International News

LONDON – France TV Sport is covering the Olympic Games with a temporary TV studio on the Thames, outfitted with ETC’s Source Four LED profile spotlight providing the majority of the light. The station has rented 48 ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ Zoom 25-50-degree luminaires to help with their energy usage. The technical directors also like the fixture’s color mixing system, which allows them to achieve the natural skin tones needed for TV broadcasting.

LONDON – Renegade’s Nick Gray combined entertainment and architectural lighting to produce a lightshow for the recent Tree of Light performances, which were part of the London 2012 Festival leading up to the Summer Games. Gray incorporated as many LED and low energy light sources as possible in the design in keeping with the ethos of the project, with some of the lighting actually run via bicycle power.

JERUSALEM – Ofer Jacobi has specified Robe on the popular “Fly On The Millions” primetime TV quiz show, in which contestants answering questions incorrectly are ceremoniously dumped from the set through a trap door beneath their podium. Danor Rental supplies the lighting, which includes 20 ROBIN 300E Beams, 10 ColorWash 700E ATs, six ColorBeam 2500s and 10 ColorSpot 1200E ATs. Jacobi follows in the footlights of his father, who worked in the film industry.

LONDON – City Theatrical’s SHoW DMX Neo wireless DMX system was chosen to control the lighting on the Olympic rings on London’s Tower Bridge. LD Adam Bassett’s spec of more than 90 moving lights and a variety of other gear required four universes of SHoW DMX wireless DMX to control, along with panel antennas with custom antenna extension cables, with Transceivers built into equipment racks.

LONDON – Italy-based lighting designer Aldo Visentin is using his own Jands Vista S1 lighting console running the next generation Vista v2 software, plus two Vista M1 Wings, to control lighting for Italy’s most beloved tenor, Andrea Bocelli. At each show, Visentin has around 105 different moving lights to incorporate in to the design.  He needed a system that  traveled easily and was cost-effective.

LONDON – Dallas-based Syncrolite has three major systems in action at the Olympic Games in London. System 1 is involved in the Olympic Opening Ceremonies on July 27. System 2 is lighting the exterior of the Olympic Stadium. System 3 is lighting the exterior of the Olympics Field Hockey Stadium.

LONDON – A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) provided an architectural lighting system for the Clubhouse of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) at Silverstone racing circuit, for their annual British Grand Prix Ball event. The task was to transform the three-story Clubhouse – located by the racetrack in prime viewing position – into a dynamic space for the event. The lighting scheme was designed by AC-ET’s Andy Smith, using lighting from Chroma-Q, PixelRange, SGM and Robe.

VIENNA  – Look Solutions’ TINY CX compact, battery-operated fog generator is at the heart of fashion technology with the Smoke Dress. Currently being shown at Vienna’s Technosensual exhibition, the dress  triggers attention with its flirty, blinking LEDs and then covers the wearer with fog as soon as people approach. TINY CX can easily be triggered with one hand and can also be operated by cable or radio remote control. Designer Anouk Wipprecht also outfitted Fergie with her LED dress for the Super Bowl halftime show this year.

NOVI SAD, Serbia – Robe moving lights have been specified and installed at the Serbian national broadcaster RDU RTV Vojvodine’s main studios in Novi Sad, together with LEDForce 18s from the Light4ce range. They are currently being used on a popular current affairs programs on Serbian TV, Tabloid with Sasa and Natasa.

LONDON – Creative lighting designer Nick Gray from Renegade was commissioned by show producers Bacchus to light the main venue at London’s first ‘London Collections: Men,’ a new high profile fashion showcase event for menswear, staged at the Hospital Club in Covent Garden. “Streamlined” and “clean-cut” defined the look.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand – Philips Entertainment luminaires are helping Auckland’s Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) dramatically reduce its energy consumption in its most recently completed display hall. This choice of more than 190 luminaires has substantially reduced its overall lighting load from 250kW to under 20kW. The fixtures are used to sculpt and illuminate the aircraft and associated displays.