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14 March 2016

Dierson notes that R. Kelly has always had problems getting the lighting of his shows to be exactly as he envisioned it. "Now, for the first time in his career, he has complete control. He was very involved in the lighting and sat with us throughout the programming sessions."

The Double Up tour's high production values required the grandMA to control all the lighting, the DL.2 projectors, video control and routing, Control Freak systems integration and M-box servers.

The grandMA also controls the Mainlight Soft Motion system, a DMX-controlled motor cabling system for soft goods like

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The Paddo's new lighting scheme was designed by Craig Chandler of Craig Chandler Architects as part of a recent re-vamp of the large venue, giving it a post-modern industrial edge. The installation was undertaken by electrical contractors Espirit.

The project was jointly managed by Acoustic Technologies and ULA. Blair Terrace, national sales manager from ULA comments: "Craig has specified both Robe and Anolis fixtures for many other venues."

(Jim Evans)

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This year lead singer Philip Oakey took a real interest in the visuals. Deciding to perform their seminal 1980 Dare album in order in its entirety, he discussed with Sinclair his desire for a real period feel from the visuals and a 'rectangular' basis to the stage.

Sinclair created and edited all the show's video content himself. Approximately 50% of this is completely new, and the rest was a combination of re-edited and archival material form the Dare era. All of it is stored in the Digital

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Lighting design is by Howard Harrison (Mary Poppins, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mamma Mia!) who was LD on the original London production that started at the Royal Court Theatre before moving to the West End, where it played successfully for nine months. Associate lighting designer is Daniel Walker with Marc Polimeni handling lighting programming.

Harrison uses 12 Martin MAC TW1 tungsten wash lights for tight moving specials on the Broadway production. "One of the problems we had was that the light we used in London - an old Strand Pirouette PC moving head - was hard to source in America," Harrison explains. "There was nothing that quite replaces what it does which is basically very small, tight specials to something a bit bigg

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The annual event presents three awards to individuals selected from across the globe. Past recipients have included such personalities and dignitaries as Paul Newman, Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, former First Lady Betty Ford, former US President Jimmy Carter and many others.

The event is produced for RMHC by McDonald's Creative Services division, and for the 13th consecutive year they turned to Lightswitch for lighting design; long time McDonald's vendor Billy Nolan and TLC to provide equipment

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14 March 2016

The National Stadium will host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies as well as athletics and soccer events. GE is working with the stadium's architects Hertzog and de Meuron to implement their high aesthetic goals and the need to minimize energy. The interior lighting design is intended to ensure that light remains as invisible as possible, while revealing the building to its visitors in a visually pleasing manner. To achieve this, fixtures are integrated within and behind structures, and the use of compact fluorescent minimizes energy use while maximizing the

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14 March 2016

The 735 Series from Marl is designed to be mounted on a vertical surface and can emit light in two directions, either horizontally or vertically. The new range is suitable for both internal and external installation making simultaneous illumination of both buildings and pathways possible, says the company.

Vibrant effects can be created with a choice of warm white, cold white or RGB with colour mixing at source, creating a shadow-free vivid illumination. The 735 Series can be fitted with different colour light engines top and bottom. The product can be supplied with white, RGB or monochrome red, green or blue LEDs. This enables the sides of buildings to be washed with colourfu

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14 March 2016

Looking to build on last year's successful launch of the MR16 LED luminaires, the company now has a wider range of products (including lift lighting and linear lighting) with the additional benefit of BSI compliance to offer.

"I'm delighted to be back at the ARC Show after a very successful year in business," comments Robin Day, managing director of EcoLEDLighting. "Last year visitors were impressed with our high quality, long lasting, low energy fittings. We now have an expanded range and the ARC Show represents the perfect opportunity for us to display our range to the country's leading lighting design

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14 March 2016

Based in Calgary, Alberta, Likeness will provide in the field support for the company's stockholding of general distribution products and leading technology brands - including the exclusively distributed Jands Vista, Hog 500/1000, Event, ESP and Stage lighting console ranges, and the Chroma-Q range including colour changers, gobo rotators, PSUs, and the Color Block, Color Split and Color Web multi-purpose LED solutions.

Likeness has nearly 20 years' entertainment lighting sales experience, holding the previous positions of VP for sales and marketing at Pathway Connectivity Solutions for 11 years and eight years

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Suited for lounges, bars and restaurants, and appropriately silent for noise sensitive environments, smartMAC will liven up any space while saving money on power bills and service and maintenance checks, says the company.

The smartMAC features new fanless thermal management. With no dust and pollutants forced into the fixture, lamp life is optimised, service intervals extended (up to two years with 9000 hour lamp), maintenance kept to a minimum and operation costs reduced.

"The smartMAC is a unique product and a significant step for Martin," states Martin product manager for moving heads, Pet

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14 March 2016

Among the new features given to Accu Spot Pro are many that are typically found only on 575W or larger units. These include: a second gobo wheel, a separate prism wheel with trapezoid prism and three-facet prism, auto focus, shutter with pulse effect and random strobe, and 0-100% dimming.

"The Accu Spot Pro is great for clubs who may be on a budget but still want an intelligent moving head with premium features," said Scott Davies, general manager of the American DJ Group. "It will also appeal to more moderate-sized

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14 March 2016

The installation was part of Greenpeace's campaign to champion efficient lighting and encourage the phasing out of incandescent light bulbs. Greenpeace commissioned Jason Bruges to create an electronic, animated interactive garden of raised flowerbeds made up of hundreds of energy efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).

iLight worked closely with Jason Bruges in providing the lighting control system to show that the CFLs could be efficiently dimmed. The newly developed Varilight lamps used are the first 'dimmer dimmable' CFLs on the European market and, unlike earlier designs, can be used wit

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Recently, the company was awarded a 5-10 year contract for the maintenance of stage automation, lighting and stage machinery effective from August 2007. A service team of12 personnel and technicians headed up by the service director, Stuart Cornell, has been put in place to work full time at Sydney Opera House.

This team is responsible for the smooth operation of the lighting automation and stage machinery equipment and is available for support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

(Jim Evans)

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"Lumificient and its founder Zdenko Grajcar bring a whole new level of intellectual property, research and development capabilities and cutting edge technology to Nexxus Lighting," stated Mike Bauer, president and CEO of Nexxus Lighting. "Zdenko is one of the most respected and knowledgeable minds working in solid-state lighting. He and his team have developed some very exciting new technology that Nexxus plans to commercialise in

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Lighting equipment was supplied by Southampton-based GLS who were working for event producers Watermark Event Management. GLS brought Peter Canning and Nic Ayres of Anglo-Irish design practice High Resolution Lighting onboard to produce the creative elements needed to make the presentation fly. "They were an obvious choice as Virgin Atlantic like a rock and roll edge to their shows," says GLS's Ian Turner.

Challenges included the back wall of the venue being an 80m (262ft) wide by 20m (66ft) high glass wall, which effectively meant that the show - which took place on a 12m (39ft) deep stage built in front of this - was in daylight. No available flying

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The performances involved approximately 700 people including Ringo Starr, Dave Stewart and local upcoming indie stars The Wombats, all of which took place on eight surrounding rooftops - including the Walker Arts Gallery, St John's Beacon, the Empire Theatre, Lime Street Station - as well as on top of and in front of St George's Hall.

The site was challenging - lights had to be craned into position and rigged at all these locations, and also onto a series of scaffolding constructions around the main area.

The get-in started on the Monday for the Friday show and the HSL team, project managed by Mike O

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"The main idea for using the LC Series was to establish a 3D look for the stage and the LC panels fit perfectly in our application - size, configuration and transparency," comments Tellos.

Tellos lists several reasons for his choice of the LC panels: brightness, saturation, quick and easy setup, and wide angle viewing. "I was impressed with the brightness and the resolution of the LCs," he states. "Also, the way of setting up and configuring the system is very easy. The construction is robust, which is very important for touring and when you add in the transparency ef

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Presenting the first £2,500 cheque to trustee Matthew Griffiths at the ETC / ABTT Christmas party on 14 December, Fred Foster, CEO of ETC, said: "Our industry would not exist without its many freelance lighting designers and technicians. Light Relief has already provided much needed practical and financial help to many of our colleagues and I am delighted that ETC can enable it to continue this fine programme."

Griffiths, who is also managing director of PLASA, said: "Light Relief assists freelancers in our industry who need immediate assistance in times of crisis. One-off donatio

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Congo jr helped the ice show's board operator Daniel Tschanz overcome two major challenges - a narrow time window for setup, and show programming that could not be done at night. However, on Congo jr, cues and positions can be easily adapted immediately before the show or on the fly.

The Congo jr controlled 18 Martin MAC 600 NT automated luminaires, six Martin MAC 250

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Marenghi comments: "For the fourth consecutive New Year's Eve, associate LD Paul Cook and I created a three hour light show prior to midnight and then supported the firework finale with the floodlighting of the Eye and aerial searchlight effects. PRG Europe, led by crew chief Gerry Mott, supplied 100 VL5 Arc luminaires and ten 10kW Syncrolite sea

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The moving lights, 18 in total (nine ColorWash 1200E ATs and nine ColorSpot 1200E ATs), were supplied to the project by Sofitlight, one of Robe's Russian distributors. They completed the over-ice lighting design and co-ordinated the installation that was carried out by the mall's electrical contractors. The project was managed for Sofitlight by Alexander Gromov.

The fixtures are installed onto a series of trusses rigged in the airy atrium space over the ice and are controlled - along with some generic lights - from a Compulite Rave console.

The brief was to supply a moving light rig that could be used for jazzing up the ice, projecting gobos and colours for special events. The mo

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14 March 2016

Lighthouse Technologies was selected as a finalist from a pool of 1,800 eligible companies that have made outstanding achievements in the global technology industry.

"We have put in much effort to ensure that we provide technologically advanced products that truly meet the needs of the marketplace. It is a great honour to have been selected as an award finalist, " comments Lighthouse's managing director, Mark Chan.

Red Herring was founded in 1993 and is a media company dedicated to the coverage of innovation, technology, financing and entrepreneurial activities.

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The Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business Showcase Series is a student production run by Belmont University students. The students assist in all aspects of the showcase, from lighting and sound, to stage design and the acts performing.

Bandit lighting designer and Belmont instructor Chris Lisle commented, "The shows are pretty much student run, so I more or less serve as an advisor for the showcase, but it's exciting to watch the students apply training from my two classes to help put on the show."

"We are very excited to be involved with the music industry's future leaders at this develop

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The renowned lectures have taken place annually since 1825, and are designed to introduce science to children, and further their appreciation of the subject.

Entitled Back from the Brink, Hugh Montgomery's 2007 lectures dealt with human survival. He needed a visual means to represent the amount of power consumed by the body's organs in normal operation and came to Crockford to provide an innovative solution. He suggested the Pixi-Web - as a portable, transparent modular screen for displaying complex lighting effects or live video images.

The Pixi-Web was rigged on a catenary wire in front of the stage set, so it could be swept on and off accordingly. Crockford then converted the 'power' of the body organs Montgomery was spea