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UK - Technical entertainment specialists, Stage Electrics, are participating in The Gromit Unleashed campaign which is happening in Bristol. The company has sponsored a 5ft tall sculpture of the famous dog Gromit named Watch out Gromit designed by renowned cartoonist and illustrator Gerald Scarfe and is one of many such sculptures positioned across the city.

Gromit Unleashed is a new public art exhibition hitting the streets of Bristol for 10 weeks this summer to raise funds for Bristol Children's Hospital Charity, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal. Spearheaded by Aardman, the art trail features 80 giant Gromit sculptures, each individually decorated by an eclectic mix of well-known and local artists, designers and celebrities.

Dan Aldridge Managing Director of Stage Electrics commented, "Raising funds for Bristol Royal Hospital for Children is such a w

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Italy - Thursday 4 July, at the Clay Paky head office in Seriate, the Moto3 250cc four stroke engine was unveiled after one year of toil by Rumi-Sport Engineering.

At the official presentation more than 90 people participated, mostly coming from the world of motorsport; technicians, engineers, journalists in the sector, as well as two special guests: the multi-world champion Carlo Ubbiali and volleyball champion Marco Meoni.

Some guests were also from the main local media - the Eco di Bergamo, Bergamo TV, VideoBergamo, Mediaset Italia2 - SportMediaset. - who carried out reports which were to be published or aired the next day on the local news stations.

Stefano Rumi, coordinator of the project, started by presenting the Racing Team Department, which was followed by a video that retraced the stages of the history of Rumi and then by a light show specially made by Clay Paky's

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Austria - Every year since 2000, the most successful national and international musicians in Austria have received Amadeus Austrian Music Awards in different categories. It is the most important pop music award in Austria. MA Lighting and Clay Paky products were among those used during the recording of the ceremony this year at the Volkstheater in Vienna.

The lighting designer Matthias Frank, the show light operator Matthias Schöffmann, the white light operator and MA system technician Jürgen Erntl and the media server manager Stefan Kürzel counted - among other things - on two grandMA2 light consoles, a grandMA2 fader wing, an MA Network Processing Unit (NPU) and 80 Clay Paky Sharpys.

Matthias Frank commented on his use of the MA system, "It was critical in this production for more than one operator to work in a network. However only the systems needed for the console

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Italy - Italian fans enjoyed a spectacular display of lights, lasers, and effects at Vasco Rossi 's sold-out stadium tour this year. For maximum visual impact, designer Giovanni Pinna specified 64 of the new Lase-Array systems from ER Productions of London, plus 14 Look Solutions Viper Deluxe smoke machines.

Controlling 12 of the Viper Deluxe machines were a LumenRadio wireless transmitter and 12 LumenRadio receivers. "Wireless was the only way to go," says ER Production's Ryan Hagan. "Smoke machine placement around the stadiums varies depending on the wind, which of course is unpredictable. With wireless we can cover every angle and whatever the wind throws at us. Such flexibility just isn't feasible with cables."

Hagan adds, "LumenRadio wireless DMX is great. It's solid as a rock and never lets us down. We use it at every festival show we work on too

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USA - Designing shows for artistes ranging from Sheryl Crow to Fleetwood Mac over a long period, experienced LD Paul 'Arlo' Guthrie has been increasingly finding GLP's impression X4's an essential component in his touring inventory.

Earlier this summer, PRG supplied production for Fleetwood Mac's LIVE 2013 48-city Stateside arena tour - and this time Guthrie requisitioned 36 of the new generation LED moving heads.

The association between Paul Guthrie' (of Toss Film & Design) and Fleetwood Mac dates back to 1999 when he worked with lead singer Stevie Nicks, before co-designing the band's 2003 tour with their veteran LD Curry Grant and Bruce Rodgers (of Tribe Design). He then took over the reins entirely for their 2009 and 2013 tours.

Curry's own history with the band dates back to 1974, and since he had always used PRG as his preferred service provider Guthrie saw no reason t

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Australia - Robe got behind UK based lighting designer Simon Brockwell of SBLD to assist the facilitation of his innovative interactive work The Nocturnal Pianola, one of the eye-catching exhibits at the 2013 Vivid Festival of Music, Light & Ideas in Sydney, Australia.

The festival featured around 60 major lighting installations all located in and around the downtown area of the city after dark, spread across 18 days in June. It attracted approximately half a million people who came to enjoy and experience some of the wonders and thought-provoking and imaginative properties of light as a live art form.

Robe has always been interested in creative arts projects, and Brockwell's initial contact with Robe was with Ashley Lewis, key account manager for film, theatre & TV from the UK office. The two have worked on some previous projects together. Ashley put him in touch with

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UK - Lighting specialists Stage Electrics has taken the lead as systems integrator, supplying a full architectural LED lighting solution into Theatre Royal, Drury Lane which stands proudly on the oldest theatre site in London. First built in 1812 in the heart of London's West End and originally known as 'Drury Lane', the theatre has recently completed a £4m restoration.

In collaboration with architectural lighting designer Norman Bragg and Theatre Royal's Steve McAndrew; Stage Electrics' worked hand in hand to find the right lighting solutions for this iconic venue. Control of all lighting was via Zero 88 Chilli dimmer racks with a Stick KE1 touch screen control interface and DMX was distributed around the space via Swisson DMX merger and splitter units.

Business development manager Paul Roughton commented, "The scope of the project was to provide discreet lighting

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Germany - Lighting any type of religious building for a special occasion means a close eye to detail is required; so when Cologne Cathedral call for special lighting, they really mean it.

To create Lux Eucharistica, a dynamic audio visual show gracing Cologne Cathedral's recent Eucharistic Congress 2013, the management called on illumination art specialists Friedrich Förster und Sabine Weissinger of Casa Magica in Tuebingen, southern Germany. They, in turn, enlisted ETC Ion control desk expert Matthias Strobel to help programme the spectacular projections and colourful light.

"Controlling the Selador Classic Vivid-R fixtures and projection using Ion was the easy bit," says Strobel. "The more challenging part was taking control of the cathedral's very complex house light system with 1000+ channels via the Artnet protocol. The fact that we could organise it all u

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Spain - Significant recent growth in the sales of GDS LiteWare in North America have been closely followed by evidence that this most flexible of cutting-edge lighting technology is enjoying a similar increased uptake in Europe.

GDS' Spanish distributor, Entertainment Equipment Supplies (EES) reports that demand for LiteWare, notably from lighting designers connected with high-end events such as society weddings, has soared.

These battery powered, wireless LED fittings offer full RGB colour mixing with no heat. The range incorporates 'the original' LiteWare UL giving 40W of LED power, the LiteWare HO high output 80W version and the newest addition LiteWare Satellite which provides a hitherto unseen degree of flexibility. Its fittings incorporate a remote, fully-adjustable head with 360 degree pan and 180 degree tilt and an internally wired extendable pole that can elevate the

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UK - West London based lighting rental company Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) supplied lighting equipment, LED screen and crew to lighting designer Rich Gilson for the recent Die Antwoord (The Answer) show at London's Brixton Academy.

The South African Zef rap-ravers Ninja and Yolandi Vi$$er have a massive international cult following, a reputation for hugely energetic shows and visceral, raw, insightful - often controversial - videos that embrace numerous South African sub-cultures, all of which are self-directed.

Gilson has worked with them since last year. He designed the lighting for this latest three week UK and European tour based around the Brixton performance, where they brought in a full production.

He was extremely pleased when Colour Sound were also confirmed by promoter SJM to supply equipment for the gig, having worked with them on many previous occasions. "

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USA - The Rolling Stones have wrapped the US leg of their 50 & Counting world tour with grandMA2 consoles along for the still-wild ride. The Stones sell-out 50th anniversary tour is their first in six years. They opened the U.S. leg in LA and concluded their 18 dates in Washington, D.C. The band performed on a stage set featuring a giant set of psychedelic lips and a tongue-shaped walkway that riffed on their iconic logo. Patrick Woodroffe was the lighting designer and Ethan Weber the co-lighting director. Upstaging supplied the lighting equipment.

Weber and programmer/co-lighting director Dave Hill manned two grandMA2 full-size consoles, networked together, for the tour. "We love them", says Weber. "I handled the key lighting on one console and Dave ran the bulk of the system off the other." Both men are veteran Stones lighting directors with Hill hav

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UK - Lighting show designer Nick Gray of Renegade was back for his third London Collections - Men (LCM) SS14 fashion experience, where he lit the two main spaces at Victoria House and The Hospital Club in central London.

All the primary British fashion Council (BFC) runway collections across the three show days took place in the basement of Victoria House, a warehouse space complete with original exposed features like pipework and ventilation plant. The place was whited out for the event as part of a high-impact scenic design by Bacchus.

Gray lit it as a fully multi-purpose area which was also used for several static presentations in addition to the catwalk shows, emphasising 'slick and cool' as the desired ambience.

The main technical challenge was in creating around 25 new rigging points in the ceiling and walls so mini-beam trusses could be installed in exactly the correc

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Slovakia - The latest project implemented by the Slovak company Leader Light is the illumination of the Customs Truck Centre in Holíç.

In the original lighting project for the space over the stands for refuelling, eight pieces of 250 W halogen discharge lamps were placed in the height 4.7 m. These luminaries were replaced with energy saving LED product - LL High Bay from Leader Light with total output power of 120 W. The advantage of these luminaries is the high energy saving and its ability to dim, that can be used during less exposed night time (e.g. 60 W). The average luminance of the lighting system is supposed to be more than 200 lux.

Part of the reconstruction were also the two shelters which served for the customs controls. Much halogen discharge lighting was replaced with only three pieces of energy saving LED luminaries - LL High Bay with output power of

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USA - The term "mega church" might have been coined to describe Tulsa, Oklahoma's 12,000-member Church on the Move. At services, the church's message is delivered on a scale that rivals major rock concerts, with full-scale lighting, sound and video in a sanctuary that's bigger than many top music venues. The rock concert analogy is appropriate in more ways than one - the church's audio and video staff rent rather than purchase most of their lighting, giving them access to the latest Martin lighting gear to complement the church's Harman Professional sound system.

"We rent 90 percent of our lighting and it gives us the freedom to change frequently and try new ideas and technologies. We don't want to be left behind when the industry makes a major shift, " said Andrew Stone, Church on the Move's production manager and audio director. Renting also cuts down on th

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UK - Black Light has been involved in two flagship projects under the Scottish Government £1.25bn Scotland's Schools for the Future Programme. The work saw the company provide and install a range of light, sound and stage equipment at Eastwood High School in East Renfrewshire and Lasswade High School in Midlothian.

The success of the projects shows that Black Light has the expertise to be involved in ground-breaking projects involving key decision makers in both government and education.

"The projects have been a great success and the schools are delighted with the equipment we installed," says Black Light's head of company development, Phil Haldane. Haldane explains that one of the key reasons for the project's success was that Black Light met with the end-users early on in the process. "We re-specified certain elements of the project in light of the feed

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USA - The 2013 CMT Music Awards was staged at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee and featured a spectacular lighting design by Tom Kenny. The fan-voted awards show featured a rig which included 24 of Robe's newest moving light fixtures, the Pointe, along with a variety of Robe's other Robin series moving heads.

After a successful show with the new Pointe, just previously used on the MTV Upfront Presentation in New York, Kenny specified the multi-functional fixture for the CMT Music Awards.

This was the fifth year that Kenny has designed lighting for the CMT Music Awards, a live show, broadcast on CMT (Country Music Television) and attended by a live audience in a venue with a capacity of 15,000 people.

The creative team included lighting director and programmer Michael Appel, lighting programmer David 'Fuji' Convertino, scenic designer Anne Brahic, video content p

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South Africa - Hip-hop artist, Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion, earlier this year played at two concerts in South Africa. At the Ellis Park Indoor Arena in Johannesburg on 19 May and at the Grand Arena at the GrandWest Casino in Cape Town on 21 May. In Cape Town, lighting designer for the event, Sean Caie, worked on what he describes as a solid platform - the grandMA2 light - to create a show which surpassed the requested technical rider.

Sean Caie, HOD for lighting at the Grand Arena was asked to step in as lighting designer by his boss and technical entertainment manager, Gavin Taylor. "I was a bit hesitant," admitted Caie. He knew that he had a big show coming up a couple of days directly after Snoop Dogg and there was a level of expectancy for that. "I was concerned that I could not give both parties my full attention. I care about what my shows look like and wanted

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UK - West London UK-based lighting and sound rental company Entec continues its long and productive 20 year working relationship with British band Blur, supplying lighting and sound equipment for the band's current tour.

This year, Blur embarked on a 30 plus date world tour which has seen the band play to fans around the globe, including dates across Asia, Europe, South America, as well as a headline slot at the Coachella Festival in California, with more dates to be announced.

Entec's Sound department is supplying a monitor and control system for the band's summer shows, working with Blur's engineers Matt Butcher (FOH) and Dave Guerin (monitors), while Entec Lighting is providing a festival specials package to Lighting Designer Dave Byars.

A Midas PRO9 FOH console was specified by Butcher and also at FOH Entec supplied a Midas DN9650 network bridge that allows him to do a m

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USA - City Theatrical reports new additions to its product line of low voltage dimmers and some changes to the existing low voltage dimmers.

Low voltage dimming has always been used for incandescent lamps in scenery, props, and costumes, and is often paired with City Theatrical's SHoW DMX wireless DMX to allow wireless dimming. The real growth in this area today is the dimming of LED tape, which has growing use in all areas of entertainment.

City Theatrical now has a line of 10 products for lighting professionals, and has rebranded the entire group of dimmers to make it more logical to choose which one to use. The dimmers in the new product line are:

D1 Dimmer A 15A single channel dimmer; D2 Dimmer A tiny (the size of a credit card and 1/2" thick) two channel dimmer with a capacity of 5A per channel; D2 SHoW DMX Neo Dimmer - a tiny two channel dimmer with a with a capac

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UK - He has been called "light magician" by Tony Chambers, Editor of Wallpaper magazine, and worked with major organisations and significant artists such as Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney, Louis Vuitton, Elton John, Beyoncé and Sting. When the light magician, Tupac Martir, together with Panalux were working on the presentation for the new ground breaking presentation of Nierka, in the Peacock Theatre in London, they decided to once again go wireless with LumenRadio's CRMX products.

"Since technology was an essential part of the performance, we created a scene in which the characters on stage lit up the space with LEDs that had been embedded in the costumes", says Tupac Martir, creative director.

All LEDs as well as the LumenRadio CRMX receivers were powered by batteries, which were placed in the costumes so that

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USA - Constructed in 1969, the old City Hall building in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma had sat vacant for many years. Many residents and city officials wanted it torn down, but thanks to the vision of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and developer TOCH LLC, the 11-story structure has been given new life as the Aloft Tulsa Downtown Hotel.

Not only is this once-destined-for-the-wrecking-ball site now a thriving 180-room hotel that caters to urban, tech-savvy travellers, it has actually become a defining landmark in the city's skyscape. This is in large part due to the Elation Professional Level Q7 IP LED pars that encircle its roof, changing colours and sending washes of light down its columns, creating a nightly visual display that has become a rainbow-like beacon for locals and visitors alike.

The Level Q7 IP lights were installed on the building's exterior by Omni Lighting

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UK - Nominations close at the end of July for the sixth annual Knight of Illumination Awards, which recognise and reward the outstanding creative achievements of lighting designers working on productions in the UK. In keeping with tradition, the award ceremony will take place on the opening night of PLASA London 2013, 6 October 2013, at ExCeL London.

Jennie Barratt, show manager, PLASA London 2013, said, "The Knights of illumination Awards have become an integral part of PLASA London, and we're delighted that the organisers have brought the awards to ExCeL where the Platinum Suite promises to deliver a suitably glittering and glamorous atmosphere. We have many of the world's most creative lighting designers here in the UK and PLASA London is proud to help celebrate their incredible work."

The awards, which are supported by PLASA, are organised by The Society of Telev

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USA - ADJ's new Pixel Pulse Bar will have entertainers and lighting designers thinking "outside the bar" when it comes to visual effects, says the company.

The Pixel Pulse Bar comes equipped with the added feature of five-zone pixel chase effects. Users can highlight five different colours on the fixture and create a striking spectrum of energy-driven chase effects for "a thrilling high-velocity lightshow".

As a result of its five-zone pixel control, the Pixel Pulse Bar allows entertainers and designers to be more creative and gives them the power to enhance and broaden the scope of their lightshows without adding multiple units to their lighting arsenal, said Alfred Gonzales, national sales manager for ADJ.

"The Pixel Pulse Bar is versatile LED colour strobe/wash fixture because of its ability to create 5-zone pixel chase effects," said Gonzale

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Mexico - When last year Liverpool, Mexico's largest department store chain, opened its flagship unit in Villahermosa, some 63 x PR-8800 LED fixtures (each containing 108 x 3W RGB LED's) were used to wash the building.

Now the Chinese manufacturer's Mexican distributors, Hermes Music, have confirmed that an even greater number of PR Lighting's LED sources have been deployed at the larger Liverpool store in Puebla, which was recently remodelled. And this time Hermes have specified 104 of the super bright XPar 390 spots to bring the building to life after dark.

Each RGB head contains 90 x 3W LEDs (24 each of RGB and 18 white) with full colour mixing and linear CTO. Critically, it also has a beam angle of 14° and field angle of 28°.

Explaining the choice, Hermes Music's lighting specialist, Ricardo Segura de la Cruz, said the decision was based on space and the need for

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