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In creating the light wall installation on platform five, Jason Bruges called on Architainment for a custom solution. Architainment supplied 717 Philips Color Kinetics eW Flex SLX fittings with 15 node strings. This warm white string LED solution is a versatile strand of 50 individually controllable white light LED nodes. The durable, flexible form allows for dynamic points of white light to be installed across nearly any interior or exterior surface, including walls, cei

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RML's recently purchased Global Design Solution (GDS) Liteware HO-Uplighters were the focal of the music number - 24 of them positioned around the trees, stage and tree house.

"The Uplighters were used to up light bits of the garden and facing towards the cameras for some eye candy for the music number," says Allen. "As always the close up of the guest had nothing behind them but that wasn't a problem I just picked up the lamp repositioned i

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Routledge was lighting director for the Help for Heroes concert at Twickenham Stadium. Headlined by Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow. Also performing that night were Enrique Iglesias, Alexandra Burke, Alicia Dixon, The Wanted, Katherine Jenkins, Peter Kay. Creative director was Kim Gavin for Live Nation.

The rig was co-designed by Tim Routledge and Steve Nolan who was also production manager of the show and managed by PRG's Rich Gorrod. The comprehensive rig based around the 'H' stage designed by Misty Buckley was supplied by PRG and featured a large rig of VL3000 spots, VL3500 wash and FX units, GLP Impressions, Alpha Beam 300's, 2 lites, Color blocks and Infinity XL washes.

Routledge was responsible for the lighting o

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The group's ability to create a genuine emotional connection with its audiences, along with its widely-known support of environmental and charitable causes - from Farm Aid to Hurricane Katrina relief - have undoubtedly played a big role in attracting this loyal fan following. One of the 'newcomers' to the 2010 tour is the Design Wash LED Pro, a compact energy-efficient high-power RGBW moving head colour wash from Elation Professional.

DMB lighting designer Fenton Williams and programmer Aaron Stinebrink are using 16 Design Wash LED Pros, supplied by Theatrical Media Services (Omaha, NE), as colour-changing truss toners.

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Attendees of the open house, which included prominent lighting designers from the television, live event and architectural lighting segments, were given a presentation of the W-DMX G4 product line, detailing its range of innovative new features including Adaptive Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum technology to dynamically avoid frequency ranges in use by other radios, built-in dual-band 5.8GHz support to allow designers and technicians access to unfettered frequency bands, and support for RDM to allow fixture feedback information through the W-DMX system.

Attendees were also impressed by the fact that all three universes of DMX in the presentation venue were running off W-DMX

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Martin EMEA is continuing the Martin Brighter World road show theme yet in a slightly smaller format. The Brighter World road show tour is an innovative approach to relationship building that brings Martin directly to important lighting professionals, says the company. Targeted at the entertainment, as well as commercial and architectural markets, the on-the-road concept allows for a more detailed, personal dialogue and is aimed at exposing lighting professionals to the latest Martin gear through product demonstrations, application and hands-on training, and on-site presentations.

The Martin European R

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When an overhaul of the JUTE black box theatre became necessary, Arts Queensland as the venue managers put out their tender and after demos and quotes were submitted, and with the invaluable guidance of Keith Clarke they decided on the Philips Selecon SPX and called on the long-time, local Philips Selecon dealer to supply.

"There were a few raised eyebrows around the place when the order came in and we saw the required delivery date; to say it was going to be a little tight is something of an understatement but as ever, and with very little persuasion, our friends in Auckland came through and the fixtures were built

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The new Gll products are designed for indoor or outdoor use with an IP65 rating. The HP3 uses single chip RGB LEDs to provide a very bright light source. The new HP5 models incorporate RGBAW LEDs to provide the widest range of colours. All models use Neutrik XLR5 and PowerCon connectors and a conversion kit to replace these with PG9/11 fittings for outdoor use.

The MultiSpot GII-HP3is designed for use where narrow beam angles are not needed, but the colour consistency at short distances is a requirement. It features a flexible DMX control scheme with four different control modes, RGB and HSL, with either combined or separated dimmer/strobe channels.

The MultiSpot GII-HP5

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Staying On - Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis says he's not ready to hand the day-to-day running of the festival over to his daughter Emily yet. Eavis, 75, celebrated the festival's 40th anniversary earlier this year but

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The showroom will make its first stop Monday, 11 October at Mainstage Theatrical Supply in Memphis, Tenn., before heading to Bradfield Stage Lighting in Nashville and Tennessee Lighting Company in Knoxville on 12 and 13 October respectively.

Then it's off to Vincent Lighting Systems in Solon, Ohio, where the showroom will remain parked on 14 October before visiting Vincent's sister store in Erlanger, Ky, 15 October for its final stop of the month.

Each stop will provide visitors with a hands-on survey of new and classic Wybron gear, including the Cygnus advanced color LED line, as well as a chance to chat with Wybron staff members and enjoy complimentary food.

"In this first year of touring we've pi

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Following an intensive two-year research collaboration with Denmark's Aalborg University, and with development funding from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, the MAC 350 Entour has proved a pioneering and energy-efficient alternative to traditional discharge lighting.

The Danish Industry Prize, awarded once a year to honour companies which develop exceptional customer solutions, was conferred at the commercial organisation's Business Summit in Copenhagen on 29 September 29.

"We're very proud to receive this prestigious award, but we're even more proud that we now have a unique product

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Reflection brings a familiar part of traditional Par lighting fixtures - the interchangeable light source - to the new world of LED lighting fixtures. The lightsource directs light from a combination of LEDs onto a parabolic reflector, giving an output which is bright, but which also eliminates the RGB dots and multi-coloured shadows which have plagued many other LED fixtures. Reflection gives a pure, uniformly coloured beam that can also be zoomed smoothly from 18 to 37 degrees.

Two version of the Reflection lightsource are available. The RGB version offers full spectrum colour mixing and also a dramatic, boosted strobe/blinder effect that can be used in any colour. The VariWhite version offers colour temperature selection across the white ran

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Eales, who has been instrumental in leading the development of new Strand product and service, now heads the European team, along with Michael Goldberg, sales director for EMEA and Grant Bales-Smith, sales manager. Eales comments, " I am looking forward to working with our great team of dealers, staff and customers to keep building the Philips Entertainment brands across all our geographic regions and segments."

(Jim Evans)

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The permanent ETC equipment has now helped light one of the most prestigious platforms for the nation's top talent, the 9th China Arts Festival, for which Guangzhou was the headlining venue.

When the £130m (€155m) facilities debuted in May, the lighting control was from two ETC Eos control desks; Eos Client software (for remote console programming); and multiple ETC Net3 Gateways for full ACN networked functionality.

ETC's Eos product manager Anne Valentino says,"The Eos control system has rapidly established itself as the leading control choice for opera, theatre and ballet institutions around the world. It was specifically engineered for the demands of such productions, with fu

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Lighting control is handled by two separate artnet systems, one for the LED facade and one for the rest of the Pavilion's lighting. The LED facade is controlled via a project-built media server developed by Aarhus University's Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction (CAVI, Denmark). The CAVI media server controls the look of the facade by triggering timings using sensors mounted around the building.

The non-facade lighting areas are quite substantial however. There are 25 other areas of the Danish Pavilion which are illuminated and controlled individually - a soc

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It was the first year that PSI has supplied a full rigging and comprehensive lighting and digital lighting package to the event, which was co-ordinated with BBC Northern Ireland's own lighting department, to meet the spec of lighting designers John Gallagher and Philip Brines. The Ulster Orchestra played a special programme and guests included The Priests, flautist Brian Finnegan, violinist Alexandra Soumm and Duke Special.

The stage was supplied by Star Events. It measured 18m wide by 13 deep with 8.5m of headroom, underneath which PSI installed a 16mwide by 13 deep box truss.

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This includes a new sound system designed over eight separate zones and a club lighting system in the newly-created Night Lounge located in the basement area. All spaces have been conceived, installed and supplied by The Sound Division Group (SDG).

When proprietor Marlon Abela reopened the venue towards the end of last year, there was just one piece of the jigsaw remaining. For while the ground floor bar, first floor restaurant and second floor private members' lounge had received their first major overhaul in many years, it was only after the owners decided to convert the basement into an exclusive nightclub - termed a 'night lounge' - that the real 'wow factor' was delivered.

With its colour-washed, exposed brickwork, d

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The lighting design team comprised seven students, taking their lead from designer Richard G Jones, recently applauded for his work on The Railway Childrenat London's Waterloo station. The brief was to recreate the emotional journey of The Story with lighting as the sole scenic element.

Second-year student and assistant lighting designer for the production, Natalie Davey, specified the PixelLine 110s to work in conjunction with conventional cyc floods already in the school inventory. The 110s were positioned on side booms to wash across the white cycloramic scenery wall where the cyc floods also washed from their positions top and bottom.

Davey approach

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"Once I was brought on by the band's manager, we began discussing the new album and how they wanted to integrate aspects of the album into the tour," says Sasic. "The overall feel of the album is a sort of journey into their childhood through the looking glass of a faded Polaroid, so this is what they wanted for the tour. The set design would consist of a suburban, outdoor location with a large projection video screen contained inside a road-side billboard frame measuring 20' wide x 10' high. Then we also a

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His work has included the design, build and installation of fully autonomous searchlights which form part of the festive lighting at the top of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. He has also created a number of bespoke products for bands including Muse, Tokyo Hotel and Coldplay.

Richard Cuthbert, technical director for GDS comments, "David brings with him considerable experience in special project and product design and we are very much looking forward to his input for the ongoing expansion of the GDS."

(Jim Evans)

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"Through the generosity of J.F. Canuel, VP of A.C. Lighting, we were offered a complete LED lighting rig for the show - whatever I requested was made available to us - including the new Color Block 2. These fixtures, with their GBA optics, 530 lumens of output and theatrical grade dimm

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A visit with Matthias Hinrichs at Martin's Los Angeles office helped LD/Programmer Jason Dill focus in on the Martin M1 for its many solution-solving features in a powerful, compact package.

Dill needed no special training on the M1 but a brief run-through from Hinrichs. "Everything made sense. It's easy to get around," Dill says. "Programming lighting is just a matter of controlling DMX channels, so it's a matter of knowing what keys you need to push to get the console to do what you want. The M1's syntax is logical, as opposed to other consoles that take a computer-minded approach to operate them."

With the ever-changing lighting rig to consider, console fle

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The only solutions available at that time were either very expensive or very low quality. Bandit immediately set out to test a large number of various devices to determine the best, affordable option. That summer Jackson willingly served as a proving ground for various types of LED solutions. There were several immediate upsides to an all LED rig; low power consumption, endless and vivid colour varieties, and the point most impressive

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Cogent has recently been appointed as exclusive European distributor for this new product that harnesses the power and innovation of amBX technology. The XC offers an alternative method for controlling colour changing LEDs.

Says Cogent's Peter Coles, "This is an inventive and different solution for a number of applications, and it's great to be here with Marata Vision who have many contacts and a great track record in this specialist sector."

The key points of the Cogent XC LED lighting controller are its simple set up and ease of use. No programming is required as the box is pre-programmed with a number of algorithmic sequences that tri