Staying On - Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis says he's not ready to hand the day-to-day running of the festival over to his daughter Emily yet. Eavis, 75, celebrated the festival's 40th anniversary earlier this year but
The showroom will make its first stop Monday, 11 October at Mainstage Theatrical Supply in Memphis, Tenn., before heading to Bradfield Stage Lighting in Nashville and Tennessee Lighting Company in Knoxville on 12 and 13 October respectively.
Then it's off to Vincent Lighting Systems in Solon, Ohio, where the showroom will remain parked on 14 October before visiting Vincent's sister store in Erlanger, Ky, 15 October for its final stop of the month.
Each stop will provide visitors with a hands-on survey of new and classic Wybron gear, including the Cygnus advanced color LED line, as well as a chance to chat with Wybron staff members and enjoy complimentary food.
"In this first year of touring we've pi
Following an intensive two-year research collaboration with Denmark's Aalborg University, and with development funding from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, the MAC 350 Entour has proved a pioneering and energy-efficient alternative to traditional discharge lighting.
The Danish Industry Prize, awarded once a year to honour companies which develop exceptional customer solutions, was conferred at the commercial organisation's Business Summit in Copenhagen on 29 September 29.
"We're very proud to receive this prestigious award, but we're even more proud that we now have a unique product
Reflection brings a familiar part of traditional Par lighting fixtures - the interchangeable light source - to the new world of LED lighting fixtures. The lightsource directs light from a combination of LEDs onto a parabolic reflector, giving an output which is bright, but which also eliminates the RGB dots and multi-coloured shadows which have plagued many other LED fixtures. Reflection gives a pure, uniformly coloured beam that can also be zoomed smoothly from 18 to 37 degrees.
Two version of the Reflection lightsource are available. The RGB version offers full spectrum colour mixing and also a dramatic, boosted strobe/blinder effect that can be used in any colour. The VariWhite version offers colour temperature selection across the white ran
Eales, who has been instrumental in leading the development of new Strand product and service, now heads the European team, along with Michael Goldberg, sales director for EMEA and Grant Bales-Smith, sales manager. Eales comments, " I am looking forward to working with our great team of dealers, staff and customers to keep building the Philips Entertainment brands across all our geographic regions and segments."
(Jim Evans)
The permanent ETC equipment has now helped light one of the most prestigious platforms for the nation's top talent, the 9th China Arts Festival, for which Guangzhou was the headlining venue.
When the £130m (155m) facilities debuted in May, the lighting control was from two ETC Eos control desks; Eos Client software (for remote console programming); and multiple ETC Net3 Gateways for full ACN networked functionality.
ETC's Eos product manager Anne Valentino says,"The Eos control system has rapidly established itself as the leading control choice for opera, theatre and ballet institutions around the world. It was specifically engineered for the demands of such productions, with fu
Lighting control is handled by two separate artnet systems, one for the LED facade and one for the rest of the Pavilion's lighting. The LED facade is controlled via a project-built media server developed by Aarhus University's Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction (CAVI, Denmark). The CAVI media server controls the look of the facade by triggering timings using sensors mounted around the building.
The non-facade lighting areas are quite substantial however. There are 25 other areas of the Danish Pavilion which are illuminated and controlled individually - a soc
It was the first year that PSI has supplied a full rigging and comprehensive lighting and digital lighting package to the event, which was co-ordinated with BBC Northern Ireland's own lighting department, to meet the spec of lighting designers John Gallagher and Philip Brines. The Ulster Orchestra played a special programme and guests included The Priests, flautist Brian Finnegan, violinist Alexandra Soumm and Duke Special.
The stage was supplied by Star Events. It measured 18m wide by 13 deep with 8.5m of headroom, underneath which PSI installed a 16mwide by 13 deep box truss.
This includes a new sound system designed over eight separate zones and a club lighting system in the newly-created Night Lounge located in the basement area. All spaces have been conceived, installed and supplied by The Sound Division Group (SDG).
When proprietor Marlon Abela reopened the venue towards the end of last year, there was just one piece of the jigsaw remaining. For while the ground floor bar, first floor restaurant and second floor private members' lounge had received their first major overhaul in many years, it was only after the owners decided to convert the basement into an exclusive nightclub - termed a 'night lounge' - that the real 'wow factor' was delivered.
With its colour-washed, exposed brickwork, d
The lighting design team comprised seven students, taking their lead from designer Richard G Jones, recently applauded for his work on The Railway Childrenat London's Waterloo station. The brief was to recreate the emotional journey of The Story with lighting as the sole scenic element.
Second-year student and assistant lighting designer for the production, Natalie Davey, specified the PixelLine 110s to work in conjunction with conventional cyc floods already in the school inventory. The 110s were positioned on side booms to wash across the white cycloramic scenery wall where the cyc floods also washed from their positions top and bottom.
Davey approach
"Once I was brought on by the band's manager, we began discussing the new album and how they wanted to integrate aspects of the album into the tour," says Sasic. "The overall feel of the album is a sort of journey into their childhood through the looking glass of a faded Polaroid, so this is what they wanted for the tour. The set design would consist of a suburban, outdoor location with a large projection video screen contained inside a road-side billboard frame measuring 20' wide x 10' high. Then we also a
His work has included the design, build and installation of fully autonomous searchlights which form part of the festive lighting at the top of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. He has also created a number of bespoke products for bands including Muse, Tokyo Hotel and Coldplay.
Richard Cuthbert, technical director for GDS comments, "David brings with him considerable experience in special project and product design and we are very much looking forward to his input for the ongoing expansion of the GDS."
(Jim Evans)
"Through the generosity of J.F. Canuel, VP of A.C. Lighting, we were offered a complete LED lighting rig for the show - whatever I requested was made available to us - including the new Color Block 2. These fixtures, with their GBA optics, 530 lumens of output and theatrical grade dimm
A visit with Matthias Hinrichs at Martin's Los Angeles office helped LD/Programmer Jason Dill focus in on the Martin M1 for its many solution-solving features in a powerful, compact package.
Dill needed no special training on the M1 but a brief run-through from Hinrichs. "Everything made sense. It's easy to get around," Dill says. "Programming lighting is just a matter of controlling DMX channels, so it's a matter of knowing what keys you need to push to get the console to do what you want. The M1's syntax is logical, as opposed to other consoles that take a computer-minded approach to operate them."
With the ever-changing lighting rig to consider, console fle
The only solutions available at that time were either very expensive or very low quality. Bandit immediately set out to test a large number of various devices to determine the best, affordable option. That summer Jackson willingly served as a proving ground for various types of LED solutions. There were several immediate upsides to an all LED rig; low power consumption, endless and vivid colour varieties, and the point most impressive
Cogent has recently been appointed as exclusive European distributor for this new product that harnesses the power and innovation of amBX technology. The XC offers an alternative method for controlling colour changing LEDs.
Says Cogent's Peter Coles, "This is an inventive and different solution for a number of applications, and it's great to be here with Marata Vision who have many contacts and a great track record in this specialist sector."
The key points of the Cogent XC LED lighting controller are its simple set up and ease of use. No programming is required as the box is pre-programmed with a number of algorithmic sequences that tri
Lighting designer Chris Kempton, supported from the offset by Richard Martin Lighting, uses what he previously admitted as 'nothing exotic' to compliment the Industrial and Urban design of the set.
The rig includes MAC 500's and MAC 250's, while MAC 600's on the floor are used to wash set pieces.
Chromabanks can be seen dotted underneath the panel's desk, whilst LED Par 36's are used to backlight the 'speaker stack' set pieces that appear behind the contestants.
(Jim Evans)
Products in use varied from the Level 6 DMX through to the ORB and ORB XF professional theatre consoles. The largest presence of Zero 88 products this year was once again at the Pleasance venues which utilised 23 Zero 88 control desks, plus 56 Betapack dimmers (including generation 1, 2 and 3 varieties). The smallest venues at the Pleasance feature just six ways of dimming and a Juggler console, whilst the largest, the Pleasance Grand, included an ORB and 34 Martin Mac 700 moving lights.
Chief electrician Dom Knight comments, "It was a logical
Features include LED array pixel plotting, Autopilot (an automatic show generator), 365 day global scheduling and comprehensive controls for intelligent and conventional lighting. ShowCAD can also be interfaced with many peripheral control surfaces, touch screens, MIDI, Wifi and networked systems and can either be slaved by or can slave other controllers.
The company is currently working on an Apple Mac version. Artist is installed in many prestigious nightclubs around the world including The Mirage, Bellagio, Wynn's, The Hard Rock Hotel and the new City Centre in Las Vegas. Architectural installations include The Zain Bahrain Building, The Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Point Source Productions, working in conjunction with Fine Art Lighting, has supplied the lighting solutions to auctioneers, Sotheby's, for over 20,000 sale items. These are estimated to raise over £2.5m and are arranged in 1,400 lots within a series of marquees in the grounds of Chatsworth House.
The marquees were chosen specifically to give the ambience of a country house sale and arranged in a square around a central courtyard in which
As games play out on Brian the Giant's table top, young contestants, or 'humunchies', compete for the chance to run off home and avoid being eaten for dinner by giants.
With computer generated assistance, giants, gunge, a fantastically designed set, a very dapper Dennis in a sequined jacket and catchy slogans (such as 'if you're not the winner you'll be Brian's dinner') it is sure to capture the imagination of the younger generation.
Brian the Giant's home-made studio was created inside BBC's TC3 at London's Television Centre. The set took up all but a few feet of the studio with the massive kitchen scales at the centre; giant books made up the steps and in the middle was a very big bowl which held the messy gunge games.
Tasked with
Olivier Payen, the tour's lighting designer, who also worked on Indochine's previous Alice&June tour, succeeded in creating a breathtaking light show. However, according to the team managing the project, it was no easy ride. Apart from the challenge of an enormous stadium, from the outset specifications were determined by the video layout. With five 16:9 screens occupying the entire north curve of the stadium and covering a total area of 720m2, there was little space left for the lighting. The design used lighting to surround
The new units will replace all PRG's existing motor control stock in the UK, standardising the control platform across its substantial rigging department which has over 2000 motors.
Kinesys were one of three companies that pitched for the design commission of this project which was managed by Dave Weatherhead for Kinesys, and for PRG by PRG's UK head of asset management Paul Weaver and Summit Steel's Jon Bray - who have co-ordinated an overall upgrade for all equipment in PRG's rigging department.
Together, they came up with a list of requirements and a basic spec from which the DigiHoist was developed as the most suitable product for concert touring and systems for shows and events of all sizes.
Following the product's official launch at the recent 2010 PLASA exhibitio
i>TELE studios has changed all its lighting from incandescent sources to LED or fluorescent. Technical director Laurent d'Auria says, "There was too much maintenance, too much energy consumption, too much heat being produced at i>TELE studios, all of which was just not compatible with our new lighting infrastructure."
i>TELE quickly decided on Robert Juliat Aledin on the advice of Canal+, pioneers in the new uses of television, who were already investigating low energy solutions. Aledin's new technology provides the answer to
