KwaZulu Natal, South Africa – Robe moving lights were chosen for the 2012 Splashy Fen Music Festival, staged in the foothills of the southern Drakensberg mountains in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Returning designer for the second year was Llewellyn Pieters from Durban-based event technical support company, Black Coffee. The Robes stood up to an exceptionally dusty environment, and handled the general humidity and the salty sea air well, says Pieters.
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LONDON – Renegade’s Nick Gray created a 50-meter video sculpture for the entrance of the 2012 100% Design exhibition at Earls Court. The work, which resembled an intricate DNA wire-frame structure in architecture and appearance, was fed with video content from a media server, and drew attendees into a completely immersive experience. “I wanted to create a real sense of physical anticipation as people traversed the tunnel, which was completely black apart from the video streams flowing and tumbling around it. The idea was that people undertook a journey as they passed down the tunnel, experiencing emotion, excitement and proper physical sensations,” Gray says.
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LONDON – Norway’s projectiondesign has supplied four pairs of F32 DLP projectors to a special exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). Titled ‘Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950,’ the exhibition presents 60 ballgowns from 1950 to the present day. The exhibition is on two levels and occupies a domed space, with four alcoves leading off of it. The four alcove walls form curved projection surfaces that are taller than they are wide, necessitating the use of a pair of vertically stacked, edge-blended projectors for each alcove. With no alternative but to use the upper level of the exhibition display as the location for the projectors, the integration team designed special housings for them, color-matched to the decor and perforated to allow for ventilation.
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Gräfenhainichen, Germany – Robe moving lights were used at the 2012 Melt Festival, an indie electronica-meets-rock festival in Europe. Lighting equipment for the Main and Gemini stages was supplied by Berlin-based TSE AG. The production design called for a flexible rig that could cater to the artists performing over the three days, many of whom brought their own lighting designers and specials packages and also hooked in to the house rigs.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan – Just blocks from Taipei 101 (the tallest office building in the world), in Taiwan’s most cosmopolitan district, Xinyi, is the newly renovated Novel Hall for Performing Arts. The venue recently reopened Sept. 23 after a renovation that included upgraded stage lighting control by ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls) in the form of an ETC Element console, as well as ETC Sensor+ dimming and power control.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Rental company AV Unlimited supplied full technical production to show producers VWV for the finale of the recent Red Bull Beat Battle competition at the downtown live music venue Bassline. AV Unlimited’s technical production manager and LD Victor Vermaak explains that initially the venue would not let them fly any lights off of their roof beams, but with the low weight (4.4 kgs) of the Robe LEDBeam 100, they gave the go-ahead for the fixtures to be installed.
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LONDON – Hippotizer distributors came together Sept. 6-7 from different countries to preview Green Hippo’s latest software and catch up with the latest developments over the past year. From office refurbishments to version 3.2, distributors went through a two-day run down of all things Green Hippo.
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AARHUS, Denmark – Martin Professional has released a video on YouTube which explains how the company has solved the problem of uneven colors across LEDs. In the video, Product Manager Jonathan Meineke explains how Martin achieves color consistency at the factory using LED color calibration.
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