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USA - Custom-designed Lighthouse LED video screens introduce a new fixture on the Los Angeles skyline - Motor Village, Chrysler's Dealership of the Future. Motor Village is a prototype, multi-floor, multi-brand dealership rising just blocks from the Los Angeles Convention Centre, the Staples Centre arena and the L.A. Live sports and entertainment district in downtown Los Angeles.

Built to the architect's specifications, with AV and design consulting by Anthony James Partners, three curved LED video screens rise from the focal point of the dealership - a five-story glass tower -and reach out to the I-110, a downtown freeway carrying over 350,000 drivers past the dealership each day. Each screen is nearly 5.18m wide and 3.05m high, with curvature matching that of the unique building.

"The project was a chance to work with a top-notch design team and one of the world'

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USA - Now Elation Professional has introduced an indoor LED video panel that can "move like no other". The EPV762 MH is a high-resolution 7.62mm pitch moving head video panel that can rotate just like a moving yoke light fixture, panning a full 540° and tilting up to 265°.

The EPV762 MH's sweeping motion gives video displays maximum exposure at shows and events, since the screen is viewable from all sides and every angle. Equipped with 4,096 tri-color (red, green, blue) SMD LEDs and featuring 2,000-nit brightness, this versatile screen will create eye-popping high-res videos, graphics, text messages, special effects, or any other images you wish to display - and 'broadcast' them around the room with its smooth pan/tilt motion, says the company.

Part of the company's new Elation Pro Video Series, the EPV762 MH panel was developed to give stage, lighting and ev

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USA - GLP German Light Products Inc, based in Sun Valley, California has issued a statement in order to clarify its position regarding its status as an authorised distributor of Global Truss products.

The company says: "GLP Inc is indeed a fully authorized and stocking distributor, of the entire Global Truss range of products manufactured by the Global Truss Corporation. A letter of appointment confirming our appointment can be viewed at our website at www.germanlightproducts.com. GLP Inc. takes its position in the market very seriously and believes in high ethical values. GLP Inc. is not only fully authorized as a distributor, but is also fully insured and fully legal in its activities. "

George Lee, CEO of Global Truss Corporation reinforced: "We are extremely happy to bring GLP US on board as a new distributor in the USA. The business model that they have est

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New Zealand - PixelRange has announced the first sale of the PixelPar into New Zealand. Wellington-based MJF Lighting no sooner received the 24 units into its hire inventory than the PixelPars were out on their first lighting assignment.

MJF Lighting purchased the lights - for use at corporate events, concerts, product launches and in theatre - without ever having seen them in action. MD Michael Farrand reports, "We wanted to move forward and invest in LED technology that would suit a touring environment. We believed James Thomas has a very good name for high quality products that would last and service our needs.

"We saw them advertised, checked out their website and compared the PixelPars against other fixtures on paper. Although it was a 'blind' buy, we had done our research and knew exactly what we were purchasing."

The PixelPars have been out on hire almo

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Sweden - LumenRadio has announced the immediate release and availability of CRMX OEM modules in the 82 x 46 mm W-DMX form factor.

The new modules are form, fit, and function compatible with Wireless Solution's OEM cards and offer a convenient upgrade path to LumenRadio's award winning CRMX technology and a secure supply chain for legacy device designs while retaining W-DMX compatibility," says Hans Lau, LumenRadio's director of OEM development.

"We have repeatedly been approached by OEMs who tested our CRMX technology and found it vastly superior to their existing wireless DMX solutions. These OEMs were at the same time looking to secure a more reliable supply chain and better technical support. The obvious solution was to port our CRMX OEM products to the legacy W-DMX form factor; offering these OEMs a single source for CRMX technology and W-DMX protocol compatibili

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Glastonbury 2011 - Coldplay have been confirmed as one of the three headliners at this year's Glastonbury Festival in Somerset. The band will play the main Pyramid Stage on Saturday 25 June. Organiser Michael Eavis said, "Coldplay have played such a major part in the festival over the last 10 years or so. This is the triumphant return of a band that everyone here feels part of. They're one of the greatest phenomena to grow from these fields." Coldplay last headlined Glastonbury in 2005 and also topped the bill in 2002, three years after first appearing at the festival. Beyonce has also been announced as a headliner and will perform on the Pyramid Stage on the last day of the event, Sunday 26 June.

Eurovision Latest - X Factor twins Jedward have become Ireland's next Eurovision entrants with the song Lipstick. The duo beat four other acts on RTE's Late

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China - An ETC Eos lighting control desk played a lead role for Cologne Opera last year, as the company took two shows to China.

The company was due to perform Wagner's Ring Cycle in Shanghai to support the World Expo in the city, followed by a journey to Beijing to perform Don Giovanni. However, their house desk, a Transtechnik NTX, was needed in Cologne.

Andreas Frank, head of lighting at Cologne Opera, explains, "Although the show had been programmed for its performances in Cologne using our house desk, we would only have a few days from arriving in Shanghai until the first show. So we had to get a desk which could easily handle moving lights, and not have any difficulty importing the NTX show files.

"Our contacts at ETC in Germany put us in touch with Peter Younes, a freelance programmer and operator, who was very familiar with the Eos desk, and

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USA - Freedom Tower, a historic 1925 landmark building in downtown Miami that serves as a memorial to Cuban immigration to the United States, recently received a dynamic nighttime transformation. The architecturally noteworthy tower, tucked amongst high rises and a major sporting venue, emerges from its surroundings in a dress of customisable colour and light provided by Martin Professional Exterior 400 luminaires.

The Exterior 400 Range - a powerful yet energy-efficient line of LED light fixtures for colored or white light projection - gives Miami Dade College the flexibility to bathe the building in any colour they choose. In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, for example, the building was bathed in pink - the official colour of breast cancer awareness - for the duration of the month.

Listed on the US National Register of Historic Places, Freedom Tower

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UK - The First Night Riders - a group of motorbike riding, theatre professionals and their friends - will once more don their leathers and helmets to raise much needed funds for The Theatrical Guild (TTG). As 2010, the one-week motorcycle ride is scheduled to visit some of the UK's most exciting theatres, towns and cities. However for added excitement riders will this year visit the Isle of Man TT course and also Stratford Upon Avon, where they will have the privilege of seeing a new production of Macbeth at the regenerated Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

The 2011 ride will rev up and burn off from the National Theatre on 18 June and the event will climax on 25 June at Alexandra Palace.

Motorbike enthusiasts from the industry are invited to join in, feel the wind in their hair and raise money for TTG, either on a daily basis or for the whole engine-revving week. Information

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UK - For The Chemical Brothers latest world tour, production designer Paul Normandale decided to think outside the box - literally. He says, "My job is to turn the band's performance into a truly three-dimensional show. I'd been sent a sample of G-LEC's Solaris+ and it gave us the idea of creating a three dimensional lighting rig."

Normandale rigged an 8m diameter truss from which he hung 48 x 8m lengths of G-LEC Solaris+ to form a circle around the band - making both them and the lighting really stand out from the crowd. The 40mm diameter LED light 'balls' of Solaris+ provide 360° viewing, which means that the graphics are visible to the audience, no matter where they are seated. And the product is light enough that Normandale is able to fly it in periodically throughout the show to surround the band.

"I've never used the product before, but when I was sent

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USA / UK - Richard Cadena, a respected lighting designer and entertainment technology media professional, has joined the PLASA staff. Richard will serve as the Technical Editor for Lighting&Sound America and Lighting&Sound International magazines, and, at Protocol magazine with sr. technical editor Karl Ruling. Additionally in the PLASA North American office, Richard will serve as assistant technical standards manager.

Richard will take over as Technical Editor of Lighting&Sound International magazine from James Eade, who has helped the PLASA Media team steer the technical content of L&SI for the past nine years. Lee Baldock, editor of L&SI since 2004, said: "James has made a huge contribution to the technical content of L&SI over the years, while still running his own successful business, e-Mech. I personally would like to thank him for all his help and guidance over that

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The Netherlands - Elation Professional has introduced the Platinum Spot 5R Pro, an upgraded version of its Platinum Spot 5R DMX moving head.

Like the original, the new Platinum Spot 5R Pro features Philips MSD Platinum 5R Lamp Technology, an innovation that allows the creation of fixtures that are brighter and more powerful with superior light quality, yet are also faster, smaller, lighter weight, draw less energy and have longer-lasting lamps, says the company. But as its name suggests, the Platinum Spot 5R Pro also goes a step beyond to offer an expanded array of professional features and effects.

Among the new features on the Platinum Spot 5R Pro are a 16-bit CMY colour-mixing system, which allows users to concoct a palette of custom colours, and a Variable Zoom (4 to 1) with 11° to 42° beam angle. Additionally, the 'Pro' model is equipped with a built-in EWDMX Wire

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China - The world's largest water-based permanent show, The House of Dancing Water, is located in a purpose-built, 2000-seat theatre centred around a 160ft diameter swimming pool within Macau's City of Dreams resort.

This latest spectacular from artistic director Franco Dragone was five years in the planning and two years in creation. Lighting designer, Luc Lafortune, who has worked for many years with Dragone, designed the complex lighting for The House of Dancing Water which includes fixtures from French lighting manufacturer, Robert Juliat.

Six Robert Juliat 1800W HMI Victor followspots and 18 Robert Juliat D'Artagnan HMI zoom profile fixtures were supplied to the show's lighting supplier, White Light, by Robert Juliat dealer, Pacific Lighting HK.

The theatre is a huge space to light with a large rig of moving lights, long throw distances from differing leve

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USA - It was the 90th anniversary of the Miss America Pageant and a pair of grandMA2 light's made their debut at the show, which was telecast live on ABC from the Planet Hollywood casino-resort in Las Vegas. The pageant reunited lighting designer Allen Branton, who returned for the fourth time, and fellow lighting directors Kevin Lawson and Felix Peralta, who marked their third year and fourth year on the show respectively.

"Because of the way the pageant is structured, we had a little extra time with several days of the preliminary pageant," says Lawson. "Felix and I worked on the show for eight days splitting the lighting rig as programmers and using the grandMA2 light in multi-user-mode: Felix lit the set and I lit the people on stage and the audience."

Atomic Lighting provided the grandMA2 light and the lighting rig, which included Vari*Lite VL3500 spot

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Germany / UK - Chauvet will be promoting a number of new luminaires at Prolight + Sound and will also confirm expansion of its year-old branch in the UK. This move will serve to reinforce their commitment to the European market by being able to ship products across the continent, says the company.

"This will allow for a quicker turnaround and access to more products with increased inventory," said Stéphane Gressier, international sales manager for Chauvet.

WELL, or Wireless Event LED Luminaire, is designed specifically to be a self-contained uplight for any event. Inside each WELL wash light are 12 3W tri-colour LEDS, similar to the 14 found in the COLORado 1-TRI Tour. It's powered by a 12-volt battery offering up to 12 hours of life to the fixture.

COLORado Range IP and COLORado Ridge IP are indoor/outdoor wash lights and feature RGBWA colour mixing. The us

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Australia - LSC Lighting Systems has released new Redback Wallmount range, which previewed at PLASA last year. Billed as being more than just a dimmer, the Redback sports a number of new features including, optional relay channels, RDM, various output connector configurations, external wallplate control, and a slim figure.

A Redback Wallmount may be specified to be a combination of conventional dimmers and/or relay channels to power LEDs and intelligent lighting fixtures. For example, a 24-channel '"combo" unit provides 18 channels of dimming as well as 6 channels of relay in the same chassis.

In addition, the relay modules can be configured to be switched on or off using DMX512, auto-powered - to improve energy efficiency -- or controlled via a number of other methods in the same fashion that the standard dimming channels may be controlled.

The relay outputs provi

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Belgium - ADB Lighting systems are at the heart of two highly flexible theatres within C-Mine, a e new €300m cultural development on the site of an abandoned coalmine, in Genk, Belgium.

ADB supplied a total of 275 luminaires and 564 ways of Eurorack dimming to the project. A key aspect of the lighting installation design was the near-silent running of the Eurorack 60 dimmer. This feature enabled the design team to wall-mount the dimmers just a few metres from the main lighting bridge, thus significantly reducing the typical cable runs between dimmers and lighting fixtures and, as a result, the cost. The extra budget was then deployed to specify more dimmers, thereby greatly increasing the lighting flexibility of both theatres. "This aspect of the Eurorack dimmers has brought a big benefit to us," commented C-Mine technical director Winand Van Lil.

After the mine clo

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Australia - LSC Lighting Systems has announced the release of the new Redback Wallmount range previewed at PLASA last year. The new Redback sports a number of features including, optional relay channels, RDM, various output connector configurations, external wallplate control and a 'slim figure'.

A Redback Wallmount may be specified to be a combination of conventional dimmers and/or relay channels to power LEDs and intelligent lighting fixtures. For example, a 24-channel 'combo' unit provides 18 channels of dimming as well as six channels of relay in the same chassis.

In addition, the relay modules can be configured to be switched on or off using DMX512, auto-powered - to improve energy efficiency - or controlled via a number of other methods in the same fashion that the standard dimming channels may be controlled.

The relay outputs provide direct power by utilising physical

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UK - The first of Artistic Licence's training days, initiated and sponsored by Artistic Licence's Wayne Howell, took place on 9 February 2011. The DALI Training was deemed "a great success and attended by industry leaders, from a wide range of disciplines, working at the forefront of DALI and DMX installations". Artistic Licence Engineering MD, Simon Hobday, led the training and answered questions on this comparatively new, but ever more frequently used, protocol.

In addition to the training, the day provided a good discussion forum and delegates came away feeling they had learnt valuable points. "DALI and DMX are being pushed as major protocols and it is important that we should be up to date on the methods and means of DMX / DALI conversion and also the problems, limitations and compensation methods of doing so," says Paul Simson of Enliten.

"It was

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UK - Entertainment lighting specialists White Light collaborated with students from the Central School of Speech and Drama for the second successive year to create a showcase of the latest in lighting technology for an audience of lighting designers, technicians, consultants and others.

Held in late January, the event once again presented the equipment in a real theatrical setting, Central's Embassy Theatre. There, the equipment was set up and programmed by students from Central's lighting courses to create introductory shows that showed off the potential of the equipment. The students were then on-hand to respond to requests from visitors to demonstrate particular products or features.

The day featured early appearances for Robert Juliat's new Aledin LED Fresnel, the PixelRange PixelSmart LED washlight, Pulsar's new UV LED Chromaflood, the Galaxia LED washlight newly distribu

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UK / Italy - When controversial artist Damien Hirst revealed his latest creation - For the Love of God (FTLoG) - at the famous White Cube Gallery, London, it was a dead cert that images of it were going to beam worldwide.

And, when the artwork concerned consists of a platinum cast of a human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds, including a pear-shaped pink diamond centered in the forehead, it was also going to demand well considered illumination.

Douglas James, from architectural lighting design company Mindseye, was challenged with the task of sourcing a solution to Hirst's brief - to create the impression that the piece was suspended in thin air.

"This meant absolutely no light pollution or spill," James explains: "Sometimes the simplest of briefs can be the most challenging. Of course, we weren't able to use the actual piece to develop the l

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China - Due to growing sales of their LED lighting systems, Multiform Lighting has moved into a new 24,000sq.ft manufacturing facility in Guangzhou province, S.E. China. With 70 enthusiastic staff members the company is about to commence manufacture of the new IP65 rated MultiSpot GII luminaires which provide higher light output and more sophisticated DMX control facilities than the current products.

In addition to the assembly line, the factory includes soak testing, quality control, engineering, warehouse and administration departments.

To ensure that Multiform's reputation for build quality and reliability in operation is maintained, after full functional testing, all luminaires are burnt in for 72 hours before being packed for container shipment to their international distributors.

In addition to the Multiform brand, the factory produces a range of budget lighting produc

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UK - Italian lighting manufacturer Clay Paky has announced the first in a series of dates for its forthcoming new product tour, which will feature its latest product introductions, Sharpy, Alpha Profile700 and Shotlight Wash.

The first date will be Wednesday 2 March at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the Elgar Room. The session will start at 11am and continue through to 2pm. Drinks and a buffet lunch will be provided. Everyone with an interest is welcome to attend: please RSVP to janemonk@monkey.biz by Friday 25th February.

The tour will be visiting six venues across the UK. The next event will take place in Ireland on 4-5 May - venues to be confirmed.

(Lee Baldock)

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Sweden - On 10 December, 2010, Clay Paky played a major role in one of the highest profile events in the world - The Nobel Prize Banquet. Held since 1934 in the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall annually on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, the banquet follows the esteemed Nobel Prize Awards. The event is attended by the King and Queen of Sweden and the other members of the Royal Family, plus approximately 1300 guests, including Nobel Laureates, politicians, dignitaries and other VIPs, as well as seen by the viewing audience of a High Definition television broadcast by Swedish Television (SVT).

Lighting designer Per Sundin has been in charge of lighting the event for the past 10 years, but this was the first year Clay Paky fixtures were brought in for it. Interlite AB supplied eight Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500 fixtures for the banquet. The lighting was designed to be eleg

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