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USA - Marq Lighting, a new player in the dynamic entertainment lighting industry, has announced that they have been cited by world-renowned visual production company CG Creative for their central role in making the Isagenix annual awards gala in Las Vegas an outstanding success.

Isagenix is a worldwide company involved in the health and nutrition industry, with annual global revenues in excess of $500m. For their annual awards and celebration gala - attended by more than 14,000 associates, employees and media personnel -Isagenix demanded the very best in dramatic visual production. They turned to CG Creative who selected Marq Lighting's RezoTubes to create exciting visual effects for both the Gala and the after-party the following day.

CG Creative's technical producer Thomas Isarin reports, "We used Marq's RezoTubes for the Gala/Award event that spanned two different night

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USA - Worship Facilities, the official magazine of WFX, recently presented a 2016 New Product Award to the Chauvet Professional Ovation E-260WW. The warm white LED ellipsoidal, which has an output that exceeds that of an HPL 750W fixture, was the third product in the Ovation line to receive the Worship Facilities award since 2013.

"We're humbled and honoured to be recognised again by Worship Facilities," said Berenice Chauvet, Vice-President of Chauvet. "Our product development team has been intensely focused on developing LED fixtures with the brightness and performance capabilities needed to replace less efficient incandescent products. This award is a testament to their efforts."

The first LED ellipsoidal bright enough to serve as a true key light in large house of worship and theatrical applications, the Ovation E-260WW consumes far less power and generates far less he

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UK - The Last Five Years is written by Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown and tells the story of two New York lovers who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The musical first premiered in Chicago in 2001 and has now arrived in London at the St James Theatre. The lighting designer for the show is Howard Hudson who approached White Light to provide the lighting equipment.

The Last Five Years opened last week to critical acclaim. It stars Samantha Barks and Jonathan Bailey and is directed by Jason Robert Brown himself. Regarding the production, Howard comments: "The set, which is designed by Derek McLane, is a dark blue brick box with naturalistic set pieces that are brought on throughout for particular numbers. One of the roles of my design was to give a sense of literal location along with reflect the sentiments expressed th

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USA - In a show unlike any other, Ian Anderson performs a complex rock opera of Jethro Tull, the revolutionary 18th century English agriculturist who also happened to inspire the name of the British progressive rock band. Bandit Lites once again provided the lighting package for the tour which uses an intricate combination of video and live music, as Anderson weaves a tale that features some of his most recognizable works, including Aqualung and Songs from the Woods.

English lighting designer Mark Wheatley crafted a precise harmonization between the lighting and video, as so much of the narrative performance relies on timing.

"Much of the vocal work is done by characters on the screen, so synchronization between lighting and projection is pretty crucial to the success of the show," Wheatley said. "It is quite a theatrical presentation so far as drawing focus

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UK - Unleashed for the very first time in a uniquely theatrical experience, the UK stage premiere of The Exorcist left audiences terrified at Birmingham Repertory Theatre earlier this month. Hawthorn were on hand to supply lighting equipment for the petrifying production which brought the chilling tale of twelve-year old Regan McNeil to life.

Hawthorn worked with the show's Lighting Designer Tim Mitchell to provide lighting equipment to supplement The Rep's in-house rig. This included Hawthorn's new-to-stock Vari-lite VL1100TSDs, alongside Martin Mac Viper Performance and Viper Wash DX fixtures.

"There were several challenges on The Exorcist, including maintain the sleight of hand. There were many illusions in the show and the lighting had to distract the audience and conceal the effects" said Lighting Designer Tim Mitchell. "Control of the light was very important. We had

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China - PRG has announced the appointment of Simon Kayser as general manager for its Sourcing & Projects Centre based in Shenzhen, China. Simon will report to Gary Boyd, executive vice president and COO, EMEA. A Chinese-speaker, Simon already has extensive knowledge of the Chinese market from his role as technical director at PRG in China, where he has been the project manager for key inbound corporate and large automotive sector projects.

Simon will now take charge of the Shenzhen operation, which is instrumental in sourcing video and lighting technology in China. Simon will work closely with Frederic Opsomer and the team at PRG Projects, who specialise in the development of custom LED for special events, touring projects and installations.

"After spending the past eight years in Shanghai, I am looking forward to the new role and challenges," says Simon." I leave behind a

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South Africa - Formative were once again contracted to provide expert technical management services to Aidan Bennets Design for the Paramount Ground stand at the 2016 Africa Aerospace and Defence Exhibition held at Waterkloof Air Force Base, situated on the outskirts of Pretoria.

The 2016 iteration of the stand was built on the solid foundations of the 2014 show, the major change being a transition from projection to LED technology, supplied by LED Vision in the form of two highly new ROE BP 3.91mm screens with a total resolution nearing 6k, all run via Brompton M2 Processing and fed from d3 Technologies v2.5 Servers.

The lighting, supplied by MGG, was designed to make the stand 'pop' and stand out, and given its close proximity to doorways and the serious weight restrictions on the venue, required ultra low-weight fixtures that could provide both vivid colour and adequate

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USA - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend Jackson Browne recently wrapped another tour with a lighting package provided by longtime vendor, Bandit Lites.

The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter who has sold more than 18m albums toured this summer with a full band, bringing his classics such as Running on Empty and Somebody's Baby to audiences across the country.

Building on Browne's last album, lighting designer Steve Comer made only a few changes to the previous design, including opening up the stage space by cutting side towers and placing the lights on the downstage truss. One important aspect for the lighting design for Browne's tour is the desire for an LED prominent rig such as Bandit's exclusive GRNLite Moving Washes, GRNLite Par 64s, Elation 2 Lite LED and GLP X4S, giving the production a cooler, lower power-consumption look.

"The flexibility the

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UK - With the latest season of Prime Time BBC show Strictly Come Dancing well underway, illumination specialists LED Creative have been adding their own sparkle to sister show, It Takes Two.

To complement the glitzy flavour of It Takes Two, lighting director Gurdip Mahal and scenic designer Joshua Grace have created a true neon nightclub look, using concentrated violets and blues plus plenty of silver, mirrored sparkle to reflect the show's ballroom dancing heritage.

For additional effect, LED Creative SIGMA 30 wands have been vertically suspended around the stage perimeter. Perfectly placed to allow subtle movements in shape and colour without overpowering the shows content, the 1 metre LED wands allow accurate control of the speed and flow of the LED chase over an almost infinite number of sequences, either pre-programmed or executed live on set.

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Mexico - The fifteenth edition of the annual Las Lunas Del Auditorio - the Mexican live performance and music industry's most prestigious awards - was staged at the National Auditorium in Mexico City, a glittering, star-studded event honouring national and international talent with 23 awards and nine dynamic live artist collaborations.

Once again, the eye-catching lighting was designed by one of Mexico's best known LD's Tiffy (German Castellanos) with over 100 Robe fixtures on the rig, supplied by top rental company LED Project. Both are based in the pulsating capital city, CDMX.

It was Tiffy's ninth year of lighting the event which was broadcast live on four National TV channels Télévisa, Azteca, Channel 22 and Canal Once as well as being streamed live on You Tube.

To create a spectacular televisual and live experience, Tiffy worked closely with the rest

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UK - On its website, the Illusive Festival describes its mission as being "to create a magical world away from reality to immerse yourself within." The festival, which takes places in the rolling fields outside Corby, more than lived up to that goal in September with a mind-bending main stage design by Simon Wallwork that featured a towering 14m high by 8m wide robot that looked like it walked right out of a sci-fi movie.

In the belly of the gyrating robot was a DJ booth. Over each shoulder of the robot and along its sides was an asymmetrically arranged collection of Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

Lighting designers Toby Lovegrove and Doug Alan Coppell, along with their team, used the Rogue fixtures to shoot rapidly moving and rotating beams of brightly colored light from behind the techno-beast in every direction. The varying shafts of light from the Ro

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USA - Lighting designer Jeff Maker (All Time Low, The Dresden Dolls) turned to an Elation LED lighting package for American rock band Pierce the Veil's recent Made to Destroy tour, his second year with the band, and was delighted with the results. "Elation continues to impress me and many of my LD colleagues, which is no surprise," he said. "We were on tour for seven weeks (32 shows total) and I didn't have one issue with any of the units."

The Made to Destroy tour played dates across the US with lighting vendor JR Lighting Design, Inc. supplying an Elation rig made up of ACL 360 Bar LED battens, SixBar 1000 LED battens, SixPar 100 LED Par lights, and Protron 3K LED strobes along with Antari Z-350 Fazers.

"Recently we have added more Elation Professional equipment into our production rental inventory as we find that it offers high reliability, great performance, and value

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Mexico - Chauvet has named Carlos Zamora de Martino general manager of Chauvet Mexico. Prior to joining Chauvet's rapidly growing Mexican operation, Zamora held senior executive positions at a number of global companies. He was also the co-founder and CEO of Geo Lite LED Lighting. In his new position, he will be responsible for managing all facets of the Chauvet Professional, Chauvet DJ, Iluminarc and Trusst business in Mexico.

"We're very excited to have someone of Carlos' calibre and experience join our team," said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet. "Although we have been selling products in Mexico for 25 years, our business in the country increased dramatically when we opened Chauvet Mexico in 2013 and began distributing directly. Our goal now is to build on this success, which is why we recently opened an expanded showroom in Lerma outside Mexico City, and why we are committe

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USA - Elation Professional's Emotion moving head digital light has won a WFX New Product Award in the Moving Light category at the recent WFX Show in Louisville, Kentucky.

The award recognizes the best new technology products for the church market and was chosen by an independent panel made up of individuals who currently work in a tech leader role at a church, along with Worship Facilities tech director Andres Caamano. Products were individually judged on multiple criteria including innovation, functionality, cost-effectiveness, competitive advantages, benefits to the end user and benefits to the integrator.

"We're thrilled that the Emotion has been acknowledged for its unique innovation," stated Elation sales director Eric Loader on the award. "Because it is easier to use than previous digital lights and is extremely flexible and creative, designers have really taken to

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USA - As LDI 2016 got underway inside the Las Vegas Convention Centre, LED video manufacturer PixelFLEX debuted its new AR-LED technology. The AR-LED video design received an overwhelmingly positive response, and the technology is now preparing for its initial launch into the world of entertainment and commercial LED video design.

"We could not be more pleased with the response we received from the performance of our new AR-LED video technology," said David Venus, PixelFLEX director of marketing. "There were many times where viewers simply sat in amazement, mesmerized by what they were seeing. After such a positive response, we are very excited about launching the AR-LED into the market to see just how creative designers can truly be."

Utilizing the patented lensing found in the FLEXLite series if LED panels, the new AR-LED has a 6mm pixel pitch with a broad viewing angle

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India - Xiaomi, a privately owned Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing, recently launched its new smartphone Mi Max with a big event in New Delhi's Nehru Stadium, India. The company sold over 60m smartphones in 2014 and has over 8,000 employees, mainly in mainland China, India, Malaysia and Singapore.

Lighting designer Dinesh Verma used one grandMA2 light for the event in New Delhi. "My design idea was to reflect the brand and its image and create a buzz for the new smartphone by combining the LED wall, lighting and sound to get a whole experience for the audience."

Sahil Wadhwa, owner of Modern Stage Service, MA's exclusive distributor in India, who provided the lighting and truss equipment for the event, commented, "Modern Stage Service has been a pioneer in the field of lighting and designing stagecraft equipment.

"Because of the intrinsic quality an

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Germany - Award-winning production designer Tobias Rylander has created a dynamic and versatile light show for long-standing Texas post-rock five-piece, Explosions in the Sky - entirely from 16 of GLP's innovative X4 Bar 20 battens.

Knowing these could be used to create big fields of light from an economical package, the designer sourced the fixtures from vendors, VER.

The design and scenography evolved only after a number of conversations with the band, who specialise in elaborate guitar-oriented instrumentals, which they refer to as "cathartic mini-symphonies".

Tobias explains, "I visited them rehearsing in Austin many times and presented a couple of different versions of set designs that we all really liked. But we ended up agreeing that just the fields of colours and light created by the X4 Bar 20s and Solaris LED flares would carry the show and enhance the music p

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UK - Illuminating York, supported by Arts Council England, is an annual event which sees a variety of designers create light installations across the historic city.

Across four evenings in late October, indoor and outdoor venues around York were transformed with light installations created by artists and designers including David Ogle, Helen Maurer, Studio PSK; and for the centrepiece at York Minster, Jason Bruges Studio.

For this year's Illuminating York, London-based Jason Bruges Studio created Light Masonry, a choreographed light work for York Minster. To provide the necessary lighting and rigging technology, Jason Bruges contacted PRG XL Video account director, Andrew Strachan.

With the brief that the lights needed to supply high brightness white beams and have moving heads, Andrew Strachan suggested PRG's own Icon Beam fixtures, 50 of which were used for th

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USA - Electronic Theatre Control (ETC) is launching four new ETCP Recognized Courses that can be taken to provide points towards the continuing education requirement for ETCP renewals.

Each class takes about an hour to complete and one credit will be issued per course. "We're excited to offer a new set of resources to our growing number of customers," says ETC class creator, David Fox.

The classes include:

DMX Theory Operation and Troubleshooting - This intermediate level course covers the history of the DMX standard, signal architecture, and troubleshooting techniques. These six video chapters are for people with a fundamental knowledge of DMX as it relates to basic wire connections and data paths, as well as patching and addressing of devices.

Networking Fundamentals - An introduction to computer networking for entertainment and architectural lighti

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Japan - Robert Juliat's award-winning Dalis 860 cyclorama washlights were chosen by lighting designer Scott Zielinski, to light the backdrops for the inspired theatre production of Richard Sandaime, a co-production between the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and the Singapore International Festival of Arts, which premiered at the Shizuoka Arts Theatre in Japan as part of its World Theatre Festival 2016.

Directed by one of Asia's leading theatre directors, Ong Keng Sen, Richard Sandaime is an international collaboration performed in Japanese, English and Indonesian with Japanese and English subtitles. It uses top actors from Singapore, Indonesia and Japan, and a Balinese puppeteer. Loosely based on Shakespeare's Richard III, this innovative and rarely performed production - the first since Japanese playwright and director Noda Hideki's original 1990 production -

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South Korea / USA - Samsung Electronics and Harman International Industries Inc have entered into a definitive agreement under which Samsung will acquire Harman for $112.00 per share in cash, or total equity value of approximately $8.0 billion (£6.4bn). Samsung says the transaction will immediately give them "a significant presence in the large and rapidly growing market for connected technologies, particularly automotive electronics, which has been a strategic priority for Samsung, and is expected to grow to more than $100 billion by 2025". Harman is the market leader in connected car solutions, with more than 30 million vehicles currently equipped with its connected car and audio systems, including embedded infotainment, telematics, connected safety and security.

Oh-Hyun Kwon, vice-chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics comments: "Harman perfectly complements Samsung

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UK - Following a strong period of growth, Audient has announced the arrival of the three newest team members: Harry Lewis, Jack Flower & Ryan Ellis. Augmenting the company with their diverse skills in marketing, music technology and general zest for life, these chaps certainly have a lot to offer.

Two extra members are added to Andy Allen's marketing team, with a view to raising product and brand awareness. Harry Lewis re-joins the company as product specialist; his main role is to create educational and promotional videos, for sales and end-users alike. Marketing assistant, Jack Flower is helping to spread the word (and Harry's videos) by boosting Audient's e-marketing using social media and digital mailouts.

As the new technical support agent, Ryan Ellis is on hand to answer any pre and post sales questions. He's also crazy about product engineering, which means whilst h

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UK - Natural History Museum has bolstered its event team with the appointment of Robert Wetherell as head of venue hire. Wetherell brings over 17 years of experience having previously worked at other venues in London.

Overseeing the Museum's sales and operations team, Wetherell will be responsible for the development of spaces for evening event opportunities, daytime conferences and whole venue takeovers for filming and events.

Robert Wetherell comments, "This is a time of exciting change and redevelopment for the museum and I'm so proud to be a part of helping shape its future. It's vital for me that guests can engage with our collections and it is fantastic we can tell our clients that they are directly supporting the incredible research the Museum carries out exploring the rich biodiversity of Earth.

"The upcoming launch of the new-look Hintze Hall, with the vast bl

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UK - Al Mouat - or Big Al as he is universally known - has joined the Adlib sales team in the company's Liverpool HQ.

This is part of a planned expansion of Adlib's sales division that also includes the recent addition of Harry Brown who will be assisting with all levels of sales support and aftercare.

Adlib director John Hughes states, "We intend to raise the profile of the sales division, expand the client base and generally make people more aware of the many services that Adlib can offer for installations and other sales related projects - from complete turnkey solutions to specialist audio, lighting and AV designs. We're extremely excited to have someone of Al's calibre on-board. His can-do personality is a perfect match for us."

Adlib Sales has grown steadily and successfully in recent years explains John, and the time is right to consolidate this and actively sta

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