International News

MADRID, Spain – Lighting designer Edu Valverde used Clay Paky Sharpys for a show celebrating Spanish jewellery brand Aristocrazy at this year’s Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Madrid. The designer positioned the Sharpys in straight lines down either side of the catwalk entrance, highlighting the stark geometry of the door and also in further parallel lines down either side of the catwalk.

LISBON, Portugal – Marco Silva, LD and programmer for A Voz de Portugal, the Portuguese version of The Voice, used 28 Chauvet Nexus 4 x 4 panels to create a front stage façade, which he had pixel mapped by João Canoso of FX – Road Lights. Working with an Mbox Studio media server, Canoso created a design that coordinated with the 6 mm LED upstage video wall. On the live segments of the show, Silva complements the 28 Nexus 4×4 panels with 48 COLORdash Batten-Hex 8 linear wash fixtures and 48 COLORado 1-Quad Tour RGBW LED par-style fixtures.

COLOGNE, Germany – The Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany has acquired four Robert Juliat Lancelot followspots. “We chose the RJ Lancelot products because we were not completely satisfied with the American manufacturer we worked with before and therefore preferred to use a European product,” says Lanxess Arena’s technical manager, Martin Rebiszewski.

LD Steve Sinclair used nearly 200 Robe moving lights to light the Europen tour of Top Gear Live. The Robe fixtures were 38 x LEDWash 600s, 12 x LEDWash 800s, 40 x LEDWash 1200s and 36 x MMX WashBeams all from Robe’s ROBIN series, together with 36 ColorSpot 1200E ATs and 16 x ColorWash 1200E ATs. The main aesthetic challenges include lighting lightning fast moving vehicles and illuminating a large – 27 metres wide by 53 metres deep – stage area keeping it edgy, exciting and theatrical – and also providing the drivers with enough light to perform safely!

AARHUS , Denmark  – The Danish NorthSide Festival, which drew 35,000 visitors, made use of four SGM G-Spot moving heads for beam effects atop 6-meter-high containers placed in the shape of a horseshoe between the festival’s Blue Stage and Green Stage.

GRAHAMSTOWN, South Africa – The National Arts Festival is Africa’s biggest annual celebration of the arts. To celebrate it’s 40^th birthday, Electrosonic used the Hippotizer to project images onto The Monument, the headquarters of the festival. TechRig supplied the Barco HDQ-2K40 projectors and crew to set it up and run it.

LONDON – Universal Event Production supplied full technical production to the Nike Phenomenal House, a one week only pop-up experience to celebrate football, street culture and style, music and fashion. For video, UEP flew six 60 inch plasma screens as a seamless 3×3 LED wall in the main space and supplied a 2 x 3 meter 3.9 mm LED wall, both of which received live camera feeds. The main football field was lit with 16 Robe LEDWash 600 and 12 Robe ColorSpot 1200 E AT moving lights plus a number of conventional fixtures.

LONDON – The Imperial War Museum in London held a preview launch event unveiling its newly refurbished interior galleries to a select crowd. For the event, White Light provided full production solutions including staging, draping, lighting, haze, A/V screens and the event crew to make it all work.

LONDON – Bringing dazzle to one of London’s most high-profile venues, Storm Events used Chauvet’s EPIX 2.0 to achieve a glittering pixel-mapping effect. “We joined all of the EPIX units end-to-end in twos, and spaced them at 250mm across the set,” said Production Director Andy White, noting that a total of 80 strips and bars were used.  “Our design alternated strips and bars back and forth with the strips set slightly higher than the bars to create a 2.3m high continuous image.  Using Kling-Net we were able to map the entire image in about 30 minutes.”

BELARUS – LD Kirell Zelenko chose Clay Paky’s A.leda B-EYE fixture as a key fixture in his lighting design for the Belarusian TV Awards. A variety of of Clay Paky fixtures were used for the ceremony, including 24 x A.leda B-EYE K20, 12 x A.leda Wash K10, 24 x Sharpy, 20 x Sharpy Wash 330 and 16 x Alpha Spot HPE 1500.

GRIMSTAD, Norway – Against the dramatic backdrop of the Kilden-Fjæreheia quarry in Grimstad, Pink Floyd tribute band Puls impressed audiences with a projection-mapped backdrop created with AV Stumpfl’s Wings AV multi-image control technology.