Projection Connection News

SUSSEX, U.K. — At the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed, Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) provided a video wall from Christie MicroTiles measuring 12.25 meters wide and 2.754 meters high, using 270 MicroTiles. The display, the largest yet to be built for temporary use in Europe, was for the Audi stand at the event’s indoor exhibition pavilion area at the Goodwood House in Sussex.

LOS ANGELES — The 22-city Styx/Yes Progressive U.S. Tour included a 12.5-48 foot high-resolution LED screen made up of 230 Elation EPV15 flex LED panels supplied by Pete’s Big TVs. Pete’s Big TVs has purchased 600 panels to add to its rental inventory.

HAMBURG, Germany — Martin LC Series LED panels were used to visually present Twitter tweets as “tweet bubbles,” part of a multi-media installation at TEDxHamburg in late May. The event, part of the TED nonprofit organization’s “Ideas Worth Spreading” public speaking program, took place at Curio House in Hamburg under the theme, “Realities Rebuilt.” About 22 square meters of LC Series LED panels were installed in the ceiling of the conference space and used to display live data from the global Twitter network related to TEDxHambug.

DALLAS — GoVision provided a 12 by 20.5 foot Barco I6 high resolution LED screen as a backdrop for the Big 12 Football Media Days media days, held July 25-26 at the Westin Galleria. Coaches, players and the soon-to-be-launched Longhorn Network (LHN) all took turns in the media spotlight.

NEW YORK — Valencia Production Partners (VPP) produced the high-energy 2011/2012 upfront for youth-oriented network The CW with support from WorldStage companies Video Applications, Inc. and Scharff Weisberg Inc. VPP, which has staged upfronts for The CW since its debut seven years ago, moved the venue to the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center where the young actors associated with the network’s returning and new primetime series were joined by immersive visuals.

SIMI VALLEY, CA — Curtis Kelly of Delicate Sales worked with Reagan Library director of education Mira Cohen on the AV incorporated into the Air Force One Discovery Center, using AV gear from Alcorn McBride to give middle school students a taste of what Presidential decision-making process is like.

LOS ANGELES — High Resolution Systems LLC worked with Robb Wagner of Burbank’s Stimulated, Inc. on a new way to feed content to the big screens at the recent 2011 MTV Movie Awards live telecast.

CARLSBAD, CA — The Corporate Event Marketing Association (CEMA) Summit 2011 featured AV Concepts’ Liquid Scenic live event technology, which brings scenery to life through a process of HD projection.

NEW ALBANY, IN – Northside Christian Church has grown from providing services in the basement of a house to services for up to 6,000 worshippers every weekend. And although its AV capabilities had grown as well, the church needed gear that was a better fit with the non-technical people who were operating it.

ATLANTA — Active Production and Design, Inc., which recently added LED video screen rentals to its AV, lighting, special effects, staging and set design services, didn’t just tiptoe into the market. With its recent purchase of 80 of the 2’2” square EVLED 1024SMD 20mm LED panels from Elation Professional, the company is declaring that it can now put together a peach of a display — “the largest LED wall in Georgia,” if needed — for corporate clients, who make up 70 percent of the company’s business.