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Avolites Quartz creates magic for Wicked the Musical in Tasmania

Avolites Quartz creates magic for Wicked the Musical in Tasmania

[caption id="attachment_275123" align="alignnone" width="800"]Wicked in Hobart, Tasmania[/caption]

AUSTRALIA: One of Tasmania’s leading lighting designers, Gareth Kays, used an ultra-compact Quartz console from British manufacturer Avolites to program the magical lighting and special effects on the Australian island state’s production of blockbuster Broadway musical Wicked. The show ran at Hobart’s Theatre Royal from 27 January to 11 February. Featuring spectacular staging and a 17-piece orchestra, the musical was put on by local production company The Show Company.

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ISE 2017 Update – Macroblock Booth

AMSTERDAM – The must-attend industry event – ISE 2017  recently took place in Amsterdam. To meet the requirement of diversified applications of fine pitch LED display, Macroblock iexhibited “Simple, Smart, Superior” by demonstrating the latest Hawkeye solutions in two specific applications. For rental use, we provide an innovative brightness adjustment module with user-friendly interface that allows users to easily adjust brightness without sacrificing grayscale and white balance. 

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Major Corporate Event at RAI Amsterdam Lit with 600+ Robe Fixtures

[caption id="attachment_275118" align="alignnone" width="800"]Over 600 Robe fixtures were used for the event[/caption]

AMSTERDAM – Seven halls of Amsterdam’s RAI expo center hosted an annual two day event for a well-known brand. The technical production – lighting, audio, video, rigging and special FX – for all areas was delivered by Breda based Unlimited Productions B.V., who sourced more than 600 Robe moving lights for the occasion. Several lighting designers were involved, working under the supervision of Unlimited Productions across the different areas with their own Bert Kelchtermans designing the general plenary session in Hall 8 for 7,000 people.

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2017 DCS Cinema Lighting Expo Takes Place in Burbank

[caption id="attachment_275115" align="alignnone" width="800"] George Spiro Dibie ASC (left) and James Mathers Digital Cinema Society Founder (right)[/caption]

BURBANK, CA. – It was all about the Light at the 2017 Digital Cinema Society’s Cinema Lighting Expo, which took place at the IATSE Grip’s Local 80 stage in Burbank on March 4th. The annual event included a full day of presentations from some of the Industry’s most prominent Cinematographers along with a host of vendors showing off their latest technology.

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Amos Lee Shines with Bandit Lites

[caption id="attachment_275110" align="alignnone" width="800"]Amos Lee gets an assist from Bandit[/caption]

NASHVILLE – Singer songwriter Amos Lee has returned to the road for the second leg of his winter tour, bringing his acoustic blues sound from his sixth studio album, Spirit, to audiences across the country with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. LD Daniel Rehbein is lighting the artist with GLP X4 Bars, Spot Ones and X4S fixtures along with Martin MAC Auras.

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Zylight Demonstrates Specialty, Stage LED Lighting Options at USITT 2017

[caption id="attachment_275107" align="alignnone" width="800"]Zylight F8 B LED UV Fresnel[/caption]

LOS ANGELES – Zylight, a leading manufacturer and distributor of innovative LED lighting solutions, will showcase several of its stage and specialty lighting products during the USITT 2017 Annual Conference & Stage Expo, which runs March 8-11 in St. Louis. Co-located in the USHIO booth (#1911), Zylight will demonstrate its F8-200 LED Fresnel and F8-B LED UV Fresnel, as well as a variety of LDDE Nano*Pix LED soft lights and LedCyc modular LED backlight systems.

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THE ONE Grand Show Counts on Claypaky for a Dream Production

[caption id="attachment_275104" align="alignnone" width="800"]Peter Morse designed the exquisite lighting[/caption]

GERMANY – The Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin has once again been publicly acclaimed, for “THE ONE Grand Show”: on the biggest stage in the world, more than a hundred artists gave life to a show whose extravagant costumes were designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier. The story revolves around an abandoned revue theatre, which is awakened from its deep sleep by an underground party. One of the party-goers gets lost in the magical aura of the venue, and the director of the former theatre brings back memories of the olden days. 

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Lumax Software LLC Announces Drafty 2.0: 3D technology with 2D simplicity

[caption id="attachment_275101" align="alignnone" width="251"]Drafty vs2 is released[/caption]

NEW YORK CITY, ­ Lumax Software LLC introduces Drafty 2.0. With a complete redesign of the look and feel, Drafty 2 provides 3D sophistication with the ease of use of a 2D interface. The new Smart Section allows users to quickly navigate between a Plan and Section view while keeping their Lineset Schedules, Electrics, Legs, Borders, Booms, and Ladders in lock step. With the intuitive and easy to use Lineset Scheduler, and the simple sophistication of the Smart Section, large and complex plots can be produced in record time, with minimal hassle, and the precision you expect from a CAD tool.

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Ayrton Fixtures Praised by Church on Korn European Tour

[caption id="attachment_275096" align="alignnone" width="800"]Korn's light rig is based around Ayrton fixtures[/caption]

EUROPE – Grammy-award-winning metal band, KoЯn, embarks on a tour of mainland Europe in March, starting in Zurich with a set that features Ayrton MagicPanel™-R fixtures as the focal point of the lighting design. The 17-date tour follows on from North American and UK legs which were supplied by Morpheus Lights in the US and Neg Earth in the UK respectively, with Black Box of Germany assisting for the forthcoming Europe leg. 

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