Projection Connection News

MARBURG, Germany – Lighting and video design company LOOP LIGHT normally uses a large number of projectors and technologically challenging setups on a big scale. Lately they’ve been thinking small is beautiful, using the coolux Pandoras Box Player’s warping and compositing features to micro-map onto small to mid-sized products within a standardized glass case.

LAS VEGAS — Adaptive Video Walls and Displays has teamed up with Sharp Electronics and WorldStage to create what they hope may be one of the world’s largest flown LCD video wall display. The companies built the display for Surf the Musical, a new production in Las Vegas featuring the 1960s Songs of the Beach Boys, and it has been submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records.

DALLAS – Saturday’s H2O Music Festival featured LED video screens from GoVision LP to ensure the thousands of fans could see Tiesto, Weezer, Mana, Juanes, Snoop Dogg and others on the bill. GoVision erected twin 39 ft x 28 ft LED walls on each side of the main stage, along with a split 30 ft x 48 ft upstage backdrop screen, all configured from their inventory of Daktronics PST-12HD tiles.

BRIGHTON, UK – XL Video supplied 200 square meters of LED screen, cameras, crew and more to Fatboy Slim’s Fifth Beach Bootique show, which was the first entertainment event to be staged at the new Amex Community Stadium at Falmer, Brighton, UK. The wide-screen design created for the stage comprised seven screens. This was a collaborative concept evolved by Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), creative director Tim Fleming, production manager Mark Ward and LD Steven Abbiss.

SAN FRANCISCO  – After its design and construction of the California Academy of Sciences’ planetarium in 2008, Visual Acuity has returned to assist with the design of ‘Earthquake.’ The new installation includes a walk-through model of the Earth, an interactive space designed to teach earthquake preparedness, and a quake simulator resembling an old Victorian house.

LONDON – The UK’s weekend-long celebration of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebration hit a high point with The Queen’s Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace. XL Events played a big role in the concert, creating the projection mapping onto the Palace and also the wraparound screens for the concert stage around the Queen Victoria Monument in front of the Palace. LD Durham Marenghi and XL Event’s Project Manager Steve Greetham guided the design.

NEW YORK – “American Idiot: The Musical” is now on national tour with AV support from WorldStage. The tour began directly after the Broadway run of the show, which is based on Green Day’s album. The show features an extensive amount of video with more than three dozen flat-screen monitors, provided by Vizio, suspended in frames throughout the obliquely angled warehouse-like living space by set designer Christine Jones.  The set’s walls also serve as large projection surfaces. The key was designing a touring system to accommodate a variety of venues.

RANCHO CORDOVA, CA– Barco and Mankin Media Systems (MMS) have created a new AV system designed to elevate the video shows supporting Silverdale Baptist Church’s sermons and programs. Energy efficiency was of paramount importance. When Silverdale and MMS evaluated projectors, they considered power-saving features just as critical as performance and image. Their choice: Barco’s HDX-W14 large venue projector.

ARLINGTON, MA— Smart Light Sports is training athletes and coaches in a new light. The new patent-pending systems use Hitachi CP-X10000 3LCD projectors to display animated graphics and images onto the playing surface where the athletes can practice in an entirely new and engaging way.

WASHINGTON, DC – It was a case of perfect harmony when WorldStage successfully delivered a complex projection and audio solution for “Song1,” artist Doug Aitken’s ambitious multimedia piece, which premiered on the cylindrical facade of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Aitken wanted “Song1” to be an exercise in “liquid architecture,” and the Hirshhorn’s facade seemed to disappear when it was transformed into an urban canvas for fluid images of rippling water, floating boats and cars streaming down liquid-metal highways.