rock shows, theatre productions and corporates to a crossover event like ECOT. Shane Fisher, production and sales manager from Loud and Clear pitched an initial concept for the ECOT event, which he and Zach jointly developed into the production design for the show.

Loud and Clear produced the show for the first time las

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USA - City Theatrical has announced the launch of a new RGBI QolorFlex LED tape developed for professional lighting designers who often need deeper blue accents, backgrounds, and shadings in set lighting. City Theatrical's RGBI LED tape alternates a 5050 RGB chip with a 450nm indigo chip, giving extra powerful, deep blue output.

The QolorFlex RGBI strip gives designers the blue that is typically found in an RGB or RGBX (RGB + Amber, RGB +White, etc.) strip, plus an additional even brighter and deeper indigo circuit.

Standard RGB LED chips contain one emitter each of red, green, and blue. In QolorFlex RGBI LED tape, the indigo chip contains three indigo emitters for extra powerful, bright, deep indigo output.

City Theatrical's RGBI QolorFlex LED tape was created for Tony Award winning lighting designer Ken Posner's upcoming Broadway show War Paint, which utilizes

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USA - Held on the eve of the Kentucky Derby, Unbridled Eve pairs a VIP cocktail reception and dinner with live entertainment provided by celebrity musical artists. Located annually inside the Galt House Hotel Grand Ballroom, Marcus Cambron and his team at Visual Productions have been creating the evening's production design over the last 18 years working with a number of event sponsors. Knowing this year the organizers wanted to capitalize on the performance capabilities of LED video, Cambron turned to Nashville-based PixelFLEX who provided him with FLEXCurtain HD LED video technology to create an energetic and dynamic visual experience.

"Every year at this event our production design changes a little bit to keep the show engaging for the guests, and so this year we really wanted to use LED video to give the show a new look," says Cambron. "I first used the PixelFLEX technolog

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USA - Moapa Paiute Travel Plaza, located on Moapa Paiute tribal land less than an hour from the Las Vegas strip, has a 10,000sq.ft tent housing one of the largest collections of fireworks in the western US. It is also home to a "launch pad" located on a broad expanse of remote desert land, where customers can engage in pyrotechnic pursuits.

This Fourth of July, the plaza's fireworks were not the only things illuminating the sky at this unique plaza. Along with marvelling at the glare of multi-coloured rockets, the more than 70,000 fans who attended the Moapa Madness festival got to witness an intensely bright lightshow that included a collection of Chauvet Professional LED fixtures supplied by Kilroy's Lighting & Production.

Lighting designer Steven Brody used these fixtures to wash the stage at Moapa Madness, a two-day Fourth of July celebration that featured a nonstop pr

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World - Ovation of the Seas took its maiden voyage in April as the third Quantum class luxury cruise liner from Royal Caribbean International to feature an onboard Elation Professional lighting and video system. It follows the successful launch of Quantum of the Seas and Anthem of the Seas, both of which sail with a full complement of energy-efficient Elation Professional products.

Ovation of the Seas boasts the same lighting and video package template as the previous two Quantum class ships, says Christopher Vlassopulos, superintendent SLVR & architectural lighting for Royal Caribbean International. Christopher coordinated the design and specification for all the entertainment equipment in all three Quantum class ships' public spaces, including the entertainment lighting systems.

Christopher specified and designed lighting for the entertainment spaces on Ovation of the Se

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Peru - The new Clay Paky Scenius Spot has landed in South America for the first time and is dubbed 'fixture of choice' by prolific lighting designer Mario Raez in the Peruvian staging of jukebox classic Mamma Mia! at the Teatro Peruano Japones in Lima.

Raez is the first lighting designer in South America to put the Scenius Spot through its paces, employing six of the units in his show. "These are great fixtures," says Raez, "Once I became familiar with their features and what they could do most of my design rested on them."

Raez was particularly impressed with the fixture's linear CTO filter, using it to recreate the light of the Adriatic coast where the production is set. "I have been a lighting designer for 30 years and the CTO in the Clay Paky Scenius Spot is one of the best I have ever seen," he states.

"The brief was to keep the lighting and stage design as

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USA - Blue Man Group, the performance company that has won an Obie, a Drama Desk and a Grammy Award nomination for its eccentric, percussive ruminations on the human condition, has popular productions in New York, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Berlin and Orlando. One of the most highly attended has been in Orlando, where the production has been performing at the Blue Man Group Theatre at CityWalk at the Universal Orlando Resort since 2007.

Most recently, that venue upgraded its sound system to an L-Acoustics Kara system, provided by Clearwing Productions' Phoenix office. The system upgrade in Orlando follows one in Las Vegas, which saw an L-Acoustics K2 rig installed at Blue Man Group's new home at the Luxor Hotel and Casino.

"The Kara system has been an excellent move for Orlando," says Blue Man Group sound supervisor Marcus Ross, who is responsible for Blue Man Group's aud

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USA - Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas is the holy grail of EDM events and America's largest dance music festival. This year, Insomniac Events organized a spectacular 20th anniversary celebration that included a newly designed and expanded Circuit Grounds stage lit with a lighting package that incorporated nearly 850 Elation Professional LED luminaires.

Held June 17-19 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the larger Circuit Ground Stage featured a massive 240,000 square foot arena-style stage with surrounding structures and accommodated twice as many people as previous years.

The 360-degree immersive design featured huge LED screen-topped structures, towers and bridges, along with the lighting and video to support it, the creation of production and lighting designer Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting.

Hundreds of Elation Professional Colour Chorus 72 LED batten wash lights

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USA - Held in downtown Hartford's Bushnell Park, the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz festival takes place in the shadow of Connecticut's castle-like white marble state capital building with its glittering 257' high golden dome. The leafy park setting, evocative building and live music provide a special festival venue. On three nights in July, this scene was enhanced by the vibrant richly coloured images displayed on three large video walls created by Image Production Services, using Chauvet Professional MVP Ta8 panels.

The video walls served more than an aesthetic function. Given the large size of the crowds at this event (the 17th most popular jazz festival in the US and the biggest in New England) and the layout of the park, which was not designed specifically for large concerts, the video walls provided many of the 70,000 fans who turned out with their best view of the pe

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UK - As part of the Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park series of live shows, Take That played a one-off outdoor show.

With the main stage lighting and rigging set-up supplied by PRG XL Video, lighting designer Tim Routledge was asked to provide a customised lighting design for the Take That show. He contacted PRG XL's director Music Group, Yvonne Donnelly Smith to supply over 450 additional fixtures to supplement the main rig.

He explains the brief behind his design, "The show was aimed to be a full celebration of summer festivals in Britain; from classical picnics in the park to Glastonbury, and everything in between. The band are well known for embracing production elements to make a full cohesive show and this one off show was to be no exception."

With budget in mind, and focusing on delivering the kind of show Take That are renowned for, Tim opted t

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UK - Maestra London was asked to provide technical production and solutions by Quintessentially & Co for an event in Southampton Docks celebrating the relaunch of Cunard Lines' newly refitted and re-mastered flagship transatlantic ocean liner, Queen Mary 2.

A glass fronted marquee with a substantial terrace and panoramic views across the harbour was built along the dock in front of the 345m long vessel. Guests arrived, passed through the passenger terminal entrance and on to the boat, where they received a full tour of the new interiors before entering the marquee to enjoy the event hospitality.

The glass fronted design allowed a magnificent view of the boat and a snapshot into the glory of luxury cruise travel.

Maestra's team was project managed by Aisha Tarayan, Edwin Higgins was technical manager and Adam Jones worked on technical elements across all disciplines inc

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USA - Production company ON Event Services (OES) of Atlanta recently utilized 16 ImageCue servers in Washington D.C. for a long-time client. The event was staged as 'Mission Control' with a 15' x 45' (4.5m x 13.7m) main video screen using four blended Christie 20K HD projectors, six smaller screens with 7K projectors, and fourteen presenter booths each with a 70" flat panel display.

Each booth had its own unique Presenter logo video loop, and was switched to play the opening and closing overall event videos. Normally it would be a difficult challenge to route and switch 16 video sources to 20 different screen surfaces, and require a massive amount of cable. OES utilized 16 of the award-winning ImageCue DMX controlled image servers to play all media, triggered off of a single cue fader from the lighting console on a single DMX universe. This synchronized all video and lighting

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Europe - Osram is expanding its activities in the entertainment sector and has acquired certain assets from ADB TTV SAS to continue its business operations. The acquired business will become an integral part of Osram's subsidiary Clay Paky.

ADB is a French company which specializes in lighting for theatres and TV studios based in Saint Quentin. The transaction was completed on 3 August 2016.

"With the acquisition of ADB TTV SAS' business and the highly reputable ADB brand, we will expand our position in the innovation-driven entertainment lighting market," said Hans-Joachim Schwabe, CEO of Osram's Specialty Lighting business unit.

Originally founded in Belgium in 1920, ADB TTV SAS has held a leading position for decades as a top supplier of lighting solutions for theatre and television studios. The company's product portfolio includes luminaires, dimmers and lighting c

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USA - Elation Professional has announced the launch of the new Fuze Series of dynamic LED wash luminaires. Using single-lens RGBW COB LEDs for an extremely homogenized field of light and offering a wide palette of colours, Fuze Series lights are lighting solutions for "anywhere a wash of high-quality coloured light is required".

Available in moving head and IP65-rated PAR versions, single source RGBW colour mixing gives fully premixed colour looks and an extremely flat field of light. All Fuze Series fixtures offer useful design features including a wide zoom angle range for more precise beam control, full 100% electronic dimming, variable dimming curves and high-speed strobe. The Fuze PAR's feature an optional gel frame / barn door / snoot holder as well.

The IP65-rated Fuze PAR Z60 IP is a single source PAR luminaire featuring a 60W quad colour RGBW COB LED and 7° to

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