MELBOURNE, Australia – For the 59th annual Logie Awards, held at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium on April 23, Lynden Gare, director of Melbourne-based lighting and production company Colourblind, used Green Hippo’s Hippotizer media servers to control the elaborate visuals.
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SINGAPORE – The new location for Zouk Nightclub in the historic Clarke Quay district of Singapore is beckoning visitors with Martin lighting fixtures. The setup includes Exterior Linear 1200 Graze RGBW, Exterior Wash 110 RGBW, Exterior 100 IP68 Narrow, Martin VC Dot 4 RGB and a custom Zouk Gobo, with a Martin M-PC controller for pre-programmed looks.
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SAN ISIDRO, Argentina – Buenos Aires-based Descableados installed 50 Chauvet Professional WELL Fit fixtures supplied by NASH Ingeniería for the crowds attending Lollapalooza Argentina 2017, which took place March 31 and April 1 at the Hipódromo de San Isidro horse racing track near Buenos Aires. The battery powered and wirelessly controlled IP65 rated fixtures were used to uplight a massive “Love Is All” sign/sculpture.
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DUBAI, UAE – A traveling production of ‘Mary Poppins’ took flight from the U.K. and Switzerland, landing in Dubai, and turning to Unusual Rigging and Engineering LLC for a locally-supplied rigging and a truss frame for front of house scenery.
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SPLIT, Croatia – Prljavo Kazalište launched a tour celebrating 40 years of hits with a concert at the Spaladium Arena in Split. LD Sven Kučinić of LumiLas LLC specified Robe fixtures, including 20 MMX Spots, 12 MMX WashBeams and 16 Pointes as the main moving light fixtures.
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ABU DHABI, UAE – The annual Mother of the Nation (MOTN) festival, the UAE’s largest cultural celebration, took place in late March and early April over a period of 10 days. The crew from Protec appreciated the ability of the fixtures they were using – 100 Nuri*Lites Hurricane LED fixtures – to stand up to a fierce storm.
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TALLINN, Estonia – Robe’s DL4S Profiles and DL4F Fresnels – 52 in total – have been specified and installed at the new Nuku (Puppet) Theatre in Tallinn. This world famous theatre has just opened a completely new space – formally an outside courtyard – at its theatre complex in the heart of the picturesque and vibrant Estonian capital. The project is one of the latest in a number of high profile theatre installations of Robe DL series LED moving lights around the world.
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GRONINGEN, The Netherlands – Dutch cultural center De Oosterpoort in Groningen has purchased a range of Claypaky moving head fixtures as part of a major technical upgrade to the center’s lighting and audio departments.
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SURREY, UK – Robe co-hosted a ground breaking LED Theatrical event staged by staff and students on the Theatre Production course at Guildford School of Acting (GSA), part of the University of Surrey in the UK. The Czech Republic based manufacturer supplied around 50 LED luminaires to the event and to GSA’s 2017 gala musical production staged at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in central Guildford, Surrey, including its groundbreaking DL7 theatrical range – plus the new Spiider LED wash beam, CycFX 8s, Spikies and VIVAs – plus technical support.
MUNICH, GERMANY – The new Claypaky SharBar and other Claypaky products were used by a trio of young artists at the annual artistic lighting awards “LiO (Light is OSRAM) Awards 2017” in their winning installation ‘The 5th Dimension’, hosted at Munich’s historic event space, the Praterinsel, by German lighting manufacturer OSRAM.
WALES – Accounting specialists, Tax Assist asked CPL to provide full technical design and production – sound, lighting, video, staging and rigging – plus crew for their 2017 annual conference staged in the Caernarfon Suite at Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales. CPL has serviced the event for the last few years. It’s grown steadily in size over that time, and with that has come a commitment by the client to keep increasing the production values.
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LONDON, UK,– Freevox, a leading distributor and manufacturer of professional lighting products, held its 2017 customer conference in Portugal, and Green Hippo was delighted to attend, helping the French firm present Green Hippo’s line of video products. The conference, which ran over four days, was held at the Algarve’s gorgeous Club Med de Balaia resort, and was attended by more than 100 leading French companies, including installers and resellers from the image, lighting and sound sectors.