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CTI created custom chasing LED circuits inside of Z shaped twirling batons; gauzy "bed nets" worn and carried by performers while lit by battery operated Color Kinetics iColorCoves with PDS-50 LED power supplies with built in WDS receivers; two drum walls of eight bass drums each filled with Color Kinetics ColorBurst 4s controlled by battery powered City Theatrical PDS-375-TRBs with built in WDS receivers; and a unique gong drum with a perimeter lighted with Neo-Flex LED Tube controlled by a battery powered City Theatrical WDS Personal Dimmer.

City Theatrical's head of engineering Larry Dunn says: "We w

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14 March 2016

Reason is well known for designing light features into her innovative architectural and interior schemes, and recently incorporated other Element Labs products into high profile installations at the Hard Rock Café venues in London and Barcelona and for casinos in Leicester and London. Reason had wanted to use VersaPixels ever since she was inspired by watching a 'product in action' video of the massive O2 exhibition stand at CeBit.

VersaPixels' distributed architecture gives designers complete freedom over pixel shape and placement - including intri

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14 March 2016

Pro-audio, specialist lighting and entertainment suppliers from around the world can find a strong and growing market in mainland China. Companies from China, Germany, France, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK and the USA have already signed up to be a part of Prolight + Sound Shanghai.

Prolight + Sound Shanghai will feature a Taiwanese Pavilion fo

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Each LED power supply is capable of dimming twelve (at 350mA) or five (at 700mA) LEDs. A unique feature, however, is the ability of the power supply to combine with up to 99 slaves each of which is capable of supplying a further twelve or five LEDs respectively, which means the entire system is capable of dimming up to 1,200 LEDs synchronously - and without any compromise in terms of safety, the SELV (safety extra-low voltage) being maintained at all times.

The series consists of three products: the PTDCCD 15/350mA or 700mA, with which the LEDs a

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14 March 2016

The visiting team comprises a dentist, an electronics engineer, an English teacher and a chemical engineer and Rotary is still looking for companies representing these disciplines to offer the opportunity for vocational visits. The outgoing team will be chosen from applicants who are UK citizens and either residing or living in the Rotary District. The whole trip w

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14 March 2016

Jon Petts, formerly with lighting manufacturer Pulsar, has been appointed to the newly-created position of Commercial Manager. He will act as the main point of contact with PLASA members, working alongside the existing team to ensure that members take full advantage of the expanding range of business services available. PLASA is also keen to ensure it has a good understanding of the day-to-day issues faced by members and the new role will be instrumental in further developing the lines of communication.

Petts has many years' experience in both sales and management roles, having worked for several major companies within the industry, including Martin Professional. His knowledge of both the industry and current trends in product

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The expansion comes as PLASA Show organisers Clarion Events report the highest ever number of pre-registered visitors - up by 13% on 2005, with technical and creative teams from major venues and high-profile projects among the first to register.

The show's track record of hosting major international product launches, and wide interest in this year's new features, have helped drive the pre-registration increases. The new features are led by the new Integrated Systems Area; a greatly expanded PLASA Seminar Programme with a dedicated Technologies for Worship programme; the first PLASA appearance of NEET (National Exhibition of Entertainment Technology); and new features for DJs.

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A site wide lighting design and spec for the nine main arenas was put together by the event's production manager Simon Barrington of Production Eye, who has long been an Avo user. Equipment was supplied by a variety of lighting rental companies including Leeds-based Zig Zag Lighting who supplied five arenas, Colour Sound Experiment who supplied the Beach Outdoor Stage and the Carl Cox/Silent disco tent, and Audile, who supplied the elegant multi-poled Essential/Bedrock tent.

The D4 was selected by Matt Holden-Jones, operator for Essential/Godskitchen, who had used a D4 Vision in th

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14 March 2016

The inaugural Middle East Lighting Design Awards (MELDA) represents a unique opportunity for the region to recognise and celebrate the professional achievements and excellence of the world's leading lighting designers in enhancing the region's built environment through the power of light. MELDA, is being held in association with Mondo arc, an international publication for architectural, retail, and corporate lighting design.

Announcing the awards, group exhibitions director, IIR Exhibitions Entertainment and Installation Technology Group, Darren Brechin says: "

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14 March 2016

The company charters entire flagships from different cruise lines for its holidays, and in this case, the vessel was the 2200 passenger Infinity from the Celebrity line. The large pool deck was set up with a stunning laser and light show for five glorious all-night DJ parties, celebrating the occasion in style.

Lighting equipment was supplied by Paradigm Lighting from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The rig was designed, crew chief-ed, tech'd, programmed and operated buy Guy Smith of Guy Smith Lighting - also the resident designer for Atlantis and a veteran of 27 cruises.

The ship's crew built and helped maintain the rig, and production managemen

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"With its universally recognized brands and massive market reach, we're extremely pleased to call SC Johnson a licensee and to enable its unique use of LED technology for a broad, new consumer audience," said Bill Sims, president and CEO, Color Kinetics. "We believe this relationship reflects not only the value of our intellectual property, but also the increasingly prevalent use of LED sources across diverse markets - from commercial lighting and entertainment to dynamic household products."

The Glade PlugIns Scented Oil Light Show is a home fragrancing device that combines fragrance with a light show to provide a mul

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14 March 2016

President of Gear-Source, Marcel Fairbairn says: "Tony is a good friend of mine, and someone I respect for his ability to drive into new markets, and really take care of the customer. We're thrilled to be able to bring him in at this time and happily

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14 March 2016

"We didn't purchase the W-DMX System for the usual shows as we can use our inbuilt Ethernet data distribution system for our standard theatre rigs," explained Phil Dunesky, Sydney Opera House's technical operations manager for the stage lighting department.

"Rather we purchased it to use on our more unusual events, such as foyer-based productions, and for the occasional set pieces that may be run on a revolve, for example, where running cable would be difficult to use. Quite often we have to light functions here at the Ope

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Pearl Expert is powered by the new Intel Core Duo Processor giving an exceptionally high speed button response which is particularly useful for 'take over', and busking with timed palettes. An additional five sub master playbacks make a total of 20 ensuring every type of show, and user, has all the playbacks they need, instantly accessible.

New Add and Swop buttons for the top row of faders allow easy placement of fixtures and dimmers, on all 60 preset faders.

The new 'Colour Picker' a feature from the Diamond 4 console,

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Sam Spennacchio, FiberPlex's director of sales and marketing for Pro Audio, says: "I am really thrilled to have SF Marketing as our LightViper distributor in Canada. Sol has assembled an enviable group of people, from sales to technical support to administration. The extent of SF Marketing's capabilities and expertise is truly unique. We look forward to a very long and productive relationship with SF Marketing."

SF Marketing can be telephoned on, Canada 514-780-2070.

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"I received a phone call from The Pop Factory Production Company on Monday asking me to provide the lighting for a S4C shoot of the programme Dechrau Canu on the following Wednesday," says Routledge, "I had been working with Hawthorns over the last twelve months so I knew, even though the timescale was tight they would pull out all the stops to help me."

St. Asaph Cathedral, North Wales is the smallest Cathedral in Britain, so with space at a premium Routledge had to design an exacting lighting configuration to achieve the 360 degree lighting effect he required, whilst keeping as much of the lighting out of shot as possible. "Following a swift site visit, and a sketched design

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The Palace Theatre in London will house Spamalot, the smash-hit Broadway musical "lovingly ripped off from" the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Lighting designer Hugh Vanstone was nominated for a Tony Award for his work on the Broadway production, and will re-create his design for London; the show is designed by Tim Hatley and directed by Mike Nichols.

Vanstone's rig for the show features a wide range of Vari*Lite equipment, including tungsten and arc VL1000s, VL2500 Washes, 80V VL500s and VL3000Q Spots as well as ETC

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With this in mind, the society approached several manufacturers to provide new products to give the students hands-on experience with industry products. These came from several manufacturers the main being A.C. Lighting providing Tourwash fixtures and Funktion-One providing there latest RM12 and RM15 monitors for their very first outing. Further equipment was provided by RCH hire to supplement the university's existing stock.

The main sound system comprised two stacks of three Funktion-One 218s and two Resolution 4es with Resolution 2s providing

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Dan Quayle, a lighting technician at Stage Electrics, who has over 18 months experience with Martin lights, designed the lighting for the evening. Quayle says: "We went for moving heads as standard to create this effect and from my point of view as a designer nothing can beat Martin lights for ease of use, reliability and visual effect. The optics and amazing visual effects martin products gave us were second to none and helped us achieve our brief with ease."

Quayle used Mac 250+s, Mac 300s, Mac 500s, and Mac 600s along with a pair of Roboscan Pro 918s, which were all supplied by Stag

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"Our strong second quarter performance reflects continuing worldwide demand for versatile, efficient LED-based alternatives to conventional lighting in many markets - whether for dynamic architectural lighting, visual merchandising, or international concert tours. We have also shown th

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14 March 2016

New at PLASA'06 is the Alpha Profile 1200 - a professional beam-shaper which combines the technology of the Alpha projectors with Clay Paky's patented framing system. The Alpha Profile 1200 has a wide-range zoom of 10° - 30°, a "total colour system", 14 gobos, animation effect and a prism. All the effects can be combined with endless varieties of beam shapes and sizes.

Also new at PLASA'06, the Alpha Wash 1200 is the most powerful washlight in the Alpha family. The optical system uses uniform CMY colour mixing which, together with a fixed colour wheel with linear CTO and a C

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Based on his experience of more than 20 years working with Avolites and some of the largest companies in the lighting industry, Lodge believes that his new GSL Power Distribution company will bring something unique to the event marketplace. "We have developed (and are currently working on) a selection of new products and services that we know the leading rental operations are demanding," he comments. "They want easily customised products that are robust and reliable and GSL Power Distribution will provide practical solutions and developm

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14 March 2016

A Finnish invention, FogScreen generates a thin, dry fog that delivers an ideal on-screen look for live events, film and television productions. It enables people to actually walk through an image projected in mid-air. FogScreen uses ordinary water and does not contain any chemicals. "We chose FogScreen for its quality and its proven advanced technical characteristics," explains N. John Smith, executive producer of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. "

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Martin offered a solution that provides the whole studio with basic colours used for makeup, which allows shoppers to have the same mood and colour recreated, of candle light, fire light, day light etc...

Fidaa Baddour, the marketing manager of Chanel - UAE says: "The Basic element and the main focus of makeup is lighting. In Chanel we say, 'Chanel Masters the Light'." Baddour continues: "The lighting in the studio is unique, that shows [the] professionalism of makeup depends on light directly. We trust that Martin is able to demonstrate all the colours we need and all [the] applications required."

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