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14 March 2016

Over 100 Robe moving lights - a mix of ColorSpot and ColorWash 1200E ATs - were used for the show in a design by Bovey Xie, with all the equipment supplied by Beijing based rental company Wen Jing Xuan's Shanghai office, along with 30 lighting crew.

Xie's creative starting points for the design included making it look big, bold, bright and lively with an appropriate sense of spectacle. He also needed to make each of the 12 performances - which included Kelly Chen, Alan Tam, SunNan, JiangKun, A-Mei and many more - look different and individual, matching each of their styles with

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14 March 2016

Feld Entertainment has owned Ringling Bros. since 1967, when Irvin Feld purchased the show from John Ringling North. Irvin Feld and his son, Kenneth, are credited for raising the production quality of the show and raising the bar for the circus, through aggressive promotion and creative marketing, in addition to introducing multicultural, educational and preservation initiatives.

The current tour, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Party & Showhas for the first time in its 125-year history included a European leg including stops in

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14 March 2016

Previewed at InfoComm this year and officially launched at PLASA in London in September, Clarity version 1 software and DMX converters and programming/playback wings are now in full production.

The Clarity software suite was developed by Nick Denville from OpenClear. He has a strong background in major control consoles having worked in the 90s on the Hog 2 and more recently as lead software engineer on the Jands Vista console.

Clarity has been in development for over three years and incorporates the best of breed including drag and drop patching - with fixture cloning, LED matrix control and Media server integration permitting the most complex of shows to be easily operated from the one product.

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14 March 2016

The idea was to use the amBIENT XC to run the LED lights in the arena between services to achieve a dynamic look that would respond to the stage state without having an operator present. The stand-alone DMX 512 hardware controller for RGB LED lighting fixtures is designed to create sensory surround experiences synchronising light, video and sound.

The amBIENT XC controlled 12 x 1m XBAR LEDs, 48 x i-pix Satellites and 10 x Thomas PixelLines. The ambient effects proved to be gentle and smooth enough to not detract from the ongoing religious experience, yet it still provided a dynamic look without having to program or o

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14 March 2016

Doug Murray of Upstage Video says: "We had been considering an investment in Element Labs' new Cobra products given their light weight, slim design and fabulous video capabilities. The timing anddesign of the Aileron Group event made it a perfect opportunity to invest. We approached Element Labs with the concept drawings as we knew they would cooperate with us in providing their engineering capabilities. All in all, it was a great example of combining our companies' strengths. The LED Floor we've built for th

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14 March 2016

Showcasing the complete Chroma-Q LED line-up, the new generation of Color Block 2, Color Force and Color Charge models feature advanced RGBA colour mixing and control management technologies. Together these provide a radically increased colour palette, a high CRI of at least 90 and theatrical grade dimming, all in the same fixture.

As well as showing the full range of Vista consoles, Jands will be previewing Vista 2 Byron, a major upgrade of their revolutionary Vista lighting system.

As networking requirements for entertainment technology applications continue to increase, many of the leading control companies, such as Jands, are supporting the Art-Net product r

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14 March 2016

Tower's Pete Donald managed a team of eight who started at 06.00hrs and had everything up in the air and shining bright by lunchtime...This was Towers second visit to the O2 in a month, having just completed a lighting and heating project for the world gymnastics in the same area.

(Jim Evans)

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14 March 2016

"I think it's the best new piece of kit I've seen in ages - I never want to light a cyc again without it," is how lighting designer Peter Mumford describes his experience with EvenLED on Prima Donna. The new opera, written by Rufus Wainright and performed at this year's Manchester Festival, used an array of 111 panels to light Anthony McDonald's set. "I was able to use EvenLED for the cyc, but also for the back 'glass' wall of an enormous room - and even 'raw and exposed' in intense green for one of the enormous scene changes. The sequence f

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14 March 2016

In an historical connection, Dan Riley from DWR Distribution, was involved with the installation of the Market Theatre's first desk - a Compact 80 - when he worked there as a technician in the early 1970s. Some 33 years later, he was more than delighted to present them with a slightly newer model... a grandMA2 ultra-light.

Carl Johnson, production manager at the Market reports that various issues influenced their decision to go with MA. "The majority of the theatres/companies that we receive, and also those we send productions to are utilising or migrating to grandMA technology, including some of our international partners. Many Lighting Designers with whom we work regularly speak very favourably about the grandMA, the

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14 March 2016

The switch on tied in with the world premiere of Disney's new 3D adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, timings were carefully co-ordinated to give the crowds the "wow" factor and for the first time ever included a joint switch on with Regent Street and Leicester Square (not lit by Piggott's).

Star of A Christmas Carol, Jim Carrey turned on the lights at Oxford Circus with British celebrities Colin Firth turning on the Regent Street l

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14 March 2016

Customers can continue to expect the same level of expertise and commitment they have always received from Goboland UK with fast turnarounds, top-notch artwork and friendly service, says the company.

"We want to be clear on this point," states Goboland UK director Wyatt Enever, "and put a stop to any confusing rumours that might be floating around. Business at Goboland continues uninterrupted."

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14 March 2016

ALC4, the new ADB LED cyclorama fixture for theatre and TV studio lighting, launched at IBC 2009, offers a range of one million DMX-controlled colours including pure yellow and soft ambers and seven levels of preselected white (2700° K to 6500° K). The unit is exceptionally 'green' in terms of energy efficiency, delivering the equivalent of 1250W of halogen power for an actual power consumption of just 160W.

Uniform colour mixing in the LED source eliminates coloured shadows and visible pixels. It provides smooth, flicker-free light output, with no colour or white changes when dimmed, while an optical feedback circuit, per LED source, guarantees consistency in colour, white and light ou

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14 March 2016

Despite being one of the shortest A roads in the UK, the A3220 is also one of the busiest, forming a vital link between Clapham on the south and the A40 at White City. So the overbridge at the northeast corner of the Westfield site was the ideal location for further Lighthouse screens to complement the highly successful installation at the Holland Park roundabout, just to the south.

Two screens have been installed, one facing northbound

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14 March 2016

RSA MD Paul Nicholson explains: "Due to the economic downturn I was looking at ways of making what we believe are already extremely competitively priced products, namely the Tannoy VQ Live and the Innovason Eclipse, even more affordable. It's clear that some rental companies are reluctant to enter into finance schemes when interest rates are virtually at zero, yet lenders are still asking for 10% + APR interest on leasing and hire purchase deals.

So, we decided that one particular route to owning new cutting edge audio products would be to offer a brokerage scheme whereby Gearsource Europe could directly manage a deal to move on a customer's existing or redundant equipment in order to release

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Production company, EML, has supplied lighting, sound and large format projection - powered by two ArKaos A10 media servers - for the tour.

Olivier Demoustier, EML's light designer, began by spending a week in a WYSIWYG studio, setting up and testing the show, before taking two days to programme over 3000 cues for the three-hour show and synchronizing them with the live orchestr

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14 March 2016

Almost 30 nominations were received from across the industry and these were narrowed down to a shortlist of 10 finalists for the panel of judges to ponder upon. The judges for this year's awards were Roy Bickel, Tony Giovannetti, Anne Militello, Jason Rudolph, and Wendall Harrington.

The judges panel was chaired by Mike Wood, who said prior to announcing the winners, "The winner might be a product that could change the industry, it could

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14 March 2016

ColorReach Powercore and iW Reach TR Powercore are the road-ready versions of ColorReach Powercore, the flagship high-performance floodlight from Philips Color Kinetics. These rental-friendly floodlights generate enough light output to replace multiple flood and wash fixtures for large-scale and long-throw applications.

ColorReach TR Powercore offers over 5,000 lumens of output, light projection of over 500 feet, and the ability to generate millions of colours and dynamic effects without the need for maintenance-intensive coloured gels, filters, or mechanical scrollers. New royal blue LEDs are standard with ColorReach TR Powercore to offer deeper, more saturated colou

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14 March 2016

Lighting designer for Wynn Resorts is Tom Kowalczuk who has the job of creating a variety of lighting designs across the Wynn property, from club to casino to convention room.

The elegant atmosphere at XS caters to a clientele who are looking for a more relaxed, intimate environment, but, as Kowalczuk explains, that doesn't exclude a dynamic lighting system.

"For XS, we really had to sell the moving lights," he says. "The owner wanted the club to be subdued, s

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A new compact beam fixture in the MAC family also featured. Additionally on display were a host of lighting and video control solutions, as well as updates in the Jem and Magnum line of fog and haze machines. The new Martin RADAR, an innovative RDM communication protocol and information feedback system also featured.

The MAC 401 Dual is a fresh and versatile LED moving head washlight with an innovative double-sided design that gives it flexible dualfunctionality, for example as a double washlight or beam reflective mirror.

The MAC 301 Wash is an LED moving head washlight that features a powerfully fast zoom with an impressive zoom

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14 March 2016

With its contemporary design Iberia LED offers improved visual acuity, better vertical luminance, and smoother visual transition which allows for positive enhancement on property visibility and pedestrian awareness, as well as better vertical illumination, says the company.

Considerable energy savings are achieved due to its advanced no-shielding design, which achieves lower light trespass whilst delivering light precisely where it is intended to go. The long life of LED's (50,000 hours i.e. up to 10 years) is particul

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14 March 2016

It is DBN's fourth year working for production company Ear To The Ground with this pop-up nightclub, which features an impressive DJ line up and live performances from some of the finest dance bands. This year, the lighting design has been created by Simon Barrington, who has worked closely with DBN's project manager, Pete Robinson.

The lighting fixtures were all chosen for their small sizes and high impact. There are a total of 16 Martin Professional MAC 250 Entours, eight Clay Paky Alpha Wash 300s and six CP Alpha Wash 575 moving lights - distributed across all the trusses - together with eight Atomic strobes and 16 Stu

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14 March 2016

This striking first ever national monument for the organisation is located in the gardens of the RNLI's HQ, and commemorates the 778 RNLI lifesavers lost since its foundation in 1824. The sculpture was designed by artist Sam Holland, and the by Satu Streatfield.

The sculpture shows a stainless steel boat containing a lifeboat crew member saving a casualty from the water - a bold and dramatic statement reflecting the history and projecting the future of the RNLI, symbolising courage, loss, selflessness, remembrance and hope.

LTP has worked in a similar role on other SaMA lighting projects, and was asked onboard when the li

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14 March 2016

Ashton's work, Crown of Light, covered the entire North fascia of the Cathedral including all sides of the three towers, and was the largest installation of the festival, and arguably also the biggest cathedral projection to date in the UK. Durham Cathedral dates back to 1093 and is regarded as one of the finest examples of Norman architecture in the country. It is a designated UNESCO world Heritage Site along with nearby Durham Castle which faces it across Palace Green.

Ashton received an initial brief from Artichoke's Helen Marriage and Nicky Webb about the narrative and direction of the show. Taking these as a creative starting point for the storyboard, he t

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14 March 2016

When interior designer Colin Stone (of Stone Me!) was brought in, it was with the task of upgrading a typical 1980's social club interior - by creating an ever-changing environment which it would be equally comfortable hosting formal conferences, banquets and wedding receptions to full-on entertainment for up to 600 people.

"This was a very dated function room which resembled a big top inside," remembers Stone. "The client wanted it to be more contemporary - sufficiently warm for the majority of uses but with elegance and opulence to enable it to host wedding receptions.

"The logical decision was to keep the environment neutral and