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Mico Lighting deals with all the major lamp manufacturers - Osram, Philips, Lee, Sylvania, and sees PLASA as a vital meeting point for leading practitioners from the worlds of theatre, concert touring and other areas of performance. The company was also promoting its new lamp recycling service.

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Leprecon products ranged from small two-scene 12-channel memory assist controllers to full memory consoles for conventional and moving light systems. Also shown, compact tree-mount and UL-recognized dimmer packs, custom touring and installation dimmer racks and architectural dimming and control solutions.

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The PISA 42 DMX projector was on show on the Lagotronics stand, offering powerful light output balanced by an efficient heat management system. At PLASA for the first time was the linear lighting device based on DMX technology, which allows direct control of LED strips.

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First time exhibitors at PLASA, PG Stage Electrical, was having a good show meeting up with serious buyers. PG introduced the Dexel Lighting range from Brazil to the UK market, aimed at low-budget applications.

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Some nice products from Studio Due; launched at SIB in Rimini earlier this year, the Photowall 1200e ('e' for electronic ballast) is a ruggedized slide projector with a 1200W HMI source and 90 images pre-loaded. Four fully editable user programmes give a total of 682 scenes for stand-alone control (without DMX). The CS line is expanded with the CS2, a pair of 250W 28V lamps in Par 64 enclosures on a moving pan and tilt yoke with onboard dimmer.

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UK - The Board of Directors of James Thomas Engineering Ltd has issued a statement announcing that Mervyn Thomas is no longer an employee of the company, following a management restructuring which has also seen the appointment of John Hickinbotham as coordinator. Hickinbotham, known to many as Jig, has worked for the company for many years and will join the team responsible for customer liaison.

Pixel Range sales continue to be handled by Andy Walters and Ashley Lewis, and truss and lighting sales by Chris Waller and Tina Hall. John Hickinbotham should be contacted at the e-mail address given below with communications that would have previously channelled through Mervyn Thomas, say the company.

(Lee Baldock)

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USA - First came the Concept:1 and Concept:2, two DMX combination scanner/laser effects from American DJ. Now the company has taken this "concept" a step further and added the Concept:Color, a DMX colour changer with the same design theme as its cousins.

The new Concept:Color is the ideal fixture for DJs, clubs and bands, Scott Davies, general manager of the American DJ Group of Companies: "The popularity of the Concept:1 and Concept:2 convinced us to add a colour changer to the line, so that users could run an ensemble of matching effects."

The Concept:Color offers 15 colours plus white, along with two prism-like quadras that split the light beam into four colours. As an added bonus, a removable Frost Filter lets DJs create a dreamy "wash" effect when desired. The Concept:Color includes two DMX channels that can be conveniently hooked up to the s

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UK - Redditch-based sales, installation and service company Enlightenment has recently supplied 16 Robe moving lights to the Coliseum Theatre, Oldham, a busy 580-capacity producing house with a hectic and varied show schedule.

The eight Robe Spot 575XT and eight Robe Wash 575XT moving lights are part of a three-phase upgrade to the theatre's production lighting system undertaken by Enlightenment that has also included the supply of a console and dimmers.

Robe fixtures were initially suggested to the Coliseum's chief LX Phil Davies by Enlightenment's Paul Swansborough. They did a shoot out between Robe and assorted other brands, and Davies made his decision after careful deliberation. Beforehand, he'd spent a considerable time convincing the theatre's artistic director of the merits of automated lighting, and that they would greatly enhance productions generally and be a highly

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Italy - The City and the Eyes was the theme of the 2004 edition of Nights of Light held, as usual, in the area of Piazza Dante Alighieri in Bergamo and organized by the Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with Clay Paky and other Bergamo companies.

This year's project was created through the use of light in harmony with other artistic languages: music, theatre and dance. As in the past, the choice of event took account of both the artistic potential and audience participation, reinforcing the meaning and significance the Nights of Lights festival has assumed over the last few years.

The event opened on 2 September with a spectacle of hip-hop and break dance. Started as a social and artistic movement of the ethnic minorities in the United States, hip-hop is now a genre widely studied and practised in Italy.

The evening of 3 September was devoted to a spectacl

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UK - White Light Sales supplies many of its exclusive product lines to Stage Electrics for Mary Poppins. White Light Sales has recently supplied a large quantity of lighting equipment to Bristol-based rental company Stage Electrics for use on the new Cameron Mackintosh/Disney stage production of Mary Poppins.

Howard Harrison's lighting design for this new musical, which opened at the Bristol Hippodrome Theatre on the 28 September and will transfer to the Prince Edward Theatre in London on the 6 of December, called for a number of items for which White Light are the exclusive UK distributor.

Included in the shopping list: fifty LDDE DMX-controlled four-colour fluorescent cyc battens, used to light the many painted cloths in Bob Crowley's scenic design. 100 Rainbow 6" Pro and 20 Rainbow 8" Pro colour scrollers, specified for their ability to provide indiv

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USA - Color Kinetics has appointed David Emma as vice-president of OEM and Licensing, overseeing the development of new opportunities and the growth of existing partnerships worldwide. Emma has more than 16 years of experience in the identification, establishment and growth of strategic OEM and licensing relationships within the semiconductor industry, among other technology markets.

"Color Kinetics is a recognized industry leader, and I'm pleased to join its talented management team," said Emma. "I look forward to helping the company drive adoption of intelligent solid-state lighting through new and expanded OEM and licensing initiatives, both within and beyond the core lighting industry."

"We're extremely pleased to welcome David, whose strong background and expertise in identifying new market opportunities for sophisticated technologies will serve

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UK - John Hickinbotham, known to his associates as 'John Jig', returns to UK-based James Thomas Engineering as client liaison co-ordinator. This is part of the company's current management restructuring, and follows the departure of Mervyn Thomas.

Jig returns to the company after three years working in IT, previous to which he worked at JTE for 20 years. He will be working alongside the sales and product development teams for both Pixel Range, and JTE's core trussing, metalwork and lighting fixture business. His focus will be on ensuring that JTE stays at the forefront of technical innovation - an element that's helped keep the company a market leader in the production industry for over 25 years.

Jig commented: "It's really great to be back. It's hugely exciting to be part of a lively and energetic team, all working together in creating a new, revitalized and highly effic

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UK - DHA Lighting, manufacturer of gobos with over thirty years experience in the field, is looking to expand its extensive gobo library with a new Designers' Collection - a range of gobos inspired or created by lighting designers.

If you have the perfect gobo, the gobo you've always needed or wanted, lodged in your imagination, then now is the time to get the idea to DHA. Submissions in any form are welcome, whether a rough description, an adaptation of an existing gobo or a fully formed design on paper or in electronic format. The range will include metal, glass and coloured glass gobos, so just about any design can be realized.

The new Collection will be launched by DHA early next year, listed in a new Designers' Collection section of the DHA gobo library with the gobo's creator fully credited. Pricing will be as DHA's existing gobos, with the new gobos available from stock

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USA - Super Vision International (NASDAQ: SUPVA) recently announced that it will introduce its new colour changing LED lighting system this month in Las Vegas at LDI. The Entertainment Lighting Show. The new SaVI line of intelligent LED lighting products include architectural lighting fixtures that are designed for commercial interior and exterior applications as well as nightscape and underwater lighting applications.

The SaVI line of fixtures include the SaVi Accent, a linear lighting system for coves, accent and backlighting, SaVi Flood for larger scale wall washing and colour floodlighting, SaVi Spot for accent lighting of smaller illumination areas, nightscapes and underwater use, and the SaVi Tube, a visually exciting special effects linear lighting system.

Mike Bauer, vice president of sales and marketing stated: "Architectural and retail lighting is being revoluti

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USA - American DJ has introduced the Mega Flash DMX, a powerful DMX-compatible strobe light with 800W of output. Compact and pocketbook-friendly, the brilliant Mega Flash DMX out strobes similar fixtures in its price range by as much as a brightness factor of four.

Small and compact, the fixture weighs 5 lbs. and comes with a durable, high-tech plastic case that protects it from damage during transport, setup and breakdown. The Mega Flash DMX lets users change strobe speeds and adjust dimming from 0-100 percent via a standard DMX lighting controller. Speed- and dimming-control knobs are also located on the rear of the unit for DJs who want to operate the Mega Flash DMX without a controller. The fixture also can be set to operate in sound-active mode, in which it will flash along to the beat of the music.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)

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UK - ChamSys celebrated the launch of its new MagicQ consoles at PLASA 04 with an innovative demonstration of its powerful distributed client / server architecture. Media clips were selected from thumbnails displayed on the MagicQ touch screen.

The MagicQ 100 console controlled a Hippotizer media server with live retrieval of the media thumbnails onto the console. "Being able to select media clips from thumbnails on the touch-screen of your lighting console has to be the way forward." pointed out VJ and LD Francis Martin, "I cannot understand why companies supplying both products for several years have not already done this."

MagicQ is ideally suited to controlling media servers with all their associated control parameters through the eight separate encoder wheels. And with full Cue Stack capability on every playback fader it becomes easy to control highly

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Italy/USA - LDR recently announced the launch of the new Canto 250HR ceramic followspot, the result of cooperation between Philips Lighting and LDR. The new Canto 250HR is based on the new ceramic lamp from Philips, which provides 3200 K and a CRI>90 whilst using only a quarter of the power consumption of a 1KW halogen lamp.

The ST250Hr lamp offers all the benefits of ceramic technology for applications that until now have been the preserve of halogen lamps. This followspot features a well defined beam, a large side handle to control pan and tilt movement and a double microswitch interlock for safe bulb replacement. The fan-free cooling system makes it ideal for TV studios and theatre applications. Lamp, iris, mechanical dimmer, spigot, colour frame and 2m mains cable are included as standard, and a five-colour colour changer is available as an optional extra.

The new Canto 25

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Italy - The premiere of Shark Tale - Dreamworks' and distributor UIP's latest animated creation - was staged in spectacular style in Venice's historic Piazza San Marco (St Mark's Square) as part of the 2004 Venice Film Festival. Show producers Bob Collins and Sean Glen of Me3 Productions from California brought in UK-based technical production specialist Andy Peat Associates and Venetian production company TESE to realize this major feat of technical production.

This is the first time a show of this nature has been granted permission to take place in the Piazza San Marco, a world heritage site and home to thousands of pigeons. The audience was joined by the film's star 'voice-over talent' including Will Smith, Robert de Niro and Angelina Jolie, along with the film's producers and directors. In addition to the 500 VIPs, approximately 5,500 local guests also enjoyed the evening - free -

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Norway - The term 'multi-talented' takes on a new dimension in the case of Jo Nesbø, a remarkable Norwegian artist whose career moves to date include stockbroker, professional footballer, novelist, pop artist and - most recently - writer and composer of a musical.

Born in 1960, Jo Nesbø's latest work, 90-Meters Bakken, an allegorical piece about the tribulations of moving to and growing up in the small town of Molde, Norway, has sold out in its initial theatre run, and is about to tour the country with a substantial live sound and lighting production.

Norway enjoys one of the world's highest standards of living - and consequently one of the world's highest concentrations of professional entertainment technology. This has helped provide Nesbø with an enviable touring production for his new work, with a Renkus-Heinz PN102LA self-powered line array PA, Martin Audio monitors, TC Elect

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UK - Bandit Lites UK is supplying lighting production for the UK and European leg of the Moody Blues' 2004 world tour. Bandit Lites Inc also services the band's lengthy annual American tours. Other territories on the current itinerary include Australia and New Zealand in early 2005.

Lighting designer Mick Thornton has worked with the band for the last five years, each tour turning the stage into a completely different and eye-catching visual environment for the performance. Keeping to a basic front and back truss format for his primary building blocks, this year Thornton added three overhead triangular trusses which move, and four vertical upstage towers.

The stage set - as devised by Thornton - is all in white, including the cyc, which has a four-channel star cloth behind it and the stage floor, which is covered by a white carpet. Parts of the set also have white scrim stretc

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USA - LDI 2004 will not be business as usual as far as Chauvet is concerned, the company promises. The manufacturer will cast its newest luminaires as supermodels on a fashion show runway, under the theme 'Welcome to the Future'.

"This is sort of a coming out party," said product development manager Barry Abrams, adding that hitherto-unseen technology will be on display, reflecting its largest-ever product range.

The new autumn collection includes four moving-yoke lights: the Legend 250RT Spot, Legend 250WT Wash, Legend250 Zoom and the 18-channel Legend 575 Zoom.

Also on show will be the Trackscan 250 DSR- ILS scanner. Housed in a silvery casing, it's accompanied by an entourage of models including the Trackscan 250 DBR-ILS, curvy Colortrack 250DCR-ILS, and the powerful ILS Control Center, all endowed with technology conceived to ease and widen programming options

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Denmark - Martin heads to LDI in Las Vegas with an array of new products including a new digital media server and a flexible wing extension for the popular Maxxyz lighting console. New Mania series lights - new flower effects, a new promotional projector and the first scanner in the Mania series - expand this range for DJs and clubs. A new powerful, portable smoke machine will also be on display, along with a number of other lighting tools and updates - and what the company calls "a few special surprises".

The new Maxedia Digital Media Composer is designed to provide a new level of digital lighting creativity. Maxedia, which includes integrated DMX control, provides full control of both lighting and video elements and promises various advantages over other digital media servers including a maximum of 20 layers simultaneously, 3D effects with unique real-time manipulati

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USA - Wybron, Inc. has announced its appointment as Lighting Innovation's exclusive North American distributor for the new Super Beam 1200.

Lighting Innovation has successfully distributed Wybron products in Austria for several years, resulting in a strong relationship between the two companies. Lighting Innovation's founder, Hermann Sorger, known worldwide as the main engineer behind the successful Pani projectors, said he is was very happy with the new direction the alliance is taking: "I am very excited about working together with Wybron. The Super Beam is a perfect product for the North American market, and Wybron is our perfect partner."

The newly-launched Super Beam 1200 has been heralded as 'the next generation super bright beam light'. The Super Beam 1200 uses a new Philips 80V 1200W lamp, which together with sophisticated double reflector optics, gives an un

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France - PLASA Award-winner Sunlite is introducing its new Color Manager software at the LDI show on Booth 1341. This new tool allows designers to work with RGB or CMY fixtures with the ease of use of a drawing software package, with familiar tools such as pen, colour picker, paint bucket and copy/paste - and also features powerful wizards including images and video loading, text scrolling and more. The tool is compatible with LED device matrices as well as conventional fixtures. Color Manager will be included with Sunlite 2004 and Easy Stand Alone software from November onwards.

The Easy Stand Alone, a winner of the PLASA 2004 Awards for Innovation, will be on show in its new IP version. The Stand Alone USB-DMX interface has been a great success since it was released and the new Stand Alone Ethernet DMX 512 interface (IP version) makes it possible to work either locally or via

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