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    CHAUVET Professional Lights at the Royal Society of Medicine

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    CHAUVET Professional COLORado Zoom Tour wash lights are part of an upgrade in the new lecture theatre at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, UK. Specified and installed by Northern Lights lighting company, six COLORado Zoom Tour fixtures are used as backlights on stage. “We love the control we have over the LEDs, especially being able to change color without fixing gels and to create color washes at a moment’s notice for our clients,” said Kevin McLoughlin, Audio Visual Manager at the Royal Society of Medicine. “Any saving in energy costs is always a positive thing, when we are endeavoring to make the building as environmentally friendly as possible. And although not huge, is definitely a step in the right direction. We do aim to upgrade our lighting in other lecture theatres over the next couple of years.”

    LD Profile: Chris Allen

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    Six questions with Chris Allen of Red Eye Audio and Lighting,

    1. How did you get into this field?
    I started in theater in high school, as an actor, and picked up some of the tech side just by being there. When a friend of mine and I started a local music event, we needed lights, so since I had the most experience out of the two of us, I was chosen. It turned out to be quite addicting, and here I am almost 10 years later, still at it.

    2. What do you think is the next big thing in the lighting industry?
    Projection has really taken off in the past few years. I remember doing my first show with projections a couple years ago, and going into it I thought it was very new and dynamic. Three years later, I’m still impressed with what tricks people are pulling with them.

    3. Do you have a favorite fixture (and why)?
    My SlimPAR 64 [wash lights] offer a ton of options and pack quite a punch. They’re small enough to fit almost anywhere, and they are useful in just about any situation.

    4. What has been your favorite design/project?
    My last project, designing the lights for “Valhella” with The Baltimore Rock Opera Society.  They were amazing people to work with, and they gave me a lot of room to do whatever I wanted. They dared me to dream big and I did. I kept getting compliments that it was the best lighting they’ve ever had. So having lots of creative freedom, a great crew to work along side, and tons of positive feedback made “Valhella” a once in a lifetime kind of show.

    5. What was the biggest unforeseen obstacle that you’ve faced in one of your designs, and how did you overcome it?
    For one show, I was unsure how to get all the different colors and looks that the director wanted onstage with a limited number of fixtures. Since the set was static and all the action took place in the same areas on stage and all that needed to change was the color, we rented color scrollers. I didn’t know we had the budget to rent them, but apparently we did. They were a bit of a hassle to get to work with the design exactly how I wanted, but in the end they saved the show.

    6. Complete this thought: A show without light is like…Dancing in the dark. Sure, the music is still great, but you can’t see the REAL action.

    Valhella image courtesy of Heather Keating

    CHAUVET Professional Gets the Party Going at Graduate Ball

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    Graduates at the University of Derby, in the U.K., partied under the light of 42 CHAUVET Professional fixtures. Thirty MVP 12 high-resolution video panels, six Legend 412 pixel-mapping moving yokes and six Q-Wash 560Z-LED wash lights, all owned by the university, created a fiery atmosphere and kept the party going all night long.

     

    CHAUVET Professional Demos Lights at New York Seminar

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    CHAUVET Professional demoed fixtures from the Ovation line of theatrical luminaires and from the COLORado series of wash lights at the eighth annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday seminar, presented by Sonny Sonnenfeld and Scott C. Parker Jan. 26, in New York City. Stage Lighting Designers Ken Billington and Richard Pilbrow made interesting and Illuminating presentations that engaged the audience.

    Chauvet Professional Legend Rocks All-Night Event in Birmingham

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    Fixtures from Chauvet’s Professional, DJ and TRUSST brand of trussing completed the exciting Godskitchen Christmas Party at the HMV Institute, in Birmingham, U.K. Twelve CHAUVET Professional Legend 412 pixel-mapping moving yokes worked for amazing effects from a triangular-shaped trussing system, built of four 3-meter and two 1-meter pieces of truss from TRUSST. SJ Grevett from DMX Productions of Birmingham also specified 12 CHAUVET DJ COLORband PiX eye-candy linear fixtures, which he placed on the DJ console.

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    Deadmau5 Electrifies Crowds in Front of MVP Video Panels

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    Two hundred and ten CHAUVET Professional video panels lit Deadmau5, Chris Lake and Audrey Napoleon during Audible, a EDM event at the Convention Center Hall, in El Paso, Texas. Provided by Creative Production & Design of Austin, Texas, 114 CHAUVET Professional MVP 18 and 96 MVP 12 modular video panels made up for an impressive display, conceived in layers of video walls with a 3D feel. Photos speak for themselves:

    Chauvet Professional, a Hit at Music Florida 2013 Conference

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    Chauvet recently traveled to Orlando for the Kempke’s Music Florida 2013 music conference held at the Wyndham Orlando Resort. Jeremy Pace, southeast territory manager for CHAUVET DJ, and Corey Silverman, president of Kor media & lighting, showcased both CHAUVET Professional and CHAUVET DJ gear to more than 300 church executives from all over the nation. Among the fixtures on display was CHAUVET Professional  COLORdash Par-Quad 7 PAR-style fixture, powered by seven quad-colored RGBA LEDs projecting a deeply saturated output and any variation of white, without multi-colored shadows.

    CHAUVET Professional Colorfully Tells A Tale of Two Fish

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    Eight CHAUVET Professional COLORado 1-Tri IP wash lights bring to life two fish made of 20,000 recycled bottles, as part of a unique installation at the Fort Lauderdale Beach, Fla. Entitled “A Tale of Two Fish,” the art piece was built to entertain locals and tourists during the holiday season and to highlight environmental sustainability. The bottles were collected from hundreds of special events, restaurants, stores and businesses, and were used to create the 20 feet tall by 25 feet wide art piece.  Sponsored by the City of Fort Lauderdale Improvement District and Beach Community Redevelopment Agency, the project is inspired from a similar installation in Botafogo Beach in Rio de Janeiro, as part of the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Brandano Displays and Unique Rabbit Studios designed and produced the attraction.

    LD Profile: Oscar Dominguez

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    Six questions with Oscar Dominguez, venerable lighting designer with more than 20 years of experience and visionary behind Darkfire Lighting Design. Dominguez’ projects include many of TV’s top rated shows such as “The Voice,” “Lopez Tonight,” “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette,” “Wipeout,” “Shark Tank,” “America’s Next Top Model,” “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader,” “Fear Factor” and more.

    1. How did you get started?
    My father was a manager for a restaurant across the street from this little sound stage in Van Nuys, California, and he pleaded with them to take me in for a day, which they did. So, I started working and doing little things, like cleaning the stage and mopping the floors — I was 17. A day came when one of the electrics didn’t show up for the call at the studio.  I was told, “here’s a wrench, now go up the ladder and see what you can do.” I started working my way out, became the house gaffer and learned from the other lighting designers working there. I started very low.

    2. What do you think is the next big thing in the industry?
    We need to figure out how to come up with one mega diode, a magical diode that works more like a traditional light. For output, people mention the number of LEDs, but this means sacrificing the purity of the light. I think we should witness a different approach in the way LEDs are utilized in fixtures. A lot of lights are designed by engineers, but we should see engineers and LDs working together and create an LED that would perform flawlessly. The LED is useful for its velocity in color change, but needs to stop being a two-dimensional light and morph into a 3D LED, to emit a light the same way a conventional light does.

    3. Do you have a favorite fixture (and why)?
    My favorite light is probably the source four Leko. It is an incredibly flexible and versatile instrument. If I had to I could light an entire set with just that fixture. If we are talking about the CHAUVET lights I use, the COLORdash Batten Tri lights proved to be an incredibly reliable fixture and a useful tool. I hate to love it, but I do.

    4. What has been your favorite design/project?
    “The Voice” — one hundred percent. It is my favorite and most intense project, at the same time. I love lighting for music and this has allowed me to really experiment. NBC has been extremely supportive and let us go deep. There are high expectations, there is a lot of stress and zero room for failure. Creativity is very important – every week you have to come up with new stuff.

    5. What was the biggest unforeseen obstacle that you’ve faced in one of your designs, and how did you overcome it?
    I remember I worked on this award show, and I forgot to draw the audience lighting. Somehow it happened, but I learned from it and from then on I knew I had to double check on every step.

    6. Complete this thought: A show without light is like…
    … radio.