LONDON – The 2017 Knight of Illumination (KOI) Awards has announced this year’s shortlist of lighting and video designers recognised for their creative work in Television. The winners will be announced at the 10th anniversary KOI Awards ceremony, to be held at London’s Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith, on Sept. 17, 2017.
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MIDDLETON, WI – This November marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Source Four fixture at ETC. Between now and the 2017 LDI tradeshow, ETC noted that they will be taking a look back at this product that has become such a major part of ETC’s story, the fixture that has made a long-lasting impact on the entertainment lighting industry, and the product that has inspired many additional ETC fixtures.
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Chroma-Q’s Inspire XT features fully homogenized beam, theatrical grade dimming and convection cooling more than 9,500 hot lumens output. Homogenized optics allow for a single output beam designed to be clean, pure and uniform. Factory calibration helps ensure that every Inspire’s output is color matched.
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FAIRVIEW, NJ – At iWeiss, ProPower means continuity in more ways than one. Their oldest ProPower Rack Power Distribution (RPD) rack has been in continuous service for 17 years, in the most challenging and hostile theatrical conditions. With over 1,500 ProPower racks in service across North America, the story of this reliable workhorse product is worth telling.
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MORRISON, CO – On July 13, Michael Franti & Spearhead performed at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, CO, outside of Denver. LD Matt “Jonezy” Jones designed a light and video show run with a ChamSys MagicQ MQ80 console for Franti’s performance, which kicked off after the conclusion of the artist’s “Love Out Loud” yoga class.
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COLORADO CITY, UT – When WestJet Airlines Ltd., Canada’s second-largest air carrier and the number one international carrier into Las Vegas, wanted to celebrate its 21st birthday, the company decided to go all out and set some Guinness World Records in the process. WestJet treated passengers on one of its Toronto-Las Vegas flights to a massive light show in southern Utah featuring 126 Claypaky Mythos fixtures. A.C.T Lighting Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Claypaky products in North America.
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LOS ANGELES – A current of emerging creative energy runs through the 1.4 mile (2.3 km) stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard known as Hollywood Theatre Row. Dotted with performance venues of varying sizes, the area has long served as a cauldron of budding talent. George Clooney got his start here – so too did Octavia Spencer, Noah Wyle, and many others. For three weeks every year, Theatre Row and its surrounding environs become the home of The Hollywood Fringe Festival, an open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community.
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LONDON – The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) staged the London premiere of Scuttlers in its city center GBS Theatre, an intense drama about the struggles and power politics of 19th century Manchester street gangs set against a steaming, grinding industrial revolution backdrop bringing massive social change and great uncertainty. The work was written by Rona Munro in response to the UK’s unsettling spate of urban riots in 2011. Directed by Hannah Eidinow, the production was lit by Declan Randall, a South African theatre lighting specialist living in the UK, who made use of a number of different Robe fixtures available at RADA.
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NYC – Since April 15, 2013, ESTA, the Entertainment Services and Technology Association, has been able to offer all of its American National Standards and other published documents for download at no cost on their website at tsp.esta.org/freestandards. As of August 3, 2017, over 60,000 standards had been downloaded by over 10,000 users. This total for four years is more than an order of magnitude greater than the number of standards distributed in the 16 years the documents were only available for sale.
NYC – USITT is seeking nominations for the 2018 Rising Star Award sponsored by LDI/Live Design. The award honors early-career professional designers in lighting, sound, scenic, or projection for outstanding work in one or more of these fields.The winner receives a $1,000 cash prize, recognition at USITT 2018 in Fort Lauderdale, FL, free registration to the event, and a free one-year membership to USITT.
LONDON – An ambitious production of Sir Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius — a collaboration between the English National Opera, Royal Festival Hall and BBC Singers, was described by lighting designer Lucy Carter as “dramatic, soulful, beautiful, calm and overwhelming.” Her aim “to map the emotions of the music in order to give the audience a visceral sensation, with all lighting textures complementary to the music” was achieved with 160 of GLP’s award-winning X4 Bars, which were used almost exclusively in the set.
KEWANEE, IL – A pair of legendary grunge rock heavies teamed up for a once in a life one-off at a music hall 150 miles outside Chicago this July, and were support by some punchy looks from an equally powerful duo: The Intimidator Beam 350 LED and Intimidator Spot 255 IRC from CHAUVET DJ. Fresh off their appearance on the “Make America Rock Again” tour, Puddle of Mudd and Saving Abel visited the Boiler Room, in Kewanee, IL (population 12,500) for a sold-out show. Jeff Hinton, working for Jonny B. Enterprises, supported their intense non-stop 90-minute performance with a hard-hitting lightshow that featured 16 of the moving fixtures.
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