Projection Connection News

TUSTIN, CA – For the third year in a row, Video Applications Inc. (VAI) has supported Trevor LIVE, an annual event sponsored by The Trevor Project, the leading national organization focused on crisis intervention and suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ youth. Held at the Hollywood Palladium, the ready-for-primetime show honored Kathy Griffin and featured guest performances by Sarah Silverman, Wayne Brady, Neil Patrick Harris and Queen Latifah. The special guest producing director was Adam Shankman.

LOS ANGELES – For visuals that ranged from vintage scenery and film clips to futuristic time travel, the video production crew for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards (the Oscars) used 34 Hippotizer HDs and a total of 53 discrete active outputs. Hippotizer's UberPan multiple display software component controlled video feeds for over 70 projectors.

CALGARY, AB – Daktronics rental partner GoVision provided a large-screen LED video wall and ribbon board displays to support the 2011 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic, held Feb. 20 at McMahon Stadium. Both gear and crew weathered the outdoor conditions and single-digit temperatures.

PAYNESVILLE, MN – Intermedia Systems Group provided a complete AV system for Grace United Methodist Church that included high definition video displays, a Vaddio HD PTZ remotely controlled camera system and a digital audio system to back it all up.

REDWOOD CITY, CA – In the last several years Shinnyo-en Buddhists have conducted the Saisho Homa fire rite ceremony in Taiwan, Paris and Berlin. This year, the prayer ceremony for world peace was brought to the U.S. for the first time and documented by Gorilla Production Group with AV technical support from Video Applications Inc. (VAI).

ORLANDO – J. Thor Productions, Inc. and Jacobs Incentive Travel teamed up to support an annual event attended about 300 executives associated with The Melting Pot Restaurants chain.

LONDON – It may have been the 10th consecutive year that XL Video has provided support for the Brit Awards, but the 2011 edition was anything but the same-old same-old.

JOHANNESBURG – Gearhouse South Africa's AV division has stocked up with an order for 100 of Christie Digital's MicroTiles. Operations manager Bhans Sheomangal credited the tiles for ease-of-use, reliability and versatility. The tiles, made with DLP technology, were purchased via Christie South Africa. When all used together as one surface, the 100 MicroTiles cover a 4 by 3 meter area.

NEW YORK – In Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, which opens on Broadway for previews Feb. 28, 2011, the musical's visual focal point is the show's namesake: a roving set piece done up as a tour bus, emblazoned with Traxon Technologie's String RGB fixtures – nearly 30,000 LEDs in all.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – The exhibit technology team at Bowen Technovation chose Furman's P-8 PRO II and AC-215A power conditioners to protect sensitive components in the control room equipment racks at the Computer History Musuem, used for flat-panel displays, touch screens and projectors throughout the museum's multimedia exhibits.