MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Vaddio's new VaddioLIVE demo program bring real-time product demonstrations to dealers, integrators and end-users who are seeking more knowledge on automated classrooms, training facilities and conference rooms.
ATLANTA – Upstage Video put together one of the largest portable Daktronics LED video displays ever built to meet a simple but challenging spec by corporate jet manufacturer Bombardier – to make the outdoor display big enough for a full-sized image of the company's new Global 7000 and Global 8000 series jets.
SALT LAKE CITY – Jason Spencer, show director for Webb A/V, used High Resolution Systems' UDC-400 Universal Device Controller to support the AV needs for the recent North American regional convention for Nu Skin Enterprises at the Salt Palace Convention Center.
BERRIEN SPRINGS, MI – Pioneer Memorial Church added a FOR-A MV-3200 Series multi-viewer as part of a larger reconstruction of its video control room last summer. The video team at the 3,500-member church produces a weekly telecast, New Perceptions, and the new FOR-A multi-viewer allowed them to replace a wall of aging CRT monitors with four flat panel displays.
NEW YORK – When you're tasked with explaining the history of civilization to an audience in 75 minutes, it helps to have some visual support. For Broadway's Colin Quinn Long Story Short, starring Colin Quinn and directed by Jerry Seinfeld at the Helen Hayes Theater, Quinn gets it in the form of projections and scenery from scenic designer David Gallo.
GUANGZHOU, China – The opening ceremony of the 16th Asian Games on Haixinsha Island earlier this month featured a 2,000-square-meter main stage covered with 10cm of water. Decorative elements included four stylized sailing ships and eight LED velomena.
NEW YORK – The New York Public Library's main Fifth Avenue branch joins a growing list of iconic buildings that Ross Ashton has lit with projection art.
MEDELLIN, Colombia – Georgia Fountain Company's Vida and Interactivas fountain projects here relied on subcontractor MediaMation, Inc. (MMI)'s Virtual Fountain 3D visualization software and ShowFlow software for programming and control.
NEW YORK – It was a season for change for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Spring 2010, which moved to a new, larger venue at Lincoln Center, and for IMCD Lighting which migrated to a grandMA console for the fashion shows it lit at Damrosch Park.
NEW YORK – The BET Network has recently designated Pete's Big TVs/Performance Video of New Castle, Delaware, as their "go to" company for a host of shows. But even a "go to" company sometimes needs to know how to "go to" get help when the unthinkable happens: their equipment does not arrive.
LONDON – For the current Doctor Who Live U.K. arena tour, The Monsters are Coming, XL Video provided crew and video gear including projection, cameras, PPU, media server and an LED TARDIS (the doctor's police-box shaped spacecraft and time machine) for the producers, BBC Worldwide.
LAS VEGAS – Scenic designer Alex Doss transformed the Fuego nightclub in the Rio Casino with eight coolux Pandoras Box Server PROs, one coolux Pandoras Box Manager STD, 60 beaMovers from Publitec, two Sanyo XF 47 projectors, 104 LED panels, VersaTubes, Atomic Strobes, fog machines and Gerriets retractable screens.