KRAKOW, Poland — It may be called the Music Media Show, but along with audio systems, lighting gear is figuring prominently in this Polish trade fair. A case in point was the booth for Robe’s Polish distributor, Prolight. The 200 square-meter booth was host to Robe’s “The Future is Digital” international roadshow.
Read More »SYRACUSE, NY — J. R. Clancy, Inc. updated its Web site at www.jrclancy.com to make it easier for architects, dealers, theatre consultants and other end-users to find the information they need as they plan their rigging for a variety of performance spaces and venues.
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Hippotizer said its V3 software release 3.0.12 is now available. James Ross Heron, Green Hippo director, called the new version “the most mature and well rounded update for Hippotizer we have ever released. The new features and functionality equate to adding several new products, in addition to over 180 distinct improvements and upgrades.”
Read More »NORTH CREEK, NY — Creative Stage Lighting will host a Webinar titled “Converging Technologies: Digital Lighting, Video, and LED” on Oct. 30, 2008. The Webinar, the second in CSL's Webinar series, will focus on the merging of video, lighting and LED technology in the entertainment production industry.
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LONDON — Paul Normandale of Lite Alternative, the U.K. based lighting production company that is supplying James Blunt’s All the Lost Souls tour, is putting seven of Martin Professional’s new MAC III Profiles through their paces.
Read More »NEW YORK — ESTA has added three Fog & Smoke Working Group draft standards, for public review through Dec. 15, to the two Control Protocols Working Group draft standards already posted on its Web site, which are offered for review through Nov. 24.
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NEW YORK — The five-story Cellophane House, part of Home Delivery, Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, is using an all-LED lighting installation from Philips and Arup Lighting that consumes 1.3 watts of energy per square foot, compared with the average house which uses between 1.7 to 2.3 watts per square foot.
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GREEN BAY, WI — With a name synonymous with dignity — most of the time, anyway — the Oval Office doesn’t appear to be content with being known as just another strip joint for cheeseheads. The 15,000 square-foot gentlemen’s club is also seeking a “no expense spared” look with Robe moving lights and Anolis LEDs supplied by Sound Stage Systems.
Read More »GOLDEN, CO — Barbizon Lighting Company said Tobin Neis has assumed the role of marketing manager, taking over for Traci Lacey, who will be working part-time for the marketing team as a marketing project coordinator. Neis, a part of the organization for over 12 years, was responsible for starting up the company’s Chicago office, and is now based in Lawrence, Kansas.
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“Where do you get your ideas?” The question is trite, perhaps, whether you’re a novelist or a lighting designer, but it gets asked so often because the answer is so mysterious. For lighting designer Paul Normandale, it’s “the most exciting part of what we do” — that outpouring of creativity in the “scribble-CAD-to-fruition” zone. For Coldplay’s Viva La Vida tour Normandale designed the lighting, Mark “Sparky” Risk served as lighting programmer/director, and Justine Cat-terall worked as part of the video content production crew. Here are a few details on how they achieved the looks for the tour.
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LD Joe Labbe is concentrating hard on the stage. The lights are out and he’s waiting for the band to come back into a song. It’s just like any other night until Of a Revolution’s lead singer Marc Roberge says to his bandmates, “Let’s go into another song.” Labbe, who is on his first tour with the band, hears about the switch in his personal monitors and panics. “In a matter of seconds I had to find the right page where the song is,” he recalls. “I thought, “Why are you doing this to me?’ It turned out to be a fun night. I made it through and got it to where it needs to be. It was one of those nights that I walked away feeling awesome.”
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If others see that this is both beautiful and that it works, then they just might be willing to try it themselves. Such is the hope of the lighting and visuals designer Andi Watson and the planet-friendly band, Radiohead. Lead singer Thom Yorke is a member of the environmental advocacy group Friends of the Earth, and the other band members and crew join his interest in taking the steps necessary, however inconvenient, to tread as lightly as possible on a fragile planet.
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