The 2016 NSW Schools Spectacular was held at Qudos Bank Arena over the weekend and the production has found its way into the Guinness Book of Records for the world’s largest variety show! Lighting designer Trudy Dalgleish specified 600 moving lights including 65 x Claypaky Sharpy, 10 x Claypaky Sharpy Wash, 30 x Claypaky Alpha 1500 Spot, 184 x Martin …
Paul Collison designed the lighting for last week’s ARIA Awards and Chameleon Touring systems supplied the following, in conjunction with equipment and crew from the Star Events centre: 36 x Martin Professional MAC Viper Air FX 6 x Martin Viper Performance 12 x Martin Viper Spot 36 x Martin Aura 124 x Martin Aura 16 x Claypaky Scenius 8 x …
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,” commented Jeff Hewitt, Metro’s managing director. …
The lighting department at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre has boosted its stock with the recent acquisition of twelve Martin Professional MAC Viper Profiles, twelve Clay Paky B-Eye K 10’s, four Clay Paky Alpha 700 HPE and sixty-four ShowPro LED Cyc RGBWA units. These units were specifically chosen as a flexible production lighting solution for Plenary, both for corporate …
Lighting designer Tom Wright had the difficult task of lighting the pre-match entertainment at this year’s NRL Grand Final at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium. Fortunately, he had done the job before, as well as several State of Origins, and knew how to overcome the complexities associated with the production.“You never really know where you are until one to two weeks out,” …
Every September Defqon.1 Festival takes place at the Sydney International Regatta Centre, transforming this breathtaking venue into the ultimate party island. This year Chromatic designed the stage and lighting, using thirty-four Clay Paky Sharpy and sixteen Mythos to full effect.The theme was Dragon Blood but as the 2012 stage had been a dragon, inspiration was taken from another mythical creature …
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 looking for a unit with …
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, awesome – we learnt stuff!” …
Over the past few months Entertainment Installations has purchased twenty-six Ayrton MagicBlades whose unique feature is the layout of its seven RGBW LED sources in-line, paired with the highly intensive angle of the optics, which allow the creation of light curtains with genuine overall consistency. “Having watched Ayrton MagicBlades being spec’ed on tours in Europe over 2015 I thought it …
One of the lighting world’s most esteemed and famous lighting designers Richard Pilbrow has been in Sydney lighting the classic musical My Fair Lady. The 2016 production recreates the 1956 Broadway production of My Fair Lady. Associates of the original design team came onboard for this production to help bring to life once again the stunning sets by Oliver Smith …
