Projection Connection News

NEW YORK – Scharff Weisberg provided AV support for producers KCD Inc. for a memorial service for Christo's wife and artistic collaborator, Jeanne-Claude, who passed away in November.

TROY, MI – Kensington Community Church, a nondenominational church with about 10,000 worshippers per Sunday at its five campuses, needed switchers for its growing video production needs that would also be user-friendly for the volunteer teams who run them. Advanced Lighting & Sound provided FOR-A HVS-300HS HD/SD digital video switchers to meet the church's needs.

KITCHENER, ON – Montreal TV station V Télé began broadcasting last summer with the goal of having an interactive relationship with core viewers age 18 to 49. To offer dynamic and original content in its live-broadcast studio, V Télé selected the Christie Vista Spyder to integrate with Simbioz Touchless Interactive Technology on a 3-foot-by-10-foot ultra-thin bezel LCD wall.

TULSA, OK – Church on the Move draws about 10,000 to its multiple weekly services and regularly fills most of the 2,700 seats in its main church. I-Mag of what's happening on stage is a key part of the draw.

DELHI, India – Ross Ashton's U.K.-based The Projection Studio is consulting on India's first permanent full moving image son et lumière  – Ishq- e- dilli – The Love of Delhi, which is being installed at Purana Quila, a 16th century fort founded by Mughal Emperor Humayun in 1533 and completed five years later.

LOS ANGELES – The movie, Iron Man 2, uses LED video screen with a media server feeding content rather than a green screen for the Stark and Hammer Expo scenes. Pixled's F-11 LED video technology met the production's cost, configuration flexibility, resolution and weight requirements.

MOUNT PROSPECT, IL – Usually, the Television Services Department of the Village of Mount Prospect, Ill. (MPTV), uses its Broadcast Pix Slate 1000 video production system to produce live coverage of village board meetings and other local programming.

BIRMINGHAM, U.K. – The Editors have included Green Hippo's new VideoMapper component on their recent tour, In This Light and On This Evening. Lighting company Siyan supplied all the lighting for the show.

TAMPA – The 9th Annual Sea Grapes Fine Wine and Food Festival was lit recently by Bay Stage Lighting, which produced shimmering water effects to go with the theme for the evening, "Journey to Atlantis."

WARSAW, IN – To help those requiring custom projection screen installations, Da-Lite has introduced a new online Screen Designer application. Users can select screen type, screen size and the screen surface to suit their installation needs.