MELBOURNE, Australia — For White Night Melbourne on Feb. 21, Technical Direction Company (TDC) combined its projection mapping services with the creativity of graffiti artists as part of a graffiti-mapping artwork projected onto the largest mural in Melbourne — a surface spanning 5 stories in height and 70 meters in width.
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SUN VALLEY, USA – Experienced German lighting designer, Henning Schletter (of Imaginary Lights) has become one of the first creatives in the world to adopt GLP’s new impression X4 Bar 20 LED batten lights – deploying them at a major product launch for Jaguar, in front of a star-studded audience that included British actor, and Hollywood star, Idris Elba.
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LONDON – London based events production company PR Live supported the visual needs for Warner Music’s 2015 Brits After-party, which drew close to 1,100 guests to Freemason’s Hall in Covent Garden. PR Live supplied all elements of the design and technical production – sound, lighting, video, rigging, set and staging, assorted custom built props – complete with lighting and sound design and custom video content.
Read More »LONDON – Artistic Licence launched Art-Osc, an open domain, free-of-charge protocol that enables the transport of DALI lighting control data over an Ethernet network. The DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) standard provides a popular means of controlling ballasts that do not require fast special effects. It operates over low cost and simple wiring, but is limited to 64 devices per circuit. Prior to the Artistic Licence announcement, DALI has lacked a standardized and open method of integration into larger networks.
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DOHA, Qatar – At the Sheraton Doha Hotel & Resort, Griven LED architectural fixtures are painting distinctive looks on the building’s exterior. The new lighting design, coinciding with the resort’s 30th year, includes a W-DMX wireless control system.
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WICKFORD, Essex, U.K. – Darren Parker, MD of DPL Lighting, recently took delivery of a number of Ayrton MagicBlade-R LED fixtures sourced via Ambersphere Solutions. Parker, who acted on a tip from designer Adam Power, says the new fixtures have already drawn considerable interest from industry partners.
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LONDON – LD Louis Oliver of Okulus has used an array of Showline fixtures as part of his color-rich and punchy lighting design for You Me At Six’s UK arena tour. Zig Zag Lighting provided the gear.
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NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia – In November 2014, Alexey Zhivanov, LD for Russian stage rental and install firm Grand Show, was tasked with supporting two distinct events: a rock concert at a nightclub and a ballet staged in a traditional opera house. He relied on Martin’s M2GO lighting controller for both events.
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LONDON – Ambersphere Solutions have been busy fulfilling orders and shipping Mythos units to numerous clients across the U.K., including White Light’s Dave Isherwood, who is pictured here with Ambersphere Solutions sales director Phil Norfolk.
Read More »VALASSKE MEZIRICI, Czech Republic – Robe welcomed 13 students and two lecturers – Phil Hughes and Clive Davies – from the University of South Wales, Glamorgan, to its HQ and factory in Valasske Mezirici, Czech Republic, all from the BSc Honours Lighting Design & Technology and Live Event Technology courses.
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HAMBURG, Germany – For a staged musical adaptation of the film The Miracle of Bern, LD Andreas Fuchs used a variety of Clay Paky fixtures, including 53 Alpha Profile 1500 STs, 18 Alpha Profile 800 STs and 30 A.leda B-EYE K20s.
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PRAGUE – LD Martin Hruska used Robe fixtures for Czech singer Karel Gott’s 2014 arena tour in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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