At 4.15 on the afternoon of Saturday 6 February, a little over 24 hours before the Super Bowl celebrated its 50th birthday, another American cultural icon hit the big 5-0 as a procession of 80 brightly decked out floats with 3,100 equally festooned riders made its way out of City…
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Santa doing a bit of stripping
In its latest project, Sound Systems UK collaborated with LEGO to design and install both the sound and lighting elements of the new ‘Santa Express’ train which boasts half-a-million LEGO bricks. It is the fifth year that LEGO has constructed a festive installation over the Christmas period, showcased at London’s…
SGM supports intimate ice show with light and shadows
A spectacular ice-skating show at the Verona arena in Italy has made use of SGM LED luminaires for its lighting effects. The fixtures for the Intimissimi on Ice show were selected by award-winning lighting designer Bruno Poet and were chosen for their flexibility. Poet said he felt privileged and inspired…
New Zealand Fashion Week runs to Robe for runway
Robe BMFL light fixtures have been used to light up the latest couture at New Zealand Fashion Week. Twelve of the fixtures were rigged on a spine truss above a 30-metre polished concrete presentation runway by Simon Garrett of Oceania Productions. New Zealand Fashion Week 2015 attracted the chic, the…
American Idiot inspires enthusiasm at PRG XL Video
AV consultancy PRG XL Video has worked with lighting director Tim Deiling to make a musical entitled American Idiot become a hit on the London stage. The musical, which originally ran on Broadway, features music from the band Green Day and ran at the Arts Theatre in Leicester Square, meeting with…
Veteran charities see red at War Museum fundraising event
The Imperial War Museum in London has been lit in red for Remembrance Day with Core ColourPoint Mark 2 battery-powered LED up-lighters. The magnificent building - originally built from 1812 to 1814 as the Bethlem Hospital –provided a charismatic venue for a high-profile charity fundraising event staged by the City…
Record crowds have a whale of a time at light festival
The fourth edition of the UK’s largest light festival has taken place in Durham, attracting record crowds of more than 200,000 visitors according to first estimates. The four-night Lumiere event, which is organised by the Artichoke Trust, brought together 29 lighting art installations spread across the city, including a whale…
Lighting up the Barbican
The new rig has been designed by Jason Kew, Technical Supervisor in charge of lighting in the Barbican’s Music Department, and the fixtures were specified by Jason and Mark Bloxsidge, Technical Manager (Music Events), following an evaluation which involved the whole technical team at the Barbican Hall. The order was…
SGM P-5s light up the night sky at Singapore Grand Prix
The 2015 Singapore Grand Prix Night Race saw the city lit up by LED technology from SGM in a switch from the conventional flood lighting used in previous years. The architectural illumination was provided by Singapore-based Hexogen Solution which has previous experience of national and international events, such as the…
GLP impression X4 S and X4 L shed light on YouTube stars
Leading lighting designer Bjorn Hermann has selected GLP’s new impression X4 S and X4 L for a stage show which gave 15,000 YouTube fans a chance to see the stars of this medium live. The products were used to boost a giant matrix at the second Video Days show at…