From May to June 2017 MJF LIGHTING LIMITED’s Shamus Jackson was invited to be the Head LX/Operator on the Tiki Taaane Mahuta Tour. He travelled across New Zealand with his young family in tow and also Taki Rua Productions to thirteen different locations. “It was a great experience,” he mused. “The equipment was simple to…
H3 Group is a unit within New Zealand’s Hamilton City Council which manages three major venues; Claudelands Event Centre, FMG Stadium Waikato and Seddon Park. H3’s Technical Services department recently acquired an MA Lighting grandMA2 light, the perfect tool to control multiple lighting fixtures – conventionals, moving lights, LEDs, video, and media. The console supplies…
Sven Naumann of Auckland’s Bright Spark Productions Limited had an on-going job that required a console that anyone in the industry could pick up and program. “We were originally running with a New Zealand made product that was not user-friendly for those that didn’t know it and not many people in our industry did!” he…
H3 is a unit within New Zealand’s Hamilton City Council which manages three major venues; Claudelands Event Centre, FMG Stadium Waikato and Seddon Park. Within H3 is a Technical Services department which takes care of all production requirements for events in all of those venues. Recently, it was decided that the addition of Martin Professional…
New Zealand’s Vibrant Lighting have been looking to replace their Hog 3 console with something newer and because the business has grown over the last few years, they were looking for a more capable console. “Initially, we looked at the Hog 4 range,” remarked Sarah Edwards, Designer/Project Manager at Vibrant Lighting NZ. “I have used…
New Zealand’s Metro Productions have added four Martin Professional MAC Viper Performances to their rental stock. The MAC Viper Performance is a full-feature framing fixture complete with an iris and animation wheel along with rotating gobos. “We wanted a moving light profile that had a shutter and the MAC Viper Performance filled that brief nicely,”…
New Zealand’s Vibrant Lighting, based in the South Canterbury area, have been providing lighting and entertainment solutions to the area since 2000. They are often asked to quote LED PARs for schools, and had already noticed that there was a significant price gap between Chinese brand LED, and decent quality fixtures, especially if you are…
Our first New Zealand MA Lighting International grandMA training event was held at our Auckland office this week. Branch manager Karla Kimi declared the event an all-round success, “We had a fantastic MA training for the last few days resulting in very happy customers!” Karla has been receiving some very positive feedback….. “It was great,…