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Dirk Kast, general manager for Elation Europe, comments, "Customers have been asking for wider diffused LED lighting fixtures without losing a lot of output, and our new Lighting Shaping Filters provide an easy, cost-efficient way to attain this. Using one of these filters, you can widen the beam of a narrow beam angle LED par like our Opti Tri 30 and convert it into a fixture suitable for a stage or wall wash."

Elation Light Shaping Filters have been designed to preserve as much power as possible while dispersing light. The Elation products provide up to 92% li

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The quick roll-out design enables "ultra fast installation/breakdown with minimal labour", and the 2300 Nit light output delivers mega-bright, high-impact, full-colour video images, says the company.

The high transparency factor enables video and lighting effects to be layered, as the surface becomes near invisible with lights shining through from behind.

The product is robustly engineered and has been developed to extend the already extensive Pixled range which is popular for music concerts, trade and fashion shows, product launches and presentations of all types as well as theme parks, visitor attractions and other permanent installations.

Combining the key featur

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The Mobile Showroom presents a survey of Wybron's stable of products, including the new Cygnus LED Wash Light, in a environment more intimate than a trade show. "The challenge of this industry is to actually get information to the people who will benefit from it," said Wybron, Inc. CEO Keny Whitright. "A trade show is terrific, sure, but you're often lacking time to connect with all the folks you would like to."

The Mobile Showroom will continue with nearly two years of planned stops across North America, with the next being in Massachusetts and the Boston areas.

(Jim Evans)

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Purchased as part of an ongoing project to equip the venue with ETC equipment, the venue found that they could mount the two new luminaires in front of the backdrop and project a Rosco Fiery Sun gobo for a bright, precise effect.

The Black Diamond technician S°ren Jacobsen says, "I have worked with sound for over 25 years, but it's only in the past three years that I have started working in lighting. Our local ETC dealer, Bico Professionel, has been really useful in helping me select the products I need and assisting with design and set up of the systems. We only needed a couple ETC Source Fours equipped with a 36º EDLT to provide a stunning effect. We projected the light from

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Running until early summer the tour was designed to promote Keys' 2009 album release, The Element Of Freedom.

Touring much the same production as on the American leg (the prime difference being the scaling down of the nine video screens to five), the show has been programmed by Bryan Barancik (of Luxious Design) who has been with the tour from the beginning, and has been tasked with bringing the best out of Halpin's creative concept.

The set designer was first shown the compact LED washlight by GLP's director of key global players, Mark Ravenhiil, when he was searching for small fixtures to be placed on top of the curved set pieces. "I needed something light and bright - and the impressions f

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The automated lighting was used in two locations. The event at the stadium itself was managed by Q Media Events, an events management company based in Qatar, with TechnoPro (Qatar) providing a multimedia light and laser show at the closing ceremony and installing light, lasers, LED screens, audio and truss structures.

They based their design around 40 fully-featured XL1200 automated Spots with 20 XL1200 Wash providing a colourful backdrop. These conventional moving lights were augmented by 40 XLED 590 moving LED colour wash fixtures (each housing 30 red, 30 green and 30 blue s

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Robe also made custom reflectors and special framing gobos for its ColorSpot 2500E AT fixtures, to facilitate the very specific requirements of Israeli lighting designer Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi), who wanted to have a super-tight beam to isolate different areas onstage, whilst retaining the intensity of the light path.

The 84 ColorSpot 2500E ATs, 20 new ColorBeam 2500E ATs and 24 REDWash 3-192s were supplied - together with all the other stage lighting equipment for the event - by UK-based HSL, working for Tel Aviv and Jerusalem based Stage Design, the event's overall technical provider.

It was a seriously tough operating environment for any piece o

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Externally the first model, HyLight150, is a compact, wheeled flight-case, rugged for transportation and easy to deploy where required. Internally, it contains the new Hymera hydrogen fuel cell generator and two new lightweight hydrogen gas cylinders, both from global industrial gas supplier BOC; a choice of low energy LED lighting systems suitable for architectural, live event or safety applications completes the system.

White Light's HyLight150 packages will include either four Pulsar ChromaFlood fixtures, with wireless DMX remote control if required - suitable for creating stunning outdoor lighti

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He started his career in lighting as a casual electrician at his local theatre, becoming a freelance technician when he finished college. Although he will be working alongside directors Sam Crook and David Buffham, Grant will manage the projects that he is working on from concept to completion, so that his clients know they will have a single point of contact at all times.

Grant explains, "As a small company, we can offer a personal and friendly service for both rental and sales customers. Having previous experience as both a supplier and a client to the production indust

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Built to MilTec's own specification, the MTA range gives professional sound quality for venues and rental companies operating on a tight budget.

Also on display will be the new StageWash144 LED wash. Suitable for both stage and architectural use, (IP65 rated), it has 48x 3W RGBW LEDs, giving a powerful beam with pastel colours and excellent colour mixing even at short range,l says the company.

Another new addition to the MilTec catalogue is the LEDHead moving head LED profile.

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At the hub of the building is Real Life Church's main sanctuary, an amphitheatre-style auditorium that seats 1,200. In addition to accommodating worship services, the room was required to function

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All Bandit Lites offices' computer equipment and components are recycled though Scotts Recycling in Knoxville, TN. They accept complete and partial computers, phone systems, TV's, household electronics, cables, UPS Systems, printers, cameras, VCRs & copy machines. They also accept a wide range of metals, utility equipment, subassemblies, scrap wire and system components. Parts that can be re-used are sold and everything else is separated and recycled.

Office printers and copiers have been replaced to allow for energy efficient units and toner savings. Duplex printing, toner saver modes, and standby modes have been adjusted to allow for the efficient use of supplies and power when not in use. All office computer monitors have been set to turn off when idle a

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The show, a fusion of video and lighting, is designed by Mark Calvert of Immersive (formally known as Pixel Addicts), together with his colleagues John Munroe and Dave Green. It features a striking set architecture constructed from special dollies containing Barco MiStrip LED screen, which has its own set lighting system some parameters of which are controlled, along with the video content, by Immersive's Addict show control system. Additional lighting onstage is controlled through a 'traditional' lighting console operated by lighting designer Simon Barrington.

Mike Oates is project managing for HSL.

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During their time at Inner Circle Distribution, Freed, Duncan and Mass, all of whom have previous work experience at Martin US, emerged as key players in the US rental market.

Inner Circle Distribution has been involved in the entertainment industry since 2005 as a distributor of primarily moving head lights throughout the USA, Canada and the Caribbean.

"Through this agreement, a circle has been closed (no pun intended) as all three owners have worked for Martin in the past, effectively earning their stripes here," stated Brian Friborg, president of Martin Professio

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"We established Goboland UK as a gobo company dedicated to the UK market," says Enever, "which is something that our customers have really responded to in a very positive way. We find people like the local nature of the company and the rapid response to their enquiries and gobo needs that we provide. We offer the same quality of product, attention to detail and customer service which have always been the key to our success and the business is increasing rapidly as a result."

Last year's ABTT saw the launch of the company's Credit Crunch Gobo to celebrate the formation of Gobol

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The TV lighting specialists have been providing an evolving inventory of dynamic industry standard effects since 2002 - and now the GLP impressions have joined the production.

They recently provided the main focus when Groove Armada (featuring Will Young) performed their latest hit, History.

The special chrome GLP impression XL - purchased in July 2009 - offers 240 LEDs, making the light output almost three times as bright as the original RGB fixture while maintaining all the other advantages.

"I was delighted with the performance of the GLP units on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross," said Chris Kempton. "We always tr

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At 48.5 lbs./22 kilograms, the Elation Design Spot LED weighs less than the original Design Spot 250 Pro, yet produces a light output comparable to a 250-watt discharge lamp. It also offers the easy maintenance typically associated with LED fixtures, since its extended lamp life is 50,000 hours.

Like the original Design Spot 250 Pro, the new Design Spot LED features a variable Frost Filter, which allows it to function as a hybrid spot/wash effect. Other features include a motorised iris, motor

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This year, over 200,000 people were connected via the Internet to the event, which took place at the Music Hall in Rennes. To transmit the concert via the Web, broadcast staff used eight high definition cameras, as well as a package of Martin lighting and control gear provided by rental company MES of Nantes at the request of SIWA director Jose Nedelec, who handled technical direction and audio for the event.

Lighting designer was François Guillet of Lumières Utiles who chose to use a Martin Maxxyz Compact lighting controller along with three MaxModules: MaxModule Button, MaxModule Submaster and MaxModule Playback. The Martin ran

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For this year's event, The National Broadcaster of Norway, NRK utilised a maXim M supplied by Multitechnic in Oslo for Stage Motion control, drapery, silks and drop downs.

The maXim finished up controlling a Kinesys K2, Chain Master products as well as six Wahlberg DMX controlled Winches, six Wahlberg DMX controlled curtain rollups designed specifically for the ESC and three DMX Beamslides.

(Jim Evans)

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For one evening the various contestants were illuminated by the same lights as those used for the great world artists, a deliberate contribution to the show by the lighting designer Maksim Balashov who used various Coemar projector models in order to create different atmospheres and emotions.

The impressive lighting installation created entirely by the Italian company, comprising over 120 projectors, illuminated a whole range of talents - dancers, singers, musicians, actors and many others.

Fixtures included the follow spots Testa 2500 and Testa 1200, and every moment of the performances was highlighted by 60 iWash 575, 30 I Spot 1200 and

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HSL was brought onboard by Jerusalem and Tel Aviv based Stage Design, who supplied all the technical infrastructure for the high profile six-day event, and built most of the site. It was the first time the two companies had collaborated, which happened after HSL came highly recommended by several contacts.

HSL's project manager Mike Oates says, "We were delighted to win the contract. Working with the Stage Design team has been a real pleasure. They have the same vision and dedication to providing great service, cutting edge technology and top people as we do."

HSL sea freighted all the gear - which included o

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White Light's lighting designer Jason Larcombe designed a system to capture the atmosphere of the evening, lighting a performance stage and backdrop, and reinforcing the V&A's distinctive atmosphere in order to create a magical look and feel to the museum for the guests.

To enable the transformation, White Light made use of its extensive equipment stock, including some of its latest vision and media LED equipment which was applied to create a flexible and exciting backdrop to the range of performances, each differing in style and focus. White Light also introduced a range of automated LED equipment, accompanied by battery powered and wireless control systems allowing the lighting to extend to the far

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wysiwyg R25, developed by CAST Software of Toronto, Canada, is the latest update in the industry standard for professional lighting previsualisation. The Company added this addition to R25 as a new third party application extension to work with Luminair 2.0 wireless multi-touch DMX control software for the iPhone and iPod touch, developed by Synthe FX of Cincinnati, Ohio. wysiwyg can download fixture point of view and the necessary DMX data to these handheld devices so users are able to see what a specific fixture's focus should be and adjust the fixture accordingly. Once that fixture is focused, the user can turn th