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Speed Racer was described by one critic as "hyper-stylised, primary-coloured and taking on the aspect of a glamorous cartoon", and PSL worked with production designer Amanda Davies from AD Events to create a suitably sensational environment for Sir Ian McKellen, Christina Ricci, Emile Hirsch and others who had attended the film's premiere.

The party's unusual location was an edgy new space in central London called P3, once a 14,000 sq.ft concrete testing facility belonging to the University of Westminster, and only recently opened as an exhibition area and venue.

With its 30' high ceiling and mezzanine gallery floor, P3 offers interesting possibiliti

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The stage concept is that of a giant video box, with the floor, ceiling and walls all utilised to create a fast-moving, dynamic and constantly changing performance environment.

This features over 1000 MiTrix tiles which are lining the 12-stepped stage set making up the floor of the performance area, and bordering six staggered overhead trusses on three sides, creating a mirror-image effect to the stage below. The truss mounted MiTrix was made up as custom lengths for the tour.

Upstage centre is the back wall, comprising a 22.5sq.m Barco ILite 10 LED screen. The side walls feature a total of 128 Element Labs VersaTUBES, mounted on special frames, and arranged in horizontal lines.

All these video elemen

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It is also in action on a myriad of tours and live events, including James Blunt's 2008 world tour (LD Paul Normandale), Boyzone (LD Peter Barnes), the recent Kaiser Chief's homecoming gig at Leeds Elland Road stadium (Video director Jon Shrimpton/LD Richard Larkum) and will be used on the upcoming Coldplay world tour (LD Paul Normandale).

Catalyst is flexible, configurable and adaptable to suit productions of any size or budget, says the company. The latest PRO version, when coupled

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Featured equipment includes Vari*Lite 3500 Washes, 3000 Spots, Coemar Infinity Washes, Martin Atomic 3000 Strobes, MAC 600s, American DJ LED Pars, and Lycian M2 Spots. Lighting was controlled by two grandMAs.

The tour's lighting director, Lee Gipson programmed the US. leg of the tour at Bandit's Nashville facility with Bandit programmer, Trevor Ahlstrand. Additional Bandit crew includes crew chief, Chuck Hastings and lighting technicians, Paul Holst and David Hauss.

Santana is currently playing shows in Europe. He will continue touring throughout Canada and the western United States before closing out the world tour in mid-October.(Jim Evans)

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For this tour, Sollitt's design is based on multiple layers of lighting, the idea being that he has an infinite variety of beam patterns and effects at his fingertips to deal with the sharp, punky, flashy nature of much of the set. It's a heavily back-lit show, with a 'wall of death' upstage. This style of lighting is very much suited to the band's frenetic set which has no dull moments, with lead singer Matt Bowman engaging in some spectacular acrobatics particularly on top of the monitors.

This tour is also a big step up for Pigeon Detectives in terms of it being their first with a proper full production, kicking off in style with two gigs at Millennium Square in their hometown of Leed

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The new CLM Lease Offering, backed by IBM Global Financing, gives companies the opportunity to access Barco's CLM line of projectors, designed and built specifically for the demanding rental and staging market.

"For years, large concert promoters and event planners have relied on the Barco name to bring high-tech visualization and lighting technology to the stage," said Paul Foulkes, vice-president, vendor financing, IGF. "Thanks to the CLM leasing programme, smaller rental partners will also get the chance to acquire Barco's state-of-the-art CLM projection technology. We are delighted to incorporate a financing programme with Barco to support those companies grow their business."<

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The show used, besides many others, 136 Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE, 24 BigLites, numerous Martin moving lights, approximately 120sq.m of Barco OLite 510, 24sq.m of Barco SLite 10 and a number of Martin LED screens. A giant stage construction was built on the arena floor which was 25m wide and 27m deep. 72 tons of light equipment were mounted to nearly 2,500m of truss.

Procon Event Engineering Germany, was the general technical supplier and provided lighting, sound, video, stage building, rigging and power. Production designer was Goran Joksimovic. Sven Stojanovic worked as art direct

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During the first quarter of 2006, The Finesse Leisure Partnership, who manage the Hatfield Swim Centre for Welwyn Hatfield Council, completed a £750,000 council-funded refurbishment of the technical infrastructure for the local authority.

At that time the facility's system integrators Clarity in Sound, Light and Vision introduced Finesse to the idea of LED lighting to enhance the discharge lighting in the high-humidity environment.18 months ago the integrators specified and fitted 12 of Pulsar's ChromaFlood 200 fixtures (each containing a combination of 66 Red, Green and Blue LEDs).

Finesse's health & fitness manager, Amanda Morris,

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Under the direction of A Caspian, PSL delivered the full staging solution for this year's 2008 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, an annual forum and Awards ceremony to mark the distribution of more than $30 million of grants by the Skoll Foundation, the largest foundation for social entrepreneurship in the world.

For a two-night programme culminating in the Awards, A Caspian Production booked one of Oxford's architectural gems, the famous Sheldonian Theatre. More than 700 people attended the ceremony, which boasted former US President Jimmy Carter as one of its speakers, as well as Jeff Skoll, first president of Ebay and founder of t

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Working under instructions from the Army, Police officers evacuated the area, whilst a 200m cordon was put in place, forming an exclusion zone around the bomb. This effectively resulted in the immediate closure of the entire Film Studios, affecting all current productions in 15 stages totalling 114,000sq.ft and resident on-site businesses plus 200 production offices.

One of the oldest tenants in 3 Mills Studios, Rigging Se

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As the exclusive UK distributor for the Chroma-Q, Jands and Spotlight brands, A.C.'s lighting area will feature recent additions to each range. The Chroma-Q LED range includes the new Color Punch compact IP65 fixture, and Color Split fixture with dual side by side RGBA LED cells for twice the lighting possibilities.

The Jands range includes the Vista lighting console with graphic based user interface and the FPX/WMX portable/wall mounted, professional touring quality 12x2.4kW channel dimmers. The Spotlight range includes the Cyclorama Domino RGBA LED floodlight with optical system for uniform light distribution, Vedette 12HCC LV followspot with lo

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The announcement that L-Acoustics has signed an Icelandic distributor, Nyherji, is further evidence that this North Atlantic outpost has established itself as a leading player on the international live sound circuit. Many international tours now include Reykjavik in their itineraries, whi

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This amalgamation of video and lighting capabilities combines Barco's projection technology with Green Hippo's widely recognised and user friendly Hippotizer V3 software technology.

According to Barco: "With its brightness, unlimited image selection and instant switching between light beam and video projection, cue by cue, the DML-1200 provides lighting designers with pure creativity at their fingertips. With its on-board media player, lighting de

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With the XL250 the company has managed to pack a full range of features into a restyled chassis. Available in two versions (with Magnetic or Electronic ballast), the XL250 combines a 250W lamp - and all the features of the established XL series - with a highly-efficient optical system, making the fixture sufficiently bright for any small-to-medium sized venue as well as theatre and television studios, says the company.

Highlights of the XL250 are the interchangeable colour gobos, 15°-23° linear zoom, LCD display and an energy-saving design for both the electronic (XL250) and magnetic ballast (XL250M) versions.

The XL250 also contains an energy-saving design, reducing lamp consumption to half power at shutter closing status

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Lighting designer Nich Smith was brought in to design a lighting scheme which would form both an exciting interactive experience for the visitor whilst fulfilling the conservation requirements demanded by the sensitive exhibits.

The result was a series of 'Character Showcases', each of which contain significant props and archive materials pertinent to the individual author. The showcases are left intentionally dim until activated by a visitor using interactive touch screens to fade lights up on the appropriate object. This has the dual effect of restricting light exposure of the manuscripts, and engaging the visitor with the case contents.

The showcase lighting is a mixture of

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Loz joins Essential from PRG Europe where he gained experience supporting such projects as The Lion King, Jersey Boys and Wicked in London's West End, product launches for prestigious clients such as Audi, Lexus and Rolls Royce and special events including the Nobel Peace Prize concerts.

Loz grew up with both parents involved in the entertainment industry and began his professional career aged 16 in his local theatre. Prior to returning to London, Loz travelled the world in the position of production manager for P&O Cruises, looking after the lighting design aboard their cruise liners; all of which earned him a wealth of experience that he brings to the team at Essential.

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"The impression combines high light output with very low power consumption, which is of great importance on tours with very variable lighting sets," Loose explained. "The lightness of these compact moving heads was of crucial importance on this tour, since all the lighting equipment had to be packed into a single trailer attached to the tour bus; with 24 conventional washlights that would have been unthinkable."

Loose mounted the moving heads in a 6 x 4 matr

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Artists on tour have been Snow Patrol, Keane, Human League, Brand New, Jarvis Cocker, Massive Attack, The Klaxons, Lily Allen, and the Super Furry Animals.

This year's shows and events have included supplying lighting for The People's Opening' Extravaganza to launch Liverpool's European Capital of Culture year, ,I>Dream On, the launch of theatre producer Bill Kenwright's new boyband, Roisi

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Based in Austin, Texas, High End Systems employs 156 people and is a profitable company with USD 44m sales in 2007. The total value of the transaction is USD 55m, which implies an EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation, amortisation) multiple of around eight on the past 12 months. The impact on 2008 EPS (earnings per share) is estimated to be about neutral due to the required IFRS (International Financial R

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"Artistic Licence has a strong footing in the international projects market, and an equally strong presence for its products within mainland Europe," explains Artistic Licence managing director, Wayne Howell. "Within the UK, however, it is viewed primarily as the provider of solutions to a specific set of, mainly DMX orientated, problems.

"Many people do not realise the full extent of our product range, which includes LED fixtures and component parts for OEM, in addition to the well known Art-Net Ethernet products such as Net-Lynx and Data-Lynx. Our intention therefore is to spread the remit of our product range across a wider market, increasing its profile to inc

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As the exclusive UK distributor for the Chroma-Q, Jands and Spotlight brands, A.C.'s lighting area will feature recent additions to each range. The Chroma-Q LED range includes the new Color Punch compact IP65 fixture, providing super bright results for both indoor and temporary outdoor applications, and the Color Split fixture with dual side by side RGBA LED cells. The Jands range includes the revolutionary Vista lighting console with graphic based user interface and the FPX/WMX portable/wall mounted, professional touring quality 12x2.4kW channel dimmers. The Spotlight range includes the Cyclorama Domino RGBA LED floodlight with

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Ben Jenkins, event manager at KAVE, says: "KAVE Theatre Services has established itself as a key player in the outdoor events environment and the Avolites products we now stock have assisted to ensure we deliver top quality results, with the reliability our customers rightly expect.

"Last year we worked with the band The Feeling and the Avolites products allowed us to achieve great results throughout the show. Customers are already requesting the Art 2000T4 dimmers and the Pearl Expert lighting desk for the Edinburgh Festival which we are delighted to supply. There is no doubt that the Avolites dimmers and desks were a great investment as they have proved to be very popular with customers and our engineers alike."

(Jim Evans)

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"The thing that really got me excited was how fast everyone just plain got the new products, and the great ideas they all had for improvements," says president Keny Whitright.

Tom Ferguson, shop foreman and rental operations manager for Hudson Sound and Light, says he appreciates companies asking for input on their products. "If you're going to shove it down somebody's throat, there's going to be some resentment," Ferguson says.

The event previewed some of Wybron's new products as well as changes to its Infogate software, which uses two-way communication protoco

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Together with RTC, Zero 88's distributor for Austria, Zero 88 showed the Frog 2, Leap Frog 48/96 and Jester series as well as the new Master Touch Screen for the Chilli dimmers. Zero 88's powerful 3D visualisation software Light Converse, which played a big role within the lighting design contest, had a lot of very positive feedback during the show, says the company.

A highlight of the event was the lighting design contest. This was the first time a lighting design competition had been arranged at the show and was accomplished in co-operation with the OETHG, DTHG and RTC.

Applications for the competit