BIRMINGHAM, MI – Emagine Entertainment’s recently opened Emagine Palladium theatre features a Christie Experiential Networks (CEN) immersive digital signage installation in the lobby. It’s part of CEN’s nationwide rollout that is due to have 200 theatre lobbies in North America equipped with immersive visuals by the end of this year.
PLACENTIA, CA – Placentia Presbyterian Church worked with Christian Sound Services of Long Beach, CA on a video projection system that includes two LC-WXL200AL LCD projectors from Rancho Santa Margarita, CA-based Eiki International, Inc.
PHILADELPHIA — Starlite Productions and local artist, Meg Saligman, teamed up on a projection project that incorporated the architectural features of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. They projected video content onto the Cathedral’s aqua oxidized-copper dome in late September, during Pope Francis’ visit to the city. The imagery was also on display during Philadelphia’s big World Meeting of Families events.
BOSTON – Armin van Buuren brought his EDM show to Boston’s House of Blues Sept. 23. To support the visual component, Image Production Services provided 136 Chauvet Professional MVP Ta8 Curve SMD LED tiles, which feature an 8.33mm pixel pitch.
PHILADELPHIA – All around the Philadelphia area, organizations prepared for the largest and most historic event of the decade, The World Meeting of Families. One person, Pope Francis, took the stage in front of one million people to talk about faith, hope and prayer. Attendees gathered along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and surrounding areas that extended from City Hall to The Philadelphia Art Museum.
PARIS, France – Paris-based multimedia design collective, Danny Rose has won Silver in the Live Event VFX & Animation category at the AEAF Awards 2015 for their multimedia content created for Mechanized Color Assemblage, a work of project light art seen during Vivid Sydney earlier this year. Mechanized Color Assemblage was created in conjunction with Australian artist, Rebecca Baumann to transform the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia into a series of color and sound machines.
ORLANDO — X2O Media, a Barco company, announced that it will feature its X2O platform for enterprise visual communications at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo 2015, Oct. 4-8 in Orlando, Florida. Attendees will get a first-hand look at the platform’s innovative applications built to support today’s digital workforce, including the new X2O.Join Connected Desktop application. In addition, X2O will present a session titled “Powering the Digital Workplace.”
LONDON -South London based live event and technical solutions specialist PR Live has invested in its own LED screen surface, with an initial purchase of 120 panels of Absen A3 Pro 3.9mm pitch high definition product, complete with all necessary processing and rigging.
PHILADELPHIA — On his last stop in the U.S. before heading back to Rome, Pope Francis visited Philadelphia Sept. 26-27. DWP Live was there with video crew and gear to transform the look of the Philadelphia Museum of Art with a large-format projection.
LONDON – For Ed Sheeran’s “X Tour,” lighting and production designer Mark Cunniffe and production manager Chris Marsh are presenting visuals enhanced with d3 and Demolition, a real-time effects generator, exclusively available on the d3 platform.
ENCINITAS, CA – To support the live production and live streaming needs of the 11th annual Switchfoot Bro-Am fundraiser at Moonlight Beach, Austin, TX-based TourGigs used Blackmagic products, including ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4K switchers. TourGigs worked with broadcast journalism students from nearby Carlsbad High School to run the production of the event, which drew a crowd of 20,000 attendees and was streamed to 75,000 more viewers.
NEW YORK – This summer a large group of event technology followers gathered at Metropolitan Pavilion to eat Papaya King hot dogs and learn about the latest 4K display technology. Presented by WorldStage, the hands-on work session illustrated the different levels of image quality achieved by comparing HD projection to 4K projection. New projectors from Christie were used for the event.