Lining up alongside are the company's new LC series - a semi-transparent, modular system of LED panels, suitable for displaying film, digital images and graphics; the RGB Laser 1.6 - a compact and lightweight Class 4 laser with deep saturated colours and true whites; LED Stagebar - a light yet robust fixture featuring RGB, amber and 'true'
"It is exciting to collaborate with outstanding designers on an event of this quality," says Jere Harris, founder and chairman of PRG. "The fact that we were able to provide creative solutions with our proprietary products makes the work all that much more gratifying."
Staged on the basketball court at Manhattan's Hunter College, the Y-3 event featured a raised U-shaped runway, with the audience seated on bleachers alongside. Colours chased along the inside and outside edges of the runway through borders of Versa Tubes. Three additional rows of tubes on the inside wall of the runway, suggesting the three
"It is exciting to watch as the Marquee software continues to grow and expand," says Alan Keen, Entertainment Technology product manager. "During the past year, we have seen a significant rise in number of Marquee consoles on the market. The feedback we are receiving from our end-users has been fantastic, and we are pleased to be working with Horizon Control Inc. to support our customers' ever-developing desires."
Designed by Horizon Control Inc., Marquee software version 3.3 introduces two distinct advancements, says the company. The first is the ability to network up to five Marquee consoles working together as one, known as Rem
Mark Pearmain, project manager for Willow SoundVision explained that the lighting system had to bring a "wow" factor to the venue, the lighting had to be exciting and make a huge visual impact. The design needed to utilise a large space and also serve live entertainment events such as regular hosting of Radio 1 in the summer months, live acts such as the Levellers and the main purpose of the venue, as a bar/nightclub. Budget and product reliability was a large factor in choosing Martin Professional products, said Pearmain.
The lighting design included two custom lighting structures with
Bandit has been nominated specifically in the Business Excellence category. This awardis presented to a company headquartered in East Tennessee or a company with asignificant presence in East Tennessee that has shown remarkable profitability, growthand stability. Nominees must be recognised regionally, nationally and/or internationally intheir respective business sector, while demonstrating leadership in the sector as well.Nominated companies should have made significant investments in facilities andemployees.
The Pinnacle Business Awards Ceremony will be held on 27 April, 2007 at the KnoxvilleConvention Centre. More than 600 peop
"With the release of Collage Generator and Curved Surface Support features for DL.2, there's been a huge demand for the ability to fully blend and correct content for spherical type surfaces," says Scott Blair, HES director of digital lighting development. "Spherical Mapping allows us to answer that need to blend content across a hemisphere or a full sphere type surface."
Within the software are additional new effects and software enhancements, say High End. The Global Matte Effect allows the user to superimpose up to 20 different pre-defined Mattes for layering im
Since 2005 lighting design for the Ballet has been handled by technical manager and chief of lighting, Bo Kudsk Kristensen who has traditionally had a large conventional lighting rig at his disposal. Last year he welcomed the addition of a Martin automated lighting package consisting of 17 MAC 2000 Performance and 17 MAC 2000 Wash fixtures, with control via a grandMA.
In 2006 Peter Schaufuss initiated collaboration with the British cartoonist Gerald Scarfe who created part of the scenography for Satisfaction, Schaufuss' dance concert based on the m
The VH-1 Presents Pepsi Smash Bash featuring John Legend, Fergie and Kanye West, was hosted by Taye Diggs outside Dolphins Stadium on the NFL Experience Concert Stage. Recorded to HD by MTV Networks the Thursday before the game, the concert was telecast on Saturday night. Friday night Telemundo's Pepsi Smash Super Bowl Fiesta featuring Don Omar, Ivy Queen and Aventura was taped on the same stage for broadcast as well. Spike Brandt at Artfag provided production design for both concerts.
"The same equipment and rig was used for each event," not
Dublin-based Douglas has used Avolites consoles since the start of his professional career. He used a D4 on the previous US leg of the tour, "so it was a natural choice to continue" he says. He's also the show's programmer and operator, so he wanted a powerful desk that he knew was fast and easy to set up. He adds that with their schedule already including a festival season in the summer, "Features like Fixture Exchange are really invaluable".
Equipment for the European section of the tour is being supplied by Siyan. The stage features some spectacular red curtains, borders and legs, with monitor and guitar worlds onstage also wrapped in matching red materia
The scenic design by Marco Calzavara includes a 360 degree white cyclorama which encases the whole studio set, including the seating stands and the stage. "It was an obvious artistic decision to make in filling this space with colour and texturing" explains Quini, but he wanted to go beyond just gobo and lighting effects to moving images and photographic impressions.
The twelve fixtures are being supplied by Di & Di Lighting & Truck SRL from Rome. They are rigged around
With this and time restrictions in mind, an all intelligent rig was put together comprising of Martin MAC 700 Profile and MAC 700 Wash units on the front truss and MAC 250 Entour and MAC 250 Wash units to the back truss and stage. Two Jem Glaciators were used stage left and right to create a heavy fog effect for the introduction and Jem Stage Hazers and a Magnum 2000 smoke machine to enhance the lighting.
Lighting designer, Panda's Paul White comments, "The MAC 700 Wash uni
Designed in 1672 by Sir Christopher Wren, the current St Bride's replaced a smaller church of the same name destroyed in the 1666 Great Fire of London. The 234 ft spire, added in 1701, was the tallest ever designed by Wren and was supposed to withstand both lightning and war. The tower's shape, which looks like three tiers, has led to it being dubbed the Wedding Cake Church. It has a traditional link with journalists and newspaper proprietors, who paid for it to be rebuilt after it was gutted by incendiary bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe in 1940.
Since then, it has acquired a reputation as not only a place of worship for traditional services, but also for concerts
Written by Peter Shaffer in 1973, the show, which is produced by David Pugh and directed by Thea Sharrock, has received rave reviews since it started previews on 16 February with a standing ovation for Radcliffe, surprising many of his critics. The lighting includes some 140 Source Four luminaires and over thirty moving lights, as well as a number of custom gobos produced by PRG Europe's Gobo Resource facility.
Production electrician for the show, which is being staged at the Gielgud Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, is Ian Moulds; p
The company will focus its resources on the rapidly expanding market for LED lighting system technologies, fibre optic lighting technologies and other new emerging white light technologies through both new product development and potential strategic acquisitions. "Nexxus Lighting can be viewed as a brand new company with a solid foundation and a very clear vision," stated Mike Bauer, president and CEO.
The Fabtronic Group in Northampton was asked to provide an alternative to architectural LED lighting and colour-changing products. The new system was designed, programmed and commissioned by Chris Hobbins, events and special projects manager at Fabtronic. He says, "My solution was the CX-10 Extreme to provide colour change, morphing texture effects and gobo projection."
The venue was also refurbished during this project, using a good selection of Martin products which included, MAC 250s, Atomic Strobes, Martin Roboscan 218s, Martin Roboscan 518s, Martin Freekie, Jem ZR-12 DMX and Jem ZR-30.
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Valo chose the MAC TW1 tungsten washlight because "traditionally powerful Tungsten washlights have been a problem. When the TW1 came out our local distributor Electrosonic Lightinen kindly sent one to me for testing. Now we have twenty on tour. Its "quiet operation - not just virtually silent - combines with really good colour mixing and a wide zoom range to make these units heavy workhorses for us. I really enjoy working wi
Scenofest sits in the very heart of the Quadrennial, designed to bring the next generation of designers together to collaborate as a part of a huge range of exhibitions, performances and workshops. The world's greatest designers will take part as workshop leaders and in delivering a series of Lectures and presentations.
The venue is the Industrial Palace, and the PQ organisers have given Scenofest pride of place in the Central Hall. This space will see a 300-seat theatre space, workshop areas and exhibition areas - and the Tower of B
Managing director Martin Hawthorn comments, " We have been looking for some time now for London premises and the opportunity arose. Having an established base in London provides another resource to the London customer as we continue to grow. An increasing amount of our conference and party work is London-based and now is a great time to build on that success with Core's experienced full time staff and equipment based in town."
The Hawthorn inventory of £5 million worth of state-of-the-art lighting, sound, drapes and staging will be based across the two locations, supporting the events market with their creative in-house project management team and the continued dry hire of equipment. The move will make Hawthorn a &
Hayles asked i-Vision's Luke Dodd to design the lighting following Dodd's eye-catching scheme at L!QU!D, a new club in Chepstow also owned by Hayles. "Lighting is absolutely fundamental to creating and enhancing moods, and no cutting edge clubbing environment is complete without good lighting and sound these days" he says.
Flamingos' main room (Arena 1) features R'n'B and dance music, a bar and a VIP area upstairs. Its walls are up-lit with 18 of i-Vision's Lumos 3 fittings, "The perfect fixture for the job" says Dodd. Three bubble tanks behind the bar
The modules will integrate thermal management, optical control and high reliability drive electronics to maximise the benefits of LED technology in existing lighting applications such as architectural, road way and industrial lighting.
Welcoming the new partnership, Science and Innovation Minister, Malcolm Wicks said: "The UK has a proud history of innovation in science and technology. We believe that we must work with industry to develop the marketabl
The work involved full replacement of the existing lighting equipment for the main stage, as well as innovative approaches to networking. The task was huge, and made even more challenging by the regulations governing the restoration of this historical building.
ADB equipment is at the heart of the system and includes Phoenix 10/XT and 5/XT control systems, interfaced via Ethernet directly with th
Specialising in sport, the John Madejski Academy will have capacity for approximately 1,100 students, but the infrastructure also includes a technically-equipped auditorium and separate dance/drama studio, provided by Leicester-based Hawthorn Theatrical.
Contracted to the main construction company, Costain, the company has turned to Martin Audio sound reinforcement components as part of its audio-visual design model - extending the company's relationship with the AQ series.
According to Hawthorn's installation manager Simon Ling, the versatility of the AQ series meets the many requirements of a general purpose assembly hall, while the textured light grey factory
Operating the show on tour is John Slevin, who is working with Simon 'Piggy' Lynch. The rig features two 56 ft long mid and back trusses and a 40ft front one - all pre-rigged, and slightly randomly loaded with PARs and ACLs. There are seven ETC Source fours on the front truss,
The units are lightweight and feature wide beam angles so set up. All are DMX-controllable or will operate in stand-alone mode. The Vue I is the smallest and lightest in the series, weighing less than 4 lbs. It is fitted with 84 red, green and blue LEDs, each creating their own beam. It is a go-anywhere light. It can be linked with the Vue II, a bigger version, featuring more LEDs and a larger frontal lens.
The Vue III has seven individually controllable clusters of 67 LEDs, for a total of 469 LEDs, each proj
