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The show's central claw shaped truss has a centre spire that rises over 50m above the show deck. Around the stadium are truss towers that contain follow spots and PRG Bad Boy moving lights.

One of the many challenges the tour faced was to reliably get data to the towers without having to run kilometres of cable around the stadium. Wireless DMX with a proven track record of high data fidelity, minimum radio footprint, and system reliability was needed, and since the tour travels across the globe in outdoor arenas and stadiums it needed to be intern

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Designed to offer a high output from a 1500W lamp, and a very 'fat' beam from its large front lens, the Martin Mac III builds on the feature set and reliability of the long-established Mac 2000 range. The fixture offers CMY plus CTO colour mixing, a seven position colour wheel, twin five-position rotating gobo wheels, Martin's gobo animation wheel, a four-facet rotating/indexing prism, and an iris together with a wide-range zoom that can take the beam from 11.5degrees up to 55degrees; zoom and focus are also linked for the first time in a Martin fixture.

For set-up convenience, the Martin Mac III has a battery-powered setup display/keyboard, allowing units to be addressed and configured on the ground without needing to

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Hugh Vanstone, who was responsible for the lighting design in London, also delivered the design for the show playing at the Musical Dome in Cologne, which was programmed by associate lighting designer Stuart Porter. For this task Porter relied on a grandMA system solution.

During production two grandMA full-size and a grandMA ultra-light were used, with one grandMA full-size left in control of the show. "Working with the grandMA was a breeze, especially because of its networking capabilities," reported programmer Marcus Krömer. "This also enabled the in-house programmer to learn the desk while I was programming."

15 x Vari*Lite VL3000 Spots, 10 VL2500 Spots, 14 VL2500 Washes and 18 VL500 TP (Paste

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In previous years, Universal Arts has used ETC's Congo lighting control desks. However, at PLASA Focus in April, ETC launched Element. This new desk caught the attention of Universal Arts production manager, Anthony Newton, who approached ETC's Jeremy Roberts to explore the possibility of using Element to light all the shows in the Universal Arts Festival of international theatre.

Newton says: "Element seemed like the perfect desk for Fringe venue application. It has the software of the successful Eos and Ion range with simplified features to ease user control, making the basic functions easier to navigate with greater hands on fader control. It's a much friendlier looking desk to the inexperienced or unfamiliar operator.

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Kave supplied a comprehensive package to multiple stages of both generic and moving lights, scalable sound systems, all necessary rigging and staging and a quantity of the site power infrastructure.

SPLAT Fest, celebrating Student Performance Literature Art & Theatre at the University of Warwick, is dedicated to creating opportunities for all students to pursue their creative talents. The Festival is now in its sixth year and proved to be the most successful to date.

For the first time, this year the event moved into an A&J Bigtop dubbed "The BigSPLAT". This provided the organisers some much needed space to expand the festival, allowing two stages to work back to back in the same venue. With a packed schedule this was e

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Apart from the champions who will compete in the most popular beach sports, the spotlights will be focused on Proel equipment, chosen by Happy Sound Service to amplify the running commentary, to reinforce the sound of the numerous scheduled shows and to light up the field during the night tournaments.

The sound reinforcement set up for the Beach Stadium activities includes, four Proel NEOS218SP subs, four Proel NEOS152P speakers, racks of four Proel HPD3400PFC power amplifiers and AS025 processor.

When the Stadium becomes the stage for bigger events, its sound reinforcement turns to Axiom with six Proel AX3210P speakers, eight Pro

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The amBIENT XC can be pre-programmed or will respond in real-time to visual and/or aural stimuli, such as video or audio signals. Sophisticated control of interpretation and output parameters offers dynamic control of mood and atmosphere in spaces of all kinds. The amBIENT XC control system also provides a low-cost yet impressive upgrade solution for venues or productions

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Celebrating its 90th Anniversary this year, Robert Juliat is a three-generation family business which has specialised in the manufacture of lighting equipment since 1919.

With sections on profile lanterns, single lens luminaires, dimmers and a range of specialist products - in addition to its followspots - the new brochure gives insights into why Robert Juliat products are so popular and is the most comprehensive brochure to date.

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The 50 mark was passed when Graeme Sewell of Vortex Lighting from County Durham in the north east of England purchased two DigitalSpot 3000 DTs.

It was his first investment in the Robe brand. His primary motivation for the sale is that in addition to servicing its own shows, Vortex undertakes a lot of dry hires to other north-east based companies who are busy with various corporate events - generally a mix of presentations, product launches and exhibitions of all types. "DigitalSpot is a special product and I think it will be very popular in this market, especially after people see its capabilities first hand."

Using DigitalSpots

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The FlexDOT concept is simple - individually controlled, intelligent, full colour pixels mounted on a flexible cable that allows designers/architects to create unique and customized LED video displays. Each pixel (dot) consists of a bright RGB LED driven by its own processor and individually addressable for independent control of colour, special effects, and animation. Pixels can be arranged as needed and later mapped to the image using pixel mapping software. FlexDOT can be controlled from any DMX512 source such as Martin's Maxedia media server.

Standard pixel spacing is 100 mm or 200

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R24 delivers the actual results as visualized for the project - as opposed to a mock-up image not based on industry technology. With wysiwyg's proprietary library of over 20,000 lights, gobos and trusses, there is no "cheating" needed so Shaded View and Renderings are replicable on stage, in the venue, on the set or wherever.

R24 is built on the significant advances made in R22 + R23. Its new visualization raises the standard for the industry. In addition to the new features and visualization, its developmental accomplishments have not sacrificed wysiwyg's robustness or performance. Indeed, a lot of work

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The BRDC Ball is held in a luxury marquee erected adjacent to the Members' Clubhouse on the Saturday evening of the 2009 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix weekend.

Personalities from the motor racing fraternity, including Jenson Button, Jodie Scheckter and David Coulthard appeared on stage to talk about their experiences to the BBC's and ex-Radio Caroline's Jonny Walker.

A.C. Special Projects., a sister company of BRDC Rising Stars Programme Patron, A.C. Entertainment Technologies, provided the Clubhouse's temporary architectural lighting installation for a second year. The scheme carried a similar theme to last year, with vivid colour washes onto the roof level

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Serena Water Park is the largest indoor water park in Europe with approximately 18,000sq.m in total space. The conditions are very extreme. The temperature is around 34°-35° Celsius without a crowd and can climb as high as 40°C with a full audience. The humidity is tropical, around 90%.

38 Clay Paky Alpha Beam 300 fixtures, plus eight Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 300s, su

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A full-service lighting, audio and video production and rental company, PCE had purchased 48 of the Elation panels, which are modular in design and can be used to create vibrant video pixel screens, curtains and backdrops. Measuring 2'1" x 2'1" x 3", the transparent tiles are compact and lightweight, and with an IP65 rating, can be used indoors or outdoors.

PCE decided to host the open house to demo the product - which it refers to simply as The Wall. "We wanted to get the word out about The Wall, because it creates new possibilities for our existing clients, as well as opens opportunities for us to sell new markets," said Ryan Steidinger, PCE's director of operations.

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To bring Dallas sports fans the most intense excitement at every game, the centre-hung display will comprise four Lighthouse P4 4mm screens, each producing 1080p Full HD images. The display also will include four P10 10mm scoring screens and two P16 16mm screens, an octagonal and a round-sh

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The Emmy statue is the first in the Academy's 61 year history to be awarded for television lighting technology, and will be presented on Saturday 22 August, at the Renaissance Hotel in Los Angeles.

Litepanels list of customers extends beyond television and feature production, and includes the Whitehouse and Pentagon Briefing Rooms, the International Space Station, CNN's Election Bus, news helicopters, and numerous TV news studios and ENG crews.

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"We've previously worked with Milligan on several projects within the prestigious MetQuarter Shopping Centre in Liverpool and were therefore delighted when they brought us on board for this project at Manchester Airport," said Tony Rhodes, project manager, Stage One.

The sculpture consisted of a series of 'mother ship' tubes suspended from the ceiling, from which thin steel arms were cantilevered out in a 'random' fashion. Attaching 71 blue EncapSulite fittings to these over the 47m length of the sculpture then creat

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A biennial event, the event describes itself as "the world's first festival of original, new work and special events". The Festival was established in 2007 and White Light supplied the lighting to many of the shows at that year's event, including the opera Monkey: Journey To The Westsubsequently seen in London again using equipment from White Light.

At this year's festival, White Light supplied lighting rigs to two headline events - the new opera Prima Donna, composed by Rufus Wainwright, and It Felt Like a Kiss, created by Punchdrunk with Adam Curtis and Damon Albarn.

Prima Donna, at the Palace Theatre, tells the story of soprano Regine Saint Laurent confronting the ghosts of her past as she prepares to

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The new BB7 optics offer a 10 (spot), a 20 degree and a 35 degree (flood) angle - in one fixture. i-Pix has once again listened to the requests of lighting designers and operators to deliver a robustly built, highly tourable, environmentally conscious design-led product.

The three different BB7 beam angles now available are all homogenized without any colour striation within the beam. This eliminates the 'pixelation' and blocky effects associated with more 'standard' LED products, and is a feature that is central to the whole i-Pix BB range, says the company.

A new 'fast changeover' arrangement enables users and technicians to swap between BB7 optics in approximately a minute.

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Mathew Killmurray is deputizing for Kris on some shows and as a new user of ChamSys was given full training at EQL Dublin. After the days training he felt very comfortable taking the desk out.

EQL stocks the ChamSys range

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Security Matters - A number of London's West End theatres are to boost their security to counter worsening audience behaviour, owners have said. It comes after reports of drunkenness and even fights during performances. The owners of several venues, includ

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As well as supplying the London MoonWalk held in Hyde Park, Hawthorns has also supplied the Edinburgh MoonWalk, and also the Bristol and Newcastle SunWalks.For the two MoonWalks and over 27,000 walkers, Hawthorns provided lighting, sound, staging, rigging and power distribution which was installed into De Boer's massive 'pink palace', a 150m x 60m Galaxy structure.

Three artics of lighting, sound, rigging, power distro and site services made their way to Hyde Park for the main structure and nine smaller ancillary marquees. Hawthorns used six main generators and over 10 miles of cable to supply the marquees, 280 toilets and numerous catering wagons with power.

Hawthorns also introduced t

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Running over two days - 19 and 20 August - the events will take place in Edinburgh University's Old College Quad, which lies in the heart of the city centre. Demonstrations of equipment from a host of industry suppliers will run on both days between 3 and 6pm.

Barclay Dakers, head of retail at Northern Light, said: "We've been working with festival productions in Edinburgh since the company was set up almost forty years ago and we're well aware of how busy everyone is. Nonetheless, we felt we could provide some value for industry professionals by offering product showcases on dates where most people are mid-run. We've also tried to choose a time of day where people will be free or between shows."

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The scheme was designed and specified by interior designer Pierpaolo Saioni who was working for independent owners, Magi, Gucciardi & Pipitone, and was supplied direct to the venue by Robe Multimedia, Anolis's Italian distributor.

The double-decked building stands right on the marina waterfront. It is styled with a contemporary deco twist and a distinct oceanic feel - almost like a liner - referencing a strong relationship to the Adriatic Sea. It features indoor dining and lounge rooms surrounded by airy outdoor terraces on both levels. It's open from 7 a.m. until late.

With many changing moods throughout the day Saioni wanted the environment to be able to shift along with the vibes, and good lighting is on