Projection Connection News

KANSAS CITY, MO — Although songs like “Text Me in the Morning” speak to the quirks of romance in the digital age,  the design for Neon Trees’ current tour, in support of their April 2014 Pop Psychology album release, started with a low-tech napkin sketch by frontman Tyler Glenn.  Production Manager Mike Bangs relied upon four 8-by-4 foot panels of PixelFLEX FLEXCurtain to help bring Glenn’s sketch to colorful fruition.

ALLEN, TX — The 1,400-capacity sanctuary at First Baptist Church, based here, has added atmospheric effects along with song lyrics for church productions and youth events with an assist from three Hitachi CP-X8170 projectors. Jeff Mize, the church’s minister of music, worked with Camron Ware of Visual Worshiper on the visual upgrade.

LONDON – For “Meet the Future,” an event bringing members of the meetings industry to Central Hall Westminster (CHW) here on on June 3, Eclipse Presentations provided all the production infrastructure to facilitate the event. Among the the technologies highlighted was technology that enables high end videoconferencing with a “holographic” look. This was demonstrated firsthand by an interview with Dr. Paul Redmond, who had his image beamed into the room. In the interview, he elaborated on his research into the future of working with ‘Generation Y’.

SHANGHAI — Christie unveiled the first commercial pure laser projection system installed at the Shanghai Film Art Center on June 13, 2014.

LOS ANGELES – For a private concert here for 800 at Sony Studios here that marked the mid-May release of Coldplay’s sixth studio album, Ghost Stories, XL Video, Ben Miles, Phil Haynes and Phil Johnston created a unique visual environment with 46 Panasonic 20K projectors and a control system that included five Avolites Media Ai S8 systems. 

LONDON – XL Video’s UK operation has announced a major upgrade to its fleet of media servers. The new servers, and accompanying custom-designed housings, are built around Apple MacPro computers.

LONDON – The Projection Studio worked as a consultant for live communications agency Wasserman to activate a large format video projection campaign for the Vodafone Firsts initiative (www.firsts.com) that took place at sites across Europe, including Budapest Sapientia College, Bucharest National Theatre, Berlin Kulturbrauerei, Cairo CityStars Building, Rome Palazzo Farnese and The National Theatre in London.

NASHVILLE, TN — Embarking on his 25th year of being in the music business, Alan Jackson recently took to his 2014 tour, taking PixelFLEX with him for the first time. Over the course of more than 40 tour dates this year, Jackson plays for a variety of venues and audiences across North America. In order to keep the standard of emotional and relatable shows, the PixelFLEX FLEXCurtain was added to the production in order to make the entire process more flexible.

NEW YORK – To help bring even more awareness to the already well-known Tribeca Film Festival for new presenting sponsor AT&T, agency Spinifex arranged for iconic moments from great films to be re-imagined and projection mapped by WorldStage onto the AT&T Long Lines Building in lower Manhattan.