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Atlanta is the eighth Castle to be opened in a very successful expansion program across North America which has so far attracted attracted nearly 35 million guests to the show.

Georgia-based Stage Front is one of the most respected and successful performance and presentation contractors in the Southeast, and has been the design and build contractor for Medieval Times ever since providing the lighting and special effects for the original Florida Castle in 1986.

Lighting plays a key part in creating the mood and environmental setting for the 1,200-seater arena shows, which include equestrian events, tournaments and games, jousting, hand-to-hand combat scenes, a Wizard sequenc

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The fixtures were specified and purchased by Sean Penn, the Museum's AV engineer after i-Vision was recommended by The Society of TV Lighting Directors, who staged an event at the Museum.

Penn was looking for a lighting effect to enhance the Milestones of Flight building, which tells the story of flight and from balloons and the first powered flights, complete with some impressive pieces of military hardware, right up to the Eurofighter.

The hangar has an arched tensile roof is also used for corporate events, dinners, awards ceremonies and functions of all types. They wanted a permanent lighting installation that would add a touch of subtle elegance, warmth and panache to the general evening ambience for these events. &quo

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Ussher and his company Ussher Productions have been capacity, independently owned venue for some time. He keeps a keen ear and eye to the ground vis-a-vis industry trends, aiming constantly to keep The Bridge one step ahead in terms of looking, sounding and feeling interesting, fresh and contemporary.

The dancefloor now features three sections of VersaTiles a 6 x 1m strips of VersaTiles along the end wall of the dancefloor, flanked by two, 2m by 0.5m strips on the side walls. Ussher specified, designed and installed this new sc

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The Pole operated products are built around the well known LDR Fresnles (Nota/Tono and Soffio/Suono D) and can be offered with four different lamp wattages (1/1.2 and 2/2.5 kW halogen - 150W and 250W discharge).

Setting a new standard in this category, LDR offer the PO Fresnel range in white, silver and black as standard. By special request, LDR is also capable of handling any colour based/ref. from the RAL range.

"Our customers were demanding affordable and easy to use Pole Operated products," says LDR's Fabiano Besio, "The professional features and the great light performances of the traditional LDR theatre/architectural fixtures can now be offered to the TV market and to all those applications where a full and precise control of the pan and tilt is required."

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Like DMX, ACN allows equipment from different manufacturers to operate together and function seamlessly within the same control network. Unlike DMX, ACN works over Ethernet, using Internet standards, greatly increasing opportunities for product innovation and performance. ACN has already arrived in lighting control systems. Manufacturers like ETC debuted ACN-e

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These have been added to the existing hire stock which already includes over 60 Robe fixtures, incorporating Spot 250 and Wash 250 XTs and Media Spinners. "We'd been looking at the 575 AT Series for some time," says Production Plus's technical director Andy Miller, who's relationship with Robe UK goes right back to the start of the company. "The optics are great, it's a cost effective product and the service and support from Robe UK is very good," he concludes.

One of the first outings for the new 575 AT fixtures was a gala ball event at the Hilton International Hotel, Park Lane, London, for the Hilton Community Foundation Ball charity.

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The company's senior lighting director, Roy Newman, was first alerted to the LED X-Chip and Ayrton Moduled 318 on the stand of Lighting Effects Distribution at a trade show, and knew they would be ideal for his purposes. "The company was clearly a one-stop shop for LED effects," he noted.

"One of the main reasons for preferring LEDs over tungsten was the rapid turnaround between various programmes, and of course the infinite number of colours instantly available." The lack of maintenance and gel changing, he commented, had been another determin

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Lightworks is a new interactive demonstration showing the power lighting can have over people. It provides a high-tech setting for talks and demonstrations on the nature of light, its effects on human well-being and behaviour and the progress of artificial lighting from Edison to modern day technology.

The facility - at Leeton's main office at Padholme Road, Peterborough - is available for groups including engineering managers, architects, consultants, human resource managers and technicians, as well as school and college students.

Leeton provides free lectures and demonstrations in the Lightworks theatre. The presentations can be adjusted to suit the level of expertise and the requirements of the gro

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For 2007 there are four seats available - three representing three-year terms and a fourth representing a one-year term. PLASA is undergoing a time of rapid development - key projects include the running of the PLASA Show, the launch of an industry certification programme, a major membership restructure and much more. Those elected to a place on the committee play a key role in influencing the development of all aspects of PLASA and the industry it serves.

If you are interested in working with the Association, and are employed by a Full UK PLASA Member, please consider standing for election. The closing date for nominations is 5pm Wednesday 15 November.

If you would like to know more about what's involved or need a nomination form, please contact Norah Phillips on 013

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Nights of Light 2006 spread over two weeks, starting from the Feast Day of St. Alessandro, the Patron Saint of Bergamo. During the course of these two weeks light was used to pick out places and architecture in b

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Syncrolite has now introduced the OmniColor* D, which it says is "the first and only true thin film Dichroic Color Mixing system" - CYM and RGB. (Worldwide Patents Pending.) Dichroic colour deposited on 4mm flexible substrate formed into Syncrolite proprietary welded scrolls, which are heat, wrinkle and shrink resistant, the company says. The scrolls do not burn or warp like standard colour scrolls and are available for Syncrolite Series 2 and Series 3 instruments. Syncrolite also offer scrolling lenses.

Syncrolite Iare also introducing its new series 3 Syn

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The new production marks the first time that automated lighting has been used to light the show in the US (with the exception of moving light curtains, which have always been part of the show's design).

Lighting designer David Hersey started using moving lights as part of the rig for the 1997 UK tour of the show, and that rig has since been used on productions around the world. When the London production of the show moved theatres in 2004 the rig was revised to use Vari*Lite VL2000 Spots, VL2000 Wash and VL3000Q Spot units alongside DHA Digital Light Curtains.

For the New York production, Hersey

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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.

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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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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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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."

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