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14 March 2016

Pierre Nègre of L'Atelier Lumière has created the special lighting concept for the shores of the park. The concept, which proposes various lighting perspectives that are 'readable' from multiple vantage points, is meant to impart a feeling of comfort and guidance. Discrete lighting gently exposes the pathways and road areas while more dynamic illumination washes the esplanade in colour according to the speed and direction of the wind.

At the heart of the new public space is a squ

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Lighting designer and video director is Willie Williams. The console was specified and programmed for the tour by Dave Sadler and is being operated on the road by chief LX Simon Sherriff. The lighting was initially programmed at Three Mills Studios, London ahead of the first UK date at the Manchester Palace Theatre by Sadler and Associate lighting designer Richard Pacholski using the new grandMA 3D visualiser.

The show utilises over 60 moving lights - a combination of Vari*Lite 500s, Martin Professional fixtures and Digital Light Curtains, plus a large generic and LED rig including Rainbow colour scrollers and Atomic strobes. The grandMA is also triggering two Hippotizer me

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The displayLED team completed installation of the digiLED screen just in time for the first Nat West One Day International between England & West Indies earlier this year. Since then, the screen has been in use for professional cricket events in the Liverpool Victoria County Championship, The Friends Provident Trophy, The Twenty20 Cup and the Nat West Pro40. In addition the screen has been used to add value to grass roots cricket events such as the Drax Cup for Under 9's.

The giant screen plays a big part in Headingley Carnegie's ground and Ea

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The installation was designed and specified by Callison Architects of Seattle, in conjunction with Mode Studios' Bob Bonniol. Scott Bokowski, the project producer, headed up installation and system integration along with Larry Darling of Epic Production Technologies. Show Control systems, control racks and audio systems were designed and provided by Electrosonic and include four Hippotizer Stage media servers. Custom media content and live, real-time interactive control was provided by Mode Studios.

"This project presented a number of challenges," says Bob B

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Hawthorns MD Martin Hawthorn commented, "We bought the larger BB16s a while ago and have been very impressed with the units. Therefore it was a natural progression to increase our i-pix stock and the BB4s have been a popular choice, both with our own in-house technicians and also our dry hire customers."

(Jim Evans)

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14 March 2016

The Forestry Tour requested standardised production at each of the sites to make it easier and more effective for the artists touring between them over a six week period. To achieve this the company added to its ever growing stock of lighting equipment by investing in Avolites 24-channel ART 2000 dimmer racks and expanded its already large rental stock of Adam Hall cable ramp. All generators were well maintained to deliver constant event power and all power circuits were tested to give the highest level of safety and reliability.

They deployed two dedicated Forestry Tour teams, one led by Pearce Hire's pro

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The proceeds from the concerts will go towards permanent funding for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and Museum, established in 1984 by Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun who died in 2006.

Dublin Protest - People who live close to the Croke Park stadium in D

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The show's central claw shaped truss has a centre spire that rises over 50m above the show deck. Around the stadium are truss towers that contain follow spots and PRG Bad Boy moving lights.

One of the many challenges the tour faced was to reliably get data to the towers without having to run kilometres of cable around the stadium. Wireless DMX with a proven track record of high data fidelity, minimum radio footprint, and system reliability was needed, and since the tour travels across the globe in outdoor arenas and stadiums it needed to be intern

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Designed to offer a high output from a 1500W lamp, and a very 'fat' beam from its large front lens, the Martin Mac III builds on the feature set and reliability of the long-established Mac 2000 range. The fixture offers CMY plus CTO colour mixing, a seven position colour wheel, twin five-position rotating gobo wheels, Martin's gobo animation wheel, a four-facet rotating/indexing prism, and an iris together with a wide-range zoom that can take the beam from 11.5degrees up to 55degrees; zoom and focus are also linked for the first time in a Martin fixture.

For set-up convenience, the Martin Mac III has a battery-powered setup display/keyboard, allowing units to be addressed and configured on the ground without needing to

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Hugh Vanstone, who was responsible for the lighting design in London, also delivered the design for the show playing at the Musical Dome in Cologne, which was programmed by associate lighting designer Stuart Porter. For this task Porter relied on a grandMA system solution.

During production two grandMA full-size and a grandMA ultra-light were used, with one grandMA full-size left in control of the show. "Working with the grandMA was a breeze, especially because of its networking capabilities," reported programmer Marcus Krömer. "This also enabled the in-house programmer to learn the desk while I was programming."

15 x Vari*Lite VL3000 Spots, 10 VL2500 Spots, 14 VL2500 Washes and 18 VL500 TP (Paste

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In previous years, Universal Arts has used ETC's Congo lighting control desks. However, at PLASA Focus in April, ETC launched Element. This new desk caught the attention of Universal Arts production manager, Anthony Newton, who approached ETC's Jeremy Roberts to explore the possibility of using Element to light all the shows in the Universal Arts Festival of international theatre.

Newton says: "Element seemed like the perfect desk for Fringe venue application. It has the software of the successful Eos and Ion range with simplified features to ease user control, making the basic functions easier to navigate with greater hands on fader control. It's a much friendlier looking desk to the inexperienced or unfamiliar operator.

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Kave supplied a comprehensive package to multiple stages of both generic and moving lights, scalable sound systems, all necessary rigging and staging and a quantity of the site power infrastructure.

SPLAT Fest, celebrating Student Performance Literature Art & Theatre at the University of Warwick, is dedicated to creating opportunities for all students to pursue their creative talents. The Festival is now in its sixth year and proved to be the most successful to date.

For the first time, this year the event moved into an A&J Bigtop dubbed "The BigSPLAT". This provided the organisers some much needed space to expand the festival, allowing two stages to work back to back in the same venue. With a packed schedule this was e

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Apart from the champions who will compete in the most popular beach sports, the spotlights will be focused on Proel equipment, chosen by Happy Sound Service to amplify the running commentary, to reinforce the sound of the numerous scheduled shows and to light up the field during the night tournaments.

The sound reinforcement set up for the Beach Stadium activities includes, four Proel NEOS218SP subs, four Proel NEOS152P speakers, racks of four Proel HPD3400PFC power amplifiers and AS025 processor.

When the Stadium becomes the stage for bigger events, its sound reinforcement turns to Axiom with six Proel AX3210P speakers, eight Pro

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The amBIENT XC can be pre-programmed or will respond in real-time to visual and/or aural stimuli, such as video or audio signals. Sophisticated control of interpretation and output parameters offers dynamic control of mood and atmosphere in spaces of all kinds. The amBIENT XC control system also provides a low-cost yet impressive upgrade solution for venues or productions

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Celebrating its 90th Anniversary this year, Robert Juliat is a three-generation family business which has specialised in the manufacture of lighting equipment since 1919.

With sections on profile lanterns, single lens luminaires, dimmers and a range of specialist products - in addition to its followspots - the new brochure gives insights into why Robert Juliat products are so popular and is the most comprehensive brochure to date.

(Jim Evans)

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The 50 mark was passed when Graeme Sewell of Vortex Lighting from County Durham in the north east of England purchased two DigitalSpot 3000 DTs.

It was his first investment in the Robe brand. His primary motivation for the sale is that in addition to servicing its own shows, Vortex undertakes a lot of dry hires to other north-east based companies who are busy with various corporate events - generally a mix of presentations, product launches and exhibitions of all types. "DigitalSpot is a special product and I think it will be very popular in this market, especially after people see its capabilities first hand."

Using DigitalSpots

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The FlexDOT concept is simple - individually controlled, intelligent, full colour pixels mounted on a flexible cable that allows designers/architects to create unique and customized LED video displays. Each pixel (dot) consists of a bright RGB LED driven by its own processor and individually addressable for independent control of colour, special effects, and animation. Pixels can be arranged as needed and later mapped to the image using pixel mapping software. FlexDOT can be controlled from any DMX512 source such as Martin's Maxedia media server.

Standard pixel spacing is 100 mm or 200

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R24 delivers the actual results as visualized for the project - as opposed to a mock-up image not based on industry technology. With wysiwyg's proprietary library of over 20,000 lights, gobos and trusses, there is no "cheating" needed so Shaded View and Renderings are replicable on stage, in the venue, on the set or wherever.

R24 is built on the significant advances made in R22 + R23. Its new visualization raises the standard for the industry. In addition to the new features and visualization, its developmental accomplishments have not sacrificed wysiwyg's robustness or performance. Indeed, a lot of work

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14 March 2016

The BRDC Ball is held in a luxury marquee erected adjacent to the Members' Clubhouse on the Saturday evening of the 2009 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix weekend.

Personalities from the motor racing fraternity, including Jenson Button, Jodie Scheckter and David Coulthard appeared on stage to talk about their experiences to the BBC's and ex-Radio Caroline's Jonny Walker.

A.C. Special Projects., a sister company of BRDC Rising Stars Programme Patron, A.C. Entertainment Technologies, provided the Clubhouse's temporary architectural lighting installation for a second year. The scheme carried a similar theme to last year, with vivid colour washes onto the roof level

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Serena Water Park is the largest indoor water park in Europe with approximately 18,000sq.m in total space. The conditions are very extreme. The temperature is around 34°-35° Celsius without a crowd and can climb as high as 40°C with a full audience. The humidity is tropical, around 90%.

38 Clay Paky Alpha Beam 300 fixtures, plus eight Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 300s, su

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A full-service lighting, audio and video production and rental company, PCE had purchased 48 of the Elation panels, which are modular in design and can be used to create vibrant video pixel screens, curtains and backdrops. Measuring 2'1" x 2'1" x 3", the transparent tiles are compact and lightweight, and with an IP65 rating, can be used indoors or outdoors.

PCE decided to host the open house to demo the product - which it refers to simply as The Wall. "We wanted to get the word out about The Wall, because it creates new possibilities for our existing clients, as well as opens opportunities for us to sell new markets," said Ryan Steidinger, PCE's director of operations.

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14 March 2016

To bring Dallas sports fans the most intense excitement at every game, the centre-hung display will comprise four Lighthouse P4 4mm screens, each producing 1080p Full HD images. The display also will include four P10 10mm scoring screens and two P16 16mm screens, an octagonal and a round-sh

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The Emmy statue is the first in the Academy's 61 year history to be awarded for television lighting technology, and will be presented on Saturday 22 August, at the Renaissance Hotel in Los Angeles.

Litepanels list of customers extends beyond television and feature production, and includes the Whitehouse and Pentagon Briefing Rooms, the International Space Station, CNN's Election Bus, news helicopters, and numerous TV news studios and ENG crews.

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"We've previously worked with Milligan on several projects within the prestigious MetQuarter Shopping Centre in Liverpool and were therefore delighted when they brought us on board for this project at Manchester Airport," said Tony Rhodes, project manager, Stage One.

The sculpture consisted of a series of 'mother ship' tubes suspended from the ceiling, from which thin steel arms were cantilevered out in a 'random' fashion. Attaching 71 blue EncapSulite fittings to these over the 47m length of the sculpture then creat