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Lighting the World’s Tallest Theatre PDF Print E-mail

ImageBANGKOK — The stage for the 2,000-seat Ratchada Grand Theatre, at 50 meters by 80 meters, provides elbow room (and martial-arts kicking room) for spectacles such as Siam Niramit, with 150 actors, 500 costumes and 100 set pieces. And at just under 12 meters in height, the Ratchada Grand Theatre was recently listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the tallest proscenium arch in the world.

 

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Radiohead Abandons Conventionals for LEDs PDF Print E-mail

ImageWEST PALM BEACH, FL — Lured by energy savings and a wide array of color choices, Andi Watson, lighting & visuals designer for Radiohead’s 2008 world tour, opted against conventional fixtures and in favor of a rig dominated by LED fixtures developed shortly before the tour got underway in early May. Watson is working with i-Pix’s new BB 7 — a seven-cell high power homogenized 10° RGB lightsource. In all, there are 48 of the BB 7s in various positions around the stage, including 25 in five custom five-way frames produced by Specialz.

 

 

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Martin Reports Modest Q1 Gains PDF Print E-mail

AARHUS, Denmark — Martin Professional reported that its revenue for the first quarter of 2008 rose slightly to $55.7 million, up from $54.9 million in Q1 2007. The company noted that the increase was partly offset by the weaker DKK/USD exchange rate.

 

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Brooklyn Museum Gala Lights Up Murakami Preview, Kanye West Performance PDF Print E-mail

ImageNEW YORK — Scharff Weisberg needed an artful approach for lighting the Brooklyn Museum’s annual gala, a fundraiser previewing a retrospective of multimedia artist Takashi Murakami and including a performance by Kanye West, and in a hurry — client Bounce Event Marketing, the overall event designer and producer, required a two-and-a-half week turnaround for the complex project.

 

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Lighting a Seurat-Inspired Show with Projection and Precision PDF Print E-mail

ImageNEW YORK — Georges Seurat was obsessed with the nuances of color, light and form, and it took him two years to create his pointillistic masterpiece, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” So it’s no surprise that for the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway production of Sunday in the Park with George, which brings a story inspired by Seurat’s painting to the live stage with extensive use of projections and LED screens, precise control of the lighting was of paramount importance to lighting designer Ken Billington.

 

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Changing Colors on the French Riviera PDF Print E-mail

ImageCANNES, France — The Palme d’Or, or Golden Palm, may be the highest prize given to a competing film at the Cannes Film Festival. But a team of lighting designers is giving visitors to the Boulevard de la Croisette a dynamic nightly show, turning a row of life-sized palm trees gold — and any other color imaginable.

 

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Kooks Tour Takes a "Less-is-More" Design Approach PDF Print E-mail

ImageLONDON — Named for an album that rose to the top of the U.K. charts, the Kooks’ Konk tour could have gone all out with its lighting design. Working with input from the band, however, lighting designer Luton Pete (Pete Hosier) came up with a “less is more” design aesthetic, combining the simplicity of an “old school” look with newer LED technology.

 

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New Followspots for Gold Coast Arts Centre PDF Print E-mail

ImageSURFERS PARADISE, Australia — The crew for the 1,174-seat Arts Theatre at the Gold Coast Arts Centre say the two followspots purchased last year have emerged as standouts in their lighting arsenal. The Super Korrigan followspots, supplied by Show Technology Australia, are from Robert Juliat. Pictured here are Alex Fox, GCAC’s head followspot operator and Russell Jones, senior lighting technician.

 

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A.C.T Lighting Announces Staff Changes PDF Print E-mail

LOS ANGELES — A.C.T Lighting, an importer and distributor of lighting products in North America, has reorganized in response to growth and the addition of an East Coast office based in Hackensack, N.J. last year, according to Bob Gordon, CEO and president.

 

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Revisions Considered for ANSI Standard Related to DMX512-A PDF Print E-mail

NEW YORK — A revised version of ANSI E1.11 - 2004, Entertainment Technology — USITT DMX512-A, Asynchronous Serial Digital Data Transmission Standard for Controlling Lighting Equipment and Accessories, is available for public review on the ESTA website at www.esta.org/tsp/documents/public_review_docs.php through July 7, 2008.

 

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