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UK - Centenary Square in Bradford's city centre was transformed into a magical garden for five days in August, with the help of Lancashire business Water Sculptures.

A 5m diameter pool of dancing water fountains was designed and installed by the company, offering a unique spectacle of water, music and lights amongst the greenery of other displays and live entertainment at Bradford's 2008 Garden Magic event.

What was not visible to visitors at Garden Magic was the high level of technology installed within the display - designed to soothe, relax and invigorate its audience with a fully choreographed sequence of movements.

Founder and managing director Byll Elliot says: "Transforming a truly urban space into something quite different for a temporary period has been an exciting challenge. As our team will be on site throughout the duration of Garden Magic, being able to sha

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UK - Selecon Performance Lighting is back at PLASA. Since last exhibiting in 2003 Selecon has introduced several new luminaires building on an already comprehensive theatrical and architectural display range.

The Selecon line includes includes the Acclaim, Rama and Arena Fresnels and PCs; the world's largest range of ellipsoidals as represented by Pacific range; Hui, Lui and Aurora Cyc / Floods and the very bright Performer range of Followspots.

The new high frequency, variable voltage 80V Direct DMX Power Supply supplies 80V to energy efficient 1200W lamps for the Pacific range and the Rama 175 High Performance Fresnel resulting in bright white light with the output of, or near to an equivalent 2.0/2.5kW mains voltage luminaire

The Wing range of Wall Washer Floods is Selecon's latest addition to their specialised display lighting range. A single slim-line body design offers

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USA - Bandit Lites recently wrapped another successful tour with country music superstar, Carrie Underwood. Underwood rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol. Since then, she has become a multi-platinum selling recording artist and is a multiple Grammy Award winner among numerous other accolades.

Carrie Underwood recently co-headlined with fellow Bandit client and country music star, Keith Urban. Award-winning lighting designer, Seth Jackson designed Underwood's rig so that it could coexist with Urban's set. Unlike most co-headline tours, Underwood was joining a production that was already on the road. Designed by Marc Brickman, the Urban show had a specific layout and lighting choices that Jackson said he needed to integrate with.

"After many phone calls, Marc and I got together with Chris Nyfield from Hindsight Studios and put both shows

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UK First time exhibitors at PLASA, displayLED will be officially unveiling "the world's first fully flexible LED video skin" - a product that can be moulded to the contours of display surfaces to form smooth curves displaying high resolution video, opening up new possibilities for creative designers to develop concepts.

The digiFLEX skin is manufactured in 320mm (w) x 160mm (h) tiles which can flex smoothly both horizontally and vertically.

Two further products from the digiLED creative series will also be showcased - the Mirage M40-3 and the Mirage M40-4 high brightness version. The Mirage M40 is a semi transparent and lightweight, large-scale video screen utilizing a 40mm pixel pitch and designed to provide dramatic and dynamic lighting and video effects.

With options for outdoor daylight viewing, the Mirage M40 weighs around 11kg per m2, can be built to any size

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UK - At PLASA 08, the TMB stand will house new brands in TMB's distribution family plus many other new product offerings. Global manufacturers will be on-site, as will TMB sales staff for hands-on demos.

TMB Architectural will present a comprehensive range of products and solutions: Distributed Architectural products include Blues System by Global Design Solutions (GDS); CueServer by Interactive Technologies; curveLED digital light curtain; the new Deja Cue lighting playback and integration processor; Digital Festoon DFS colour changing LED display systems; Falcon xenon fixtures by Alpha One; Leader Light flood and linear LED fixtures; ProAqua submersible custom cables and Tempest all-weather fixture and projection enclosures.

Innovative Film and TV lighting equipment will also be featured. A revolutionary product introduction, on display for the first time anywhere, is the ne

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UK - Visual Productions will feature the new releases for its software lighting controllers and its range of hardware interfaces including one completely new device.

Visual Productions' Lighting Control Software products will be running the lights on the stand of Lightstorm Trading. The latest releases of both Canvix and VisualDMX will be on display with an array of new features. Canvix matrix control software will be controlling LED fixtures from Dutch manufacturer TDE Light-tech and VisualDMX lighting control will be controlling the lights on display from German based company Amptown.

The control interfaces will include the latest version of touch screen user-interface, VisualTouch, which is now available for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows systems. Alongside the Frontier and Elite standalone hardware interfaces will be the new Duple interface which is compatible with bo

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Singapore - Since gaining independence in 1965, the National Day Parade in Singapore has been an annual celebration to mark the extraordinary success of this island state that has transformed from humble beginnings to a world class cosmopolitan city.

The Show Company was the official LED Display & Multimedia Control Systems vendor for The 2008 National Day Celebrations and was appointed the task of providing everything to run the visual aspects of the show. Jo Gan of The Show Company, who oversees system design, specified the latest Barco T-20 outdoor LED display as the solution for the demanding requirements of the show.

Gan said: ''Given the magnitude of the show and the stringent benchmarks associated with a national event like this, where the entire nation from the president, cabinet ministers to the common citizen is in attendance, the show demands nothing but the very be

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UK - Lightscape Projects, part of the Light Projects Group has recently supplied fittings for a lighting scheme for the Mall in London which runs from the ICA building to St James's Palace. This comprises over a hundred Lumascape high performance LS343 and LS843 inground uplighters which are illuminating the long stretch of brick wall along the Mall, as well as the ground level columns beneath the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Manufactured from 316 marine grade stainless steel with an IP68 rating and including an integral wicking barrier, the fittings are fully resistant to the ingress of water, dust and other contaminants. They provide heavy duty high performance coupled with a vandal-resistant OptiWhite lens system capable of withstanding point loads of up to 4200kg, says the company.

The LS343 fittings are using 35W Metal Halide CDMT lamps, while the LS843 fittings have th

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Taiwan - GlacialTech has announced the availability of BR30 Light Emitting Diode (LED) lights. The LED BR30 Globes come in two models which range in brightness.

The LED BR30 bulbs are designed to replace the equivalent BR30 globes and lamps available in markets today. They use lower wattage compared with the original product, with the high brightness 720 Lumen illumination.

The innovative product incorporates the same structure and style of traditional BR30 bulbs but delivers a brighter performance per watt, with less heat radiation. The LED BR30 Globe can be used for general everyday use from indoor applications to spotlighting and street lighting applications, and incorporates all the latest luminary technology garnered from GlacialTech's resources, combining years of experience in designing cooling systems as well as all manner of consumer electronic device power supplies,

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UK - PLASA 08 provides the perfect platform for A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd (formerly known as A.C. Lighting Ltd), to reinforce its new name and wide range of industry products and related services.

The company's stand features leading brand innovations from its four specialist divisions - A.C. Lighting, A.C. Audio, A.C. Rigging and A.C. Video - as well as providing specialist knowledge on applications using these technologies. A.C. Lighting will be showcasing a selection of innovations across its range of traditional and intelligent lighting fixtures, control, dimming and power distribution, effects, cables and connectors.

As the worldwide distributor for Chroma-Q, the stand will feature the brand's complete range of LED products for all types of entertainment and architectural lighting applications - including the new Color Span - a configurable, low-profile, ultra-b

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China - With the slogan "One World, One Dream" all nations were invited by the People's Republic of China to the Summer Olympics 2008, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. The Opening Ceremony has been held on August 8th in the Beijing National Stadium, - the "Bird's Nest" - which can seat as many as 91,000 spectators. More than 2,300 DMX controlled fixtures transformed the stadium into a never before seen sea of lights.

Clay Paky Alpha Wash 1200 played a key role in colouring the various scenes for what will be remembered as one of the most spectacular, colourful and thrilling ceremonies of the beginning of this century.

"These are the Games of the records, so is the Opening Ceremony", said Sha Xiao Lan, lighting designer of the Opening and Closing Ceremony. "To control this never before seen rig of lights I chose the grandMA

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UK - Having previously run the successful installation company, Xtreme Audio Visual, Craig Wiggins has set up a new event production company from his base in Clacton-on-Sea, in partnership with Essex Sound & Light's Mike Glover.

MRL Productions will specialise in providing a complete sound, lighting, video and staging technical service to the corporate event, theatre, fashion show and concert sector.

Their biggest contract to date has been with Great Leighs, the first new racecourse that has been set up in the last 80 years.

John Holmes' new venture - situated between Braintree and Chelmsford - hosts night racing as well as a large number of corporate functions for which MRL has been providing sound and lighting. This includes the opening night when Alexander O'Neal performed in front of an audience of 600.

The company has already developed a cutting-edge hire fleet. This

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UK - MilTec (UK) is exhibiting at PLASA 08, showing a new range of 3W and tri-colour LED units, along with the established PAR64 LED cans and 1m battens. Also on display will be a video dance floor.

Also featuring will be high quality conventional stage lighting and followspots from FAL Lighting. On adjoining stands will be the following suppliers, all distributed in the UK by MilTec:

Ecler will be displaying a number of new products including the XPA11000 amplifier (2x 1185W @ 4 Ohms), DP400 and .amic- 6 channel and 4 channel processors, and the AMI2-70 mixer- amp. They will also be showing all of their amplifier ranges (MPA, DPA, XPA & DT) and a wide range of professional speaker cabinets.

PR Lighting will be featuring the XL range of moving heads including the new XL 250 spot luminaire, featuring zoom optics and an iris. Also on the stand will be the XS 300 spot, several

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USA - FocusTrack, the production lighting documentation system, is currently helping three shows with their Broadway transfers, all three taking advantage of the system's ability to precisely document the lighting in order to allow its faithful re-creation and then long-term maintenance.

Billy Elliot, lit by Rick Fisher and programmed by Vic Smerdon, has been using FocusTrack since the show opened in London in 2005. The show is controlled by a Strand 500-series console; FocusTrack imported the show data and generated a list of the focus positions actually used by each light; it then controlled the console to allow a photograph of each lamp focus, together with a written description, to be added. This left the production team with a complete record of the components that make up the show lighting, which has already allowed them to create the Australian production of Bil

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UK -Lighting control manufacturer LightProcessor is launching new dimming products at PLASA 08 and showing the full ranges of its Paradim and Dimension dimmers, along with its QCommander and Zip lighting control desks and dynamic range of DMX tools.

The new RCBO Paradim wall-mounted dimmer, offers all the features and values of the standard Paradims, with an RCBO on each channel for compliance with the new 17th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations (BS7671).

Also new at the show are two socketed versions of the Paradim wall mounted installation dimmer and two new versions of LightProcessor's Dimension wall mounted series. All four of these products feature 12 Cee 17s and 2 Schukos. The Paradims are available with MCB, Double Pole and RCBO options. The Dimension range continues to be one of the most versatile and cost-effective wall dimming ranges on the market.

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Italy - The Alpha Beam 300 and Alpha Beam 1500, new concept Beam Moving Lights by Clay Paky, have been both nominated for the Plasa Award for Innovation 2008.

Presented exclusively by Clay Paky, the Alpha Beam is not a spot or even a wash, some call it a "sposh", say the company.

The Alpha Beam produces a super-concentrated parallel light beam for a similar use to that of a PAR64 ACL, always present at all the great rock shows, but with decidedly "superior and innovative characteristics".

The Alpha Beam 1500 is ultra bright and "eco-friendly" thanks to the new special Clay Paky optical group, it produces a much greater brightness than other lights of the same power, achieving projection distances reached only by lights of thousands of watts, but with the energy consumption of a 1500W light bulb. This enables it to be used instead of considerably

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UK - Stage Electrics provided staging, lighting, power distribution, sound and crew in support of the annual Trafalgar Square Festival over a three week period from 7 - 23 August. Trafalgar Square Festival is London's annual programme of street arts and performance, set in the heart of the capital.

Part of the festival included a giant screen installed at the foot of Nelson's Column, which played scenes from the Beijing Olympics. The screen showed everything from the opening ceremony in Beijing to the closing ceremony, and the handover to London and captured all of Team GB's successes. The festival had plenty of Chinese inspired performances to accompany the Olympic theme with acts and performances from the Flying Dragon Circus and the Yellow Earth Theatre. Many of the artists taking part in the festival used digital imagery and art as part of their act.

Stage Electrics worked

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Italy - The key feature of SGM's Giotto Digital 1500 is the revolutionary introduction of the Digital Module which - using a clever application of DLP technology from Texas Instruments - enables the Giotto to project graphic effects with the brightness and speed of professional moving head fixtures, says the company.

Giotto Digital 1500 is the first and only moving head fixture on the market able to create all-digital, completely customizable graphic effects, finally overcoming the typical limits of effects generated by traditional gobo patterns, iris, beam shapers and zoom components.

The Giotto 1500 series is a whole new range of 'super bright' moving heads for production, stage and touring. Designed as a versatile and modular range which includes Spot, Wash and Profile variants, with the pinnacle version centring on a unit fitted with the High Tech 'Digital' module.

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China - After 17 days of competition, Olympics 2008 ended with another stunning show in the Beijing National Stadium. Similar to the Opening Ceremony, more than 2,300 DMX controlled fixtures were used to create a worthy finish for the Games. Three grandMA full-size plus three grandMA full-size as backup, two grandMA light as well as 46 MA NSPs controlled the lighting rig.

Paul Collison, who was responsible for the control system and broadcast lighting, reported, "It always amazes me that the first time people really focus on the Closing Ceremony is two days after the opening. Beijing was no different. What made things very hard was we only had three nights with the stadium lights off. In total this amounts to only 18 hours of programming.

"Compare this to the six months of programming and thought that goes in to an opening and you start to see my point. For that reas

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UK - PixelRange will launch PixelMax at PLASA. A high powered six-cell wash light will introduce this new family of luminaires. 16 of these bright fixtures will feature on the rig designed by lighting designer Vince Foster. Other new products include the high resolution PixelMax Pro and a new addition to the PixelArt range - a compact 36 by 6 pixels half-length PixelArt.

PixelMax Pro is a combined wash and pixellation luminaire, featuring 288 RGBA high intensity Luxeon Rebel LEDs. Built around the same housing as the PixelMax Wash, the PixelMax Pro offers the added flexibility of 18 individually controlled cells in a 3x6 matrix. This cellular configuration gives the user the ability to produce low resolution visual effects, in addition to using the fixture as a high power wash light with a vast colour palette.

PLASA will also see the launch of a major new software upgrade for

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UK - Lighting Partners, operators of usedlighting.co.uk, will be returning for the second year at PLASA 2008 next week. Featuring a range of products drawn from their comprehensive stock of used lighting equipment the stand will also feature SeaChanger colour engines and the range of Smoke Factory fog machines and hazers.

David Morgan of Lighting Partners says: "It's been a fantastic year for Lighting Partners with sales growth surpassing all expectations, doubling our warehouse space and consolidating our position as the number one supplier of used lighting equipment in the UK. The PLASA show enables us to meet customers old and new and push our international presence still further whilst also showcasing our new offerings like cable manufacture, equipment servicing and our demonstration facility which will be online shortly after the show."

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France / UK - Robert Juliat will launch two new products at the PLASA08. One of these, the Le Cin'k Fresnel spotlight, has been nominated for the 2008 PLASA Innovation Awards.

Designed to fill the need for a powerful Fresnel specifically designed for theatre, Le Cin'k is a new range of 250mm Fresnel lens spotlights that can be configured to accept 2500W tungsten, 5000W tungsten or 1200W discharge (MSR/MSD) lamps, with a further option for a 2.5kW MSR hot-restrike module to follow by the end of 2008. The mirror, lamp base and metal lamp-house casing is designed as a single component that can be quickly and easily interchanged to suit the requirements of a particular show.

As well as its adaptability, Le Cin'k has been designed to overcome many of the problems theatre users face when trying to adapt studio Fresnels to theatre use. Le Cin'k has a double slot front cassette slot,

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UK - Robe is using PLASA08 to launch its Robe Digital campaign, taking the opportunity of showcasing the new products in its Digital ranges of moving lights.

This will also be linked to the launch of Robe's international roadshow, a major product awareness tour and workshop, currently scheduled to run until Christmas 2008.

This reflects the growing importance of digital technology in the quest for creative innovation, and Robe's commitment to offer lighting, visual and scenic designers the best and most flexible tools on the market, says the company. It also indicates the need to develop greener technologies to help contribute to a more environmentally sustainable industry.

The DigitalSpot 7000 DT Is a powerful digital moving light based on LCD and LED technology and is a combination of digital projector and two RGBW LED modules, offering digital gobo effects and the project

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UK - The range of seminars and workshops for PLASA08 (which opens at Earls Court in London this Sunday) has attracted the highest-ever number of advance online bookings. The sessions, which are free, cover a broad range of industry subjects and interests.

Sunday's special interest seminar programme includes two Infocomm seminars; the Institute of Acoustics, Royal Shakespeare Company, National Skills Academy, PMA and Arup feature on Monday; Tuesday sees sessions from the Arcola Theatre, National Theatre, ATG/ABTT and Cirque du Soleil; while Wednesday's line-up is headed by the Institute of Acoustics and CC Skills' Creative Apprenticeships seminar. Technologies For Worship is hosting seminars on every day of the show.

Meanwhile, manufacturer-led sessions include Zero 88 (Sunday), Alcons, Wireless Solution, White Light and Martin Professional (Tuesday) and Cast Software (Wednesda

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