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The first is Connection Scheduling. For some time, Cable and Dogleg objects, which show interconnections between products in the Schematic drawing environments, have had the ability to 'glue' to and move with symbols as they are repositioned. In Stardraw Audio and Stardraw A/V, their functionality has now been extended to identify the products they connect. This allows you to generate reports from schematic diagrams that tell you what device is connected to what, and via which cable, without the need for extraneous data entry - another big time-saver for contractors, say the company.

Default Line Width is an enhancement that boosts the legibility of printed output. Text appears much sharper, bolder and

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Forming the back of the set, ice*lighting helped PRG lighting designer, Ben Cracknell, create a warm and intimate atmosphere for this stylish setting. "I was very impressed with the battens and the ability to get high visibility from a wide range of viewing angles on camera. Getting high contrast textures and video effects controlled by DMX was quite unique. I'm keen to use them on future projects and work on new media to put through them."

Mastercard's "One Pricless Evening&

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The company's redbrick headquarters has been adorned with a magnificent arrangement featuring a giant glowing garland 60ft in diameter. The garland, which was constructed out of 300 Christmas trees and weighs around a tonne, is threaded with 10,000 sparkling white lights and 20 red bows, each 5ft in width. Clusters of illuminated berries have been created out of red bulbs woven into wire mesh spheres, while a giant neon bow perches atop the glowing structure. The Imagination building itself is the backdrop for the garland, flooded in a wash of blue light.

On the first day of the festive month, staff were greeted inside Imagination with a beautifully decorated atrium. The w

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It's the first time HSL has supplied the popular series, and follows on from a busy year in the TV world for the Blackburn-based company. The kit comprises six 10 x 2.5m high resolution Soft-LED curtains and 180 Color Kinetics I-Color tiles which were purchased specially for the series. There's also 130 JTE PixelLine 1044 battens and 120 lengths of Pulsar ChromaStrip from HSL.

Both Davey and George wanted to explore various LED concepts in the show visuals. They were looking for a single source supplier for all the LED products, which is where HSL stepped into the breach, supplying all this and

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The lighting feature, which involves the up-lighting of 10 various sized bubble tanks, was created by architect/designers Natalia Kudriavtseva with Sean Mahoney of Hoare Lee, and specified by LTP after referral from Architainment, CK's UK distributor.

To up-light the tanks LTP's project manager Terry Reeves chose 92 pieces of Colour Kinetics Cove MX for their optical qualities as well as their practicality when it came to the actual installation.

The top of the atrium is glass panelled, and therefore filled with daylight for most of the year, so any lighting had to be exceptionally bright to hold its own. The MX is a Powercore fixture, which requires only a data enabler at

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The building's design - by Zoboki, Demeter and Associates - and a 21st century technological backbone enable the staging of high quality and large-scale performances, bringing together various branches of the arts under one roof. Its permanent residents include the Ludwig Museum, the National Concert Hall and the Festival Theatre. It is part of the Millennium City Centre, a major urban renewal development program in Budapest that includes the adjacent National Theatre.

Client and main contractor on the project, Arcadom Co. Ltd.,

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Hanging in the atrium of Clacton High School's new wing, Weather Cluster is a complex web of screens and data-cables, which resembles a 21st Century chandelier. This cloud of thirty screens emits weather conditions from around the world. Students from the school film weather conditions at every opportunity; these video clips form a computer database, which constantly searches the Internet to ascertain the local climate. As the weather conditions change, the computers broadcast the relevant video loops. Year after year, the d

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Named after Rick "Parnelli" O'Brien, the awards honor both individuals and companies in the entertainment industry who keep it moving forward with the "four H's": Humanity, Humility, Honesty, and Humor. These qualities were the defining traits of Rick O'Brien, a renowned production manager and respected colleague.

The award banquet was held in conjunction with ETS-LDI, the industry's yearly product and services convention. Chip Monck presented this year's lighting awards. TLS David Milly said that receiving the award was a real honor, but having Chip Monck present the award was just as notable. Monck is a previous Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.

The award is voted on by

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The Colorsplash Jr. can create numerous colors via RGB color mixing. Other features include blackout, dimming and strobing capabilities, individual control of the red, green and blue diodes, built in color change programs, master/slave mode and a 23-degree beam angle. Lumens output is 110 lumens at meter. The lifespan of the diodes (44 red, 21 green, 21 blue) is estimated at up to 100,000 hours. Power is switchable, 115V/230V or 230V. Each unit weighs 3.31lbs and has a two-year limited warranty.

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Protect The Human is major new initiative 'to get a million more people standing up for human rights in the UK' by 2010. During the weekend, AV rental company Mushroom Event Services supplied dramatic lighting for the new building, with a total of 60 2K Fresnels illuminating 30 windows across three floors. Each light was individually controlled and dimmed, giving a wide variety of colour and brightness at any window at any given time.

Protect The Human was written across the façade in 25Watt lamps hung from the roof with steel rope wh

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Its systems will also vividly light the globally anticipated Final Draw ceremony for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which will be broadcast in 145 countries on 9 December from Leipzig, Germany.

These mark the latest in a growing number of high-profile television events and programs to apply ColorKinetics' LED-based systems as a practical alternative to conventional lighting methods in set design. Unlike conventional sources, they require no gels or filters to supplement fill and background lighting with colour. In the use of white light, they uniquely allow color temperature control to

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With a rotating and swivelling mirror drum, the EFX500 kicks out a dizzying array of razor sharp optics. A combined colour and gobo wheel houses numerous gobo designs. Other effects can be achieved through electronic dimming, strobe effects and manual focus. The result is a high powered yet low priced entry level effect light.

With a long life lamp the EFX500 is DMX controllable or defaults to the music or auto trig. And as with all Mania products the EFX500 is officially ETL, cETL and CE approved meaning users are assured of the fixtures' safety and performance. It comes in a durable yet stylish housing complete with hanging bracket.

The Mania EFX500 is designed for both installation and portable use. It is ideal

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David Srba, well known as Robe's highly proactive head of marketing, becomes the new MD of Robe UK with immediate effect, and will now be based in the UK. Srba also continues in his role of co-ordinating Robe Show Lighting's worldwide marketing.

Ian W Brown, who joined Robe UK in August 2004 continues as head of sales, working closely with his colleague Bill Jones as sales manager and Nathan Wan as Robe UK's head of technical services. All other aspects of the sales, office and support organization in the Northampton UK HQ remain the same.

The move is a key element in Robe Show Lighting's ongoing global expansion strategy. It also completes the restructuring of ROBE UK which be

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The brief was to provide a thoroughly modern yet sympathetic environment for exercisers using the latest technology. However, it had to be a system that would be easy for untrained personnel to use and operate. To that end, Sound Division ins

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The new facility incorporates a permanent showroom, demonstration area and training rooms, while a new advanced manufacturing area allows the company to accept larger and more complex project commissions whilst also streamlining its standard product manufacturing process, they say. The addition of an integrated stores and despatch area will provide an even faster response time to customer orders.

The new premises are minutes from the company's previous office and within easy reach of the M1, M25 and rail and tube connections from nearby Harrow & Wealdstone Station. The move occurs between Friday 9 December and Friday 16 Decem

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Philip Norfolk, regional sales manager for PRG Europe, chose Spectra due to their strong sales organisation and high-profile productions, including the prestigious Eurovision Song Contest. "We are overwhelmingly excited about having Spectra as the new Wybron dealer in Sweden. This relationship will benefit everyone involved and gives us a strong force in such a vibrant market."

Keny Whitright, president and founder of Wybron, is equally pleased with the agreement. He commented, "PRG has a strong knowledge of dealers in Europe. I know in Spectra they have aligned Wybron with a company well-suited to promot

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Mylo's lighting designer Ian Tomlinson first worked with the band on a string of summer festivals, which then continued into the autumn with their own UK and Irish headline tour. He collaborated closely with video designer Dave Ross from Phantom to develop the stage visuals, taking the concept of moody back lighting, silhouetting and shadowing as a starting point. "The band prefer being lit from behind," he explains. "It's a challenge to start with, but once you get your head around the philosophy, there's h

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The studio elements of the show are recorded at Studio 2000 in Milan, directed by Egino Romio. The show is broadcast live on RAI 2 every Wednesday, pulling an incredible average of 42% of the viewing figures.At times, the rating has hit 55%, and it's arguably the most popular entertainment show in Italy.

The lights are being supplied by Romanengo-based Mixer Sound & Light, one of North Italy's top rental companies, who are also supplying additional studio sound to the show. Porcaru first used Robe fixtures on the original series of "L'Isola", and has increased his fixture count steadily for each one since. He has also specified Robe fo

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On Saturday 19 November the show's triumph was further established when Evans played to world record audiences for a single stand-up comedian of 10,108 at the Manchester Evening News Arena (MEN). Stand-up comedy is inherently intimate, which is at odds with the arena environment, so consolidating the performer/audience relationship in these huge spaces threw up its own unique set of challenges for Evans' technical design team. As production manager Mark Harris points out: "Lee's comedy style relies wholly on his audience's ability to see his every facial expre

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The UK has long been acknowledged as a creative hub, leading the world in the design of entertainment and events. The new award will be one of the few that actively champions the work of designers in this field, creating much needed wider recognition for the art and practice of lighting design.

For the last few months, PLASA has been working with the Lighting Design Awards team to develop the new category to ensure it reflects the innovation to be seen across the country. The judging

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Over 40 world music acts performed in three spaces over four days. Opening act in Hall One, The Sage Gateshead's variable acoustic main house, was Robert Plant and his band Strange Sensation.

For the venue's head of sound, Dan Adams, the event has been particularly exigent. He temporarily gave up his usual role and became production manager, handing the audio reigns over to Paul Astbury who can ordinarily be found at the South Bank Centre, where he is himself head of sound. With these changes in mind, you might be forgiven for thinking that to then road-test the late

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In the product awards, Strand Lighting's C21 Dimmer range won Lighting Product of the Year. C21 and EC21 dimmer racks are designed for global operation and provide a number of advances in technology, say Strand. In addition to providing support for conventional SCR dimmers including Quad, Dual and single modules with ratings up to 12kW, sophisticated Sinewave dimmers are also available. Dual Sinewave modules can be mixed and matched with standard dimmers in the same rack for full flexibility.

Altman Lighting collected the Lighting/ Architecture Product of the Year Award for its Smart

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The band's long term LD Benoit Richards and their video designer Bert Baldwin worked together on developing the 2005 show's 'visuality', which united both lighting and video in an integrated stage 'look', matching the band's huge energy. Both Richards and Baldwin have been involved with the band for some time. "It's very much been a collaborative effort this t

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GLP UK is a division of Chepstow based i-Vision, specialists in architectural, LED and feature lighting. Complementing i-Vision's bespoke and standard ranges of architectural fixtures, GLP UK offers a massive choice of entertainment lighting fixtures from fully-specced professional level moving heads for studio and touring applications, to a vast range of conventional lightsources, to a myriad of club and disco effects. This includes lighting control systems - dimmers and desks, stands and rigging, and all imaginable accessories.

GLP UK is the exclusive UK distributor for German Lighting Products. The new user-friendly and easily navigable website is geared to clients with all levels of knowledge