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LONDON – High House Production Park recently launched their display of a series of sculptures across the 14-acre site. White Light had its four lighting apprentices take charge of the lighting design, using a variety of the equipment in their inventory. The sculpture display is ongoing until March 19.

Bergamo, Italy – Ukrainian TV show, “Star Factory,” is in its fourth season with a complement of Clay Paky Sharpys. Maxim Balashov, technical director, LD and a founder of ALIGHT, selected Clay Paky Sharpys to raise the bar on TV lighting production. ALIGHT has inked deals with leading Ukraine TV networks to provide lighting services that require it to continually upgrade its technical equipment base.

LONDON – LD Andrew Bridge used the Royal Albert Hall’s (RAH) stock of Philips Vari-Lite automated luminaires – specifically the VARI-LITE VL3000 and VL3500 Spot and Wash luminaires – as the workhose on the opera ‘Aida.’ Bridge, who has been a longtime user of the luminaires, has won the three Tony Awards for Best Lighting Design.

AARHUS, Denmark – At 78 degrees north latitude, Longyearbyen lacks sunlight for almost four months of the year. Tor-Gunnar “Gusche” Stokke of Stokken Lys created a lighting scheme that would release a Norwegian cultural landmark from its winter obscurity. He chose the Martin Professional Exterior 400 RGBW LED wash light to simulate natural sunlight onto the building, complete with the color temperature changes that would normally occur from dawn to dusk.

LOS ANGELES – Smashing Pumpkins’ LD Lawrence Upton for the first time used GLP’s Volkslicht Zoom LED heads in his design for the band’s recent tour. In this context they were used to replace the traditional discharge wash light on a scalable set — designed to enable sections to be removed, depending on venue size, without sacrificing the dynamic.