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Bandit Chair and founder, Michael T. Strickland accepted the award, acknowledging the win as a shared success with Bandit's employees and clients. "We are again very humbled to be honoured by our peers in the industry. We credit this win to our phenomenal staff and to our wonder clients, without which we would not be where we are. We promise to work harder every day to deliver the world's finest people, service and gear in order that our clients shine as bright as they possibly can."

This honour marks the 24th 'Lighting Company of

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After investing in an initial batch of 40 to enable them to undertake projects at high profile locations such as Alton Towers, a further 60-plus units were requisitioned for use on the top of the London O2 Arena during the recent Rugby World Cup - at the request of Projection Artworks. Here they memorably delivered the flower effects onto a 'canvas' in support of the English rose - an O2 sponsored project, claimed to be the world's largest projection in terms of light output (totalling 1.42million lumens).

HSL's managing director Simon Stuart recognised that G-Spot, attached to the O2's masts, would comfortably withstand all weathers over the seven-week per

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Central to this year's event was a 23m x 5m 10mm outdoor LED video wall provided by Maestra and run on the company's new Dataton 6 Watchout servers which were linked with Hawk-Eye Innovations software to provide real-time game feedback, analysis and results to spectators.

Maestra designed and produced a range of custom video content that played during the opening of the tournament each evening.

Inside a private pool-house also on the property, Maestra provided a further 6 x 6mm LED screens running from a separate Watchout Server. This was used to show stunning visuals and more custom content around on

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They were deployed by the Chinese manufacturer's Egyptian partner, Hi-Lights, to meet an inspired concept by Ahmed Arafa, considered the best designer / operator in Egypt.

Hi-Lights themselves are the country's largest service provider (and one of the biggest throughout the Middle East). They were awarded the contract by the Egyptian Handball Federation & Ministry of Youth and Sports to provide the lighting, sound, video projection and LED screens.

One of several international companies working for the client, their appointment was based on their creativity and quality of service and production over 25 years' experience.

To illustrate a united 'Afric

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Taking place from 14 - 17 January, Lumiere London was produced by Artichoke and supported by the Mayor of London. The range of spectacular displays included the lighting of Westminster Abbey, a purpose-built Garden of Light in Leicester Square and even images of A-list actors projected onto BAFTA's headquarters.

With its strong reputation in lighting across various markets, WL was contracted by Unusual Services and White Productions on behalf of Artichoke to provide its support.

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Ed Sheeran also won his first two Grammys for song of the year and best pop solo performance for his number one hit Thinking Out Loud. Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars won two awards for their hit Uptown Funk, including record of the year, while Meghan Trainor was named best new artist. Muse won best rock album for Drones, and Tony Bennett collected his 18th Grammy for best traditional pop vocal album.

There were also a number of acts who gave tribute performances - Lady Gaga sang a medley of David Bowie songs, Jackson Bro

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Running is in Brian's family, it's what his brothers and uncles do, and the sport he has participated in for the past 27 years. He trains every day, twice a day in fact when he is not working.

Based in Johannesburg, Brian makes use of public transport to get to the Two Oceans in Cape Town. It means catching a mini bus and travelling some 1 400 kilometres.

When he arrives in Cape Town, usually on a Thursday, Brian stays in a tent in Newlands at the Runner's Village, designed to give runners who have financial const

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The Motown Featuring Afro-Dite revue is one of the Dr

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The 3D film Ice Age: No Time for Nuts takes visitors through a sensory experience that includes physical effects in synchronization with the film such as shaking seats or wind effects. Eight Platinum SBX hybrid moving head fixtures installed in the cinema's ceiling project film-supporting special e

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Featuring live performances, mini game show segments, sing-a-longs and pre-recorded pranks, "It was incredibly important to have a rig that was extremely flexible because it was a live variety show," Ford explains. "On most reality competition shows there is a lot more predictability, but Best Time Ever had a lot of unknown variables that you had to adjust to on the fly. We had to react to whatever was thrown at us. Most of the acts were new, things were shot from many different angles and one time we had to reblock a couch s

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14 December 2016

Mark Taylor, LED business development manager at Samsung is responsible for the 'go to market' strategy on this product line. Announcing this news, Mark commented, "PSCo has been extremely successful in LED, and are the first distributor with a full product and support offering for the channel. We have strict criteria for our LED distribution partner to meet and I am delighted that PSCo met it all! We are very much looking forward to the future with the team at PSCo."

"We've always prided ourselves on the levels of operational and technical support we can offer

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"Understanding that our clients often need to relocate their messaging to better serve their business and promotions, we are very excited to announce the reFLEXion LED video display," said David Venus, PixelFLEX director of marketing. "A breathtaking addition to our line of award-winning LED video products, the reFLEXion LED video stand is a truly redefining product for the consumer retailer, restaurant and entertainment industries. By giving our clients the opportunity to move and customize their messaging wherever needed, we have created complete, indoor mobile mark

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This high impact visual effect was part of Olly's first design for Maximo Park, for which he toured a neat and flexible floor package comprising 59 fixtures, 46 of which were Robe, all supplied by rental company R & M Productions from Stokesley, North Yorkshire.

The Maximo letters utilised six CycFX 8s for the two Ms and the O, four for the A and the X and two for the L, all of which were outrigged from aluminium pipes standing in heavy-duty tank trap bases.

In addition to the Cyc

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PLASA prides itself on delivering a targeted audience for each show highlighted by the small audience crossover between events, with only 350 Leeds visitors and 52 Glasgow visitors attending the flagship London show. This unique audience is not just limited to shows organised by the PLASA Events division, but also includes competitor shows with 41% of PLASA Show 2015 visitors not having attended any other show in the past year.

Christopher Toulmin, director of Events Division says: "Engaging face-to-face is still the fastest and most effective way to build relatio

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"The DWR Road Show was another one in a series of events, in which a very professional and committed DWR team and their passionate back office brought Robe's latest products to everyone's attention," commented Harry von den Stemmen. "A record breaking number of attendees rewarded the team for the effort. While most of the established customers attended, it was the new crowd, the young faces, who made it special. This is the next generation of professionals who will conduct tomorrow's business and it is awesome to have them participate

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The Festival, broadcast live on Eurovision, was held in the historic Teatro Ariston 9 to 13 February.

The artistic director and conductor of the Festival has repeatedly praised the eye-catching lighting of the event.

The EVO, RAPTOR and NRG 1201 moving heads were supplied by AMG International; director of photography was Marco Lucarelli.

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Collaborating with both Thomas Rhett and tour manager Logan Kornegay, lighting designer Nick Whitehouse built upon their general concept to create the final lighting design.

"Thomas Rhett has some really great ideas and has a fantastic team around him; it really was a pleasure to work with them all and get this together," said Whitehouse.

What may look like a standard rolling floor package reveals itself to be compact custom video and lighting lifts that extend to a full height of nearly 30ft above the stage. Whitehouse specifically chose lightweight fixtures that could be hidden within the lifts while still providing powerhouse beams and spot looks.

Following the success of the Ayrton MagicDot-R on Thomas R

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Illuminate Production Services of Sacramento provided the Elation products for CBS's exclusive Plaza, Field and Tailgate Super Bowl 50 sets, the main on-site broadcast settings for an event that proved to be the most-watched television program in U.S. television history.

The lighting package included Elation Platinum Spot 15R Pro colour and gobo-changing moving heads used for backlighting of the commentators and also used to illuminate the Vince Lombardi Trophy, the trophy awarded each year to the winning team. Elation's

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Bojan Repic is also a moving light programmer and operator for many productions covering news, documentaries and information programmes as well as entertainment including dramas, films and music projects. RTV's busy lighting department works across all of the four major studios in Ljubljana together with outside recordings and special events.

Bojan discussed purchasing the dot2 XL-F at length with MA Lighting's Slovenian distributor MK Light Sound before taki

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New presenter Great British Bake Off host Mel Giedroyc is stamping her humour and personality on the show, directed for the sixth year by characteristically acerbic judge Craig Revel Horwood, and it's being hailed as the most exciting and 'best yet' live rendition of the BBC's blockbusting series which features seven celebrities and their professional dancing partners.

While Richard G Jones returned to add style and elegance to the lighting design, joining Craig in the judging hot seats are Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli. T

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A major investment in 250 of SGM's multi-purpose Q-7s, an IP65-rated combination flood/strobe/blinder, augments a department which already contains over 100 G-Spots, as well as P-5 and P-2 wash lights.

The idea was hatched jointly by HSL Group MD, Simon Stuart, and SGM UK MD, Ian Kirby. With regional bases in Ireland, Kent and Southampton, the potential for HSL Group to capitalise in this sector becomes immense, the two men believe.

Explaining the move, Simon Stuart said, "We want to introduce more of these stunning lights to the marketplace and open a greater supply line for both temporary and permanent architectural projects. These fixtures are not only suitable because they are IP65 rated - they are also

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Primetime is a one-stop-shop for events of all types - corporate or private - and replacing its entertainment technology equipment was a priority. For years, Primetime has been a regular customer of Elation partner Fritz-Events whose owner, Fritz Abrahams, wanted to help Patrick achieve his objective of getting back on his feet as soon as possible.

After a comparison with various other lighting brands and a vi