NEW YORK — Visitors to Brookfield Office Properties’ new corporate headquarters here can view a new ultra high-res video wall made from 36 ultra narrow bezel 55” screens. The content, featuring the company’s history with high-res visuals and motion graphics, is driven by Dataton’s Watchout multi-display system.
LONDON — The new British movie, Cuban Fury, features S+H Technical Support’s Video Floor product. Thirty-six panels of the Video Floor were delivered and installed as a dance floor surface at north London venue Koko by S+H for production company Awesome Effects.
LONDON — XL Video is assisting maverick rockers The Stranglers celebrate 40 years in the music industry with the band’s “Big Ruby” tour of the U.K. and Europe. The video design includes four “picture frames” upstage, representing both the four original members of the band and the four decades the band has been performing.
BURBANK, CA — Christie created an outdoor movie theater of sorts for a fundraiser staged by the Lollipop Theater Network on behalf of children fighting chronic illnesses or life threatening diseases. The fundraising event, “A Night Under the Stars,” was set for April 26 at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio lot here. Along with members of its managed services team, who assisted with the event, Christie provided its CP4220 projector for the screening of the animated film, Rio 2.
NASHVILLE — For a mid-March conference attended by more than 3,400 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices agents and brokers (including former Prudential realtors) and coordinated by Corporate Magic, the AV setup included five rolling GV10mm carbon fiber LED panels (each 6’7” x 9’10”) from GoVision LP, L-R stationary projection screens (6’ x 9’) and LED triangles forming the shape of a house.
NEW YORK – Pete’s Big TVs supplied high res LED video panels and a video tech crew for the 29th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony staged April 10 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. Pete’s Big TVs provided 378 digiLED MC7 LED panels for the 65-by-15-foot (WxH) video wall that served as the centerpiece for production designer Bruce Rodgers’ set design. Pete’s also provided 60 panels of Absen A3 3.9mm for L-R displays behind the podiums.
BURWASH, East Sussex, U.K. – Rudyard Kipling’s former home, called Bateman’s, now showcases his life and work. The historic residence has received a lighting upgrade from CLD Distribution that includes warm white LED strips for various display cases. The LED fittings were chosen because they do not emit damaging UV and keep heat to a minimum.
SYDNEY – Technical Direction Company supported projection needs of the short film John Was A Good Man. Directed by by Kate Kazokas and Lucy Adelaide, the film’s participants tell a short eulogy of their lives to date, using the third person. As they are speaking, video images of themselves got projected onto their own faces to heighten the sense of reflection and self-analysis.
