NORWICH, UK – The biggest display yet of SGM’s LT-100 3D pixel tubes has appeared at Wonderland Norwich, a new nightclub. The club’s motif, a twist on Alice in Wonderland, includes 220 of SGM’s 1-meter long pixel tubes suspended above the dance floor. An additional 66 strings of SGM LB-100 LED light balls shine along the length of the display from the ceiling.
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LONDON – Lighting designer Yenz Nyholm used his Avolites Tiger Touch to help reignite the memories of Level 42 fans when the band performed at London’s Royal Albert Hall. He programmed both the lighting and the video through his Avolites’ Tiger Touch 6.1, which now features enhancements and updates that have advanced the console’s capability. He said, “The best thing for me is the cue stacking. You can display your cue list and each individual cue’s parameters on the screens, but better still you can go in and change every parameter without having to be in the cue itself. This has been a massive time saving device.”
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KIEV, Ukraine – When Jennifer Lopez’s “Dance Again” world tour performed a show Nov. 13 in Kiev, Ukraine, local production company Feyeria helped out. Feyeria was responsible for most of her technical production at the Ukraine Palace of Sports.
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MANCHESTER, UK – Lighting and rigging company dbn supplied stage lighting for the city’s 2012 Festive Season lighting switch-on. dbn’s Andy Kennett designed the lighting, making sure to light the audience as well as the stage action and to create effects that involved everyone as a whole. This is also why there was a concentration of beam type effects in the design to skim over the audience and also to highlight some of the buildings.
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COPENHAGEN – LD Kasper Lange used a large Martin MAC rig that included Martin Professional’s new MAC Viper Profile for the 2012 Danish Music Awards at the Forum in Copenhagen. “We needed a small and powerful lamp that could cut through the massive audience light,” Lange said. The event was broadcast live in Denmark.
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BRISTOL, UK – JLS, UK’s hot boyband, headlined the charity concert for The Mall at Cribbs Causeway’s Christmas Lights switch-on in Bristol earlier this month. Stage Electrics supplied the fully equipped tunnel stage with complete event lighting. They also supplied and installed a temporary outdoor ice rinks with more than 1000sq m (10,764 sq ft) of real ice.
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UDDEVALLA, Sweden – The Oslo Opera House, one of Oslo’s modern landmark buildings, is using W-DMX from Wireless Solution Sweden AB to solve a myriad of performance production challenges. The technical crew currently uses 24 W-DMX BlackBox FLEX-1 G4 Transceiver units on a regular basis for the operas, ballets, concerts and other special performances throughout its events calendar.
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GOTHENBURG, Sweden – A new ferris wheel attraction at Liseberg amusement park literally revolves around Martin Professional LED-based lighting. The illumination design for the Liseberg Wheel is made up of three layers including a general color wash, pixel dot twinkle effects and moving graphic projection. The customizable characteristics of the lighting system allow for customizations to cater to any occasion, including special designs during holiday seasons.
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LONDON – LD Chris Bushell took the Avolites Sapphire Touch lighting console out with Florence & the Machine on this summer’s festival shows. The Sapphire Touch is a new step for Bushell, who until the festival season was working with his own Tiger Touch. Features on the Sapphire Touch helped him handle the frantic pace of festival shows. “I program and operate visually not mathematically,” explains Bushell. “I’m not interested in punching numbers into a desk. The Avolites consoles enable me to quickly and simply achieve what I want, whatever the nature of the job.”
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Lighting design, rental and production company Blackmotion has invested in the latest Robe moving light technology. Owner and founder Kagiso Tiro Daystar Moima (“KG”) says Robe’s commitment to producing smaller, lighter, brighter and more energy efficient fixtures factored in on their purchase decision.
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OSLO – Elektrik Solutions of Norway has supplied lighting and power control for a refurbishment of the Oslo Konserthus (Concert Hall). Some 100 ETC Selador Desire D40 Lustr+ LED fixtures have been installed in the auditorium ceiling for house lighting, along with another 14 in the choir area. The Selador Desire fixtures were chosen for their power savings along with their ability to accurately render or even enhance colors and skin tones. The ETC Unison Paradigm system was chosen for control.
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