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The common theme was Made in Italy and once again the event included fashion shows and musical performances, with Roberto Vecchioni and Dolcenera.

The lighting system provided by Franchino Service included the Panorama Cyc Power 2x575W with TLT patented double lamps placed on the ground for the lighting of all the layer towers; the small but high performance iSpot 150, with silver colour personalized by the covers, positioned on the ground along both sides of the 14m catwalk; the Infinity Wash XL 1400W and the Testa 2500W followspot for the lighting of the stage mounted on the front and side layer towers; the iSpot 150, iWash 575 and Par Lite LED for the

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It is the second year that DesignScene has produced the event for the Anderson Foundation. The project was managed for them by Ben Turner, and designed by DesignScene's creative director, Attila Keskin. Turner comments, "It was very exciting to be working in London's newest high profile hotel. As nothing this large had been done before we had a real chance to set a standards."

The high profile Anderson Foundation event for about 250 people was staged in the hotel's main space off the main reception areas. DesignScene's brief included the specification and supply of lighting, sound

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The chart topping singer/songwriter and runner up of X-Factor 2009 has evolved a live performance style of his own, cutting a new and fresh model from that of other successful reality TV contestants who follow up with solo careers. Show producer Beth Honan's stage set was designed with a ska/2 Tone flourish, and Murs' performance included some Madness inspired quirks and a generally up-beat, jaunty tone, backed by a nine- piece band including full brass section.

The lighting design was created by Phil Wiffin for HSL. Dave Lee operated and looked after everything on the road, working alongside tech Johnny Harper. HSL's project manager Mike Oates comments, "Once again Production North compiled a great team to pro

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Grant Bales Smith, sales manager for UK, Scandinavia and Benelux for Philips Entertainment EMEA explains, "Smart addressing technology has simplified LED fixture set up by ensuring that end users can quickly address any luminaire in the Philips PLTR1 range.

"The range features three types - the PLTR1W (Tunable White Flood), the PLTR1RGB (RGB Colour Mixing) and the PLTR1RGBAW (five colour unit with tunable colour temp settings). Each one has different channel requirements and differing features.

"The LightPack LED controller can sense which unit is which and assigns the correct number of channels. It can also include a virtual dimmer channel and is capable of setting the mode of a fixture i.e. 8 or 16 bit. The LightPack LED controller'

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This is in addition to the training programme that is offered in cooperation with the media academy in Berlin, so customers now have an additional choice of location to visit for their training.

All training dates are published on the Lightpower website (www.lightpower.de). More information about the MA University can be found there as well, together with full details of the training, including an in depth explanation.

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The new warehouse space, directly adjacent to White Light's existing building in Wimbledon, south-west London, gives White Light an additional 20,000sq.ft of working space, which will be used to accommodate the company's ever growing range of sales products, to provide additional pre-rig space for tours and other shows, and to create a demo area that will allow lighting designers to try out equipment in a decent sized space, or even to hang rigs for pre-lighting or rehearsal.

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The Blå Tåget ride already existed but has gone through a total makeover. This ride is a ghost train loaded with new chills, thrills and effects especially designed for visitors' enjoyment. The train passes through several chambers, each filled with skeletons, scarecrows, rats, wolves, fire, lightning, ghosts and more.

The setting inside the ride was designed by artist Magnus Sörman and the entrance to the ride was designed by Joakim Hansén. For the technical making of this scary adventure-ride, Kreativ Teknik was contacted by Gröna Lund. Kreativ Teknik, a Swedish-based company which mainly works with lighting, control systems and effects, selected Medialon to be part of the project.

Kreativ Teknik delivered a total solution including light

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Staged every four years, Showlight is an international symposium organised by and for professionals working in all areas of lighting and the visual arts including video and projections, stage and set design.

Open to all, from the most experienced practitioners to the most enthusiastic aspirants across all sectors of the performing arts and entertainment industries, the four-day colloquium is supported by an exhibition and a full social programme for networking.

A diverse range of individuals attend Showlight. It is a forum for discussion, debate and exchange of knowledge and ideas, as well as an opportunity for approximately 400 guests to see a selection of the latest technology available. Companie

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The LED strips can even operate concurrently, giving designers increased freedom and future proofing for the installation, says the company. The LINEARdrive, which dims down to as low as 0.1%, can be used with all leading protocols (DALI, DMX, DMX/RDM, 0-10V). A wealth of configurations settings is set over the intuitive user interface.

Thanks to the driver's Remote Device Management support, you can easily track down and address your luminaires from an RDM capable DMX controller. There is no need to open luminaires to re-address the driver during installation or re-commissioning.

When using the LINEARdrive in a DMX network, you can easily configure it to get the li

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The PR-8800's design includes a true outdoor IP67 waterproof rating, an advanced RGB colour mixing system and automatic environmental brightness adjustment. It has already obtained an exterior design patent.

Containing 108 x 3W LED's (27 each RGBW) and linear colour temperature correction, it has a power consumption of 350W at 220V and LED lifetime of 50,000 hours. Other features include 0-100% linear adjustable dimmer; 0-20 fps strobe; field angle of 28°(with optional 26° and 56°) and beam angle of 14° (with optional 8° and 45°); DMX512 (and wireless) control, with 16 recallable preset and 16 user memories. The DMX m

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Children's Favourite - Bristol Old Vic's production of Swallows and Amazons is to play in London's West End for a five-week Christmas run. Based on the classic children's novel by Arthur Ransome, the songs for the musical have been created by The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon. It will be directed by Bristol Old Vic's Tom Morris, co-director of the National Theatre's West End hit War Horse. The show wi

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The impressive mixture of horse show and acrobatics was thematically embedded in a gentle, romantic story. Altogether, 45 horses starred on the specially-created stage, captivating audiences with their charm. To reinforce the story, the entire Apassionata manège was continuously bathed in different-coloured lighting, giving extra depth to this equestrian theatre.

Lighting designer Henning Schletter used among other effects 20 impression 90 RGB, 12 impression 240 XL and 36 Ypoc 700 CMY heads, from LED moving head manufacturer GLP.

Schletter has been a freelance lighting designer and operator for many years and is fami

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In order to allow the bands to engage at close quarters with their hordes of screaming fans, production designer Butch Allen designed a 91ft catwalk leading from the main stage to a 'B' stage - using no fewer than 79 GLP Volkslicht Zoom LED spots to edge the perimeter of the vast 155ft-wide main and subsidiary stages - including 17 footlights down each side of the thrust. The complex staging and movement was fabricated by Tait Towers.

"Since the whole set design was based around the 91ft thrust, my idea was to use the Volkslichts as footlights, to carve the space out around the audience," said Allen, explaining the concept.

The tour has seen him reunited with Jesse Blevins

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In a series of talks and seminars over the course of three days, delegates learned about new ETC products, projects and systems.

Part of the event centred on ETC's latest LED fixtures, Selador Desire, which comes in a range of different options, each optimised for every type of lighting need.

Selador's x7 Colour System adds four colours to the traditional RGB mix, radically expanding the colour range and power. The range was specifically designed to mix well with traditional tungsten lighting, giving lighting designers the best of both worlds. Desire's optional red shift mode mimics the way the colour temperature of a tungsten lamp warms as it fades.

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Jerry Roberto Romani, designer of the theatre's lighting system, has evaluated these mobile heads designed for creating light scenes in shows and musicals. The ACL M were chosen because they are "adaptable, small, powerful, and low consumption. Furthermore, their silence makes them ideal for theatrical/musical productions".

Thanks to their characteristics they have been selected by the technical staff of Gardaland, and in particular by artistic director Filippo Tassi and his assistant Roberto Botti.

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Installed throughout the venue are 16 COLORado Tri Tour, 60 COLORband Tri and 10 COLORado Batten 72 Tour, as well as 36 LED PAR 38 wash lights. Sanders specifically sought LED-fitted fixtures due to their longer life and color changing capabilities.

"There are 150 fixtures installed throughout," Sanders said. "I didn't want to change 150 light bulbs. Colour-changing LEDs were selected because the interior is white and pastel and we could add colours and turn [the

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The 85,000sq.ft centre, which opened last year, serves the Northern Virginia community. Theatre consultant and lighting designer Robert Davis specified Aramis followspots for the 1,121-seat Merchant Hall, which is designed for symphony orchestra performances, dance, opera and theatre and boasts a 45ft by 100ft stage and a motorised pit set for large orchestras.

"A followspot has to do everything perfectly - It doesn't have to clear just one hurdle, but dozens," says Davis. "The instrument has to have a really good followspot beam, and you need to have good control over it. It has to accelerate and decelerate smoothly and s

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Part of the Emerge LED Lighting product family, the WashGrazeLV lighting system incorporates secondary optics that allow lighting designers to select up to six beam angles and six colour temperatures to illuminate or accent any intricate architectural lighting application.

Designed to operate from 120VAC to 277VAC without remote drivers, the WashGrazeLV lighting fixture consumes only 17 watts per foot while providing upwards of 850 lumens per foot and efficacy of 50 lumens per watt.

"We designed our WGLV lighting system in re

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Located in Earls Court 2, the feature takes the form of a theatre-in-miniature, complete with 'auditorium', 'stage', 'backstage', 'foyer' and 'box office'. In each area The Theatres Trust will demonstrate proven sustainability techniques, as well as featuring technologies from PLASA 2011 exhibitors.

Tim Atkinson, theatre building services advisor to The Theatres Trust, comments, "The larger space means our stage will be able to accommodate a greater variety of presentations and events. Another key development is that, whereas last year we had only signed up half of

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VideoBlades 12 are the result of an alliance between Lighthouse and Pix2o, providing a 12.5mm pixel pitch, modular LED screen.

VideoBlades 12 comes in two formats, SkyRoll and GroundRoll which can be deployed by rolling up or down from its patented rotating structure, just like a window shade. The modular format allows for the seamless formation of large-scale screens limited in size only by a customer's needs.

SkyRoll deploys down from overhead and is available in 4m, 6m and 8m widths and up to 10m screen heights, whilst GroundRoll, as the name suggests, deploys up from the floor resulting in the lowest possible rigged weight and is available

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As a part of the extended relationship Synergy will regularly stock LDR fixture in its warehouse to supply the industry market in Singapore and to some of the nearby countries. The Synergy show room will feature luminiares, follow-spots and other inventory from LDR.

Fabiano Besio comments "With the stock as well as the showroom to demonstrate our solutions, we will be better able to service the local and the nearby markets through Synergy."

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Art-Net3 retains all the popular features of its predecessors (Art-Net I andArt-Net II), being simple to implement, highly efficient and available in the public domain, says the company. Crucially, all existing Art-Net I and II devices will operate seamlessly with Art-Net 3.

The key difference of Art-Net 3 is its data capacity - at least two orders of magnitude greater than the 256 universe limit of Art-Net II.

WhenArt-Net I was released about a decade ago, lighting control demands rarely exceeded a handful of Universes. By the time Art-Net II arrived in 2006, thebenchmark had increased to a few dozen. Today, fuelle

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Designer Marc Brickman chose the new Vari-Lite VLX for the current Keith Urban tour. Lighting director Nate Alves is "thrilled" with the addition of these units as well as the new Clay Paky Sharpys, also specified by Brickman. The Sharpy is energy efficient and packs a tremendous punch for such low power consumption.

Designer Paul Holst is using the Martin MAC 101 on Owl City, as well as several GRNLite products,

Seth Jackson has specified the new GLP Volkslicht LED fixture for the current Selena tour, which is selling out in every market.

Bandit also purchased several I-Pix BB4's to complement the inventory of BB7's already on hand. In addition, the inventory of GRNLite PARs, Moving Washes, Battens, Washes and 8 Light Units was doubled this summe

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Their new, 55-minute show features a Michael Jackson impersonator who has the signatures dance moves down and lip-synchs to original songs including Smooth Criminal, Thriller and Remember the Time.

In order to promote the show nationwide, a four-minute music video was created and featured 18 COLORado 1 Tour wash lights, an Arena Hazer 2 haze machine, and two Q-SPOT 260 LED and six Legend 6500 moving heads. ShowXpress controlled all of the fixtures during the video shoot.

Paul Kocel, owner of Summit Group Event Services, comments, "The entire 55-minute show, which took over 83 hours to programme and contained 4,000 steps, ran in complete sy