CLOVIS, CA – When Northside Christian Church decided to upgrade their main sanctuary, the new worship leader called on concert touring LD Bobby Brainard to develop a plan that would meet both its creative and budgetary needs. The team chose a lighting package of Elation fixtures, purchased through Phoenix Lighting, to fulfill their worship event needs.
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LOS ANGELES – Four full-size grandMA consoles accompanied Prince on his recent Welcome 2 Australia Tour. Prince performed on a 360-degree stage in the shape of his signature symbol. Tour director and production designer Demfis Fyssicopulos, a longtime grandMA user, specified the systems for their versatility and reliability.
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SURREY, UK – The staff at multi-purpose venue Dorking Halls wanted to replace the existing rig of 1,000W Fresnels and PARs. The aim was to build a lighting rig with the same high light output but with more versatility – all while being more energy-efficient than the previous set-up. The final rig chosen consisted of a core fixed-focus rig from Prism Projection: eight Prism RevEAL Color Wash fixtures and six Prism RevEAL Studio Fresnel fixtures, supplied by UK lighting specialists White Light.
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VANCOUVER – Twenty-five years to the day that Rick Hansen and his “Man in Motion World Tour” returned to Vancouver, a journey in which he circled the world in his wheelchair to raise awareness and money for spinal cord injuries, the Canadian Paralympian held a special anniversary show to inspire a new generation of activists. Lighting Designer Robert Sondergaard of Electric Aura Projects lit the show using a large Martin MAC rig supplied by Christie Lites.
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SYCAMORE, IL – Operatic pop vocal group, Il Divo, is currently on a three-month US leg on their ‘Wicked Game’ world tour. UK-based LD Matt Pitman is using 24 Robe ROBIN 600 LEDWashes postioned below the orchestra risers onstage, to provide a different style of rear lighting behind the group. Upstaging is providing the lighting.
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LAS VEGAS — This is the last full week for PLSN readers to vote for regional finalists in the 2012 Hometown Hero awards competition. Aug. 1 is also the deadline for nominating products for Indispensable Technology “IT” Awards. Along with regional bragging rights, the six Hometown Hero finalists (one for each of five U.S. regions, and one for all of Canada) will find their place on the final Parnelli Ballot, which is due to go online in early September.
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PARIS – More than 65 WILDSUN 500C automated LED luminaires from lighting manufacturer Ayrton are being used on Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band’s “Wrecking Ball” world tour. LD Jeff Ravitz and Morpheus Lights were involved in the specification.
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LONDON – Chaos Visual Productions named Alex Leinster managing director of Chaos Visual Productions Ltd in the UK. Leinster has worked for Chaos UK since it began trading in 2010. “Alex has done a fine job filling the breach these last few months,” said company president John Wiseman. “He has led from the front and proved himself the ideal candidate for the position.”
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NEW YORK – LD James Bedell recently specified 100 Chroma-Q Color Force Compact fixtures to illuminate the interior of a temporary pop-up store in New York’s Times Square for Wired magazine. Bedell then used the “green LED” experience to use in a presentation for Broadway Green Alliance. At the BGA event, Bedell stressed all the advantages of using LEDs in this context: energy saving, low maintenance, minimal running costs and an excellent quality of light output.
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WINTERTHUR, Switzerland – The Orbitarium at Switzerland’s Technorama science center is a pioneering theatre space which gives visitors an ‘astronaut’s eye’ of Planet Earth and the natural events that take place around it such as hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes and so on. To enhance its show, “Planet Earth – Cosmic Oasis,” projectiondesign was brought in to create a 3-D effect.
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MOSCOW – Martin Professional’s representative office in Russia and the CIS, in cooperation with Messe Frankfurt RUS, held a lighting designer contest as part of the Prolight + Sound NAMM Russia exhibition in Moscow. A special area was constructed in a lighting pavilion at the exhibition and outfitted with MAC Auras, MAC 101s, MAC 700 Profiles and MAC 2000 Washes. Contest participants prepared and demonstrated a four-minute light show with music in real time using a Martin M1 lighting console.
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