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Renegade Helps Design Ultimate 007 After-Show at Tate Modern

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Renegade Helps Design Ultimate 007 After-Show at Tate Modern

LONDON – Nick Gray of lighting and design practice Renegade imagineered an after-show party at the Tate Modern art gallery to celebrate the premier of the new James Bond film, “Skyfall.” Event producers AD Events wanted the party to be as dazzling and memorable as the film, which was screened at the Royal Albert Hall. Fixture placement was crucial as lighting had to enhance massive scenic projections onto the walls of the gallery’s Turbine Hall that transported everyone from the banks of the Thames to the edgy street scenarios of downtown Shanghai.

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Event Live Expo 2013

Event Live Expo Returns to Los Angeles in February 2013

LOS ANGELES — The Event Live Expo (ELX) host sits 3rd annual event in Los Angeles on Feb. 5-7, 2013 as part of Live Music Industry Week. ELX is a free event attracting industry leaders from around the world to participate in panels, networking sessions and educational seminars that explore the cutting edge techniques and tools currently shaping the live event and festival business. During this event, the Event Safety Alliance plans to unveil excerpts from its upcoming American edition – a guide featuring the best practices in the event production industry.

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“Frankenstorm” Shuts Broadway for a Third Day

NEW YORK — With mass transit still snarled by the surge of seawater inundating neighborhoods and train tunnels, the Broadway League, representing 40 theaters in the city, opted to pull the plug on performances Tuesday, Oct. 30, extending the storm-related shutdown that kept stages dark Sunday, Oct. 28 and Monday, Oct. 29. Among the cancelled productions for all three days: Broadway’s The Book of Mormon, Once and Mama Mia! and off-Broadway shows including Stomp, Bad Jews, Disgraced and Golden Child. At Carnegie Hall, appearances by the Tokyo String Quartet on Oct. 28 and Jadranka Jovanovic Oct. 29 were also canceled.

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ETC Ion Controls Serbia’s ‘Time of the Gypsies’

BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbian lighting director Viktor Trifu recently used an ETC Ion console to run the lighting for “Time of the Gypsies” at Belgrade’s Sava Center. Described as “punk opera” or “how Monty Pyton would have imagined opera,” the show presented challenges for Trifu, but the Ion console made it easy to control, he says.  I have used Ions before and am always impressed by how much fine control I have of intelligent fixtures.”

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Torrent F3

Blizzard Lighting Torrent F3

WAUKESHA, WI – The Torrent F3 is the latest addition to Blizzard Lighting’s Torrent series of LED moving heads.  Equipped with a 50-watt LED light source, Blizzard designed the fixture based on feature requests from their mobile DJ, club install and small-to-midsize production users. The Torrent F3 features a rotating gobo wheel with seven new rotating, interchangeable gobos plus open, and a static gobo wheel with eight gobos plus open.  There are seven dichroic colors and a 3-facet rotating prism fitted as standard.

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Radio City Music Hall

PDO Enhances Radio City Music Hall’s Staging System

NEW YORK – Pook Diemont & Ohl, Inc. (PDO) integrated truss, hoist and control system manufacturers and engineers to enhance staging and lighting elements at Radio City Music Hall’s storied stage over a six-day period in September. PDO’s project partners were James Thomas Engineering, Stagemaker, Niscon Controls and Geiger Engineering, who worked closely with the Radio City staff to provide the best options to meet production needs.

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Qatar National Convention Center

Qatar National Convention Center Uses Martin Lighting

DOHA, Qatar – The Qatar National Convention Center (QNCC) is one of the largest convention centers in the Middle East. London’s Light + Design Associates specified Martin Professional fixtures to help set the mood between the various facilities in the space. One highlighted area enhanced by Martin lighting is the VIP foyer, which features a visual centerpiece in the form of a 250-meter long, curved steel structure whose shape is inspired by the Qatari Sidra tree.

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Robe Rocks in Nigeria

LAGOS, Nigeria – Solution Media and InfoTech Ltd recently staged an evening of live entertainment to demonstrate Robe technology along with other brands in their inventory. Five hundred guests enjoyed the “Memoirs and Wine” event, including  visual and show designers, event planners, brand managers and ambassadors, media managers of telecommunication and oil companies together with film and TV stars, and of course, the press.

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Hopkins Centre for the Arts

Projection Studio Creates Video Facade for Hopkins Centre

HANOVER, NH – London, UK-based Projection artist Ross Ashton was commissioned by Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, to produce an exclusive Son et Lumière show celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Hopkins Centre for the Arts. The show ‘Five Windows’ was based around large format projections highlighting the history, achievements and impact of the facility. The big technical challenge was lining up the projectors across the Hopkins Centre façade’s different depths, which vary by up to about 5 meters (16.4 ft).

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HSN Live

HSN Chooses Philips Strand for Lighting System Upgrade

DALLAS – HSN is an interactive multi-channel retailer delivering an assortment of exclusive products and now concerts, and broadcasting live to over 96 million homes around the clock. With only one day off per year, any lighting system would be put to the test. When it was time for LD Mike Flack and Lighting Engineer Skip Glasco to upgrade their system, they opted for features and flexibility. Their choice: a C21 Dimming System, Palette Control Consoles, and PL3 LED Wash luminaires from Philips Strand Lighting; along with VL3500 Spot and VL3500 Wash luminaires from Philips Vari-Lite.

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Vectorworks 2013 Released in European Languages

COLUMBIA, MD – Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., a provider of CAD and Building Information Modeling (BIM) software solutions, announces that several of its European distributors are releasing localized versions of the 2013 version of its Vectorworks line of design software, including: Vectorworks Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals and Renderworks. Versions in each country’s native language will be available in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

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