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Undisputed super-middleweight world champion Joe Calzaghe was awarded the long-awaited title of BBC Sports Personality of the Year for the first time this year, despite having spent the last 10 years as world champion.
Luckily, lighting suppliers PRG didn't have to wait so long to receive their gobos. John McEvoy of PRG Greenford commissioned Goboland to make four colour glass gobos for the pre- and post-show parties around the event, which was filmed by early in December at BBC TV Centre.
"We have recently started to get our coloured glass gobos from Goboland and are very pleased with the results," says McEvoy. "Despite them coming across from Belgium, we find there is no difference in delivery time from having them made in the UK and we are very happy to be working with Goboland."
The gobos - tonal images of the SP07 logo featuring a monochrome SP and old style BBC TV camera alongside a coloured '07'- were produced in four separate colours for PRG's VL3000 fixtures.
"The Design and Communications company, Imagination, spent some time considering whether to invest in the glass gobos," explains McEvoy, "before deciding to go ahead."
The decision turned out to be a good one. "We were glad we made the investment," explains Imagination's Production Manager Adam Daly. "The gobos were one of the best things on the night. They worked well within the VL3000s and did much to enhance the atmosphere of the party"
THE HEARTLANDS PROJECT |
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The Heartlands Project is a Lottery funded initiative, promoted by Kerrier District Council, designed to re-awaken the historically rich but financially deprived area around mid-Cornwall. This area, famed for its long history of mining, has recently been given World Heritage Site status and future plans are to make it 'a major cultural landscape and ... symbol for Cornish communities around the world' (CPR Regeneration website http://www.cprregeneration.co.uk)
Cornwall's Urban Regeneration company, CPR Regeneration, commissioned public artist Anne Smyth to create an artwork which would highlight the ongoing project.
'I was asked to work with the local community to enliven and flag up the project,' she explains. 'One of my main mediums for working in is glass and I was chosen because of my interest in colour and light, and the projection possibilities that would lead to.
'This is a very community-led project and the architects and I were asked to work with local school children to involve the community and raise awareness of the project.
'At one school an ex-miner brought in some artefacts from when the mines were still working. Amongst them were the name tags which miners used every day to clock in and out of work. The children were especially fascinated by these as so many of the names were, naturally, the same as their own and many of the same names cropped up time and again over the past 350 years. These seemed to form an ideal focus of how important mining has been to this tight knit community.'
Smyth decided to use these as the basis for her artwork and wanted to project them onto the centre-piece of the project, the engine-house known as Robinson's Shaft.
'I knew what I wanted to achieve but not how to achieve it,' she explains. 'It took me a long time to find the right person but eventually I came across Wyatt Enever at Studio Wyatt who was able to undertake the specialist nature of the work.'
An exterior Derksen 1200W projector, supplied by Stagecraft, was specified due to its high output and superior lens quality. This precluded the use of film or Cibachrome which would not survive the intense heat.
'I decided that dichroic glass would be the only answer,' states Enever, 'but needed to find someone who had the facility to cut dichroic glass in such a large format, the high resolution to match the fine lens quality of the Derksen, and the accuracy of registration to align the highly detailed images correctly.'
Goboland matched all these criteria and produced two full CMYK dichroic discs - to be used in conjunction with each other as counter rotating wheels. Goboland believes these are the largest, high resolution imaged, dichroic discs to have been made to date.
'I was delighted with the result,' states Smyth, 'this is just what I was hoping to achieve'
The projections illuminate Robinson's Shaft from 9pm - 1am every evening.
Further information can be obtained from Anne Smyth Glass. anne@annesmyth.com
FINALLY |
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Finally, we have noticed that most of our stories seem to be UK or Belgian based! We are looking for dealer stories to feature editions of Bright Shadows. If you would like to contribute, please email details directly to our press agent Julie Harper at julie@joolzharper.co.uk
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