Denmark - Martin Professional has appointed Stig Holst as its new international sales director, entertainment. Holst, 40, joins Martin Professional from a position as international sales manager at V. Guldmann, a Danish company specializing in automated lifting equipment for the nursing and hospital sectors, which operates a worldwide network of subsidiaries and distributors.
Holst’s area of responsibility at Martin will be international sales and sales support for the company’s extensive entertainment division. He takes over the international sales responsibility from Kristian Kolding who retains his position as Martin’s President and CEO. The position will take effect as of 1 April. Holst will be located at the Martin head office in Aarhus, Denmark.
At the same time, Martin has announced two further appointments in Aarhus: Thomas Fibaek Jensen has been named as traded goods manager, and Nanna Mazanti Friborg has joined the company as assistant product manager.
(Lee Baldock)
UK - The Institute of Sound and Communications Engineers (ISCE) and the Professional Lighting and Sound Association (PLASA) have agreed to set up a joint group on Audio Frequency Induction Loop Systems (AFILS). International Standard IEC/EN 60118-4 is up for revision, and some of the current content has been a bone of contention amongst many for some time. The collaboration between the two organizations will help provide a productive forum for members to generate a considered and expert view on the proposals, submitting them via BSI committee EPL/29.
PLASA has agreed to share John Woodgate's reports on the relevant BSI and IEC meetings with ISCE members. Currently, it is anticipated that the group will communicate through the ISCE mailgroup at present. If necessary, a separate mailgroup can be set up, depending on the level of response. The group is open to employees of PLASA members, and the joining instructions can be found by following the link from the ISCE Home Page (address below).
Copies of relevant IEC and BSI documents will be sent to members by e-mail attachment, but only if they are requested via the mailgroup - this is in order to avoid unsuspecting users having their inboxes unnecessarily filled up. More information can be obtained via the PLASA Standards Office at the e-mail address below:
(James Eade)
USA - The ‘Tim McGraw & The Dancehall Doctors One Band Show’ tour kicked off this spring with more than 120 High End Systems automated luminaires in the rig and a couple of Wholehog II consoles in control, as prescribed by lighting designer John Broderick. Premier Global Production Company of Nashville supplied all the lighting gear and built the rolling stage for the tour, which runs from 20 March to 31 May in the US.
HES fixtures on the tour include 50 Studio Beam, 38 X.Spot and 33 Studio Color 575 automated luminaires. Show control is conducted via two Wholehog II consoles, programmed by Troy Eckerman. Lighting director is Jerome Thompson, spot caller is Phil Ealy, crew chief is Rich Vinyard, electrician is Jamie Grossenkemper and lighting technicians are Eric Perry, Steve Schwind and George Kiem.
(Lee Baldock)
Switzerland - When Gerard Shallier's French production company NAT rigged the Renault stand at this month's Geneva Motor Show, not only were they showing the latest cars from Renault, but also the latest automated lighting fixtures from Coemar - the Flex range.
NAT, who utilize Coemar automated lighting exclusively in their rental fleet, had worked closely with the Italian manufacturers during the development of the new Flex range and saw the Renault stand - with its long throw distances and high output required - as an ideal opportunity to debut the range.
NAT installed 80 iWash Flex luminaires, interspersed with 18 Coemar 2.4K SuperCycs and 19 Coemar 2.5k PC theatrical projectors, to create a stunning presentation for the new Megane, Scenic and F1 showcase cars. All the lighting cues on the Wholehog II desk were programmed by Remy Roland, working for DoP Frederick Dorieux, while the daily refocusing was maintained by Matthieu Fouillade.
NAT, who specialize in corporate events and trade shows, as well as television, have favoured Coemar products throughout their history. They were first introduced to Dorieux while working on a television production. "He wanted to use us for the Motor Show and this is the second year we have worked for Renault," explained Matthieu. Dorieux notes that the patented ‘Best Color System’ allows there to be virtually no loss of intensity when filtered through the dichroic glass. Other benefits are the patented internal barn door system, with the widest range of beam angle and optional lenses to allow for beam-sh
USA - Mondiale, the publisher of Total Production magazine, have announced a licensing agreement with new American publishing company, Austin Burbank Media Productions LLC. The agreement will see the launch of a new magazine - Total Production US - in March 2003 serving the lighting, audio and staging industries in the USA. The magazine will reflect the values of its European sister but be dedicated to US events and news.
Austin Burbank founder and editor is Bruce Jordahl, formerly the editor of the US-based Pro Lights & Staging News (PLSN) magazine. He commented: "Total Production has long had a great reputation over here for its editorial values and commitment to the industry. A US version will give us the time and space to fulfill those same aims specifically for the American market. By bringing the title over, the industry already knows the style and quality of magazine we are going to produce."
Head of Mondiale’s International Division, Justin Gawne, added: "This is a great opportunity for everyone. Austin Burbank has been set up by industry professionals that fundamentally care about the live and touring industries. That is mirrored by the approach of Total Production and Mondiale here in Europe. We have every confidence that Bruce and his team will make a success of the title in the States."
Austin Burbank Media will be operating the Editorial department from their Texas base under Jordahl, and advertising sales are located in Burbank, California where Vicki Stephenson, Gavin Allen and Erika Gray will be based.
(Lee Baldock)
USA - ETC’s Source Four PAR and PARNel luminaires have have enjoyed great success in the entertainment and architectural fields: now, say ETC, that level of performance has been combined with the same stellar lamp and ballast life of ETC’s Source Four HID ellipsoidal range. The complete range of Source Four HIDs is now able to provide retail store, exhibition centres, museums and other architectural projects with the same precision and beam quality as seen on stages around the world.
The long life of the Source Four HID PAR and PARNel lamps ensures they run for 12,000 hours - in comparison with the incandescent lamp of approximately 300 hours and the tungsten halogen lamp life of 2,000 hours. This means low maintenance - ideal for locations that can’t be reached often or easily. Source Four HID gives the level of performance of a 2,000 hour 575W Source Four luminaire, but with 10,000 additional hours. The metal halide Source Four PAR and PARNel HID offer clean washes of light in four beam spreads and the HID PARNel boasts a 25°-45° degree beam angle.
Using a 150W electronic ballast with a power factor of greater than 95% compared to some competitive units’ ballasts at less than 70%, the Source Four HID PAR and PARNel ballast have an overall efficiency of greater than 90%. With their 1.5 amps operating current and harmonic distortion of less than 10%, it’s possible to safely place more Source Four HIDs on a 20A circuit than other manufacturers’ units which operate at 2.3 amps.
The HID PAR and PARNel now complete ETC’s
UK - Power Gems is currently previewing the latest product in its Xenon Ballast range, the XE200/2, suitable for leading brands of Xenon 2kW followspots. Electronic ballasts offer extended lamp life over magnetic ballasts and they are much, much lighter.
The CE-approved ballast is 35cm x 17cm wide x 24cm high and weighs 8kgs. Its supply Voltage range is 185– 265V a.c and its supply frequency is 47-63Hz. It has a power factor of 0.65 and lamp current up to 85A, with a lamp voltage range of 19.2-28.8Vdc.
(Ruth Rossington)
The Netherlands - The Dutch town of Kerkrade has become something of a magnet for Dutch, Belgian and German ravers of late. The draw is the recently opened 5,000 capacity Vizion club - a massive, multi-layered venue, situated near the German and Belgian borders, which features no less than 15 bars, several restaurants, a VIP lounge and a studio for the local radio station.
Pierre Vijgen, who owns Vizion, has invested more than 10 million in the venue, which sits tucked beneath the stands of Kerkrade’s Parkstad Limburg stadium. And get this for luxury - visitors arriving by car can choose from one of 1,500 parking spaces, with entry to the club costing only 10 euros.
Despite the scale of the venue, its split-level layout ensures that even when the building is not entirely full, its feel remains intimate and busy. Numerous internal galleries, like stork’s nests, offer a bird’s eye view of what’s going on below.
The club is only open at weekends, but pulls out all the stops to attract a large audience, employing several DJs to cater to the wide variety of musical tastes. Rather than get tied down to one particular musical trend, Vizion has set its sights on a broad target audience, by offering a blend of club and trance. As Rob Cuypers of Vizion explains: "With a club this size, specialization would make no sense. For this reason, we’ve positioned ourselves in the mainstream. The programme of music is complemented by a variety of shows and events - including joint promotions - designed to advertise particular products."
USA - TMB has implemented an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), making TMB employees worldwide shareholders in the company. Colin Waters, TMB's CEO, told us: "The ESOP conveys a greater stake in our growth to each employee. Everyone's work and innovative ideas contribute to their own equity in the company. Furthermore, wealth formation through an ESOP is tangible evidence that employees are successful (and therefore satisfied) in their work. Employees gain a sense of ownership, personal accountability and dignity. If worker/owners perform extraordinarily well, company performance is more likely to be extraordinary, and that translates into high stock value for the employees. Customers benefit from increased incentive for employees to provide the best possible service. The ESOP truly represents the spirit behind our company."
According to TMB president Marshall Bissett: "What upholds an arch is an equality of pressure of the separate stones upon each other."
(Lee Baldock)
UK - The MacRobert Arts Centre is a multi-purpose arts venue based at the University of Stirling. A recent extensive refurbishment project has seen all its performance spaces completely upgraded.
The work has been carried out by Edinburgh-based black light, who installed the new technical facilities within the six performance and presentation spaces. Paul McGreal, the company’s project manager, took on the planning and management of the £650,000 project, whilst Jock Wallace, as the company’s site manager, spent most of last summer on site, supervising the practical elements of the installation.
The key elements of the project included the installation of new lighting control and dimming equipment, audio and PA systems, cinema projection and sound equipment, communication and stage management equipment and AV systems. black light also used its in-house resources (or collaborated with others) to custom-design numerous elements of the installation, including facilities panels, lighting grids and masking systems. In addition, the company load-tested the existing stage and engineering systems.
The main auditorium, the largest of the spaces, features an extensive array of technology. black light installed over 100 ETC Source Fours (a combination of PARs, PARnels and Zooms), complemented by 24 Selecon Acclaim Fresnels and a pair of Selecon Performer MSR followspots. Dimming is provided by ETC Sensor and Unison dimmers, whilst control comes from an ETC Expression 3.
d&b audiotechnik 602s and 1801s provide the front-end of the audio system, with an Allen&
UK - Few albums in the history of popular music can rival the success of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. Artistically ambitious and blatantly appealing at the same time, Dark Side remains a staple 30 years after its release. To celebrate that milestone, the band decided to re-release the album for the first time in 5.1 surround on Super Audio CD (SACD). The highly regarded producer and engineer James Guthrie, who has worked with the band for more than two decades, was asked to handle the remix. Although he happily accepted the assignment, Guthrie says the decision was not made without a bit of trepidation.
"This was a very difficult 5.1 mix. Not from a musical point of view, because the record really lends itself to a three-dimensional treatment, but from the point of view that everyone knows the original mix so well. It is indelibly printed on our minds. We've had 30 years to live with it, and some people don't want that image to be altered. Knowing that you are about to start work on something controversial can be unsettling."
An unabashed analogue fan, Guthrie wanted to mix from the original 16-track tapes. Fortunately, the source material was catalogued at Abbey Road and remained in good shape. The studio made copies for safekeeping and sent the originals to Guthrie's das boot studio in Northern California.
"As this is a conceptual work, we agreed that I should mix the entire album and then play it to the individual band members for their input. That way they could experience everything in context." Monitoring, says James Guthrie
UK - Until now, Braehead Arena has been one of Glasgow’s undiscovered assets, according to its recently-appointed executive director Jim Francis. All that’s about to change as Braehead becomes a major player in the growing medium-sized arena circuit. So, what is the significance of this? Let’s look at recent history.
In the past decade the larger arenas such as Sheffield, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, Wembley and London Docklands have all invested considerable amounts of money to provide quick, easy mechanisms by which they can convert from ‘full house’ to smaller, 7,000, 5,000 and even 3,000 seat configurations.
Also, in the same decade, the traditional smaller venues - the city halls, theatres, and smaller sports halls - have all become busy, catering specifically for a different audience through the plethora of tribute bands and revival packages.
The boy/girl band phenomenon has kept the big arenas busy, but demand for the more traditional rock acts has changed, hence the re-configuration to smaller audiences. Whether this trend continues remains to be seen: anecdotal evidence suggests more mature audiences (old enough not to go weak at the knees over Blue or S Club) have tired of the big arena format and seek a more intimate environment. Braehead is just one of a growing pool of mid-size venues with all the facilities of a larger arena - in terms of production values - but with an intimacy that befits the local needs.
Set beside the river Clyde, close to where John Brown’s shipyard built the QE2, it is part of the
UK - A Charity Gala Concert at the Royal Opera House, London, drew together a glamorous line-up of acting and musical talent in support of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.
Among the stars helping to raise money for the cause were Alan Bates, Terence Stamp, Nicholas Grace, Dame Eileen Atkins, Michael Palin, Rula Lenska, Sinead Cusack and Jeremy Irons. Among the musical line-up were Bryan Adams, Brian May, Alessandro Saffina and the Operababes.
Production manager Robbie Williams brought in White Light Events to take care of lighting, a duty overseen by lighting designer Mikey Robertson, with Jason Larcombe as associate LD. Robertson says: "The stage was too big for our purposes, even with the number of performers who would be appearing on it, so we halved the depth by putting in a back projection screen. This freed up some of the side lighting fixtures which we used for back-projecting gobos and patterns onto the screen."
As well as working with the ROH’s "excellent" in-house rig (run from the ROH’s own ETC Obsession console), Robertson brought in additional moving light fixtures to cater for the rock and roll element of the show. For this, Martin Professional’s Philip Norfolk offered Roberts the use of some MAC 2000 washlights and MAC 2000 Performance fixtures - along with Martin’s new Maxxyz lighting control system.
Robertson explains: "With a show like this, we couldn’t prepare for everything that might come up, so we needed to have as much flexibility as possible. We used the house rig to create the basic
Germany / Portugal - Barco announced today that it has won orders for Slite LED screens to two major European football stadiums - the brand new Estadio das Antas Stadium in Porto, Portugal, which has been chosen to host the European Football Championships in 2004, and the Stade de Genève in Switzerland, which will be used to host the Euro 2008 Football Championships, co-hosted by Switzerland and Austria.
96sq.m of Barco’s SLite 10 LED screen will be installed at the Estadio das Antas Stadium, which has a seating capacity of 50 00. The opening game of the championships will be played in the stadium on June 12, 2004.
Commenting on the project win, Marco Bruines, Division Manager, Barco Media said: "Barco’s LED display solutions have long been regarded as the reference in the rental & staging and major events industries. Reliant Park in Houston was our first major win in the sports market. Winning the installation of Stadia das Antas confirms the fact that we are fast becoming the preferred solution provider for LED displays at brand new stadiums on both sides of the Atlantic."
The Barco displays, which will be installed at the stadium during the summer of 2003, take on a unique configuration never before seen in Europe. The 96sq.m SLite 10 will be divided into two screens of 48sq.m each positioned on either side of the field. The screens will be installed on columns that enable them to be rotated to face either the field or the highway that bypasses the stadium. When not in use during matches, the column-mounted displays will be turned towa
UK - Projectionist Pod Bluman has recently set up Pod Projects Ltd - a company specializing in large-format projection work.
Bluman is an experienced projection designer: he started his career with Labyrinth, a company which specialized in ‘Guerilla-style’ projections, probably the most famous of which was the image of a naked Gail Porter projected on to the Houses of Parliament in London. He went on to work on numerous projects, including projections onto Buckingham Palace, MI6 and the Tate Gallery, as well as being involved in the River of Light project for the Millennium celebrations in Liverpool.
In the last two years he has been the video crew chief for a number of large projects, including the Vodaphone Ball 2002, the New Year’s Eve celebrations at the Millennium Dome and the launch event for the Birmingham Bullring. More recently, he has taken on the production of some events, completing a number of high profile projects, including the anti-war images that were projected on to the Houses of Parliament, projections onto Sizewell B Nuclear power station for Greenpeace and the projection work outside Madame Tussauds for GMTV’s 10 year anniversary party.
Pod Projects Ltd, 65 Coppetts Road, London, N10 1JH. Tel: +44 (0)208 374 8400
USA - VFGadgets Inc’s QT-256 Mini Voice Transmitter, claimed to be the world's smallest broadcast quality voice transmitter, is available for viewing at the company’s website. VFGadgets has secured the on-line distribution sales rights for the QT-256 transmitter for the Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, European, South American and African markets. The QT-256 was developed and manufactured entirely from the ground up by the London, Ontario-based firm Quantum5X Systems Inc. According to VFGadgets, it uses a patent-pending RF technology which enhances the quality of broadcast sports, entertainment events, and motion pictures.
Live demonstrations and successful field testing of product have been televised by ESPN at the Great Outdoor Games, X Games, MLB Sunday night and All Star Games, NHL All Star games, WNBA and College Football. The development project, named ‘the MicroPlayer Transmitter,’ has enabled broadcasters to attach a very small voice transmitter to athletes, which has been used by the networks to broadcast players’, athletes’, or officials’ audio at any event.
The system measures 2.3" (52mm) length, 1.75" (32mm) in width, and 0.65" (13mm) thick, and weighs just one ounce. The QT-256 has a very sophisticated combination of transmitter technology and a small lavalier microphone one tenth of an inch in diameter. The power output is 100mW, with eight hours battery life. The frequency is selectable from 690-750 MHz.
(Lee Baldock)
UK - Screenco joined forces with screen manufacturer Unitek to provide a groundbreaking new graphics display which revolutionized the information scoreboard definition at this year’s IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics, at Birmingham’s NIA. Screenco had initially won the contract to supply sports presentation suppliers, Fast Track, with big screen reinforcement following their success at last summer’s Commonwealth Games in Manchester.
Fast Track had been contracted by the IAAF to stage manage the prestigious three-day event, and their production manager, Bob Capel, was soon in conversation with Avesco’s business development manager, Dave Crump, discussing ways in which the somewhat antiquated scoreboard technology might be improved. Crump called LED display manufacturers (and Screenco suppliers) Unitek. They debated the feasibility of a colour LED screen being developed to interface with sports information technology company, Deltatre (who provided the real-time results service), and event timing contractors, Seiko.
Unitek, in partnership with Technographic Displays, provided the hardware, software and personnel for the creation of the large central 32sq.m banner screen, which formed the core of the graphic display. This screen was driven by the Activ Processor, which provided the clarity and sharpness of text and graphics that enabled the messages and media to be viewed from all around the stadium. The Banner system also provided a hugely improved format for scoreboard applications, with combined text, graphics, animations, trans
UK - The UK’s new National Directory Enquiries service has changed to a new telephone number - 118888. To assist it’s UK press launch, the London-based agency PR-21 commissioned the services of Laser Grafix to produce and execute the world’s biggest ever 'guerrilla lighting' PR stunt. PR-21’s Ian Twinn came up with the vision of illuminating the BT Tower green and projecting the telephone number onto the tower, and the subsequent spin in the press being ‘BT Turned Green with envy at rival’s half-price calls’.
A simple enough idea - but how do you light a 628ft tall tower, all the way around with four projection points, without permission, except for CAA notification - and what kit do you use? Sales and projects manager at Laser Grafix, Richard Hawkins, sought knowledge and a free dinner from LD ‘Mr. P’ (real name kept secret to hide his identity), both of whom had worked together on previous projects. It was agreed that the most suitable piece of kit to light a building of this size was the Ireos Pro 7000W Space Cannon.
The tower was broken down into four quarter areas for projection and illumination; this in itself then posed problems with the logistics of getting the kit to where it would need to be in order to project onto the tower in the right positions with no overlapping of images. Eventually, six proposed sites around the base of the tower were established - of which four would be used for the event.
Four 7.5T flatbed trucks, four Transit vans with a 7000W slide projector in each, two 5W laser diodes
UK - Slough-based pro audio and lighting specialist Stagetec has launched a major new initiative - ‘Spotlight on Education’ - to enable schools, colleges and educational establishments to get more value from their technology budgets. Stagetec has always been active in the schools market, which represents 20 per cent of the company’s turnover. It’s also an area that’s been very rewarding in terms of building future relationships, via training schemes and investment in designing and installing practical, cost-effective schemes to benefit tomorrow’s potential performers and production designers and technicians.
Stagetec’s range of special offers provides an opportunity for drama departments to gain access to a wide range of sound, lighting and studio products at reduced prices: "Spotlight on education will help consolidate Stagetec’s position as a leading consultant and supplier of technology to this important market," says sales and marketing manager Ken Poole.
The first wave of promotions is offered across many of Stagetec’s leading global brand ranges, including Selecon and Zero 88. As a distributor of Zero 88 products, Stagetec is actively promoting the manufacturer’s own Financial Award Scheme, available to schools and amateur dramatics groups at specific times of the year. Successful Awards applicants can redeem up to 50% of the purchase price of their Award against designated Zero products.
Stagetec is also offering a 10 per cent discount off all Selecon lighting products including lumina
UK - At the end of January this year, in appalling weather conditions that shut down much of East Anglia, lighting designer Mark Ridler suffered a devastating accident on his way home from work. As a result, Mark is now paralysed from the waist down in what is described medically as a T11 injury: in lay terms this means there is no hope of recovery and he will be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Mark, who is 38, started his career as chief electrician for the Piccadilly Theatre in London, where Mark White (now with ETC) gave him his first job. He then worked as resident lighting designer for the Phoenix Dance Company in Leeds, then at the Nottingham Playhouse, later going on to Sadlers Wells and The Peter Hall Company at the Piccadilly, The Royal Court, and the Royal National Theatre. A member of the ALD, for the last four years Mark has worked for Maurice Brill Lighting Design on architectural projects.
When the trustees of Light Relief became aware of Mark’s story through his many friends in the industry, they recognised that this was precisely the kind of situation for which the charity was set up. Consequently, over the coming weeks and months, Light Relief will provide funding to cover some of the considerable extra expenses that Mark and his wife Clare will encounter as they go through the process of getting Mark mobile again.
"This tragedy has been devastating for Mark and his wife and two young children," said Tony Gottelier, co-founder of Light Relief. "We will help as much as funds permit to assist Mark back to w
Switzerland - Mirco Cibin has moved his famous Bypass operation to the Les Acacias development area of Geneva, and created a luxurious multi-million dollar club for the city’s chic and VIP clientele. The marble-interiored venue, which boasts a VIP champagne bar and an 80-cover fine dining restaurant on the mezzanine floor, has already hosted a number of ritzy parties - most recently during the Geneva Motor Show and the returning Americas Cup Team Alinghi - as well as many television crews. With this affluent target market in mind, the club demanded a high specification of lighting, sound and video.
The club favoured Coemar lighting, and Alessandro Caldarera (Coemar’s technical and marketing man) supported the architect, Marco Lucchi, by designing an inventive rig equal to the talents of lighting operator, Romain Toppano, and controllable from an MA GrandMA desk. The result is that seven nights a week a capacity of 1000 revellers dance under a canopy of kinetic lighting - exclusively from the catalogues of Coemar and TAS.
A combination of six Coemar iSpot 575, complete with 12 rotating colour changers, strobing, dimmer, frost and prism effects, and eight Prowash 250LX MSD Washlights, augmented with Panorama Cyc 2.4s were fitted by installation company, Electro Digit. Also on the rig are four TAS Saetta 1500 DMX strobes and eight ultraviolet-effect projectors as well as TAS smoke and fog machines - all driven from three Coemar DIGIfactor Club DMX-512 dimmer units.
The audio has been built around a 15K Electro-Voice X-Array sound system, powered by Cr
Denmark - Danish pro audio manufacturer MTi A/S has launched a new website. Currently in its infancy, the website will have regular updates to ensure it continues to be a powerful tool for all users and a source of fresh information for all those with an eye on the future of pro audio.
Features of the site include full product information with concise narrative and comprehensive specification downloads for the new LARC1 line-array system, new MPA-82000 8-channel amplifier and the current range of BR products. News information is also presented, along with an extensive reference segment and a brief history of the 30-year old company. Company contact details and an interesting staff segment can also be found.
(Ruth Rossington)
UK - A rigger who was left paralysed following a fall at the Olympia Exhibition centre in West London has been awarded £2.1m in compensation. David Upton, aged 38, is wheelchair-bound and deaf in one ear as a result of the accident, which occurred in September 2000. Mr Upton, from Finsbury Park in north London, was described in court as a safety-conscious worker who loved his job.
His employer, Unusual Rigging Ltd, admitted liability for the accident, and Judge Anthony Thompson QC approved a £2.1m settlement on Wednesday.
In a statement to PLASA Media, the company said: "In September 2000, Mr David Upton, an employee of Unusual Rigging Ltd, had an accident at Olympia Exhibition Centre, where he fell from an entrance canopy, approximately 12ft above the pavement, whilst erecting a signage panel. Unusual Rigging Ltd's insurers settled the claim out of court last week."
(Lee Baldock)
UK - White Light and Rosco are jointly organizing an ImagePro session to allow people to learn more about the practical applications of Rosco’s gobo slide projector. The informal afternoon event has been arranged to give visitors the opportunity to gain hands-on experience of the Rosco ImagePro. Joshua Alemany, Rosco product manager for the ImagePro and gobo products (and a lighting designer in his own right) will give a practical demonstration of the system and introduce people to the secrets of making a successful slide. Anyone attending can take their own artwork, and create and project their own slide.
The event takes place on Thursday, 3 April 2003 from 2.00pm onwards at White Light’s Merton Industrial Park, Jubilee Way, Wimbledon, facility.
To attend, RSVP to the e-mail address below.
(Ruth Rossington)