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On Saturday evening, the historic Royal Arsenal in Woolwich on the banks of the Thames was transformed by Dutch company Close Act as they performed their Pi-Leau. Pi-Leau was set in a fictional Woolwich submerged by water, following rising sea levels. Part fairytale and part apocalyptic vision, giant structures and stilt performers combined with pyrotechnics to create an experience in which Waterworld collided with The Little Mermaid.

Stage Electrics provided City Colours outdoor architectural floodlights, six towers of 12 PAR cans which lit the main performance area,

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The Stealth displays, supplied by Solotech, are used in two separate circular screens: one screen above centre stage and a smaller circular screen around the elevator. The main circular Stealth screen totals 1,300 panels with a height of 4m and a circumference of 58m. The rigging for the impressive screens was custom-made by Tait.

The Stealth screen is used to show custom-made content developed by Franco Dragone's team under the guidance of Dirk Decloedt. The screen shows animated and stylized images created specifically for each song, which add brightly colourful content enhancing the Circus experience that themes the tour.

Barbara Nelson of Element Labs says: "Stealth has proven itself to be an absolutely fantastic LED product for the concert touring industry. I

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The new DMX features allows the user to place unlimited events on the timeline. Each event controls up to 16 DMX channels at the same time, each timeline holds maximum of 512 channels, and can be routed to any MediaLas USB interface that is connected to the computer. This means 512 channels PER interface.

DRC will check your show for any inconsistancy, collisions of

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Nine Miles Down, set for release next year, is set in an experimental deep-crust drilling station in a remote and sandstorm-blown region of the Sahara Desert, the movie opens with Thomas 'Jack' Jackman (Adrian Paul), a security patrolman, battling through the storm to discover why all contact with the station has been lost.

A disused champagne factory in Budapest provided a suitably atmospheric location for filming, but wasn't without its challenges, as director of photography Roger Simonsz explains: "We were going to shoot all the interiors in studios in Hungary, but there were a lot of other shoots going on there at the same time, so we settled for the fact

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The world's largest museum of design and decorative arts plays host to a series of talks and presentations by world-class design practitioners the calibre of William Dudley, British stage designer, costume designer, video designer and 3D animator, who has most recently designed the sets and costumes for the Broadway musical The Woman in White, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. He is joined by lighting designer Rick

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Natasha Katz is the lighting designer. When she asked Stuart Porter to programme the show for her - the two have previously worked together on Beauty & The Beast - Porter wanted to use a grandMA system, a decision Katz was happy to support. Porter has increased his specification of the grandMA, and on this show he uses a grandMA full-size, a grandMA light for backup and four MA NSPs. A tablet PC running grandMA remote software is also used to run the lights from stage.

The rig contained over 100 moving lights - a mix of 62 Vari*Lite VL3500Qs, 60 VL2500s and 18 VL500s, all supplied by White Light. The many LED elements are ensconced in the set

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Woodroffe's brief was to transform the night time ambience of the Edmond J Safra Fountain Court - the hub of the neoclassical building - with a warm white illumination on the facades. Additionally, utilising RGBA fixtures, Woodroffe introduced the potential to bathe the buildings in a rich medley of colours, adding a theatrical dimension for corporate and themed events.

Somerset House hosts a wide variety of special events and a lively programme of public entertainment throughout the year - including live music concerts, ice skating, presentations, product launches and parties.

Once the contract for the supply and installation was

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White Light's creative designer for this event Jason Larcombe explains: "The Natural History Museum's interior is very responsive to light, and the architecture gives it a great sense of presence. With this in mind guests will feel that they are an important part of a dramatic event."

For this event, the design made use of the new flat Fusion 672 panel in conjunction with other LED products from White Light's inventory. "While the theatrical look created by our visual products is, of course, a primary importance to an event, it is not the only consideration,&qu

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The deal was completed between PRG's Paul Weaver and Lightfactor's Peter Coles. It builds on PRG's previous purchases of Novalight High Grounds in 2006, for the Robbie Williams Close Encounters world tour, followed by their original 1.2K Nova-Flowers, supplied by Lightfactor in 2007.

The Nova-Flower 2K offers all the features and functionality of the 1.2K version with substantially more power and punch, says the company.

Nova-Flower is the first fully programmable moving yoke 'flower effect' with DMX controllable pan, tilt, colour and shutter, plus other standard features. It has CMY mixing, a rotating reflector (in both directio

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AEG will have to refund up to $85m (£52m) to fans who purchased tickets for Jackson's 50-date residency at London's O2 arena. It is also believed to have spent $23-25m (£14-15m) on production costs. Phillips said those "hard costs" were covered by insurance, although profits were not. Phillips admitted the biggest problem facing AEG at the moment was w

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Since the original training day became fully booked almost as soon as it was announced, Michael Müller, GLP director of customer support, decided to extend the seminar to a second day.

Around 30 technicians from some of the UK's leading sales and rental companies attended the event. During some relaxed training sessions, conducted by Joachim Kraft, Head of the GLP workshop department, they received detailed knowledge about the impression range and also gained new perspectives on LED lighting technology in general.

"The information gained was very valuable and is now being shared with all our employees globally," said James Prince of Bandit Lites.

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There has been a club on this centre of town site for about 20 years, but Morava is a new concept under independent ownership, with much attention paid to presentation detail and creating a trendy urban chic vibe.

PowerDance has used Robe products for at least 40 other club installations over the last few years says Šiška Zdenek, who worked closely with the club's lighting operator, Miroslav Werunsky on this project.

Morava is an intimate space and headroom is limited, so they wanted low profile unobtrusive fixtures, and decided on four Robe ClubSpot 160 CTs and four ClubRo

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Directed by Peter Schneider, one of the driving forces behind the revitalisation of animation at Disney and the creation of Disney Theatrical, the show is being designed by Klara Zieglerova with lighting by multiple Tony-award winner Natasha Katz.

The equipment to realise Katz's design has been supplied by White Light. The rig includes a wide selection of conventional, automated and LED lighting equipment, including over 400 ETC Source Fours, over 250 Wybron Coloram II scrollers, over 60 Vari-Lite VL3500Q S

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The Chroma-Q Color Block 2 was introduced by AC technologies and has been used by several LD's on their shows, Lee Allen on Blue Peter, John Ford for Dave Davey on Paul O'Grady, Roger Williams on Know It All and Chris Kempton on Jonathan Ross.

RML took the decision to purchase the fixtures and hire them out as kits which consist of five individual blocks which can be joined to form a 1.2m strip if required. The product offers modularity and versatility with new single colour RGBA optics, 530 lumens output (almost double the original model) and theatrical grade dimming.

IN response to demand, RML has also purchased a number of GLP Chromed Impression XL's. Following the success of the exclusive six month deal RML had with GLP, purchasin

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Located at Martin's headquarter office in Aarhus, Denmark, the new coordinators' primary responsibility will be all manner of customer service, as well as to implement Martin's new e-commerce platform, Martin E-Shop.

Pernille Høgsberg comes to Martin from Nordisk Tekstil A/S where she was responsible for German market exports. She has also worked as an official translator. Andrea Heinz joins Martin directly from a similar customer service position at TC Electronic. Katrine Bøje joins the company from the Niels Brock business school in Copenhagen where she studied marketing management. She has also worked in retail and

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In accordance with the European Union Directive to improve the efficiency of some energy-using products, incandescent lamps will be phased out across Europe between 2009 and 2012, and replaced with more energy efficient alternatives. With the first stage in the implementation of the Directive on 1 September 2009, GE says it is confident it has the range and capacity to provide sufficient energy saving alternatives to meet demand.

Speaking about the phase out, Simon Phillips says: "GE's technology and product development have been driven by our GE Ecomagination business initiative, which was designed to help meet customers' demand for more energy-efficient products. Thro

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The company also reports that it has added a further grandMA series 1 full-size and a grandMA lite to the hire inventory for this busy summer period.

"Demand for MA consoles is at a peak this summer and we have tried to invest where possible even under this stormy financial period, we are proud to have consoles currently on tour with Madonna, The Killers and down on the ever-running Big Brother," says Tim Routledge co-founder of grandpa.

The company's agency wing, grandPA - Programming Associates, is also busy this summer with its programmers working on shows including the Take That Circus Live D

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The Middleton Grove, Leeds, company has designed and installed both internal and exterior lighting systems at the new JCT600 VW dealership on Sticker Lane, Bradford.

During its five-year business relationship, High Technology Lighting has also provided lighting solutions at the group's dealerships in Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield and Sheffield, along with JCT600's Tordoff House headquarters in Apperley Bridge, Bradford.

Mark Taylor, group property director with JCT600, said: "We took the decision some years ago to remove the specification of light fittings for our major developments from the main contractor. This has allowed us to work closely with High Technology Lighting, producing economic and ene

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This goal was accomplished in part with a lighting display using ELAR Exbar BL RGB LED bars from Elation Architectural, the architectural lighting division of Elation Professional. 70 strobing, RGB colour-changing Exbars were installed in a series of five loops that riders race through immediately after surviving Bizarro's first breathless plunge. Along with the visual 'thrills' provided by the lighting, passengers experience more 'chills' in the loops - literal

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When the show's producers, Globo Balear, took over the Gran Casino Theatre to host the show, the 1,500-seater custom-built theatre had never been used before for such a technically ambitious production. They therefore appointed broadcast and production specialists Three Media Creative as technology consultants when the show first went into pre-production planning.

James Baker, Three Media Creative Show Technology Consultant and his team had the remit of desig

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Councillor Michael Lunn, portfolio holder for sustainable development said: "This has been a long term problem especially during winter months. We wanted to find a solution which improved safety but had a zero carbon impact - these small lights do exactly that. Nearly everyone in the village will benefit from this innovation. It's a win for the environment, a win for the church, and a win for our community. This is the first step of Hadlow Down Parish Council leading the way to become more sustainable."

(Jim Evans)

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Abhishek Toshniwal, marketing & business development director of Dhanashree Electronics, comments: "Adding professional audio equipment to our distribution network was our next logical step. We have been having more and more contact with PA rental firms and installation companies, and we've been wanting to expand our product portfolio in ord

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Pollak first worked with the Liverpool based company in 2007 when he was lighting folk singer Ray Lamontagne. "They did a fantastic job. I was so impressed with the kit and the personnel that I really wanted to use them again," he states.

Lighting-wise, the UK shows were based on three straight 48ft trusses to cover the 50ft wide performance area.

These were loaded with 21 Martin Professional MAC 2K Washes and 16 MAC 700 Spots. The Washes were utilised for general band and stage washes, primarily an ever evolving series of subtle and straightforward colour combinations, while the spots took the role of providing basic beam-work and effects across the 12-piece band and substantial area t

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Zone complements the latest Ethernet and WIFI network enabled AV source and control components from D&M's Denon, Marantz and Escient brands. Its introduction enables DMi appointed CI professionals to offer in-home automation systems, seamlessly incorporating components from these brands.

Zone is positioned to provide fully featured, high performance home automation and control, at a lower price point than current market leading systems; enabling CI dealers and custom installers to extend their target market for integrated home automation, says the company. Likewise, it enables a greater number of dealers to gain full access to a single integrated home control sys