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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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – A new era in South Africa has brought a new era for the stage with the opening of the Soweto Theatre in Johannesburg. The $18-million theater opened May 25 with more than 200 ETC Source Four lighting fixtures, including 72 of the new ETC Source Four Fresnels.
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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional’s recent open house in the company’s new 4,000-square-foot showroom here drew a crowd of about 300 industry professionals to see some of the company’s latest products perform in simulated real-world lighting environments. The showroom features replicas of a stage, broadcast studio and other venues where professional lighting is widely used.
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MILWAUKEE – Clearwing Productions has had a busy summer with its new 48 Martin MAC Aura LED fixtures. They debuted their new inventory on an All Time Low concert, then rented them out for other events including Chris de Burgh’s U.S. tour, the Macy’s Glamorama multi-city summer tour, and Tiesto’s Summerfest concert at the Marcus Amphitheater in Milwaukee.
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LOS ANGELES —Production Resource Group, L.L.C. (PRG) is now shipping the new TruColor HS lighting system for film and television production. The company says the volume of light produced is nearly twice as much output as a 2K soft source with no significant heat, no flicker and no noise. At the heart of TruColor HS fixtures are custom-formulated ChromaLit remote phosphor panels, offering color rendering with a wide range of color temperatures. The TruColor HS can output up to 100 fc at 10 feet, providing 25,000 lumens while consuming less than 450 watts.
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ATLANTA – Production People Inc (PPi) was called upon to produce the 2012 ICON Honors Awards for corporate client AmericasMart at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta. As a main part of the event, show designer Geoffrey Platt created a 180-foot continuous image to display a video sequence featuring the award honorees at the hotel ballroom.
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