LOS ANGELES – Jamie Thompson, LD for Irish indie band The Script, has had a memorable year. Not only has Thompson been touring a highly creative lighting set — scalable to arenas and stadiums — but has also received a Knight of Illumination Award recently in London for outstanding achievement in lighting design. GLP gear is on the road and in the area with Thompson, and here they share some of his, well, impressions.
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HONG KONG – Robe announces that their products are on the A-List of lighting rental company A-Team Plus. The company was the first operation in greater China to invest in Robe’s new ROBIN MMX Spot moving lights, while also being the first there to invest in the ROBIN 600 LEDWash fixtures earlier this year. Production managers, tech directors and LDs share their comments about how the products have become part of their usual design tools.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA- Dreamforce ’11, the cloud computing event created by Salesforce.com, was held in San Francisco’s Moscone center this year and featured two objectives: to light a conference and then a concert by Metallica. 4Wall Lighting Las Vegas and LD Paul Efron teamed up to make it a success.
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American DJ’s new Flat Par CWWW9 and Flat Par CWWW18 LED par cans feature white light color temperatures ranging from 3400 to 7400 degrees K. The low-profile, “sit-flat” design, with DMX connectors on the side of the fixture, plus the included bracket and safety hook, makes them well-suited for use as overhead stage lighting, uplighting or for inside truss as a truss toner.
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DALLAS – MTV’s action-packed Bellator tournament features fighters in the ring. But an influential player is with them overhead: the lighting rig. Behind the scenes of the nationally-televised matches, lighting designer David Zeffren and assistant Amy Harper of Frank Gatto & Associates, have created a winning lighting design and while doing so have discovered a new competitor in the world of TV lighting: the VLX Wash from Philips Vari-Lite.
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CHICAGO – Lighting design company Lightswitch Architectural are lighting consultants for Chicago’s new 500-unit luxury apartment and retail store complex. Located at the former site of Kraft Foods, the 500 Lake Shore Drive location’s imperative is to incorporate sustainable features for increased energy efficiency. Completion is set for May 2013.
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NEW CASTLE, DE – Once again, Pete’s Big TVs has helped “Black Girls Rock!” The philanthropic organization’s awards show – which celebrates those who have culturally contributed to the Black Experience – airs on the BET network Nov. 6. The show was taped at the Bronx’s Paradise Theatre in New York City – an old, ornate former movie house not meant for the big production it would successfully pull off.
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MONTREAL — They was just a couple of shows, July 8-9 2011, in Montreal. But U2’s 360 tour was not just another band outing, and the epic scale of the production is still being discussed now, after the biggest concert tour of all time finally reached the end of its multi-year road. Trizart Alliance, a theatre and arena design and consulting firm with offices in the U.S. and Canada, recently provided a chronology of what that single tour stop entailed. (Hint: It may not have required moving mountains, but it did require the relocation of 16 mature trees.)
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