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The company has taken stock of Alpha Spot HPE 575s, Alpha Wash 575s and Alpha Wash 1200s adding to an already large and varied stock of moving and LED lights.

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"I'm a grandMA guy through and through," says lighting designer/director Christopher Stuba. "The band wasn't really into IMAG but had been wanting to do video. So we bought a Catalyst system a couple of years ago. We're running the soft LED drape with it and using the grandMA through the Catalyst. The grandMA is wonderful and easy to manipulate. Troy Eckerman is our grandMA programmer; we've been working together on and off for 15 years - he's the best there is."

Currently, the grandMA controls an array of moving and conventional light fixtures, includi

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Featuring a low-profile level rectangular case, the M-5 Fogger is designed to lay flat on a stage floor securely and unobtrusively. Two oversized handles allow for easy mobility and positioning. Another feature is its high-capacity 10-litre tank.

"With the M-5, Antari has created a truly one of-a-kind fogger designed uniquely for staging and touring," said Eric Loader, director of sales for Elation Professional. "Now bands, stage shows and touring productions can have all the incredible features of Antari's top-notch fog machin

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The Alpha Spot HPE 300 is compact, light, silent, easy to install and extremely bright, with superior graphic and optical performances, says the company. It features a wide Zoom, CMY, 8+1 Colour Wheel, 15 gobos (of which eight are rotating), rotating prism, linear frost, smooth frost, 0-100% dimmer on dedicated channel, iris and stop/strobe. It has electronic ballast as standard.

With the same optical, lighting engineering and constructional qualities as the Alpha Spot HPE 300, the Alpha Spot 300 is fitted with two 8+1 colour wheels combinable together, 15 gobos (of which 8 rotate), rotating prism, 0-100% dimmer on dedicated channel an

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Athena has two theatres. The first holds 275 seated; and if all the seats are removed this increases to a 700-person limit. The second is black-box style seating 150 patrons.

Lighting equipment for both theatres includes over 150 Selecon luminaires including Rama 175 High Performance PCs with Fast Focus Technology yokes, Arena 2kW PCs, white Acclaim Axial 18º -34º Zoomspots, Pacific 12º-28º and 23º-50º Zoomspots with 80V 1200W power systems, Pacific Followspots with 80V 1200W power systems, Acclaim Fresne

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The theatre in Dalston, North East London, aims to become carbon neutral following an ambitious seven-year plan known as Arcola Energy. It has installed energy efficient stage lighting, biomass heating, solar panels, fuel cells and state of the art energy saving technologies throughout the building.

The Arcola Energy launch event took place during monsoon type rain and included a performance from Golden Globe winning actress Cathy Tyson, who coincidentally read from The Flood. During the performance Tyson was lit by a range of low-energy LED lights, solely powered by a 5kW PEM fuel cell.

For the launch performance, Stage Electrics s

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CSP's MD Kenny Heng says: "We've been closely watching the growing convergence between conventional and digital lighting, and the time is absolutely right for us to invest in this new technology and bring it to Singapore."

CSP works extensively throughout Singapore, Malaysia and other south east Asian countries, traversing several market sectors including live events, TV productions, theatre shows and corporate and industrial presentations.

CSP's Robe hire stock is the largest of any rental company in Singapore, and now includes 56 ColorSpot 1200E ATs and 16 ColorWash 1200E ATs , plus the new DigitalSpot 5000 DTs.

Recent CSP projects using Robe ha

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The Championship is designed to equip every member of every team with the experience, knowledge and determination to succeed in Formula One and features cars running at speeds only a few seconds shy of F1 pace. For this season Arden opted for rookie drivers Adrian Zaugg and Bruno Senna, nephew of the triple F1 Champion Ayrton Senna.

A.C. provided the Arden GP2 team's innovative 'bullet-shaped' garage lighting pods, which feature the latest LED colour-changing technology and were custom designed to be in keeping with the cars' cutting-edge aesthetic and functional design.

Phill Capstick, the company's UK sales director, comments: "A.C. Lighting is extremely proud to be sponsoring the Arden International GP2 racing team. Their tr

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"After 10 years we decided it was time for a new updated look," says managing director Kirsten Eicher. "The new website carries full details of all our entire product range and downloadable data sheets for each unit, in addition to news, references and a list of our extensive international dealer network. PLASA will prove an ideal forum for our customers to tell us what they think of the new format."

The latest products to be listed on the website are the new Tiny F07 and the Tiny CO7 battery operated foggers. These are the modified successors to the Tiny Fogger and the Tiny Compact respectively, with the design of each b

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Deletic comes to LSC with global experience in software design, having worked at Kvaerner Oilfield Products in the UK and Pupin Holdings in the former Yugoslavia. Most recently he has been working with Australian Arrow as their software developerHe will be working as part of the EKO R&D team; developing new software and giving the EKO range more flexibility to further expand its use into the 'archi-tainment' marketplace, says the company.

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The Visage LED Video Floor Module is a new stage and club lighting product utilising RGB LED as a light source. Using advanced digital and video technology it can reproduce stunning motion effects as well as real time video, driven through PC DVI. A fully modular system, each floor panel measures 500mm x 500mm and inter-connect, allowing for total flexibility in both size and design. The panels use 12mm toughened glass as a faceplate, ensuring safety and durability.

This combination of form and function make this product suitable, not only for conventional dance floors but more unusual shapes such as catwalks and walkways.

Also debuting is the LED Truss P

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C Venues is presenting over 200 shows performed by 140 companies from all over the world across the three-week festival period.

HSL's Mike Oates project managed, working closely with C Venues' production manager Julie Rawlins. The supply has included over 350 lighting fixtures, desks, dimmers and several kilometres of cable.

It's the third year running that HSL has supplied C Venues at Edinburgh. Mike Oates says: "We're really pleased to be involved with C-Venues and the Fringe again. HSL has a history of working with all types of theatre shows, and it's great to support all the energy and enthusiasm - not to mention some cutting-edge performances - of the Fringe."

Each C Venues space has a 'standar

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GearSource's sales team worked with lighting designer, Bob Shultz and Hard Rock staff to provide the package they needed, This includes 20 Studio Color 575, 26 Studio Spot 575, Wybron Scrollers, ETC Source 4's and a Hog iPC and began shipping within days of receiving the final order from Hard Rock.

This new package will be used in a venue called the Ice House Theatre which features a country music themed ice show on a 50' x 50' real ice s

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Like its more compact cousin, the Design Spot 575E is a professional-quality moving-head fixture that offers both Frost and Iris capabilities in one unit. The Frost feature is what allows it to function as a hybrid, taking away the hard edges of a spotlight and converting it to a wash-type fixture. The Frost is variable type, so users can control how much edge is taken away, from hard edge to soft to no spotlight edge whatsoever. The Iris allows users to pinpoint performers at any distance and is also capable of creating an eye-popping pulse effect.

Now in its brawnier 575W version, the 24-channel Design Spot 575E is designed for stage productions, churches, theatres, concert h

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The festival, which has been running for over 60 years and runs throughout the whole of July, showcases French and foreign contemporary drama as well as dance creations. In addition to the official festival venues, some 900 performances by 300 troupes are held as part of the fringe festival.

The centre of the festival, as far as Pernette is concerned, is the Cour d'Honneur (Courtyard of Honour) at the historic Palais des Papes - the Palace of the Popes which has walls up to 5.5m thick, which explains why it is in such a good state of repair - it was virtually impregnable to attack. It also explains why one of the pieces of technology which lighting director Philippe Catalano c

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A&O delivered 77 Alpha One Falcon Beam 3,000W xenon lights for the show, arranged in four concentric circles with an external diameter of 12m. Behind this ring formation, 16 alpha one Falcon Beam 7,000W luminaires were arranged in a line. Also, 90 Sky Falcon Arc Colour 1,200W metal halide fixtures illuminated the front façade and the interior courtyard. A&O Technology also supplied the requisite controllers for the system, as well as 30sq.m of VersaTile LED panels and media content.

A&O's in-house media department, A&O Vision, carried out the technical planning, visualisation and pre-pr

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Total revenues for the six months ended 30 June, 2007 were approximately $4,975,000 as compared to approximately $5,814,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2006. Over $690,000 of the approximately $839,000 decrease was attributable to a decrease in sales to the pool and spa market, which are down over 26% year over year

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Architen Landrell have helped shape this striking part of the venue with their design, manufacture and installation of a weatherproof tunnel leading visitors to the Arena from the waterfront.

After being awarded several projects as part of the old Millennium Dome's redevelopment, they presented clients O2 and venue owners AEG with a range of options for the proposed lighting scheme at Riverwalk, with Tryka being the winning option.

35 Tryka Module 36 IP67 with oval optics are installed inside the custom-built 150m long tunnel, with Tryka's IDS-4 rack Intelligent Drive System controlled by a Pharos LPC DMX system. The luminaires offer a wide beam angle for illuminating the vast area.

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MLR has had a flying start with a sizeable investment in 300 Robe moving lights, bringing their total Robe inventory to over 450 units. The luminaires - a 50/50 split of Spot and Wash fixtures from Robe's 700, 1200 and 2500 E AT ranges - have been delivered via Robe Lighting's Australian distributor ULA Group P/L.

MLR is designed to offer industry rate prices to its clients enabling them to re-rent the units. The new lights are now available for hire to other production companies throughout the Asia-Pacific region. MLR will also be used to service Clifton's many upcoming productions.

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Lighting designer Jean Marc Bouaniche specified an entire PixelRange rig for the occasion including 110 PixelLine 110s, 20 PixelLine 1044s, 36 PixelPars and 12 PixelBricks. Bouaniche enthused: "I didn't want to mix generic lights with LEDs. I wanted the aqueduct reflecting in its own colour - not lightening it with HMI or MSR lamps."

The PixelLine 110s were positioned in each of the arches on the second and third levels whilst PixelPars were on the ground facing and lighting the first level. The PixelLine 1044s and the PixelBricks were on the river banks - simulating volcano craters in red beating like he

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The house rig of conventional lighting, with Zero 88 Betapack dimming supplemented by additional dimming and DMX switch packs, PAR cans, UV Tubes, Jem ZR24/7 Hazer, CCT followspot and the 6ft tall hand-built Tardis - was controlled using a single laptop with external monitor and a ChamSys MagicQ PC Wing - an affordable and portable method for lighting designer and operator Matt Lemon of Eastleigh-based ML Lighting who also works in development for ChamSys.

"The new multiwindows feature in the software is great," says Lemon. "It allowed me to spread the screens I was using across the laptop and external monitor without having to open up another programme

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Within the square, several large lighting towers were rigged with more than 300 computer lighting fixtures plus several powerful searchlights, totalling more than 500 lighting fixtures in all. All of these lighting fixtures were controlled with only four lighting consoles.

To achieve the multitude of lighting changes while overcoming the difficulty of the long transmission distance without any cables, Leifull Light and Sound of Guangzhou proposed an effective solution. They supplied four W-DMX systems from Wireless Solution Sweden to control the searchlights and the area light of the Tiananmen Tower, and used a 6dB high-power antenna to guarantee the signal's stability.

The entir

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Based around the trials and tribulations of "the unlikeliest Take That tribute band", Never Forget is constructed around Take That's greatest hits. Directed by Ed Curtis and designed by Bob Bailey, the show features lighting by James Whiteside who is making use of some of the latest LED lighting technology, including Thomas PixelLine 1044 battens and the ChromaQ Color Web LED mesh, controlled by MA Lighting's grandMA lighting console and mediaPC media server.

"The LED battens are used inside translucent legs on either side of the set; at the end of the show the legs swing open so the lights themselves are visible to the audience," Whiteside explain

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"We used ESP vision linked by MA-Net to visualise our programming during the day," explained Ben Cracknell, associate lighting designer and programmer. "We loaded in on Monday, began programming on Thursday evening and did the show on Sunday. I was very impressed by the grandMA and how it performed on this show.

"We were able to link both consoles together in multiuser-mode, which meant whilst I was operating the show we could use the second board to inhibit or lift intensities. This was necessary to fit the camera requirements to ensure great pictures throughout the daylight hours, past sunset and into night time."

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