As Hennigan explains: "The intention of the evening is to bring together everyone at least once a year for a sociable drinking evening - meet the faces behind the voices and the e-mails and swap an anecdote or two, with the emphasis being on fun and sociability rather than business at the end of a busy trading year."
At its conception there was a small gathering of 20 people at the then Flyman and Firkin (now O'Neills) on Shaftesbury Avenue, but each year has seen th
The latest D.A.S. products, such as the Aero-38A powered line array systems and SML-12A 'low-profile' powered monitors will be on display at international shows including NAMM (Anaheim, California, 19-22 January), SIEL (Paris, France, 12-15 February), Entech (Sydney, Australia, 13-15 February), SIB (Rimini, Italy, 11-14 March), NSCA (Las Vegas, USA, 16-18 March), and MusikMesse / ProLight & Sound (Frankfurt, Germany, 29 March - 1 April). On the national level, meanwhile, 15-17 February will see D.A.S. at AFIAL, Spain's pro lighting and sound association's official show, to be held at the Cristal Palace in Madrid'
The draft standard is a suite of protocols offering needed services in network management, device management, device description, and device control with reliable multi-cast transport on data networks that use the common Internet Protocols. There are 17 documents that describe various aspects of the suite of protocols, and they are all contained in the approximately three megabyte compressed file ACNDraft3.zip. The public review materials for this draft standard and all the draft ESTA standards currently available for public review are at
A mood-setting effect aimed at nightclubs and dance floors as well as stage shows and theatrical productions, the Waterfall 250 PRO features a redesigned case with a sleek shape that allows for improved optics and up to 20% more overall light output. Elation has also added several thin multiple dichroic colour filters to one of its slots, allowing users to create cascading effects in multiple colour combinations. "With our previous Waterfall models, you could only have a single colour or split colours in the
Crawford has modified a haze machine and come up with a grape concentrate-based solution that irritates birds without permanently harming them. When birds breathe in the substance, they cough and feel irritated, and keep away from the area. However, the solution does not affect other animals or people, says Crawford, who famously worked on effects for Steven Spielberg's E.T.
The Guardian Birdhaze machine emits a transparent, nearly invisible, haze that lingers in the air for up to four hours in an enclosed area. Outside, it spreads out over an area quickly, but remains effective. Tests in places where birds or
Also being shown on the High End booth was a preview of version four of the media server benchmark - Catalyst. Although High End says that Catalyst has always been capable of running HD content, it has never been something that it has ever shouted particularly loudly about. We can expect that to change in the coming months as Catalyst V4 is rolled out. Also new for Catalyst was a preview and content management interface.
Chris Hook, of StageRats Ltd, Ron Hill of Sutton Theatres and Becky Daley at Rose Bruford College were all presented with Source Four 19º luminaires with the new enhanced-definition lens tubes, by ETC's sales manager for UK and Ireland, Mark White. Nathaniel Keiller of Theatre Royal Windsor was unable to attend and his prize was shipped to him.
The party offered one of the first demonstrations of the EDLT, projecting ETC logos onto the wall behind the presentation stage. The standard Source Four was placed side by side with a
"The main backbone of the rig," says Peter Marshall, project director at PRG Europe, "are VL5Bs and the new VL3000Q spots, chosen specifically because the lights had to be silent." In addition to this was an array of over 100 conventional fixtures including ETC Source Fours and Par 64s, all programmed from a Strand 520i desk by Stuart Cross.
"We used the VL5s with the colour changing system to achieve a range of light conditions, from bright sunshine, through sunset and moonlight," explains lighting director Mark Henderson. "We even used the strobe facility on a couple of VL3000s to recreate lightnin
Hawthorn's brief was to provide four different stage looks for all the events that all had to be held in the same one room, ranging from a theatre show, conference and gala dinner through to their very own tribute to ITV's The X Factor called the TC Factor, which was the brain child of Dale Parmenter, MD of DRP.
To allow Oscroft to re-create similar lighting effects to those used in the TV show, Hawthorn shipped
Routledge's work in 2005 included a range of shows from live music at Hammersmith Apollo, to timecoded musicals on board cruise liners. He finished off the year designing and programming Hot Stuff - The Christmas Edition at
Everything in Zankel Hall is adaptable. The floor is divided into nine sections that can be raised and lowered to create a variety of room configurations. The nearly 650 audience seats can be arranged easily to suit the different room setups (most of them rest on stepped wagons built on air casters). And for lighting, 21 self-climbing truss units cover most of the ceiling. Each can be raised to any height for performances and lowered to stage level for rigging and maintenance.
Working with consultants Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, and rigging contractor Pook Diemont & Ohl, PRG coordinated the lighting installation, including developing a custom solution to manage the system's intricate cabling.
Each t
The show was devised by Kirstie Blakeman (also the event manager) from Liverpool Culture Company and Steve Boothman from Fantastic Fireworks. They created a soundtrack encompassing an array of music styles - kicking off with Leftfield's 'Phat Planet' and ending on the Can-Can.
They wanted to focus attention on the building rather than the sky, and integrate the City's '2005 Year of the Sea' theme with its 2006 one - 'Year of Perfor
The piece of kit that enabled him to do this was D-Tek Industries' ingenious D-Mix Pro - a small 1U 'black box' device offering huge flexibility, plug-and-play simplicity and easy setup and operation.
The D-Mix Pro opens up new opportunities for small-to-medium sized tours to incorporate video very cost-effectively into their show, with no extra crew required. The operator can programme and sequence video mixes via any DMX user-interface, just as they would a moving light or other intelligent device. D-Mix Pro offers a truly integrated show control option, for one creative director to produce seam
Both shows were programmed by David Arch, who coincidentally programmed the first Wholehog 2 console on Broadway in 1997 for the stage show, The Life (an honour he shares with Christian Choi). He says: "I choose Hog iPC for a few reasons. The shows were over four universes but under eight which meant no slow down in iPC processing speed. Because the Hog iPC is a new product, it's fully supported. Its compact size is great for small Broadway control booths. Plus, when it comes to viewing a lot of information quickly and easily the Hog contents screen is still one of th
HES CEO Frank Gordon commented, "Jeff is a natural for this job. He knows our technology, he knows the industry, but most importantly he knows our customers. For years, he has been an advocate for the customer and runs a very tight organization in terms of customer responsiveness."
Richard Belliveau, HES co-founder and CTO, added: "Jeff brings a great deal to this sales role in terms of understanding the core of the customer business. He also understan
"Before midnight, the lighting on the Eye was set to the five colours of the Olympic rings, to show support for London winning the games in 2012," explains Marenghi. "Then, on each of the 12 chimes from Big Ben, three brilliant white Lightning Strikes fired a strobe-like effect on the wheel, following which a 10-minute fireworks display entertained the massive crowd. The lights were set to be coloured in sympathy with the display, which was kept low in the night sky so that TV cameras could see the wheel and surrounding architecture as well as the fireworks themselv
The exclusive club, bar and restaurant is housed in a three-storey 19th century granite building, which has been sensitively converted by Edinburgh-based architects/designers Kerr Blyth Associates (KBA). The result is 'The Albyn', which provides Aberdeen-based owners, European Development Company (EDC), with the jewel in their leisure crown.
Working with architectural technicians Canale Associates, KBA designed a two-storey extension to the rear of the property to incorporate the bar, restaurant and entertainment area, featuring a grand piano, acoustica
It was Smith's first full production tour with Embrace following some DVD work in the preceding months, and the equipment was supplied by leading UK rental company, Siyan. Leitch completed the design after consulting with the band's lead singer Danny McNamara.
Specification of the control gear was left to Smith who chose his favourite console - the Avolites Diamond 4. Smith, one of the UK's leading young LD's, was one of the first to take Avo's most powerful console on the road - initially with the Stone Temple Pilots in 2003. Since then, he's not used another console.
Lighting wise, the stage started bare and dar
To help create an environment that is stimulating, fun and friendly for patients, parents and visitors, a large colourful feature lighting scheme was proposed for the Hotel's pre-reception entranceway by Ove Arup. The lighting scheme was designed by Arup Lighting's design team. They then asked LTP's Terry Reeves to specify the equipment for achieving the overall effect. LTP has worked on previous projects with Arup including the award winning Plantation Lane 'Moonwall' at Plantation Place, in the City of London.
The six square metre tiled frosted glass floor runs the entire width of the entrance floor, and continues
Lightning Strikes' technology provides the highest single-source output available worldwide (up to 500,000 watts from a single lamp) with near-perfect replication of sunlight, instant-on capability, and dimming to 3% of maximum power with consistent colour-temperature and colour quality. Its SoftSun continuous lights and Lightning Strikes intermittent lights have been used in the production of thousands of feature films, television series, and commercials, as well as concerts, theatre, sports, and other live events.
Jere Harris, Founder and CEO of PRG said, "We have had great success with the Lightning Strikes products on recent projects like the Coldplay and U2 tours. We're pleased to have formalized our relationship wi
Founded in 2001, Lumidrives was one of the first companies to realise the potential of high powered LED technology in illumination applications. It specialises in the development of components to enable applications in solid state lighting, including power drivers, LED arrays and optics. The company also offers design services for LED based illumination systems.
Lumidrives' 2005 growth follows on the back of a doubling of turnover in 2004. Exports now account for 40% of sales with new customers located in Japan, Canada, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic.
The company's technology is used in a wide cross section of applications ranging from high profile exterior and interi
Lumileds' new pricing positions the industry's most widely used high-power LEDs as the clear value leaders and demonstrates Lumileds commitment to rapidly growing the market for solid-state lighting technology, says the company. The new pricing is in effect immediately, worldwide, and is available on the companies' web sites as well as for online orders.
"As the market's only high volume producer of power LEDs, Lumileds is delivering the technology that will help to grow the market for solid-state lighting," said Mark Swoboda, executive vp of sales and marketing for Lumileds. "With Luxeon I
Produced by Mark Goucher, Michael Rose and Tristan Baker, Footloose is directed by Karen Bruce, designed by Morgan Large with lighting by James Whiteside. White Light have supplied a rig that includes Martin Mac500 and Mac2000 profiles, Mac600 washlights and Clay Paky Alpha Halo washlights, as well as ETC Source Fours, Rainbow colour scrollers, Par Cans, 5kW fresnels, L&E battens, Coda-4 floods, Unique haze machines, and White Light's fully-rated LOLER lighting ladders.
The rig is fed from Avo touring dimmer racks, controlled by a Strand 520i console programmed by Rob Halliday. The show's production electrician is Jeremy Duncan, with Simon Gooding the production manager.
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The mounting plate of the VL500/1000 Floor Stand contains ½" diameter (12.7mm) mounting holes on 8" (20.3cm) centers suitable for either VL500 or VL1000, as well as a centre hole to enable the mounting of any conventional lighting fixture.
City Theatrical specializes in inventing, manufacturing and customizing unique lighting accessories, and has been an innovator in the field since it began manufacturing in 1994.
(Chris Henry)
