SOCHI, Russia — The 18-part opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics here was lit by more than 1,100 lighting instruments, all controlled by High End Systems’ Hog 4 lighting platform. LD Al Gurdon and programmer Ross Williams contributed to the visual design of the massive show.
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PARIS — 1024 Architecture, an art and design company led by founders Pierre Schneider and François Wunschel, is incorporating Clay Paky’s Sharpy fixtures as part of a pop-up 4D scaffold and light sculpture dubbed “Hyper-Cube,” a.k.a. Tesseract.
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MUNICH – BMW World features a dynamic lighting design using LED-based Exterior 430 luminaires from Martin Professional. Florian Felsch, general manager, Livebau Solutions, noted the the attraction is now using LEDs to show off the autos in their best light indoors as well, with LEDs calibrated at 5600K. He credited the fixtures for lowering maintenance costs by 90 percent, and allowing for a 1.5 year ROI.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — For Stadium Club, one of the largest and oldest dance clubs in Indonesia (pictured here), Martin lighting distributor Monalisa Tunggal Jaya (MTJ) recently installed 22 MAC 350 Entour Profiles and eight RUSH MH3 Beam effects fixtures. MTJ also upgraded the rigs at other clubs including Kingcross, Exodus Club and the Exodus Restaurant.
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GLASGOW — Scottish alt rockers Del Amitri reunited and hit the road for the first time in 12 years with lighting, sound and crew supplied by Liverpool based rental specialist Adlib. Lighting was designed by Adlib’s Ian Tomlinson. His brief was to create a cool theatrical style show with no manic strobing and visual craziness. The production carried their own rig and also made use of some of the house lighting rigs where appropriate.
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TARTU, Estonia – LD Palle Palmé is using some of Big House’s recently acquired Robe Robin lighting fixtures to work for the current production of Evita. The rig for the show includes 56 LEDWash 1200s, 20 MMX Spots, 24 600E Washes and six 600E Spots – more than 100 of the new fixtures in all.
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BEIJING – LD Pero Trifuljesku used LSC Lighting’s Clarity to control the visuals accompanying the Viva Vox Choir’s performance at The Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square. The choir and LD both hail from Serbia. Trifuljesku credited the Clarity software’s Template Editor for helping him quickly gain control over a wide range of fixtures encountered while traveling to different venues.
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Faced with lighting an entire stadium for the recording of a DVD, LD Marcos Olivio turned to SGM to meet his lighting needs. A large-scale LED package made the challenge of illuminating such a large arena simpler and more economical by requiring less energy while providing a much greater intensity.
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ROME – LD Francesco de Cave included Robe fixtures for Laura Pausini’s recent performances. Among the 200 or so lighting fixtures on the European tour were 50 LEDWash 300s. They are used for all the production’s base stage and band washing looks.
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