James has been on site at Disneyland, Paris with XL Video for a European conference, produced by ADM Productions of New York. Along with operating the show using Barco Encore, James designed the video control system, providing schematics and patch information to XL Video and ADM. The system involved 6x projection outputs, each independently driven with access to 4x ...

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While working on the Bentley stand for their Flying Spur press launch, I thought I’d take the opportunity to have a look at some amazing new cars. Photos below… ...

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US production company Cramer have put together Zurich Insurance’s conference in Madrid, with equipment and crew provided by XL Video. Basic Monkey provided James to XL as video technician to implement Nathan from Cramer’s system requirements. This was based around Barco ScreenPro IIs and various matrices, taking in sources from laptops, Turbos and a live ...

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Proctor & Gamble brought The Wella International Trend Vision Award to Madrid this year and again drawn on the expertise of Jack Morton Worldwide to make the event the worldwide spectacle that it has become. The theme was ‘Sound of Colour’ and is based around the sounds we associate with the colours that we see. Guests and competitors were all asked ...

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Following on from a successful show at Sziget festival, Leftfield asked Basic Monkey to supply video playback for their set at Freeform Festival in Warsaw. The show was in a warehouse building with windows that were close to shattering with the incredible bass produced by the sound system. Using our laptop Catalyst system, James fed the festival provided screens, ...

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Basic Monkey is very proud to supply Leftfield with our laptop Catalyst system for their set at Sziget festival in Budapest. The band has previously used Hippotiser media servers which were taking up valuable vehicle space and rather costly. Tom Woodcraft introduced Basic Monkey to the band’s management and we offered our lightweight and cost effective ...

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This summer, for the Euro 2012 football tournament, Castrol have requested something special to entertain their VIP guests and Flourish are planning to achieve that with some real flair! I’m writing this on the plane, returning from my first visit to Ukraine having met with some old and new faces to discuss the technicalities of producing such an event in a ...

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After a few days down in Brussels, band and crew rolled into the Couleur Cafe festival, located right in the heart of Brussels city. The main stage took the form of a giant boom box with circular screens flanking the stage. No LED screen at the back of the stage for this show, content was cut with cameras to the side screens which was tough work considering the ...

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After a day off in Vilnius, Lithuania we had our second show of the tour at the city’s ice rink. The venue was the first opportunity lighting operator Theo Cox has had to program the show in complete darkness which was a welcome bonus. Seal went down a treat with the crowd who seemed to love the classics and welcome his more recent material. Next stop is ...

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Tonight was the first show of Seal’s Summer 2011 European tour in Parnu, Estonia. With a packed crowd under the late evening sun, his performance was full of energy and the band played with true finesse. Basic Monkey’s new touring Catalyst system integrated seamlessly with the LED screen provided by Eventech and was triggered by the lighting console, ...

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