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"We listened to our customers and they told us white followspots would fill a need," says Fabiano Besio. "With the reception we've already received, we know this is exactly what our house-of-worship customers are looking for, and LDR is proud to provide it."

Seamlessly blending with the interiors of most houses of worship, the white Cantos fit discretely into the décor and enhance the worship service instead of detracting from it.

The white colour applies on the whole LDR Canto Range (120/230 volts) and are now available through local dealers.

(Chris Henry)

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"To add a line of colour filters was an easy decision for us to make and rounded out what we already have to offer," says Hoffman. "We manufacture on a high-grade polymeric base material using a wide range of accurate and consistent colorants for optimum performance and life. GoboMan's colour filters are surface coated for excellent

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Underwood is out on her first tour, supporting her multi-platinum album, Some Hearts.The tour includes everything from headline dates, to fairs, to special guest slots on tours such as Kenny Chesney and Brad Paisley. To handle the variety of situations, Jackson and crew put together a simple system that is able to merge into whatever house or headline artist's system that they might encounter.

The Underwood show carries a riser package and a swaged velour backdrop. Upstage, on the floor, there are Martin MAC 2000s. Built into the set are six towers that each have a Vari*Lite VL

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The comedy, starring Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick as dueling neighbours, thrusts intelligent LED lighting into the national spotlight as DeVito's character attempts to turn his house into the world's biggest and most brilliant holiday display. His ambitions are realised when the entire house is transformed into a traffic-halting multimedia light show made possible by Color Kinetics' LED technology.

"This is a film that literally hinges on the lighting -- where the lights are a central character. Anything less than spectacular would have failed the story," said Jason McKinnon of Electric Aura Lighting Design, who conceptualised the lighting seque

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14 March 2016

The GE Edison Award competition is open to professional designers, architects, engineers and consultants. Entries are judged on the following criteria: functional excellence; architectural compatibility; effective use of state-of-the-art lighting products and techniques; appropriate colour, form and texture revelation; energy effectiveness and cost effectiveness.

Projects scoring the highest number of points will qualify to receive Awards of Merit or Awards of Excellence. The GE Edison Award Winner is selected from among the Awards of Excellence.

Awards for Sustainable Design are given to those projects that demonstrate exemplary,

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On the Spielbudenplatz, two large stages were constructed during the early months of 2006 and fitted in June with 2560 DecaLED Pixeldot Pro (rated IP55), 80 LagoLED USB-i 505 controllers and 1.5km of cabling (rated IP55). The lighting designer's vision was to create two stages with DMX-controllable LED fixtures. All the DecaLED Pixeldot Pro fixtures are controlled by two Ecue video systems (one on each stage) that translate video into DMX, creating endless possibilities for lighting designers and operators to give the whole stage an interactive

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For all shows, PSL set up a 40ft wide white drop centre screen, using a Catalyst digital media server playback source, operated from front-of-house lighting control. Featuring black-and-white stills, moving graphics and effects, as well as simple colour washes, projection on the main screen was fed by PSL's new Barco SLM R12+ units.

Under the direction of crew chief Rod Martin, PSL also supplied a four-camera PPU system and operators Simon Hudson and Bruce Selkirk. Additionally, three mini-cams on the drumkit of Andy Burrows gave video director Steve Price and the PSL engineers a choice of seven feeds from which to mix a rich and dynamic visual c

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"I decided to use the grandMA control and pre-programming system because it always gives me an opportunity to save a lot of time on the venue," states Pajak. "I've used grandMA 3D to set-up the stage positions for the lights and then to program all the necessary presets, effects and looks. Then I've started to create the whole lighting for each song. In this project my co-programmer, Tomasz Szwelicki, and I used the "world function" to work separately on two consoles . . . it saves a lot of time. This was an advantage because I ha

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"There are six new songs and a mini-opera in the middle of the show. When we went into it, Pete Townshend asked me to treat the show in a very different light - literally. He wanted it to look very different from what we've done in the past, but we couldn't use haze or smoke since Roger Daltry has a smoke allergy."

The result is a "unique-looking show, very high tech, very 2006," says Kenny. "There are different types of backdrops, re

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14 March 2016

"The release of ESP Vision 2.2 is a big step forward for Macintosh users," says Kevin Linzey, VectorWorks Spotlight product manager. "The new plug-ins will allow VectorWorks Spotlight users to work with VectorWorks on their preferred platform right through the export process to ESP Vision. Macintosh users will no longer have to reopen the VectorWorks file on Windows just to export to ESP Vision. Windows users will also benefit from the improved interface, better data handling, and increased performance of the new plug-ins provided with ESP Vision 2.2."

Version 2.2 now uses enhanced Move, Scale, and Rotate tools to enable Vision users to design si

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14 March 2016

Now beginning to ship worldwide, Congo jr is the compact version of the larger Congo console, with all of the processing power of its bigger brother. With its full-featured Congo functionality - identical channel and output counts as well the same potent operating software - Congo jr handles lighting rigs filled with conventional lights, moving lights, LEDs, media servers, and other DMX-controlled multiparameter devices. Congo jr also features the convenient modularity of an optional Master Playback Wing, which accesses all 40 multipurpose masters of the main console for full playback functionality.

Congo jr is part of the new generation of ETC consoles that master the reality of multi

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The WFX award marks the third new product award bestowed on Wybron's InfoTrace system in the past three months. During the PLASA and LDI trade shows, Wybron also won new product awards for InfoTrace. This is the first time any product has won all three awards in one year.

"We are very pleased that the worship market has recognised Wybron's contribution of innovative value-added lighting solutions," said Larry Turner, CEO of Wybron. "We are focused on this marketplace and its need for state-of-the-art lighting technology that enhances congregants' experience."

The InfoTr

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Training will be hands on, with no more than two people per console, and space for only ten percourse. This is in addition to courses which run throughout the year, offering technical training in how to set up, operate and repair all ETC's products.

Day one introduces users to Congo and Congo jr, covering all the majorfunctions and allowing them to navigate the console and to program bothfixed and moving lights, including creating dynamic effects. The second dayfocuses on the software, editing and using multiple sequence lists.

The Playhouse at Gypsy Corner, as the demo theatre is known, is the stunningfoyer of ET

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Tom van den Heuvel also used VisualDMX and Matrix Mania! to great effect at the TMF Awards VIP after show party on a 12 x 7 metre LED dance floor. Van den Heuvel felt compelled to use VisualDMX because he believes Matrix Mania! is "powerful and very easy to patch and make into a matrix: doesn't matter if its small or big as you can adapt easily and quickly the size and the patterns of the programmed images too."

At the open-air Mystery Land festival, VisualDMX came into its own with the programming of Allar

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Stardraw's marketing director, Rob Robinson, is delighted that Stardraw Control has qualified as a finalist for the inaugural Technology InAVation Awards which will be held at the forthcoming ISE show in Amsterdam next February. "Stardraw Control has already been recognised at several prestigious industry awards, and the Technology InAVation nomination serves as further testament to the truly innovative nature of the product," noted Robinson. &

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Lighting designer Torkel Skjerven and his assistants Andreas Glad and Stefan Dombeck created a sophisticated show. "The lighting equipment was provided locally by High Lights Egypt while AVAB/CAC provided the grandMA control system," reports Skjerven, "We ran a network of grandMA full-size together with grandMA light as well as multiple grandMA onPC laptops. When dealing with multiple types of fixtures, grandMA gives a great overview of groups, presets as well as colour mixing. Its use of colour coding and different views make

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One of the dominant themes of the December forum will be a discussion of Ofcom's proposals, as part of the planned TV switchover from analogue to digital, to sell-off the radio frequencies currently used by the UK entertainment industry. If the sell-off goes ahead as planned, it will leave the UK live events sector without a licence - a major blow for the industry.

Thanks to a strategy suggested by PLASA and its political lobbyists Ranelagh, BEIRG is now lobbying Government to highlight the damage that the spectrum sell-off will have to a sector t

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"They're a nice, compact dimmer rack with flexible patching on them and LSC is a wellregarded, reliable brand," says Steve Leiter, lighting director at HaycomStaging.

Leiter had a thorough look at all available dimmers on the market but the LSC e24v2package stood out for a variety of reasons. In particular the LCD touch screen on thecontrol panel impressed him. "It allows a quick access to all the functions via simplemenus and also allows you to record internal scenes and looks via the DMXsnapshots," he said. The e24v2 also includes an LSCnet interface as standard, so the

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Al Nabooda, the leading Audi distributor in the Middle East, launched the latest top of the range SUV from Audi: the Q7. The event was attended by over a thousand invited guests, including selected local VIPs.

The set consisted of, among others, eight hydraulic scissor lifts, four of which lifted two cars through the stage, with the other four featuring UK based pyrotechnic performers from Phoenix Productions.

Eight cars were flown in from the roof of the venue, as part of the reveal, under state of the art motor control sys

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The Grand Theatre built in 1878 was a major milestone in Victorian theatre building and is listed Grade II. Once described as "probably the finest theatre of its size in Britain," the Grand's 19th century facilities no longer met present day audience and performance expectations. Working conditions backstage and facilities for artists were increasingly difficult and inefficient.

The £16m first phase works on the theatre have involved new seating, improved sight lines, better ventilation and improved facilities for the disabled. Backstage, the fly tower and flying systems have been upgraded, and two new rehearsal rooms constructed on an adjacent site are connected to the Theatre by a wide bridge, which also acts as a sc

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The event will be hosted by Stage Electrics and for more information contact Sara Alarabi on 0117 937 9503.

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The CD-R has new, more extensive search possibilities; you can search for information via different entries and the CD-R is now application oriented. This new CD-R will support the customers in tracing product information quickly and is based on customer requests.

It will be updated twice a year and will be extended with Medical/Projection lamps in 2007.

(Chris Henry)

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The AILD's mission statement says it aims "to give full recognition to the professional category of the Lighting Designer who operates in a cultural context and to the art of lighting in all its forms of expression: theatre, dance, opera, television, cinema, live events, direction of photography and architectural lighting", and "to protect the right of authorship" of lighting designs.

Giovanni Pinna, president of the AILD, says: "Our belief in this ambitious adventure, in the collaboration of our international colleagues and above all in the other Associations who have worked successfully in this field for some tim

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The building was previously a classic 1950s cinema, which has been completely gutted and rebuilt by Gomel-based Plaza-Invest who also own another successful club in the town. The Plaza has already become one of the hottest club tickets in town, partly due to it's spectacular lightshow.

The club features three bars and a dancefloor which is the heart of the space and a wide ranging music policy. The owners wanted to have one of the best lightshows in town so they approached Minsk based design, hire and sales company, Art Ramos Studio a.l.c. (ARS) to produce a design, and supply the gear. Art Ramos has been at the forefront of Belarus's professional entertainment industry lighting for 1