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TechRig supplied the full technical and Robert Grobler, from the aforementioned company, was appointed lighting designer of the show which was staged in a multi venue structure on the M-Net grounds. The creative brief was received just over two months ago, and Robert was given free reign in terms of design. He approached the design from a theatrical perspective, the greatest challenge being the weight restriction of the marquee tent. "We did drawings, I had various meetings with the manufacture engineers, and the final outcome was to ensure the overhead stage did not exceed 4 tons," said Grobler.

The event, which included the video clips of earlier days, dancers and performers, w

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The film, which features a star-studded cast including Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford is about a spaceship that arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way.

The Hollywood crew shot the Absolution town scenes on location in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The action packed sequences involved an old west town, full of cowboys, horses and wagons, being invaded by aliens in low-flying spacecrafts firing lasers at the town. Mike Bauman was the chief lighting technician on the show, with Scott Barnes as programmer, using six universes of data. Five of the universes were run via five W-DMX Transmitters.

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US-based Premier Global Production, who provided lighting services for the new tour, worked with lighting designer Scott Holthaus to fill his equipment needs. "We had just got 78 Sharpy fixtures, which are hot little items right now," says vice president of sales James Vollhoffer. "We were excited to add them to our inventory - it was time to make the investment since we see a demand building for them. All of ours are now on a boat heading for the European leg of the band's tour."

Holthaus continues: "Although we've never been into literal imagery, the set is a three-dimensional shape based around an asterisk. Everything radiates out into a

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The Edwardian façade of the renowned Imagination Building, 25 Store Street South Crescent (just off Tottenham Court Road), has been dressed for the silly season for the 22nd year running, providing a spectacle worth a detour for the local community.

This year's lighting display, created by the global communication agency's in-house lighting designers, uses 150m of neon lights to illuminate the 12m wide red and blue Christmas bauble.

The introduction of LED lighting this year means the Christmas façade uses just one quarter the energy consumption of previous year's displays - using the same amount of power as one microwave oven. The lights will be on every day, from 6am to midnight, until December 29, 2012.

(Jim Evans)

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Hosting the SEA Games for an unprecedented fourth time since its inauguration in Bangkok, Indonesia had high ambitions to once again be a perfect host and claim the trophy of being the most successful participating country. Careful planning went into choosing Jakarta and Palembang as host cities.

Planning for the Opening Ceremony started many months in advance. Lighting consultant Bernard Chew chose grandMA2 consoles for lighting control. Using grandMA2 on PC and grandMA 3D to plan and visualise the event, he was able to conceptualize the show and make necessary suggestions.

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Rainbow Warrior III, a purpose-built motor-assisted sailing yacht recently left the German shipyard where she was built and made her maiden voyage across the English channel and up the River Thames in London for a special Greenpeace 40th anniversary celebration. At the helm for the last leg of the Thames voyage was Michael Eavis, founder of Glastonbury Festival and enthusiastic supporter of the high profile campaigning organisation.

Entec has been involved as a technical supplier to GBQ since the concept first evolved in 2006. They were working again with l

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Suitable for architectural lighting, outdoor applications, nightclubs, hotels, museums, cruise ships, theme parks and other permanent installations, the Art SSC features two 512-DMX channel universes, as well as one DMX Input. The DMX Outputs and Input are optically isolated from each other to ensure secure, interference-free performance. The Art SSC also includes Art-Net Output and Input; MIDI In, Through and Out; and an Ethernet connection that supports HTML,

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The current Locked and Loaded Tour has performed around the globe sold out audiences everywhere and the tour continues into 2012.

Jackson cooked up a heavy metal look for Keith this year, with the heart of the stage being a 60ft wide wall of Bandit 5 x 5 Blinders that is 8ft tall. The base washes are provided compliments of Infinity Wash XL's along with the popular GRNLite Moving Wash, which provides limitless, deep, saturated colours. There are also GRNLite PARs t

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"For the past few months my turnover has been up 150% for this time of year," commented Simon Garrett, Oceania's general manager lighting. "And of course no one would commit 100% to what they wanted - they just assume we can pull something out of a hat."

Garrett took measures well in advance to prepare for the onslaught, purchasing new Jands HPC12 series dimmers (with contactor bypass) as well as additional Jands power distribution units and HPX dimmers. The HPC12 "continues the Jands tradition of building rugged and reliable dimmers and provides an innovative soluti

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With a total surface area of 500sq.m, the new branch hosts a large showroom displaying Christie's latest technologies and products, including projectors and videowalls. It also has several rooms set aside for staging live demos, commercial meetings, seminars and training courses, plus a space dedicated to technical services. The new facility is also available to Christie's clients and partners for their own use.

Christie's Iberic branch will be headed by Marcos Fern

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"The tradition of the NFL Kick Off started in Times Square in 2001 as a pre-game public event tying entertainment and sports together," says Spike Lloyd, the show's lighting designer. "This year the concert in Green Bay featured Kid Rock, Maroon 5 and Lady Antebellum. It started at 3pm and went until 6:30."

Lloyd deployed 36 Sharpy moving heads, which he acquired from Atomic Lighting in Lititz, Pennsylvania. "We used them at the back of the stage as floor lights very tightly packed and directed upstage of the band on a scenic piece shaped like a skat

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Blond were originally called in by Stemmburg Television to give the show a 'wow' factor. Noot vir Noot is produced and run by its original team, camera men included, and for Blond it has involved working with Alasdair Richards, who does the generic lighting.

"Every second season (comprising 24 episodes shot over a two week period), we've tried to give them something new," said Christian Ballot of Blond Productions. Ryan Lombard from Blond was

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The P-6 is a high resolution lightweight dynamic tile, offering 2000 Nits of brightness, available with either white or black faced SMD's, and a true 6 mm, budget friendly product, suitable for rental and staging companies and fixed installations.

Flex-10 is a newly developed ultra-thin flexible display module, currently available in 6 and 10 mm resolutions for convex and concave fixed installations. The bendable Flex-10 LED display opens many new possibilities for LED usage, says the company. It can be bent and flexed to fit curved surfaces of almost any shape or form, both convex and concave as well as horizontally and vertically.

The F-50C/F-75C/F-150C Soft Curtain LED "makes ideal stage backdrops and has great imaginative potential including for the cladding o

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Following on from the initial preview of the Clarity LX300 console at PLASA in London in September, on show at LDI for the first time anywhere in the world was the Clarity LX900 console and it received wide acclaim.

The Clarity LX range comprises three models, the LX300, LX600 and LX900 all with touch screens, multiple programmers, unlimited undo/redo, Fader Ident TM for playback mode indication, media server integration, LED pixel mapping and innovative Rig Schematic patching, that allows importing of rig or venue images to overlay patched fixtures making fixture selection both quick and easy.

Built on the already debugged Clarity PC/Mac software base that has been in the market

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Reed brings with him extensive experience in the UK theatre lighting market, which includes a detailed understanding of all aspects of lighting design, as well as practical experience in purchasing, inventory and management.

His new position as account manager at Martin UK began on 21 November and encompasses developing and managing business in the theatre lighting segment while maintaining direct contact with lighting designers and companies that supply the theatre production industry.

Reed joins Martin from Selecon Lighting/Philips Entertainment where he held a position in lighting technical sales, providing product training, technical support and lighting installation specification while overseeing the implementation of

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This was staged at Old Billingsgate Market, one of London's premium event venues. The evening featured a gala dinner for 500 guests, complete with charity auction, rounded off by a performance by Chic - headed by guitarist Nile Rogers. The event raised money for the charity, which supports additional educational initiatives encouraging children and young people to raise their achievement levels.

Renegade has worked closely with SHINE for the last eight years, producing all their live events. Each year for this special event, Renegade's Nick Gray comes up with a fresh and inventive visual theme for the evening.

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In daylight hours, the inner lights of each ring emit a soft glow of light, and mirror garlands sparkle as they move freely in the breeze. At dusk, vibrant programmed displays begin, using both the inner and outer lights, continuing until 2am. The entire scheme is programmable to create vastly different effects; precise shifts in colour and tempo can be created, to focus on one tree or to create a sequence or group effect, with over 80,000 000 possible combinations of effects per tree.

The Tree Rings installation is scalable, from a lighting effect on individual tree to the orchestration of a light show involving every tree along the entire avenue. C

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Scenofest, which was held during the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, included workshops in a wide variety of artistic disciplines; more than 70 artists and professional leaders from all over the world; and more than 1500 participants ? both students and professionals from across the globe.

Visitors to the Prague Quadrennial had the opportunity to enjoy the performances entitled Six Acts transforming locations around the city of Prague into spaces for site-specific performances and installations realized by students under the leaderships of Pavel Štoura?, Roma Patel, Louise Ann Wilson, Rolf Abderh

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Premier Global Production, which serviced the band for their last world tour, has returned as the lighting vendor for the new tour working with lighting designer Scott Holthaus.

Holthaus uses four grandMA full-size, one running video from Catalyst and D3 servers and the other running lighting, two grandMA full-size are back-up. "They are wonderful, powerful machines - I used the grandMA on every tour and they always work great, never a problem," he says. "Of the 275 shows I did on the last tour, I only went to our spare desk once."

He praises the grandMA's "sound operating sy

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Lumière 2011 features the work of dozens of artists, lighting designers and community groups in 35 installations, bringing a "sparkle of magic" to the medieval city.

Says Ashton, "It's a real testament to the piece and very flattering to be asked back with the same show. It's also extremely rare for the same creation to be requested again in its entirety, offering those who enjoyed the experience the first time around the chance to do so again, a new audience the opportunity to see it for the first time plus real value for the producers."

(Jim Evans)

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Newton faced challenges often found in smaller clubs-low ceilings, which meant little head room for truss and lighting fixtures that are easily touched-as well as a tight budget. He divided the intimate space into four zones, placing two MiN Spot RGBW movers in each. To fill some awkward corners just off the dance floor, Newton utilized four Intimidator Scan LED 200 scanners. The compactness of these fixtures allowed them to remain discreet and

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A steady stream of national and international stars has added Herning to their touring schedules. Seeking to support the wide variety of performances and special events, arena owners Messe Center Herning A/S (MCH) contacted Martin Professional Scandinavia about a new night-time lighting design.

"The whole idea was to create an arena of international status and capacity and MCH wanted a lighting scheme that would express this while creating a landmark for the entire region," states Anders Birch, sales manager at Martin Profe

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Launching the scheme, Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove claimed it "will deliver a music education system that encourages everyone, whatever their background, to enjoy music and help those with real talent to flourish as brilliant musicians" while culture minister Ed Vaizey said that the new resources would help "provide our fantastic creative industries with the next generation

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"For the first time, the website contains edited highlights of previous papers, capturing both the serious and the humorous side of Showlight. The clips bring the 2009 event to life for those who didn't attend - and are a great reminder of some excellent presentations for those who did. So, if you've thought about presenting a paper at Showlight, but weren't sure how it all worked, now you can see exactly what others have done!"

If you have an idea for a paper, you can register your interest at www.showlight.org/present If you are interested in being an exhibitor at Showlight 2013 and would like to know more, go directly t