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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,
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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 PLSN, Aug. 2008, p. 43), said the VLI unit is
intended to complement 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
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Moving to the Beat
LEDs move with the dynamic set for
Janet Jackson’s new tour.
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