DELHI, India – India's Tourism Development Corporation, a government-run entity, commissioned a permanent 40-minute son et lumière from Ross Ashton's U.K.-based company, The Projection Studio, at Purana Qila, a fort founded by the second Mughal Emperor, Humayun in 1533.
DETROIT – For the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), Creative Technology (CT) was once again in the driver's seat for AV support for auto brands including Audi, Bentley, BMW/MINI, Ford, Hyundai, Jaguar, Kia, Lexus, Lincoln, Toyota and Volkswagen.
ARGYLE, TX – Super Bowl week is under way in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area, with mobile video support from locally-based GoVision. The Dallas Cowboys, the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee and a host of corporations, event management firms, not-for-profits and venues have all enlisted visual support from the company's inventory of LED video screens.
AARHUS, Denmark and ANS, Belgium – Martin Professional and Deltacast announced an agreement where Martin will be using the Delta-hd and Delta-dvi video capture cards in its Maxedia PRO and Maxedia Broadcast media servers.
HUDDERSFIELD, U.K. – Huddersfield's Festival of Light took place in early December in St. George's Square, and related events included the Trail of Light for local landmarks, included a dynamic lighting design for the exterior of the Media Centre building.
SINGAPORE – Singapore City Hall lit up with more than just 45 candles during the city's most recent birthday celebrations. For the Singapore National Day Parade (NDP), Glorious Pte Ltd provided video projections of Singapore's history, using the building as a canvas. The images were processed with four Hippotizer V3 HD machines and beamed on the building via Christie Roadster HD18K projectors.
NEW YORK – Window shoppers along Fifth Avenue saw the façade of Saks lit up with a large-scale projection light show, The Snowflake & The Bubble. Bubbles seemingly interacted with snowflakes via a custom-built six-projector system provided by Creative Technology (CT).
SHANGHAI and SHENZHEN, China – Theme park developer OCT called upon Electrosonic to provide AV solutions for two new dark ride attractions at Happy Valley outside Shanghai and Window of the World in Shenzhen, on the mainland near Hong Kong.
WEST ORANGE, NJ – Jersey Shore's Snooki wasn't there, but Dina and Caroline Manzo from The Real Housewives of New Jersey were, along with the cast of Jerseylicious.
NEW YORK – The expanded and renovated Museum of the Moving Image reopens Jan. 15 with 17 Barco RLM series projectors used in prominent locations. These include a 50-foot-long seamless projection wall in the lobby, the new Video Screening Amphitheater, a new 68-seat screening room and an inaugural exhibition, Real Virtuality.
NEW YORK – Scharff Weisberg teamed with projection designer Zachary Borovay to integrate video into two more Broadway productions, Lombardi and Elf, continuing a nearly 10-year relationship including collaborations on other Broadway productions such as Xanadu, To Be Or Not To Be and Peepshow in Las Vegas.
GLENDALE, AZ – Nike rallied to the support of the University of Oregon's football team, the Ducks, commissioning Lightwave International's laser projections from the 2011 Fiesta Bowl stadium grounds to the face of a mountain about two miles away.