Tour lighting was provided by Axxis Inc, with lighting design, direction and programming by Nick West. Video was provided by Big Picture.
When it came to specifying lighting control for the tour, the Jands Vista was Nick's desk of choice. Nick is an experienced user of the Vista range, switching between a rented full-size T2 console for tours and his own S1 control surface for fly dates or using as a wing, which
The spectacle took place on the Piata Constitutie, in front of the Parliamentary Palace and the 800m long Bulevardui Unirii. The Bucharest City Hall, which sponsored the spectacle, called it the "best New Year's show Rumania had ever seen".
(Jim Evans)
Emissions associated with the tour (such as electricity generated from the shows, air and road transportation, including touring party and freight) was calculated and a reinvestment made into renewable energy projects. This effectively balanced out the impact the One Way Road tour had on the climate and is a positive investment to assist the current situation of global warming.
People travelling to the concert by carbon transport even had the opportunity to purchase a Green ticket which incurred an extra cost of 50 cents - this money was also donated to renewable energy projects to help make this a truly carbon neutral tour.
The obvious path for lighting designer Dave Jackson was to use LED fixtures in the show and he opted for the new Mart
In the coming weeks these designers will be asking their colleagues to voluntarily give a day's royalties to Behind the Scenes in North America or Light Relief in the UK, the two charities which provide assistance to their colleagues in the entertainment technology industry when a crisis occurs.
These designers know that without the support of the many dedicated technicians and assistants in theatres and venues across the country, they would not be where they are tod
Kai Schwind adapted the original story and directed. The Three Investigators were created at the beginning of the 1960s by the US journalist and author, Robert Arthur.
The sold out tour relied heavily on lighting and video as well as digital sound effects. mb-media Engineering and Design used a control system consisting of one grandMA2 full-size console, two MA NPUs (Network Processing Unit), one grandMA2 replay unit with one grand
The event involved a Thai-themed gala dinner created by the famed Australian Michelin Star chef, David Thompson, of Nahm in Belgravia, and a cabaret of Australian artists including Philip Quast, Kirby Hughes and Sam Harrison to entertain the diners. The evening culminated in the presentation of the much-coveted Australia Day UK awards for Australian of the Year, Honorary Australian of the Year and Young Australian Achiever of the Year.
Point Source Productions provided lighting for the exterior and reception areas for the evening, in addition to lighting the Gala Dinner and cabaret. Lighting designer David Miller, working on behalf of Point S
Al Parkinson, the production manager for The Power of Yes, explains, "We knew that we wanted to make this show look as high tech as possible and while we'd used projection before, we'd never used LED screens. We used the internet to research a number of companies' products and then invited them to demonstrate them.
"During the show, some of the time, the screens were
As reported in the Scottish News of the World on 7 February, the lecturer, who for six months had gone by the name 'Simon Cadell', was in fact Simon Brophy, the former head of lighting at the Millennium Dome who was jailed for four-and-a-half years in 2005 after being convicted of a £4m fraud at the Dome.
The deception apparently came to light following allegations that Cadell had had a relationship with a student. He was immediately suspended by the Academy.
Last year, "Simon Cadell" was mentioned in RSAMD press releases as part of its lecturing team that had been named "the best in the world" by OISTAT at the World Stage Design Exhibition & Conference 2009, in Korea. As of this morning, "Simon Cade
Back to The Eighties - Blondie will play an outdoor show in the UK as part of The Forestry Commission's annual series of outdoor concerts. The show, at the Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire will take place on 20 June. Happy Mondays will headline the Saturday night of this year's Wychwood Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse on 5 June.
TriTec AV of Amman provided the lighting and sound setup for the event. Among the arsenal of gear used for the show were 34 Clay Paky Alpha Wash 575, 24 Clay Paky Alpha Spot 1200 HPE, and 16 Clay Paky Alpha Beam 1500 fixtures, all controlled with a grandMA Full Size console.
TriTec senior production manager Rajai Khalil explained, "For the Akon show we used almost the same amount of Clay Paky fixtures as in Distant Heat (the summer dance party held in the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan). We didn't have many technical details or even a ligh
The appointment was confirmed by Ernie Armas, PR Lighting's international sales director. Setting out the rationale, Armas states, "One of the main reasons for hiring Fons was to improve our communications and develop new relationships with the European distribution network.
"We felt it was necessary to recruit a strong player that could help us achieve that goal. Fons comes to us with not only an already established network of contacts, having for over five years been European sales director for High End Systems, but also a solid reputation of achievement and credibility.
"We are very excited to have him onboard and feel that this new partnership will enable us to achieve our strategy for future growth."
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The BCS Championship game on 7 January, pitted the two top-rated, undefeated teams in America, the Alabama Crimson Tide versus the Texas Longhorns. And though the historic Rose Bowl's sheer size prevents it from being considered an intimate venue, the stadium's new Lighthouse LED screen delivers a video experience to each fan that feels like watching high-definition television in the family room with 95,000 of your closest friends.
"Lighthouse is honoured to be such an integral part of the Rose Bowl," said Ed Whitaker, Lighthouse N.A.S.A director of sales. "
Haus and his company Prodigy Lighting Design are based in Maryland USA. He is a lighting designer and programmer and owns a number of his own consoles. He came across Clarity last year whilst programming a live TV broadcast in Colorado, USA where Clarity was part of the house rig.
"I found it to be very intuitive and easy to programme," comments Haus. "So much so that after the gig I immediately contacted the USA distributor Applied Electronics and purchased my very own VX20 Wing and software.
On arriving in the Europe with the Wolfmother tour, Clarity continued to be a real time saver for Haus when he was faced with combining their touring fixtures with the local house rigs.
He adds, "Clarity's easy pat
This was hosted at the Sarova Whitesands Hotel & Spa in Bamburi, near Mombasa on the Kenyan coast, and produced by Oriflame's in house production team.
The project, the site and the logistics were managed for Gearhouse by Bill Lawford and Eyal Yehezkely, working closely with account handler Gareth Hadden.
Forty four Gearhouse SA crew - designers, engineers and technicians - worked across all the disciplines, utilising 63 tonnes of production equipment that was air freighted out of SA via Nairobi in a 747 freighter. The SupaDome was transported to Mombasa in seven 40ft Hi-Cube sea freight containers.
The event compr
Initially, the town of Tignes sought to freshen up its image in order to better match its reputation as a young, dynamic resort. Lighting designer Jean-Philippe Corrigou therefore turned to Martin Professional visual solutions to bring about this dynamism through lighting.
The first project, the Maison de Tignes, is a large reception centre located just below the ski slopes. It enables guests to orientate themselves, obtain information and have fun, all while getting warm.
The architecture of the building, which is made completely out of wood, is simple and chalet-like and, due to its dimensions,
Clifton Productions supplied a large array of equipment to this year's event including Robe moving lights and Anolis LED fixtures which were used on stage and throughout the venue.
The event's art director was Mal Nichols of Mal Nichols and Associates. "The design elements had to be three-dimensional to allow lighting and texturing to be a back drop to the talent", says Nichols. "So the lighting was required to be flexible and allow for subtl
Avolites were exhibiting their first Pearl desk at the PLASA Show in 1994, when Fremlab paid a visit to their stand. Managing director Carl-Fredrik Malmgren remembers: "I was visiting with a lighting designer, as we were looking for a new console when, after one hour, he approached me to say, 'I have found the new console, an Avolites!' I thought it was out of my price range, but then when I checked it out I got a very interesting quote."
Avolites representative Tony Shembish informed them they were the first to purchase on the opening day of PLASA, making their model PRL001.
Sadly, though, the desk has now seen its last gig with Fremlab. With l
The entire lighting design concept is defined by lighting design company Gelania. The entire facade is illuminated with LED lighting - 66 sets of Traxon Outdoor RGB Dot Strings serve to highlight the building edges, making it change colour continuously.
The installation company Tbilisi City Hall states: "We are happy with the Dot String, It is flexible, and also the connection system made our job easier during the installation.
The MultiBar can be mounted on a 35mm dia. tripod stand, or suspended from a truss or lighting bar using a pair of hook clamps. Rugged metal brackets allow each fixture to be tilted and swivelled individually.
The sophisticated switched mode power supply has four internal and three DMX modes of operation: Fade(29 selectable fade patterns), Auto (33 selectable chase patterns, Colour (19 selectable colour presetsColour Pattern (mixed scene mode with 9 presets, DMX Preset (5 DMX channels to remotely control intern
The Christie MicroTiles system represents a step forward in large-format display technology, offering "superior colour and image reproduction, the widest possible viewing angles, and a near absence of seams on display walls, with only a 1mm gap between the tiles," says the company.The groundbreaking LED- and DLP-based system is designed for long, reliable commercial use in public areas, with no lamps or other consumable parts to replace. The LED light engine, a key component of MicroTiles, is rated at 65,000 hours to half brightness usage, or nearl
Haute Qualité Environnementale (High Quality Environmental) is the standard for green building in France, based on the principles of sustainable development first set out at the 1992 Earth Summit. The standard is controlled by the Paris based Association pour la Haute Qualité Environnementale.
The garden was an integral part of architect Wallyn Sézille Eurl's vision for the re-build, and lighting it enables the space to be enjoyed after dark in addition to bringing an exciting new dynamic to the space. Naturally they wanted to use LEDs for all the energy saving and environmentally friendly properties - low power an
A variation of the original Impression XL model, which utilises 240 K2 LEDs to deliver high light output and brilliant colour performance, the new 'RGBWW' version features five colours rather than the previous three. Adding to the red, green and blue diodes are two circuits of white - one rated at 3200K and the other at 7200K.
Adding two white channels to the existing RGB format gives designers more shades of colour than was achievable before, particularly with pastel ranges, and the ability to use single white LEDs for powerful and clean open white beams.
Also new is the Volkslicht fixture, which brings affordability without compromise to those wa
Marcin Michna, one of Transcolor's lighting designers explained the reasons for purchasing grandMA2: "After nearly two years of the completely reliability of working with grandMA 'series 1', Transcolor made the natural decision to purchase the same equipment. This time however we have invested in two grandMA2 full-size consoles, which have already been used on two TV Shows, Strictly Come Dancing X' and Got Talent II."
Continues Michna: "With LED technology now in everyday use, we realised that our existing control desks were not sufficient to manage all the differen
Site of the 2008 Olympic Games sailing events, and now the National Training Centre for Aquatic Sports, Qingdao holds an annual 10-day festival, Qingdao Sea Culture Festiva, and is home to the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Centre Grand Theatre, a prestigious new venue which opened late summer 2009.
Four Robert Juliat Aramis 2500W HMI followspots have been installed in the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Centre Grand Theatre which, located inside the international marina, is the main venue for the opening and closing ceremonies of all major international events centred around sailing. The Grand Theatre also plays host to a growing number of international performances such as the recent Moulin Rouge - Passionate Europe by The Russian Song an
