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Lighting designer Seth Giles will soon be leaving his New Zealand home for a 3 month tour in Europe with his MA Lighting International MA onPC command wing safely packed in his luggage. Although Seth has mainly been using his MA onPC command wing in his local theatre for small shows, it will soon be operating on some of the …
New Zealand’s TomTom Productions has a long history with Queenstown’s Winterfestival which has many sites for which they provide production. The main ones this year included The Bathhouse stage which hosted bands including Tiki, The Feelers and The Black Seeds, and was brilliantly furnished by snowflake Martin Professional VDO Sceptrons, and lit with Claypaky Mythos. Martin VDO Sceptrons, designed around …
It’s not often that a client is so motivated by one of our products, they have to put pen to paper but this is just what happened after Tom Willis of Willis Lighting used his recently purchased Ayrton Ghiblis. Naturally we were delighted to read about his experience and we hope you will too …… When I started in the …
Perth’s Elite Audio Visual Productions needed to again expand their lighting inventory and they required a fixture that provided high build quality, low maintenance and was basically an all-round solid unit. “We of course touched base with our incredible supplier Show Technology and once we were shown the Claypaky Axcor 300 Beam, we immediately knew that this ticked all the …
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre has taken delivery of three MA Lighting International dot2 core consoles and two dot2 fader wings. The dot2 consoles and wings have been installed into the BCEC Grey St Building; five levels of new meeting space, including two auditoria. Preconfigured lighting states have been programmed into each console to enable ease of use by the …
Australian DJ duo Flight Facilities have been back on the road this month as part of the Groovin the Moo Tour, and production design firm Colourblind was once again engaged to come up with the stage concept. Together with Sam Whiteside, they designed a curved wall of LED strips. But it needed to be lightweight and easy to transport – …
Audio Visual Events take great pride in being able to offer their clients the latest in AV equipment and so it was no surprise that they were the first production company in Australia to welcome a fleet of eight Claypaky Axcor Profile 900, Claypaky’s first spotlight to use an LED light source instead of a traditional discharge lamp. “Essentially we …
The 2018 CMC Music Awards recently took place at The Star Gold Coast with a stunning production and lighting design by Josh Moffat of Zennacle. The impressive lighting rig was supplied by NW Group and included Claypaky Scenius Unicos and Profiles as well as over 100 Martin moving lights. “I’ve used the Claypaky Scenius fixtures on several events and they’re …
Tasmania’s PMLS (Professional Music and Lighting Systems) recently picked up 18 ShowPRO Brix FC outdoor-rated, high-output RGBW COB LED blinders with modular design for deploying large arrays. “We purchased them mainly for their versatility,” said Paul Goss, Account Manager at PMLS. “They are something we can use both outside in the weather but also to get a good effect on …
The 2018 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), hosted at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal, saw the latest range of Claypaky and ADB lighting fixtures dominate the beautifully evocative, multi-dimensional, theatrical and camera pleasing lighting design by award-winning lighting designer and Director of Photography (DOP) Jerry Appelt. A statement against the often flattening overuse of video in entertainment presentations, Appelt’s design …
