Entry to the hotel is through an archway of glass lit by IP65 rated LEDs that bathe the portal in slow colour changes throughout the evening, making for an eye-catching exterior for passersby and an impressionable entrance for customers.
Inside, the lobby bar offers drinks in another ever-changing environmen
Hudgins has been involved with lighting design projects since 1978. He joined Wybron in 2005 as a regional manager, covering the Southeast and Western United States.
"Dusty has demonstrated his leadership over the past two years in the organisation," said Larry Turner, CEO of Wybron. "His experience and intimate knowledge of Wybron's customer base have been instrumental in the rapid growth of Wybron during the past two years. Wybron is positioned to grow its top line more than 15% in 2007 from 2006, and Dusty has helped us achieve that growth."
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Wellens will assist with technical queries from clients, as well as designing and firing shows, generating risk assessments and method statements, advising clients on the effects to be used for their projects, undergoing site visits and preparing proposals for shows.
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Another function of the Knowledge Base gives users the ability to email ETC articles to others - within the article itself. When they come across information they think is helpful, they can send it to other people.
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The Texas based comedy-influenced punk-pop band are enjoying the success of their Get Happy 2 tour and latest When I Diesingle, along with their largest production tour to date. Thomas has worked with them since 2003, and was left to come up with a lighting plot that would match the fast-paced energy and action happening onstage.
He wanted to get a wide dispersion of lightsources all over the stage area at different levels, so the rear truss consists of five box trusses bolted together, measuring a total of 12m long by 2.5m deep, with the top edge raked forward.
Six Robe ColorSpot 575E ATs are rigged onto this, with another four mounted on top of four vertical truss sections stood on t
"We had only two days for installation and rehearsals with the band," Pajak continued: "It was therefore very helpful to use two consoles, a grandMA full-size and a grandMA light, at the same time for the programming. It saved us a lot of time. During the show the consoles were
This scanner effect houses "the highest quality optical system for maximum light output and true high-definition image quality". It combines with a long life 150W discharge lamp (6000 hours, included) to kick out a powerful array of graphics and colour.
Included are eight interchangeable, indexable rotating gobos in a multitude of colours for a barrage of effects.
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This was lighting director Jimmy Hatten's second major tour with Osmond, and the first in the UK. The set, designed by Michael Cotton, featured four large truss-framed video screens giving a shrinking perspective look to the stage. The lighting design on which this tour is based was created by Mike Frogge - Osmond's long-term LD - for a DVD shoot in Wales earlier this year. Hatten and Frogge have collaborated on many sh
Winners were selected by the D-Tools development and marketing teams. The winning entries were judged on a number of criteria, including originality, most thorough use of D-Tools' software functionality, overall visual quality of designs, plans, and schematics; and which projects best communicate the system designer's vision.
Best Overall System was awarded to Daniel Tumata of T & T Communications. He created the best overall design, most extensive use of SI software, most detailed and extensive schematics, extensive plan views and overall very impressive work.
Most Unique
Following discussions with the site owners, Princes Dock Development Company, lighting designer Graham Festenstein received a commission to develop a lighting scheme for the 'wishbone' structure. The bridge's new dynamic and interactive lighting, installed by W T Jenkins, is an eye-catching addition to the Liverpool dockside.
Festenstein has been i
The Net-IT PS600 has two standard DMX outputs, making it a network node as well. It also features an LCD Display of user settings, the IP address and the protocol used. Wybron will demonstrate the Net-IT PS600 at LDI 2007 using Artnet.
"One advantage of the Net-IT PS600 solution is that it supports common DMX over Ethernet protocols," said Miles Dudgeon, marketing director at Wybron. "We have designed it to support ACN when fully implemented and are actively working to support other DMX over Ethernet protocols."
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A dozen theater lighting professionals will speak. About 20 manufacturers will be on hand and have technical personnel and equipment to demonstrate.
Sonny Sonnenfeld says: "The programme is designed to educate beginners and new professionals who seek additional training. It will be 10 hours of hard work, fun, and a great learning experience."
The tentative program includes inspiration, stage lighting 101, fixtures, colour, consoles, moving lights, trouble shooting, paperwork, and other subjects. The seminar will take place at LaGuardia High School for the Fine and
Various models of Barco projectors were used, depending on the different requirements: six FLM 18HD for the front screen, two FLM 20+ for the ceiling screen and nine SLM 12s. Six of these projectors were mounted on the Brother, Brother & Sons v-Base yokes for the floor screen. The precision of the v-Base allowed precise and repeatable pixel-to-pixel overlapping for the double full HD projection from a height of 25m. All v-Base yokes were controlled via DMX from a
Based on the movie of the same name, and directed by the film's director, Stephen Daldry with his regular theatre collaborators, designer Ian MacNeil and lighting designer Rick Fisher, Billy Elliot opened at London's Victoria Palace Theatre in early 2005 and continues to play to sold-out houses there. The London production uses a lighting rig supplied by White Light. In addition, White Light worked with the show's design team to create a new falling snow effect that was quiet and reliable enough to be used downstage of the proscenium line.
The result was the White Light Snow Machine. This uses the same paper snow as other esta
The substantial increase in revenue is broadly based across all of Martin's market segments. While the entertainment industry as a whole has experienced general strong demand, Martin has increased its market share through investments in technology and new products. Sales of Martin's LED products for example continue to show dramatic growth and now account for 15% of monthly revenue. Launched only earlier this year, Martin's LED product line is forecast to generate revenue just shy of $20 million in 200
Production/lighting designer Bryan Hartley is also touring for his eighth year as the LD on the East Coast leg. Lighting director Dan Cassar, now in his fifth year, handles the West Coast run. Both tours started 1 November.
Hartley likes to design in new products with each new production. He believes this is the year for Showgun to shine: "I love them, they're awesome. It's a good quality moving light but three times as big," Hartley says. "There's nothing else like it out there."
The rig features 10 moving pods, wi
Former American Idol winner, Carrie Underwood, continues to take the country music scene by storm. Underwood took home 'Female Vocalist of the Year' for the second consecutive year. She also received the 'Single of the Year' award for Before He Cheats.
Kenny Chesney was awarded his third 'Entertainer of the Year.' Chesney performed the current single, Don't Blink from his most recent album, Just Who I Am: Poets and Pirates.
Rounding up the Bandit clients earning awards this year was Rascal Flatts. They won their fifth consecutive 'Vocal Group of the Year' award. The 2006 top-selling art
The launch of Christian Dior's New Look in 1947 marked the beginning of a momentous decade in fashion history, one that Dior himself called the 'golden age'. Celebrating the end of war and the birth of a new era, it set a standard for dressmaking and high fashion that has rarely been surpassed. The V&A's exhibition explores this remarkable decade in fashion history.
The exhibition designers Land Design Studio's brief to DALD was for the lighting to create a theatrical event, as well as adhering to the strict conservation constraints.
The first gallery takes a practical aspect, focusing on the skills, processes and craftsmanship of haute couture, along with the creative inspiration behind some
Like Eos, Ion is designed for today's multimedia lighting rigs - delivering seamless control over conventionals, moving lights and LEDs, says the company. College and community theatres, TV studios and rehearsal halls are among the venues that will benefit from Ion's operational style. With its convenient small footprint - only 48cm wide - Ion is billed as "a compact, affordable solution for space starved venues, with the flexibility to grow even more powerful as needed".
Ion comes in 1000, 1500 and 2000 channel/output configurations and features an integral LCD for softkeys and non-intensity parameter control.
"Our resellers and dealers have greatly benefited from having the FogScreen projection screen in their inventory," said Jorden Woods, president of US operations at FogScreen. "We are looking to expand our reach to new territories this year by adding additional resellers to our AV rental partner programme. With the added benefit of fully interactive functionalities and a dedicated technical team, we feel that this is the perfect time for resellers and dealers to partner with FogScreen."
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This new line includes both Profile and Pebble Convex spotlights that are quite popular in Europe. But until now American designers had little opportunity to work with such tools, says the company.
Unlike an ellipsoidal, the Profile is designed around a spherical reflector and double condenser lens system - much like that of a movie projector. It provides a flat field and projects clear gobo patterns.
The Pebble Convex spot provides a crisper field than the Fresnel that is so popular in the USA. The LDR design adds the ability to change lenses in the field from PC to Fresnel and back again.
"Once they 'try it,' we are sure they'll be back for more," says Jack
"We chose the grandMA because of its unbeatable reliability and quality", said Kubánka, "Using grandMA we could synchronise the TV-lights, effects, smoke and haze as well as video and that was exactly what we needed."
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Recolight chief executive Eddie Taylor said the scheme had achieved a high awareness level for the Recolight brand and made good progress in setting up an effective network of collection points, currently around 800 nationally, which would continue to develop over the next year or so.
The meeting heard that the UK WEEE process was now "settling down"; there were still opportunities to improve processes and some issues relating to the Regulations that needed clarification, such as the format in which evidence that recycling has actually taken place must be reported, and these were all being progressed.
Taylor commented: "I think another import
