AUSTIN, TX – For 20 years, Production Designer Manfred Voss has been with the popular German TV game show, “Wetten, dass..?” (translating as “Wanna bet that…?”) which counts on ordinary people performing outlandish tasks for its entertainment value. Voss chooses the Road Hog Full Boar to control up to 16 SHOWPIX pixilation luminaires and
12 SHOWGUN 2.5 automated luminaires for its broadcasts on ZDF TV throughout Europe.
ASHFORD, UK – UK rental company Visual Elements has upgraded 100 Chroma-Q Color Block DB4 LED Fixtures in its inventory to the new Color Block Plus Replacement Engine. The new engine offers more than two and a half times the light output – 750 lumens – of the original Color Block DB4 (290 lumens) with the internal switch set to full power. The newest installation of the Color Block Plus DB4 LED fixtures is at the Roundhouse.
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BERGAMO, Italy – Central Asia’s oil-rich Turkmenistan celebrated the 20th anniversary of its independence with a multimedia extravaganza lit by Luc Lafortune. The designer of Cirque du Soliel, amog other shows, kept the Turkmen aesthetic in mind, using a large complement of Clay Paky moving heads from Roome-based Agora.
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LONDON – UK-based LD Derek Jones had a busy autumn season with two legendary British artists, Cliff Richard and The Hollies. With both tours overlapping, Jones bought a new Vista S1 out on The Hollies, while he called on Lars Kristiansen to operate Cliff Richard and the Shadows on his Vista S3.
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SERIATE, Italy – Singapore’s AVALON boasts the largest club installation of Clay Paky Sharpy moving beam lights. The new celebrity playground features 24 Clay Paky Sharpy, 18 Alpha Spot HPE 700, 4 Alpha Spot 300, and 4 Alpha Beam 300 luminaires, run by a grandMA ultra-light console (with 26 units of MA 2Port Nodes) to handle the multiple DMX universes used in the overall lighting scheme. There are plans to install more Clay Paky fixtures in the second phase of the lighting design for the future.
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AUSTIN, TX – High End Systems’ new trackspot Bolt LED luminaires modernized the eletronic music club “Modernes” in Bremen, Germany. For nearly 20 years, the club has used six original High End Systems trackspot fixtures. Replacing them out with the trackspot Bolt – a full-featured, 3000 lumen moving-mirror fixture powered by an LED lighting engine – reduces their power consumption while offering them the long-lasting lighting they wanted in a lighting rig.
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Belgium-based LD Luc Peumans specified 62 Robe ROBIN 600 LEDWash fixtures for the current Holiday on Ice ‘Speed’ tour. One of the creative starting points for the lighting design was making sure that the lighting fused and flowed harmoniously with the industrial toned space age set – designed by award winning stage/set designer Bart Clements. Belgium-based rental company Phlippo Showlights MC is supplying the lighting equipment.
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AARHUS, Denmark – Kazakhstan marked its 20th year of independence on Dec. 1 with a celebration at the Republic Palace concert hall in Almaty. The renovated venue features a new design with the latest in Martin Professional lighting technology. LD for the anniversary show was François Guillet of Lumières Utiles in France, with gear provided by the APM Group, Martin Professional’s distributor in Kazakhstan.
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LONDON – LED lighting fixture manufacturer Prism Projection has appointed UK-based White Light as its exclusive European distributor. White Light already served as Prism’s exclusive UK distributor over the past few years, so this expanded agreement came forth during discussions at LDI 2011.
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CANNES, France – Elation Professional’s Opti Tri White LED Pars were called in to shed some light on November’s G-20 Summit in Cannes, France. The gathering of world leaders, discussing financial markets and the world economy, needed clear visibility on the meeting table with high performance lighting equipment. French distributor ESL handled the installation.
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SOUTH KIRKBY, Yorkshire, UK – LS-Live developed and delivered a touring set for hip hop’s Tinie Tempah. The key elements of the design include three cages outfitted with LED battens to act as performance spaces for the drummer, keyboard player and DJ. The cages sat on scissor lifts, which raised up and down during the show.
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