LONDON — Two Avolites Diamond 4 consoles were specified for the 2007 BBC Electric Proms shows staged at London’s historic Roundhouse venue. Bryan Leitch and Nick Whitehouse of Visual Light Design Production designed lighting for the acclaimed event, and Siyan supplied equipment.
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DALLAS — Owned and managed by the City of Dallas, the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center is home to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Called “one of the greatest concert halls in the world,” the complex open-space hall boasts elaborate acoustic accommodations. The lighting system, on the other hand, was essentially “cobbled together” over the last 15 years.
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LONDON — HSL supplied over 80 moving lights and nearly 150 digital lighting fixtures for Lighting Designer Tom Kinane at the Premier League All Stars tournament. This was staged at the state-of-the-art David Beckham Academy in Greenwich, London, broadcast on Sky One and attended by live audiences. Kinane has worked with HSL on other shows including the first series of “Dancing on Ice," and he once again wanted them on the case providing the show’s specialist lighting requirements. The project was handled for HSL by Sean McGlone.
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CATALINA ISLAND, CA — The historic Catalina Casino Ballroom was home to Art Good’s 20th annual three weeklong Jazztrax show. The 360 degree seaside venue’s limited power and rigging points “presented myriad technical challenges as we met the needs for 20 headlining artists such as Midi Abair, Ray Parker, Jr. and Peter White,” said Project Manager Ryan Steidinger.
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ATLANTA — Elation Professional presented the 2007 Elation Education Experience award to three young lighting designers at the WFx show in Atlanta.
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CHAUVET’s COLORstrip is an LED-fitted strip fixture designed for both the serious programmer and lighting novice. At 38 inches long and 2.5 inches wide (96.5cm x6.4cm), it is ideal for creating “runway” effects without cluttering up the catwalk.
Read More »How do you actually cover a gig with an act that you are not familiar with? Well, there are two ways. The first is to… Read More »Covering the Unfamiliar Gig
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AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS — Lighting Designer Haydn Cruickshank used 28 Robe ColorSpot and ColorWash 700E AT fixtures on leading UK dance act Underworld’s “Oblivion With Bells” recent UK tour.
Read More »As we get older, we find ourselves working with a lot of the same people gig after gig. You become friends, then buddies, then chums, then you get to the point where you start playing gags on each other. In the entertainment biz, this is what we call "the wind up". You see what silly prank you can do to another person to drive them crazy.
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LONDON — Projected Image Digital (PID), working closely with architectural lighting design practice Indigo Light Planning, has specified and installed an Element Labs VersaPIXEL ceiling effect for the house gymnasium of a leading investment bank in London’s Canary Wharf area.
Read More »Yeah yeah! Welcome back to the Notebook. Let’s jump right into it, so we pick up with the show at Calypso Bay Casino in North Lake Tahoe. Not only was there beautiful scenery, there was a fun lighting system full of Martin Mac spots and washes. The Martin light jockey was used for the systems control via an ETC smartfade along with some par cans and a calibrated computer touch screen monitor. The gig was a great success and I got to win $50 on slots afterwards. I soon headed back to the hotel to catch some shut eye for a long few travel days over to Florida.
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DELFT, HOLLAND — High End Systems Inc. and Dutch dealer Improve recently held a Digital Lighting University in Holland. Forty lighting and video designers and technicians hosted the two-day program Oct. 8-9. The intimate, hands-on curriculum taught the intricacies of products such as DL.1 and DL.2, along with the Axon media server and other digital products.
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