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As you read this month’s issue of Bright Shadows, you may be making your preparations for travel to one of November’s trade shows, as we are at Goboland. We would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit us on one of our stands.

We will be present at LDI, Orlando (November 16-18) on Booth 585 and at ACF, Brussels (November 14 –17) at the Brussels Exhibition Centre where we will be on the Erca-EVDV stand (No 12230). You will have the opportunity to see for yourselves our new Black Steel Gobos and the famous Goboland Black Holes. We look forward to seeing you there.

It has been a month since our Black Steel Gobos were introduced at PLAS in London and the feedback we have received since then has been fantastic. Thank you to all of you who took the trouble to let us know your thoughts. Here are just a couple of them:

Tom Satchell from T&M Technical Services in Cardiff says, “The black gobos are sexy! We mainly use them in ETC Source 4s where they make a huge difference to reflection. I used a couple of the Collection designs (2 260 066 268 Flower Power) when we were lighting Cardiff in Bloom. These went into moving heads where they performed really well in the hot conditions. I suppose you could say they blossomed!”

Luke Swaffield, self-confessed gobo-lover from Guildhall School of Music and Drama had some custom gobos made for his Martin Mania PR1 and Mac500 units and definitely had a few words to say.

“I ordered a few custom made black gobos and I was very impressed. When I took them out of the lantern they remained black and there was no discolouration, They looked so much more sleek than the traditional silver ones. I think all gobos should be black like yours in the future.”

Back in August Goboland played a part in the 4th Antwerp Fashion Trade Fair, ‘A Fair’, when we were approached by Dragonfly Dream, organisers of the prestigious Golden Edition at the Waagnatie. Goboland supplied a number of gobos featuring the designers represented in over 230 collections as they were paraded on the catwalk.

Photos courtesy of Julie Dorny - Dragonfly Dream.

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In October, Beam Inc. of Antwerp commissioned Goboland to make full colour glass custom gobos for the launch of the Roberto Cavalli clothing line at H&M in Poland.

All images were keystoned for precision results and, using Robert Juliat 934 profiles, were projected onto the exterior of the highest building in Poland - the110m high Novotel in Warsaw - to mark the launch.

The event has been unrolling world-wide with women queuing for hours before stores opened while in our home town of Antwerp the collection from Cavalli was sold out less than half an hour after the store opened.

Pictures courtesy Jan Van Briel - Beam Inc.

The bi-annual Jazz Middelheim Festival took place in the beautiful lakeside setting of The Brand in the middle of Antwerp this summer. Using High End Studio Spot 575 units projecting onto the backdrop within the main tent, the festival organisers approached Goboland to supply them with some jazz images and logos for Radio 1 and Opel, presenters of the festival. We were delighted to be able to help them by turning the glass gobos around within 24 hours.

When we added the Lee Lighting range of gobos into the Goboland catalogue earlier in the year, our intention was to increase the amount of choice lighting designers have from one centralised, reliable source. We have continued the trend by sharing our Collection with even more companies.

LX-designs, creators of the P.C. based 2D lighting design application LxDesigner, has integrated the full Goboland Collection into their lighting design software. The program is designed to run on a Windows® 98, 2000, NT or XP based P.C. and includes a selection of libraries containing symbols for the various set, rigging, fixtures and accessories used in the design process, including the Goboland gobos. The lighting plan is built up by simply dragging and dropping the required symbols on to the drawing area. LxDesigner can be found at www.lxdesigns.co.uk

VectorWorks Spotlight, the entertainment and lighting design software, has also adopted the Goboland Collection into its software. Merging sophisticated 2D drafting and powerful 3D modelling with advanced lighting design and production tools, VectorWorks makes it easy to create lighting plots, place set and scenic elements on stage, automate reports and schedules, and visualise design concepts in 3D. More information can be found on their website at www.nemetschek.net

Due for release on the next CD issue, Martin Professional has posted news on its forum notifying current Martin ShowDesigner customers that the Goboland Collection is available for download with immediate effect. The Martin ShowDesigner allows you to create realistic set and lighting design renderings using reflection, transparency, lighting, shadow and smoke, and is invaluable as a high quality production or sales presentation tool. The forum can be accessed at www.martin.com/forum

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To continue spreading the Goboland name these are some of the indexes and websites to which we have recently been added:

AC Lighting: www.aclighting.com/shop/cat_productsWhite Light LX Store: www.lxstore.comCapricorn Lighting: www.capricorn-lighting.comLighting Professional.com: www.lighting-professional.com/cocoon/lighting-professional/equipment.xspJust Floyd: http://justfloyd.co.uk/links.htmlShowlite Sound and Light: www.showlitesoundandlight.co.uk

With a story line that ‘zips around in time and location’, Baghdad Wedding presented lighting designer Jenny Kagan with the challenge of guiding the audience through a complex series of flashbacks and real time scenes on a minimal set with limited lighting equipment.

One particular section deals with the protagonist telling the story, from his hospital bed, of how he was captured by insurgents. There is a lot of potentially confusing cutting between the present time hospital and the story of the hideout, so we needed

a visual vocabulary to define the shifts between the two. I had to find a way to indicate a new strand of narrative very clearly, with a look which was very different from anything which came before. The set was a simple concrete slab and I had to be very economical with lighting equipment so I felt gobo projection was the ideal solution, she explains.

Kagan wanted to create a feel of a broken down house in the countryside with bomb damaged roof patterns for the insurgents hideout. There was nothing available in any of the existing stock gobo resources that would achieve the desired result so she decided to design something herself.

Sourcing some photographs of actual bomb damaged buildings from picture libraries, Kagan de-saturated the images before printing them and redrawing into them by hand. The results were photographed and the whole process repeated again until she had something that worked. The hand drawing is essential as it gives the finished image a more organic feel, she explains.

The final result was a pair of gobos one a pictorial representation of roof timbers, the second a more abstract version - which worked well together. I enjoyed using these gobos very much and am sure I'll find many more applications for them in the future, so am delighted they've been added to the Goboland catalogue, she says.

Photo supplied by Christoph Wagner, Head of Lighting, Soho Theatre

Written, directed, designed and lit by the multi-talented Eelco de Jong, Utopia the Game is an ambitious work of fantasy, drawing on old traditions and combining them with the modern, using a myriad of sets and grand visual effects.

Following the huge success of their adaptation of The Lion King in June 2006, Centre de Danse choreographers, Eva Caillé-Dalais and Thabo Legrand, returned to the Vivekananda Centre in Mauritius to present this original creation largely through the

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medium of dance.

With the action commencing on Christmas Eve, 1968, two Mauritian children, Ethan and Shanya, buy a strange game console on the market of Port Louis. It becomes clear that the console houses creatures living in another dimension and they discover that they have something more than a simple game console in their hands.

With evil protagonists emerging from the console, a hero who practises the art of silence and travels freely through space and time, and a storyline which takes us to the France of Louis XIV, to the origin of the universe, the garden of Eden, to the highest mountains of the Himalaya, the scope for design and interpretation is immense.

De Jong decided to ‘utilise the scenic potential of the great hall of Vivekananda together with the best special effects specialists’. Robe 1200 fixtures projected Goboland custom glass gobos across the 22m x 12m backdrop. These included wide angle images such as the huge face seen here and a projection of the world map consisting of 6 separate gobos – each one covering a continent.

Photos Courtesy of Eelco de Jong