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Additionally, Fairbairn's company LED Source will exclusively distribute the Coemar LED range -including the popular ParLite LED and new products to be shown at this year's conventions. With the help of company VP and partner Gavin Cooper, Fairbairn established LED Source in 2005 followed by a franchising programme four years later.

"From the industry leading ParLite LED to the rental and touring powerhouse Infinity range, Coemar products deliver exceptional technology and unsurpassed performance," said Fairbairn. "This new relationship with Coemar is a massive w

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"We have strong increased sales of our CRMX products during the past six months. Our CRMX outdoor series brought unparalleled reliability to the outdoor entertainment and architainment markets. We believe in a good cooperation with Stonex and increased sales in the Spanish market," says Per Hultén, CEO of LumenRadio.

"We are very proud to start a relationship with Stonex and bringing CRMX, the most reliable wireless technology on the market, into Spain. I'm confident that Stonex is the right company to work with and I'm excited about the opportunities I see together

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Faced with the challenge of lighting the Courtyard cleanly and without disturbance to the event's guests, White Light deployed two of its new HyLight hydrogen fuel-cell powered lighting systems, which had been officially launched just a week earlier.

"We were very pleased to be able to use the new HyLight hydrogen fuel cell system," comments Zoe Watts, the Natural History Museum's head of events. "They are silent with no emissions - perfect for the Darwin Centre's gardens, with their proximity to our residents, and also for complying with the museum's sustainability policy."

"Having the ability to deliver instant power with

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"Being invited to join the conceptualisation phase of the ceremony gave us creative licence; it also meant our team got to work with some of the best brains in our industry. There were a large number of elements to our work, but it seems the real crowd pleasers were the watering hole, the marimba, and the newspaper," said Gerd Müller, MD of Ministry of illusion.

The animation software used by MOI for the entire project was 3D Maya and Autodesk Flint and was rendered using Quicktime Animations at 50p (50 frames per second). It included the compositing o

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Full service LED lighting company Blazen Illuminations of Loveland, Colorado produced the lighting for the event. Blazen owner Nate Webb, who served as lighting designer, commented on the new console, "The M1 performed flawlessly and made it possible to do this event without all of the heavy lifting. Setting up the console took about two minutes and we were up and running."

Webb continued, "The M1 has all the great controls of the bigger consoles but without the heavy motorized faders. There was no learning curve from the Maxxyz to the M1, it's all there. The standard 10 cuelist faders and the 12 playback faders make it easy to control an

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The screen was utilised to show various sporting events such as the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and Wimbledon for city traders who frequent the restaurant.

Mark Larcombe, account manager at Stage Electrics said, "Our high quality video screen was ideal for this venue. The fact that the screen was located in the restaurant's glass atrium didn't diminish the picture quality - even in daylight. Our client was extremely happy with how well the screen performed."

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Olivier award winning lighting designer and co-founder of WISE, Paule Constable, comments, "Each day WISE members from all sectors - sound, AV, lighting, rigging - will offer PLASA Show visitors a calm oasis from the frenetic show floor. We will by providing refreshing mugs of scalding tea, fabulously tasty home baked cakes, an empathetic ear and some scintillating conversation. Tea O Clockis open to anyone attending the PLASA 2010 trade show and everyone who drops by is guaranteed a warm welcome from our WISE members. Details of who will be available and on what day will be confirmed on the WISE and the PLASA Show

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Head of hire and events for Northern Light, Nick Read, has teamed up with C venues production manager Richard Williamson, artistic director (and international lighting designer) Hartley Kemp, and industry journalist Sarah Rushton-Read to collaborate on an energy-efficient lighting rig that will not compromise creative expression or practical application.

To that end, Read, Williamson and Rushton-Read trawled the aisles of PLASA Focus in Leeds and the ABTT Show in London to source the best in low-energy entertainment technology. Read comments, "I'm delighted to say that having established the kit we required we received unfettered support from a number of to

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The BRDC Ball is held in a luxury marquee erected adjacent to the Members' Clubhouse on the Saturday evening of the Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix weekend. This year's event was particularly special, marking the launch of the new Grand Prix Circuit at Silverstone and the 60th anniversary of Formula 1 racing.

Personalities from the motor racing fraternity including Nigel Mansell OBE and BRDC President, Damon Hill OBE appeared on stage to talk about their experiences to the BBC's and ex-Radio Caroline's Johnnie Walker MBE.

A.C. Special Projects, a sister company of BRDC Rising Stars Programme Patron, A.C. Entertainment Technologie

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With its newly established office in the city of Bangalore, Barbizon Lighting is a sales, service and educational centre for ETC products. Barbizon is also working with dealers across India to inform customers on the benefits of ETC's lighting technologies.

Barbizon brings its deep expertise in project management with professional grade equipment to the market. Says ETC CEO Fred Foster, "For more than 20 years, Barbizon and ETC have been working together to serve the lighting industry around the world. It is a natural step to work with Barbizon to provide the same excellent level of service and technology to the

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The mayor of Duisburg told a press conference that it was too early to blame anyone for the incident. The organiser of the festival said that there would be no more Love Parades. "The Love Parade has always been a joyful and peaceful party, but in future would always be overshadowed by yesterday's events," , Rainer Schaller said. "Out of respect for the victims, their families and friends, we are going to discontinue the event in the future, and that means the end of

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Kris Vermuyten, commercial director of APart comments, "We are very pleased to announce the addition of the APart products into the library. Many audio professionals across the world use Stardraw Audio for their system design. They now have the CAD-drawings of all our speakers and electronics within the click of a mouse, which will ease their workload considerably.

"Thanks to an 'intelligent environment'-feature, an installer can design a system in block or pictorial schematic mode, and a detailed rack layout is created automatically. An integration with Excel means bills of materials, quotations and cable schedules can be generated from any design. New product information from manufacturers is turned into symbols and distributed into m

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The frequency with which DMX and DALI systems are being used together is continually increasing and has now become common practice. The need to control DALI fixtures with DMX controllers has similarly increased and become more sophisticated, to the point where simple conversion is no longer adequate.

The new requirement is for a DMX controller that can control DALI fixtures in the way they have been designed to operate, rather than trying to force a DALI fixture to behave like a DMX fixture. DALI is slow in comparison to DMX and therefore has more of a control structure than DMX which must be taken into consideration at the product design stage.

Rail-DMX-DALI has been designed with this knowledge, combined with customer feedback, to giv

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It was when Pacific found themselves contracted to provide sound and lighting production on The Drifters theatre tour - where they were expected to turn the venue into an authentic 70s disco environment, using mirrorballs, that they realised their stock of premium grade moving lights didn't contain the one feature they needed.

Paul Duffy comments, "We needed something specific because our existing 250W fixtures didn't contain an iris, and in certain applications (with raked seating) we were blinding the audience sweeping downstage off the rear truss once they hit the mirrorballs."

Tony Bailey from MilTec visited Pacific last year and showed Paul the unit at the time. Subsequently, MilTe

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Dunn and Turner collaborated closely on the design and specification of the equipment, all of which was provided by Gearhouse South Africa, the main technical suppliers for the Closing Ceremony event produced by The VWV Group.

The lighting had to be big, bold and memorable to fill the stadium with awesome effects and WOW factors for the 30 action-packed minute show, which has been acclaimed as among the best and most visual World Cup ceremonies to date, a challenge to which Dunn and Turner rose with characteristic zeal!

They needed the

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At 22 kilograms, the Elation Design Spot LED weighs less than the original Design Spot 250 Pro, yet produces a light output comparable to a 250-watt discharge lamp. It also offers the easy maintenance typically associated with LED fixtures, since its extended lamp life is 50,000 hours.

Like the original Design Spot 250 Pro, the new Design Spot LED features a variable Frost Filter, which allows it to function as a hybrid spot/wash effect. Other features include a motorised iris, motorised focus, and

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NVIDIA will present its latest technology for visualization professionals in an expansive and dramatic booth, featuring its 'Quadro Digital Theatre that will showcase presentations from guest speakers as well as company officials.

The dynamic stage will employ four of Barco's LED-lit, rear-projection video walls, the OL-721, a 70" display cube in a 2x2 format. On either side of the stage, two LCD 56" displays will be mounted in a portrait configuration to create a unique and compelling backdrop for i

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Specialising in the corporate sector, they have produced more than 200,000 events since starting out in 1981. The company has evolved with the demands of its clients, offering a complete portfolio of event services.

For many years the company has turned to Christie as one of its principle suppliers of projection technology. Most recently, they took delivery of Christie multi award winning MicroTiles digital displays.

AVC's Head of Technical Services, Phill Pearce, ordered 55 of the modules after seeing them for the first time at February's ISE Show in Amsterdam.

"We have been a Christie partner for at least 15 years, but their major prese

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Sponsored by Spanish language radio station La Rockola 96.7 FM, the show was programmed on the Martin M1 in a matter of only three hours by lighting director and programmer Ed Motts, a 14-year industry veteran and one of the earliest users of Martin's Maxxyz series of consoles.

"The Maxxyz has always been good to me and the support has always been great," Motts commented. "I saw the M1 console early on and was initially interested because of the weight and the size, but it also has the same functionality as a big Maxxyz with a price point that is very appealing."

Motts used eight universes across a house rig of about 70 moving lights, dimmers and LEDs, and the event came off without a

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Joining DOE at the Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Market Introduction Workshop in Philadelphia for yesterday's announcement were representatives from GE, Philips, Cree, and Osram Sylvania, as well as major retailers including The Home Depot, Costco Wholesale and Grainger. These partners are already on board to work with DOE in this effort, and its is anticipated that many more will follow their lead.

Millions of people will start paying a lot more attention to the common light bulb in the coming months, thanks to the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). That's because the incand

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The Q-Spot series is designed for small- to medium-sized installations, as well as mobile applications, particularly those with low ceilings, where heat emissions may be a concern. Both fixtures are lightweight and feature long-life LED light sources, which mean less need to climb ladders for lamp changes and benefit in regard to energy efficiency. Additional

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Lighting for the occasion was designed by Tim Dunn and Hugh Turner. Dunn also programmed and ran the show, with all the lighting equipment supplied by Gearhouse South Africa. Tim Dunn and Hugh Turner are both experienced lighting designers. Dunn has numerous spectacular stadium shows to his name, which combined with Turner's vast theatrical experience, made them the perfect visuals team to create a memorab

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Black Light has been one of the principal suppliers to the Fringe for over 20 years. In 2010, it is continuing its partnership with the Pleasance, which is running shows in 25 venues across the city. It is also supporting C Venues with their staging, and supplying rigging and staging to Zoo venues: Southside and their newest venue in the Roxy Art House. The company also has an on-going relationship with Dance Base and has invested in the D&B E series audio range in order to service the company's needs.

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Building on the strengths of the established SeaChanger dichroic system, which adds colour mixing to existing ETC Source Four fixtures, the SeaChanger Nemo is a new profile spot that uses the LIFI Plasma lamp as its light source. This plasma lamp gives the Nemo 10,000 lumens of light output from just 285 watts of power - more than from a standard 750W HPL lamp - from a source that also has a 15,000 hour life and a very white light, with a colour rendering index value of