AARHUS, Denmark – LD/Lighting Director Francesco Calvi is using 150 Martin MAC 101 wash lights as the foundation of his design for Cold Chisel’s “Light the Nitro” tour, which plays venues from arenas to circus tents. He’s controlling them on a Martin M1 console.
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AARHUS, Denmark – For October’s Halloween activities at Legoland in Billund, Denmark, the park outfitted its King’s Castle in Halloween-themed colors and graphics, including animated images from LED-based Martin Professional Exterior 400 Image Projectors. Images of ghosts, skeletons, bats and more decorated the haunt.
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WALLINGFORD, CT – US educational facilities are increasingly installing Robert Juliat lighting, specifically the Super Korrigan 1200W HMI followspots and Buxie 575W MSD followspots. Oak Park, IL-based Bill Conner Associates LLC, theatre planners and designers, report on Robert Juliat’s movement into newly-constructed and renovated theaters in high schools and colleges.
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BERGAMO, Italy – Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures are gaining in popularity for television production in the U.S. with exposure on Simon Cowell’s new “The X Factor” music reality show for FOX and on this year’s MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) telecast. LD Tom Kenny used the Sharpys on both.
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NEW YORK, WASHINGTON, DC and LOS ANGLELES — The 2011 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, held Nov. 30 and broadcast live on NBC, has come a long way since workers at the office complex first pulled out the ladders and plugged in the lights in 1931. (The first ceremony took place two years later.) This year’s tree, a 74-foot spruce from Mifflinville, PA, featured 30,000 sparkling LED lights powered via 5 miles of cabling and topped by a six-sided, 9.5-foot-diameter, 550-lb. star made with 25,000 Swarovski crystals. The star itself was lit with 720 LEDs.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Protea Court, which houses 70 new international and luxury retail outlets, was inspired by the shape of South Africa’s national flower, the Protea. A lighting install of Anolis LED fixtures accentuate the curvy roof and girders of the structure, allowing the architecture to “breathe” with color and movement.
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