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Barco HDX-W12

Barco HDX-W12

Barco HDX-W12

Barco’s HDX-W12 has the same on-board image processing, servicing and preview mode features as the W14, but offers 12,000 lumens and a xenon lamp life of 2,500 hours. (Barco’s HDX-W14 projector, launched earlier this year, also features Barco’s ImagePRO signal processor.)

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Mayday photo by Ralph Larmann

Mayday 2011 Adds LED Flash with GLP Fixtures

DORTMUND, Germany — Held since 1997 at Dortmund’s Westfalenhallen, and marking 20 years since it was founded in 1991, the indoor rave, Mayday, drew crowds to its “Arena” section in hall 1 for trance and softer music, while its “Empire” section in hall 3 attracted fans of harder-driving techno and electro music. Both areas were lit with LED fixtures from GLP.

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Vaddio ClearVIEW HD-19 PTZ Camera with SmartSHOT Technology

Vaddio ClearVIEW HD-19 PTZ Camera with SmartSHOT Technology

Vaddio added the ClearVIEW HD-19 high definition PTZ camera with SmartSHOT technology to its ClearVIEW line of cameras. Equipped with a 19x optical zoom lens, it is built around a 1.3 megapixel, 1/3-Type Sony Exmor high-speed, low-noise CMOS image sensor. Integrated SmartSHOT technology with AIP (Adjustable Image Processing) allows for greater user control over DSP functions, helping them enhance color and sharpness in changing lighting conditions and adjusting the DSP to suit the venue. The camera also offers image stabilization and iris/shutter control for outdoor events.

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Kasabian lit by Renegade

Kasabian Tour Lit by Renegade’s Nick Gray

LONDON — Renegade lighting designer Nick Gray provided a lighting design based around two trussing arches that move in three different positions for the current Kasabian tour, which was set to perform several shows before headlining at festivals including Rockness in Inverness and the Isle of Wight, as well as Rock Werchter in Belgium.

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Metropole Zlican Centre fountain

Clay Paky Gear Illuminates Czech Fountain

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Art Jgs, a Clay Paky distributor, provided gear and design for a fountain lighting installation at Metropole Zli?ín, a fashion and entertainment complex about five miles from the Prague city center. Alpha Spot HPE 300s and Alpha Wash 300s light the fountain jets from above in various colors as the music changes.

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Is Technology Making Us Lackadaisical?

I’m addicted to technology. I love technology; overall it is a wonderful thing, both in our personal and professional lives. But is technology making us lazy? Not physically lazy, though technology could be blamed for my extra pounds; I’m talking about being lazy with our communication and designing habits.

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Penthouse Club in Reno, NV

Designing for Nightclubs

Designing for nightclubs is vastly different then designing for a stage. Don’t take our word for it, however — PLSN sat down and talked with three of the leading club lighting designers out there. Each designer has multiple nightclub designs under their belts and many more in the planning stages. PLSN talked with John Lyons from the Lyons Group, Michael Meacham from iDesign and Stephen Lieberman from SJ Lighting.

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