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This exhibition is marked by a detailed study of the lights, and a subsequent technological project by the architect Alexander Bellman. The route of the exhibition, culminating in Vitali's dog sculptures, is ideal for really showing off the revolutionary characteristics that Coemar has applied to a projector based on LED technology: an extraordinary softness, the entire range of whites, and the total absence of pixels and multiple shadows.

Coemar has managed to achieve these results by focusing the light from the LEDs onto a reflective surface that then sends out an even be

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Arcstream AV provided four lasers for the performance including a 10watt Full Colour, two 6 watt Green OPS systems and an 8 watt Green OPS, to create a stunning effect as Rihanna pushed the button on Westfield's Christmas installations.

Arcstream AV's managing director Neil Dickinson reports, "Westfield was looking for an effect which would engage the huge crowd this event always pulls in, and lasers are a brilliant way of creating an effect in a large space. We used 20 diffraction mirrors placed throughout the atrium area sending beams literally everywhere to cover the massive audience."

Simon Jones, technical manager of Westfield London adds, "The lasers were a perfect solution for a light swi

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The showroom will make its first three stops - Barbizon, Gemini Stage Lighting & Sound, and Stagelight - in the Dallas metro on 6, 7 and 8 December respectively.

On Thursday 9 December the Mobile Showroom will open its doors at Olden Lighting in Austin before heading to Texas Scenic Co. in San Antonio for its final stop of the year on Friday,10 December. Each stop will provide visitors with a hands-on survey of Wybron gear, including the new Cygnus advanced-colour LED line, as well as a chance to chat with Wybron staff and enjoy complimentary lunch.

"In this first year of touring we've pinpointed some improvements we'd like to make to the showroom and will be debuting a brand-new trailer with brand-new technology in January 2011," said Keny Wh

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Directed by Jonathan Kent, designed by Paul Brown and lit by Mark Henderson, the production demanded a fire effect on stage at the end of the Act. Howard Eaton was presented with the challenge, "At the end of Act 1 there needs to be a lightning bolt from the heavens that results in Don Giovanni's palazzo being torched," he says.

Paul Brown's set was designed on the theme of a Pandora's Box, set on a huge revolve with the chamber's walls moving to reveal each scene. Director Jonathan Kent wanted the production to be fluid, "a white knuckle ride", and this added to the list of theatrical demands for

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(Claire Beeson)

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The Your Songs tour is crossing the world in support of Connick's eponymous album released last fall. He brought the tour to Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre in July where the last two performances were recorded live for television.

Halpain, who has worked with Connick on tour since 2003 and has an extensive credit roster of tours with other artists plus TV shows and special events, began the tour with a grandMA full-size then migrated to the grandMA2 full-size when vendor MAS Lighting acquired the new model. "The grandMA was a great console, but we fell in love with the grandMA2 when we had to reprogramme the show for Broadway," Halpain reports. "And now we've take

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"The theatre technicians at the RSAMD know the lighting business inside out, so we were really under the spotlight in terms of delivering a state-of-the-art system," says Black Light's installations project manager, Paul McGreal. "However, we were the first choice for the job and were able to deliver a high-quality, bespoke system within budget and to a tight deadline."

The installation project was instigated because the New Athenaeum's old equipment was startin

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Azule's lighting division sales director, Gavin Scott comments, "The buzz and popularity around live events and festivals grows each year and lightshows for major artists are becoming more and more spectacular. When planning a live event lighting is nearly always an artist's first consideration and with a host of innovative new products coming onto the market from manufacturers such as Robe mixed with the enduringly successful products like GLP Impressions, lighting is fast becoming big business."

For lighting companies

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Broadcast live on NBC, the NYC Marathon is the premier event of the New York Road Runners. With more than 45,000 runners, 2.5m spectators, more than 6,000 volunteers ensuring a successful and memorable event, eight truck-mounted LED display units provided a great view of the action.

The truck-mounted Daktronics LED video screens were used in sizes ranging from 12' x 16' to 22' x 30'. Five units were strategically placed at the start line, located at Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island, N.Y., to display the televised race coverage on NBC and informational messaging and live camera production for the Open Zone entertainment area.

The additional three units were placed near the finish line on the west side of Man

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DoP Massimo Tomasino has specified lighting for the current series, which includes six Robe Robin 300E Beams and two Robe DigitalSpot 3000DTs, which are positioned on the studio floor and on an angled truss around the studio's perimeter.

The lively 60-minute interactive show is directed and presented by Francesco Panasci. It covers topical and often controversial issues with an invited panel of studio guests exchanging views, opinions and thoughts with the audience.

The set design is deliberately minimal, so attention remains focussed on the guests, the dialogue and the studio action, f

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So how do they achieve a seamless transition for this one-night-only show? "The first call I make is to ELP," says lighting director Mark Kenyon. "There are certain lights which define the look of the show such as the Clay Paky Alpha Beam 300s with their tight, narrow shafts of light. And I know ELP have the stock levels I require for an OB job of this size. They have all the rigging and trussing ready to go and can provide the complete package." M

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Everyone involved in the production team at City Church are volunteers, yet at City Church's Bowen Hills auditorium the team executes two 'shows' per Sunday to a congregation of up to 2000 people.

"I am a non-professional lighting guy", said Scott Bernoth one of the Church's longest serving lighting volunteers. "So the ease of use that is provided by the visual inter

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Lighting designer Malcolm Reed chose a mixture of LED and moving heads for the awards, held in London's BFI National Film Theatre. PixelPar 90s, GLP Impressions and Alpha Spot 300s created a classic design.

"The reasoning behind this choice of lighting is quite simple," says Reed. "The theatre has very little power available as the normal use is a cinema and I was limited to a few 13 amp sockets scattered around the auditorium. For me LED's are just the thing, the GLPs enabled me not only to create vario

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The investment brings a number of advantages not just to Lighthouse, but to China and the Huizhou area as well, says the company. With RoHS compliance, the manufacturing facility is an eco-friendly investment, well aligned with the Chinese government's low carbon development policy put forth in 2009. It's also an investment that brings some of the most advanced technology and management experience to China.

For residents of Huizhou, the facility has also been an important source of economic growth, bringing more jobs to Chinese citizens and contributing to Huizhou's GDP and government revenue. And, following the acquisition, factory employees can now receive

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The event featured a 'greatest hits' performance by Bryan Ferry, and raised large sums of money for the charity, which supports additional educational initiatives encouraging children and young people to raise their achievement levels.

Renegade has worked closely with SHINE for the last seven years, producing all their live events. The high profile 2010 Benefit Dinner was project managed for Renegade by Mike Fidler working closely with Nick Gray as lighting designer. Andy Cobb filled in with conceptual designs along with technical production manager, Cha

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This year the show had a new set and a new lighting designer. Mark Kenyon stepped up to light the star-studded Friday night. David Bishop assisted as moving light operator.

The live show from TC1, hosted by Terry Wogan, Tess Daly and Fearne Cotton, featured Alpha Beam 700s, Chroma Banks, VL1000TS, Nova Flowers, Pixel Brick kits, VL3500s and LC2140 panels plus P3 Controller.

TC6 again played host to the hospitality area where the VIPs and event organisers were entertained with a live performance Heaven 17. Lighting designer Lee Allen used MAC 600s, MAC 500s and LED 12 Lights.

(Jim Evans)

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PSI's Sean Pagel was asked to create a lighting and visuals design following on from Belfast based PSI's supply of equipment to An Appointment show earlier in the year, a one off at Dublin's Abbey Theatre,

Say's Pagel, "It is a great honour for us to be involved something as original, interesting and special as this show. Mike Scott knows exactly what he wants and his attention to absolutely every detail is impressive."

Pagel's brief was to design a complimentary theatre show for the performance that was practical to tour in a rock 'n' style, and fitted nicely into all the ve

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The event was designed to cement Shanghai's status as one of the world's great cities, by showcasing the latest technology in outdoor spectacular events. Clay Paky formed a core part of the event, with over 300 Alpha 1500 spotlights supplied through its Chinese partner ACE Professional Sound and Lighting.

Production was by David Atkins Enterprises; outdoor lighting was designed by Bob Dickinson and Ted Wells. Paul Collison was project lighting manager and Sha Xiao Lan was lighting designer for the indoor show.

The outdoor performance spanned both sides of the 300m-wide Huangpu River, extending along a 2.7km stretch of the river. The eno

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Paris based CSI-France has been established for over 43 years, representing brands such as Vari*Lite, High End Systems, About Show and Green Hippo, in addition to managing many projects around the world.

"CSI is clearly the team to join," says Lotta Schiefer, business development manager for Wireless Solution, "Our products fit in very naturally with the CSI portfolio and we highly respect the company's strong presence in France with both sales relationships and special projects. We consider this a very successful step forward."

Arnaud Leschemelle, CEO for CSI adds: "In addition to our goal of supplying some of the best brands on the

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Trounce is also the house LD at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire venue, where the house desk is an Avo Diamond 4.

The first show that she designed and programmed for Nash was done on a Pearl Expert running TITAN after which they asked her to tour with them. So she had a show everyone was really happy with, but an expedient budget meant the decision was taken to utilize house rigs rather than tour a production.

The opportunity arose for Trounce to try out the Tiger Touch whilst on the European leg of the tour. Above all, the ability to pluck her original design straight from the Pearl Expert and plug it directly into the Tiger Touch proved a great solution. Por

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Nearly 10 years in the making, the new permanent exhibition in Los Angeles allows visitors to experience a blend of live animals and hands-on science experiments in 11 distinct ecosystems - each illustrating an ecological principle. The wing nearly doubles the exhibition space at the California Science Centre and is expected to raise visits above the average annual attendance of 1.4m that the facility had previously welcomed.

ETC's Unison Paradigm control system, Sensor+ dimming, SmartSwitch relays and Source Four luminaires were all part of the lighting and control package for Ecosystems. The Paradigm system provides simultaneous control of all the architectural lighting in the public areas, including

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Top Lebanese superstars in the Middle East and North Africa, Elisa and Fadl Shaker headlined, along with soft rock band, Wust El-Balad - all performing under 24 PR Lighting XL Beams, supplied by the company's local distributors, Hi-Lights Egypt.

CEO Hamed Arafa confirms that lighting designer Mohamed Fathy selected these as the main moving heads, suspended from the overhead truss.

These 300W moving heads offer three beam angle options while the fixture itself uses the Phillips Fast Fit MSR Gold lamp and superior optics to provide an output of 22000 lumens. The result is a versatile, variable speed projector, producing a bi-directional rainbow effect - keeping the atmosphere changing spect

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Director of the ballet company, Dame Monica Mason, said she was "thrilled" about the production being shown in such a huge venue as it would "introduce our work to so many new people". The 17-19 June performances are being staged in association with impresario Raymond Gubbay, who staged the first opera at the London arena earlier this year.

Half Time - The Black Eyed Peas are to perform during the interval at the Super Bowl next year, organisers have said. The Gr

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Sadler is a chartered engineer who specialises in modern theatre hydraulics and is actively involved with the running of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Eastern Area, acting as treasurer for the organisation. He is also a technical associate of the Royal National Theatre and received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Association of British Theatre Technicians in 2009.

Since 1978, Sadler has been closely involved with many industrial and theatrical projects including the stage settings for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express and The Phantom of the Opera. He is currently working on the hydraulic systems for