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Denmark - For seven days in November, the seaside town of Frederikshavn in Denmark hosted Light Visions, an international symposium and light workshop arranged with cooperation of the international lighting design organization ELDA.

Students of architectural lighting from around the world teamed with prominent lighting designers to create six intriguing architectural lighting environments around the city. Martin Architectural, whose manufacturing facility is located in Frederikshavn, was strongly represented, both in terms of personnel and lighting fixtures. The six lighting environmentsare outlined below.

Kattegat Silo - lighting design by Jesper Garde Kongshaug (Denmark): The recently renovated Kattegat Silo is the first building you see when entering Frederikshavn. Triggered by the arrival and departure of ferries, a range color mixing Exterior 600 and Exterior 1200

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USA - Lighting design for The Fray's world tour is a collaborative effort by independent LD Tory Stubby and Joel Wojcik of The Opera Shop, Inc. of Denver. The pair have specified Martin's MAC 700 Profile along with Atomic 3000s, Robe LEDBlinder 148 LTs, 4, 6 and 8 ft MR 16 ministrips. MAC 600s and lekos join the gear list when the band hits the road again in January. All lighting gear is being supplied by The Opera Shop.

"Besides looking for a new fixture we were looking for something that is less power consuming than the 2K," says Joel Wojcik. "It's basically half the power draw with almost the same output. And the speed is incredible."

Of the 18 MAC 700 Profiles only two grace an overhead truss with the rest on staggered T's two, four and six feet below the truss. "It gives the multi layer look without the trouble," Wojcik says. "All our li

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UK - Entec Sound is supplying a d&b J-Series line array system for the current Tool UK and European arena tour, which FOH sound engineer Ian Hopkinson says is "the best system I've ever used".

Entec's systems engineer Stef Serpagli confirms that the system has been pushed to astonishing limits with the exceptionally high SPL levels demanded by the Tool sonic experience, "It's basically on 11 all the time, and it's holding up really well!"

The most common configuration for the arrays is 12 J-8 tops and four J-12s a side for the main hangs, plus six C4 tops, flown two wide, and four C4 subs per side as the side hangs to give 180 degree coverage. For Wembley, the main hangs were increased by four J-8s per side - adding up to the most J-Series that Entec has hung to date. Sub bass is provided by 14 J-Subs and 12 B2s, run in cardioid mode, arranged in a delayed

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UK - The first Robe DigitalSpot 5000 DT's in the UK have been delivered to Leeds-based Zig Zag Lighting, with one immediately dispatched on tour in Europe with Pink Floyd tribute band, Off The Wall. The DS 5000 DT is rigged at the centre of the front truss, and is used to project all the band's visuals onto a 5-metre diameter circular screen positioned centre-stage.

A carefully selected assortment of video clips, graphics and animations are critical to the show. Off the Wall's video designer and manager Paul Barker has produced a full show's worth of material.

The DS 5000 DT is being looked after by LD Paddy Sollitt and his crew, and Zig Zag is also supplying all of the lighting equipment and lasers. In addition to projecting the video (stored on a separate video machine with VGA signal sent to the DS5000), the DigitalSpot 5000's onboard digital media server is also being util

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USA - Color Kinetics Incorporated and Super Vision International, Inc. have announced a joint settlement agreement ending all pending litigation between the two companies. Through the agreement, Super Vision will pay Color Kinetics a set fee as settlement for all past claims Color Kinetics has against Super Vision, including the amount awarded to Color Kinetics by the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Super Vision will drop its pending claim of infringement against Color Kinetics with respect to US patent #4,962,687, known as the '687 patent, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Color Kinetics will drop its declaratory judgement claim of non-infringement of the '687 patent filed in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Color Kinetics will grant Super Vision a royalty bearing license to its worldwide patent portfolio,

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Germany - The PUR tour Es ist wie es ist (It is like it is) marked the return of the German band after a break. Two concerts, including the official dress rehearsal, in the Gerry Weber Stadion, Halle/Westfallen, marked the start of the tour. Other dates included Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Hamburg, Dortmund and Basel in Switzerland.

During the pre-programming phase, lighting designer Günther Jäckle and his team used grandMA 3D. For the actual shows, 3 x grandMA full-size, 1 x grandMA ultra-light, 2 x grandMA mediaPC with grandMA video and 7 x NSPs were employed. Connected via fibre optic cable they controlled the complex network. In total 24 x VL3500 and VL3000, 24 x VL2416, 8 x Robert Juliat Aramis, 15 x 8-Light Blinder with Rainbow Colour Changers, 6 x Publitec beaMover and a wide range of high-class LEDs were used.

The set consisted of two centre-stages connected b

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UK - Lamp sales operation Just Lamps has been recognised by the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 listing, which placed the company seventh in the prestigious list. With sales at £387k in 2003 and at £9,926k in 2006, the projector lamp distributor achieved an outstanding 195% annual sales growth in this period, making them the fastest-growing company in the audio-visual sector. Published on Sunday 3 December, Fast Track 100 run in conjunction with the Sunday Times and Virgin Atlantic, ranks Britain's hundred fastest-growing unquoted companies by 2003-2006 sales growth. Established in 2002, Just Lamps identified a niche in the market, to meet the fast-growing and ever-urgent demand for replacement projector lamps. The company has fully exploited this niche, offering a high level of service via its award winning website. Over the last four years, the company has built a rep

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USA - Once reserved only for the largest of musicals, automated lighting can now be found in theatrical productions of all scales - as demonstrated by the acclaimed new play Frost/Nixon, which recently made use of the FocusTrack lighting tracking software to facilitate its move from the Donmar Warehouse to London's West End.

Directed by Michael Grandage and designed by Christopher Oram with lighting by Neil Austin, Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon re-creates and dramatises the legendary interview between David Frost and Richard Nixon, following the President's resignation after the Watergate scandal. The show opened at London's Donmar Warehouse in mid-August; such was the critical acclaim, it was announced almost immediately that it would transfer to the Gielgud Theatre in the West End.

This presented a problem for lighting designer Neil Austin, whose commitments to ot

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UK - Special effects manufacturer Le Maitre has announced the introduction of a number of new effects products.

First, Terrafog is a patented design, brought about by a desire from the nightclub market to have a high-powered smoke effect to simulate the large liquid nitrogen fog cannons seen in some of the superclubs of Ibiza and Florida. The company says that, whilst the effect of Terrafog is not as big as the liquid nitrogen cannons, or as cold, it is very close - given the price.

Terrafog uses one or two Le Maitre G300 smoke machines to give a visual effect, plus carbon dioxide for the cooling effect, compressed air or nitrogen for the pneumatics and special fog fluid to ensure the effect disappears quickly. The combination of these elements gives a large blast of cold fog that can be blasted upwards, down on to the audience or across a stage, say the company, adding that T

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Australia - Coemar De Sisti Australia is celebrating 15 years in the architectural and entertainment lighting industry with a move to larger premises in the Melbourne suburb of Thomastown.

The company has been quietly building a formidable reputation in the local and international arena with several high-profile projects under its belt. Locally, they've been involved in the refurbishment of Channel 9 Sydney's Studio 1, the turnkey outfitting of the Channel 7 Melbourne Broadcast Centre, supplying a range of equipment for Foxtel's new Sydney studios and lighting the mast at 120 Collins Street in Melbourne. Much of the work follows on from the internationally prominent lighting of the Sydney Opera House during the Sydney Olympics. The company has also been involved internationally with huge projects such as the Hong Kong Harbour, working in collaboration with one of Australia's mos

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UK - The ABTT Theatre Show's organisers - The Association of British Theatre Technicians - have announced that its 29th edition is set to take place in six months time. With space already at a premium, the Show will again fill London's Royal Horticultural Halls to capacity on 13 and 14 June.

In 2006 the record-breaking show boasted a record attendance representing a 5% growth, and packed the venue's three halls to capacity with over 100 exhibiting companies. Over 2400 visitors including theatre and venue managers, technical directors, technicians, technical managers, heads of drama departments, architects, consultants, designers, and building services managers attended.

To maintain this level of growth, the organisers are committed to focussing time and money into an expanded PR and marketing campaign that will raise awareness of the show and have a drive into both the educati

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UK - The famous ITV 'Audience With' brand really shone on 2 December thanks to PRG Europe, when Take That appeared for the show's first ever live broadcast. An Audience with Take That Live saw Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald perform a selection of their greatest hits plus some exclusive tracks from their new album.

The show's lighting designer Al Gurdon has worked with PRG Europe account managers Mick Healey and Jon Cadbury on several live broadcast events recently, including the MTV Europe Music Awards in Copenhagen and the UK Music Hall of Fame at Alexandra Palace in north London. The Take That set included some 100 Vari-Lite luminaires, which PRG Europe supplied along with a Wholehog II and expansion wing.

"The concept of the show is to introduce the band to a celebrity-packed audience," says Cadbury. "In between major production

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UK - This Bedford club needed a face-lift - so the whole club was torn to bits and restarted from the ground up.

Designer Craig Trotter specified all the lighting for the venue - including the two main dance floors, the bar lighting, the VIP room, the ambient lighting, the lights on the outside of the building and even the lights in the toilets. An enormous amount of LED lighting was used to provide the ambient lights in each of the areas with LED fixtures utilised on every pillar.

Control of the lighting in the club is realised entirely using ChamSys MagicQ software and ChamSys MagicQ control wings. ChamSys MagicQ is a complete network system enabling multiple lighting and media systems to be interconnected via standard networks, Ethernet cables and routers. This makes a very low cost solution (network equipment is readily available from computer stores) with the significant

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UK - Adlib Audio has supplied lighting and sound equipment the brand new music and drama building at Maricourt Catholic School in Maghull, Liverpool. Lighting equipment has been supplied to two identical drama workshop/studios on the first floor, and full audio to a full sound recording and studio set up on the ground floor.

Adlib has worked on many educational and schools projects over the years, gaining a great reputation for supplying appropriate kit that's practical for students and their teachers to use. The company is renowned for its policy of not over-specifying.

The overall installation project was overseen by Adlib's Roger Kirby. He also drew up the recording studio spec with Mark Burnley, while Adlib's head of lighting Pete Abraham, sorted out the visual elements. The Adlib team worked closely with Sean Back, Maricourt's head of music who also runs the recording stu

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UK - SPS, one of the UK's leading live event companies has appointed Peter Mankowski to the role of production manager for its Solutions division.

Mankowski has had a diverse career history to date, which has seen him working across many unusual projects; ranging from overseeing the entire audio-visual installation of the new Parliament in Kabul, to being a founder and head of creative for online magazine, Roadieworld.

The Solutions division within SPS provides creative services for events through the innovative use of technology and the latest production techniques for digital video and graphics, says the company. Their focus is on delivering clients messages effectively, with creative solutions which look great and engage the audience.

In his new role Mankowski will be working closely with SPS event producers to ensure that the technical solutions work seamlessly with the

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UK - Projected Image Digital presented a special Light As Art seminar at BAFTA, in central London, attended by over 120 industry proffessionals from the world of design and architectural lighting. The event was a collaboration between PID, leading interior designers and architects Cadmium Design and lighting design collective The Creative Mix.

It kicked off with a lively presentation in the Princess Anna Theatre aimed at raising awareness of the ever-growing convergence of video and lighting technologies in the entertainment world, and how this is filtering into architectural environments and applications.

Chris Barlow from The Creative Mix started with a talk entitled 'Branding Buildings' highlighting some of the many ways in which light can be applied to buildings, structures and spaces of all types in all locations. He included urban regeneration projects and the pos

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USA - The ETCP Council has announced the electrical, arena rigging, and theatre rigging examinations will be offered at the USITT Conference and Stage Expo on March 17, 2007 in Phoenix, AZ. Those who pass these tests will become ETCP. Employers have already begun seeing the benefits of ETCP Certification in reduced insurance rates as well as attaining more work because their services are being performed by certified personnel.

If you would like to take the arena rigging, theatre rigging, or electrical examination at USITT, please submit your completed application, including all supporting documents and fee, postmarked on or before 1 February, 2007.

For more information, eligibility requirements or applications, please contact Katie Geraghty, ETCP certification director at the e-mail address below.

If you are unable to attend USITT, you can apply to take an examination at a t

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USA - Bandit is again working with multi-platinum artist, Martina McBride and tour manager, Mark Hively and production manager, Meesha Kosciolek. McBride is taking the stage for a 16-date holiday tour. The Joy of Christmas, now in its fourth year, kicked off the tour in Chicago, Illinois on 24 November and finishes on 22 December in Uniondale, New York.

The Joy of Christmas is a two-hour multimedia event. The show includes a variety ofelaborate sets, impressive special effects, and a talented group of actors that complement McBride throughout the performance. The concert features 18 classics, many of which can be found on McBride's White Christmas album.

Lighting design was created by Craig Pierce. Lighting director, John Lucksinger, said that the objective this tour was to set time, place and mood- primarily by basing the lighting design around the video

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Germany - For over a century, the Friedrichstadtpalast has been one of the main landmarks in Berlin's night life. Over the years, the theatre has changed its name and function several times: founded as a covered market, then used as the "Renz" circus, it later became the Große Schauspielhaus, Theater des Volkes, Palast Varieté and finally the Friedrichstadtpalast, but the spirit and quality of the outstanding performances on its stage has not changed.

20 moving head luminaires and 40 scanners from Clay Paky provide lighting for the stage and the lobby of the theatre, together with many other standard projectors, with control from MA Lighting consoles. Both the lighting system and the consoles were supplied by Lightpower of Paderborn, which has been supplying the venue since 1984.

Olaf Eichler, lighting director of the Friedrichstadtpalast, has spoken of this

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USA - grandMA consoles were featured in two back-to-back high-profile live broadcasts from New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall: the MTV Video Music Awards 2006 (VMA) and Fashion Rocks, a music and fashion extravaganza on CBS that kicked off the city's semi-annual Fashion Week. Scharff Weisberg Lighting furnished the grandMAs in support of lighting designer Allen Branton.

Since Branton doesn't run consoles, he deferred to lighting director and programmer Felix Peralta's choice of the grandMA, a choice that was seconded by lighting director and programmer Kevin Lawson and upheld by Branton himself. "When we do these shows we're caught between two worlds: we need to do something in music TV that looks like a rock concert, but we have to be in total control, constantly editing light levels and programs. More than half of what we do is refining the TV product. The grandM

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UK - LSC Lighting Systems (Australia) and White Light (UK) have donated a maXim LP console to The Oldham College in Manchester to help educate the next generation of lighting operators. The Performance and Production Department's technical course tutor David Hughes is grateful to have received such a donation, valued at almost £4,000.

The donation means that the students studying Entertainment Technology courses can program and manipulate real lighting configurations using current industry standard equipment. "The hands-on training and access to such equipment only enriches the students learning experience ensuring when they leave college they have acquired relevant skills to enter the industry" said Pete Floyd, International Sales Manager from LSC.

The maXim will provide the students with enormous capabilities including: two DMX outputs (1024 slots), up to 378

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USA - Color Kinetics Inc has announced a distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics Inc, an $11 billion provider of electronic components and computer products. The agreement is intended to drive adoption of LED technology by manufacturers across multiple markets. With its broad North American sales network and established base of over 130,000 customers, Arrow will serve as an important channel partner for Color Kinetics' growing OEM business.

Through the agreement, Arrow can distribute Color Kinetics' OEM products, including intelligent RGB and white digital light engines (DLEs), lamps, power/data modules and controllers - essential elements required for a high-performance LED illumination system.

"Now more than ever, manufacturers both within and beyond the core lighting industry are exploring ways to incorporate LED technology into their products or introduce entire

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UK - Lighting industry support charity Light Relief has relaunched its website at www.lightrelief.org.uk, to provide more and better information about its aims and how you can get help from them.

Light Relief was set up as a charity in 2001 by Rick Fisher and the late Tony Gottelier to help lighting industry professionals in times of extreme hardship. The organisation assists people by providing practical support or financial help - occasionally both - and most of the people that the charity helps are lighting designers or technicians, or members of the Association of Lighting Designers. Like most freelance people, they do not earn money unless they are working, so sickness, physical injuries or domestic crises can lead to dramatic falls of income. This, in turn, affects not just them but also their families.

The site, at www.l

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UK - If you are still looking for a present for your board operator or lighting technician, then Zero 88 has announced the addition of two new products to their control portfolio. The first is the new DMX tester - Cable Test. Made from brushed aluminium and shipped in a belt holster, Cable Test utilises nine diagnostic LEDs to allow a variety of test functions. The unit can test for the presence of DMX; detect reversed polarity in cables as well as checking all wires are connected. This battery-operated unit is priced to allow anyone to afford a good, easy to operate tester.

Also announced, is the availability of Light Converse. Light Converse is lighting control system software program with an internal 3D visualizer. The software is intended for lighting control in theatres, concert halls, clubs, bars, aswell as for architectural lighting. 3D visualizer shows realistic pictures

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