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HD Video + Moving Rig for Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour Rock ‘n’ Roll Looks For Hair Stylist Awards Tao Group and High Resolution Lighting supplied a mix of projected and low-res imagery for L’Oreal’s event. Asymmetrically-populated sections of Barco OLite gave the backdrop a checkerboard look. VIENNA, Austria — The Queen + Paul Rodgers The Cosmos Rocks tour, with a new lighting design by Baz Halpin and rig supplied by Bandit Lites, is also setting a new mark with an all-HD video system from XL Video using modular Barco OLite 612 panels. “This is the first tour for us that has taken a high definition camera/PPU/recording package for its duration, and so it’s a significant milestone for everybody involved,” said Phil Mercer, XL Video project manager. An 85-square-meter upstage screen, designed by Mark Fisher, managing director at Stufish, dominates visuals. It’s made up of asymmetrically Barco’s VLI Business Unit Targets Fixed Installations populated sections of Barco OLite, with a block of fully populated OLite in the middle and 304 ACL bulbs strewn randomly across it, but symmetrically patched at the dimmers. The screen, which weighs seven metric tons, splits horizontally via a 24-way Kinesys automation system. “Barco’s OLite 612 fitted our design perfectly,” said Mark Fisher, managing director at Stufish. “We wanted to present the audience with a spectacular video and light experience befitting a band of this stature. OLite’s modularity once again enabled us to create something very special with a unique mix of video and lighting effects.” The screen frame, continued on page 54 KORTRIJK, Belgium — Barco announced the formation of its VLI Business Unit, which focuses on the fixed installation marketplace. The new unit is being set up as a way to support the needs of system integrators looking for product solutions, and Barco is also creating a global network of channel partners involved in architectural projects. Barco, which set a record earlier this year with its 10-million-pixel HD LED wall for Comcast in Philadelphia (see <strong>PLSN</strong>, Aug. 2008, p. 43), said the VLI unit is intended to <strong>com</strong>plement and enhance Barco’s ongoing role in the rental and staging marketplace. The business unit, which will also incorporate all projection projects for the corporate A/V market segment, will include a portfolio of products including projection, image processing, indoor and outdoor LED installations, lighting and show control products, including those in the portfolio of recently-acquired High End Systems. The program, similar to Barco’s rental partner network for the Live Events market, is intended to establish a network of continued on page 54 LONDON —TRIBE ’08, L’Oreal’s annual awards for the U.K.’s top hairdressers presented during London’s Fashion Week, needed more of a rock ‘n’ roll feel this year. So Wren Solares, managing director for Style by Solares, contracted with Tao Group to amp up the visuals on a stage supplied by Fonix and lit by Fineline. Tao’s Andy Cotton designed a production using two 4-meter-by-3-meter rear projection screens lit with Barco SLMR12 projectors. These screens were interspersed with 240 Stealth panels, supplied and operated by Peter Canning, LD for High Resolution Lighting. Fineline Lighting supplied a front and back flown lighting rig which included 32 High End Systems XSpots; 12 High End Studio Beams; 12 Palco LED fittings and 86 Par 64s, all controlled by an Avolites Sapphire 2000 Desk and Catalyst System. Fineline’s Darren Wring also produced the stage centerpiece — the TRIBE 08 logo in 3D, measuring 9 meters wide by 2.5 meters high. Presented by Alex Zane, who is with the TV program, Popworld, TRIBE 08 was attended by over 1,200 hairdressers and took place at London’s Battersea Evolution. continued on page 52 53 57 Inside... Moving to the Beat LEDs move with the dynamic set for Janet Jackson’s new tour. Video Digerati Finding the right tools for content creation. Ad info:http:// www.plsn.<strong>com</strong>/instant-info 2008 NOVEMBER <strong>PLSN</strong> 51
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