SYDNEY – The new Clarity LX series consoles have saved time and energy for Sydney broadcast lighting director Grant “Doc” Watson and his operation Strauss Productions. The Clarity LX series cross platform interoperability with the PC and Mac software has allowed Strauss to create shows on Clarity software on a laptop while the LX Consoles are in use elsewhere and then bring the show file to site on a USB stick.
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MALMO, Sweden – Tait’s European division supplied elements for the Eurovision Song Contest, which was televised to a worldwide audience with performances from 26 finalists last week in Malmo, Sweden. The design concept was to bring the audience and artists physically closer together and bring an intimate live experience to the next level.
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AUSTRALIA – In February, Concert & Corporate Productions in Western Australia took delivery of 24 VL3000 Spots and eight VL2500 Washes, which have seen action on a wide variety of events from Celtic Thunder, Neil Finn & Paul Kelly to the West Coast Blues’n’Roots Festival and Future Music Festival.
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SYDNEY – Sir Cliff Richard returned to Australia earlier this year with his “Still Reelin’ and A-Rockin’ ” tour. Longtime LD Derek Jones brought a rig of close to 90 moving lights. To control the rig, he brought his own Vista S3 and Vista M1, part of a larger family of Vista consoles that he owns.
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LONDON – Green Hippo, developers of the Hippotizer media server, has established a new beta testing program and is now recruiting field test candidates. Once registered and accepted, beta testers will be given access to all the latest builds and tools for the media server. An internal forum will also allow participants to engage in discussion with fellow testers and share new ideas.
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LONDON – Avolites Media’s Ai server has been powering the fast-paced visuals for Sky TV’s spring series of “Got to Dance.” With the help of Ai, the visual team was able to see the entire TV studio as one giant canvas, using Ai’s ability to scale the outputs to compensate for the varying pixel pitches of the different LED fixtures. Ai is equipped to play back to video canvasses up to 8x HD1080 and this was a significant benefit to the production.
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RIVA, Italy – The Spiaggia degli Olivi lighthouse, a historic monument on Lake Garda, was turned off about 40 years ago. Restoration work has turned on the light again – but instead of the complicated original 24-volt mechanism, there is a new Clay Paky Sharpy inside the lantern room, which is not only able to reproduce the brightness of the old lighthouse, but also its perfect movement.
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MUMBAI – When Norah Jones, daughter of Ravi Shankar, made her first ever appearance in India — at A Summer’s Day Festival in Mumbai — around 8,000 fans turned up at the Mahalaxmi Race Course to cheer her on. To enhance her stage, local company E2Tech supplied 24 of PR Lighting’s new XLED 1037 moving heads with zoom.
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Luminica Gdl of Guadalajara, Mexico, was one of the first rental companies in Mexico and Latin America to invest in Martin’s MAC Viper Profile and had the fixtures out on Carnaval Mazatlan, one of the carnival season’s more festive events in February.
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BLACKBURN, UK – HSL supplied LD Neil Carson with full lighting production for Brit Award winning singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé’s most recent UK tour, together with a ‘specials’ package for the European section. Sande most recently performed for both opening and closing ceremonies at the Summer Olympics in London.
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MENDOZA, Argentina – Lighting/set designer Eli Sirlin used more than 120 Robe moving lights in his lighting design for the 2013 Festival Nacional de la Vendimia (National Grape Harvest Festival), a celebration of wine and the wine-making industry in Argentina. One design challenge was the huge space and the distances and angles that the lighting needed to cover.
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FRANCE – Chromlech’s new Elidy LED matrix fixture is touring the world on Pink’s “The Truth About Love” tour. Production and lighting designers, Halpin and Chris Nyfield of Silent House Productions chose to incorporate 40 of Chromlech’s Elidy into their lighting design. Based around a single projector of 25 (5×5) LEDs, Elidy is modular in form and can be assembled to form up to 225 LEDs (1 sq/m) and arranged into shapes, screens, columns and even angled forms.
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