Philips Selecon Emits High Light, Low Heat for Ice Festival

ZWOLLE, Netherlands – The first Ice Sculpture Festival in Zwolle, Holland features more than 40 ice sculptors who created sea animals, ocean monsters and other characters in ice for the nautical themed event. Naturally, lighting needed to be low heat-emitting, and the Philips fixtures fit the bill. LD Jasper Schimmel used a number of Philips Selecton Pacific and PL3 LED Luminaires from Rolight to create a dramatic lightscape. The festival runs to Jan. 29.

LONDON – After a successful trial run with an internship program, Green Hippo started 2012 with an ongoing program to offer opportunities to those with interest and talent in the industry. Shown here are recent interns Suzy Casserley and Arthur Horrigan.

WISBECH, UK – European flightcase manufacturer 5 Star Cases kicks off the new year with a new, much larger, custom designed sanding booth area at its Wisbech headquarters. The sanding booth plays a central role in 5 Star’s case production process. With the new system, the company says they can work faster and more efficiently, which will benefit their clients.

HIGH WYCOMBE, UK – A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd. hosted a workshop event for some of the industry’s hottest lighting designers to showcase next generation LED, lighting and video control technologies from leading manufacturers. LDs Jamie Thompson, Johnny Barker, Dave Cohen, Greg Hill, Andres Atkinson, Louis Oliver and Chris Swain demonstrated products from Chroma-Q, GLP, PixelRange, VARI*LITE, Jands Vista and Green Hippo.

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Robe lighting played an integral role in dance guru David Guetta’s worldwide touring spec, and did so again for Guetta’s “Nothing But the Best” live showcase in Budapest. LD Jonathan “Leggy” Armstrong spec’d the gear, run by UK-touring lighting director Alex “Junior” Cero. The lighting rig featured 29 Robe LEDWash 600s, 18 ColorSpot 1200E ATs and 12 ColorWash 250E ATs at its core, with a grandMA console, all supplied by Colossal.