Tonight marks the end of a very busy week for James with XL Video at the Clothes Show Live event in Hall 9 at the NEC. The show this year was based around “A Night at the Movies” theme, with each act of the show as a different genre of film. Opening with a Mission Impossible sequence which rolls into James Bond, the show goes ...

Tonight was the last in the ‘LED arches’ series of launch events for Thomson Reuters’ Eikon product at the Tokyo International Forum. After the success of the London and New York launch events, James was asked to attend the Tokyo launch to ensure that it shared the same result. Using the same show programmed for New York on Jands’ Vista ...

Today was the “Go Live” launch of Thompson Reuters’ Eikon Product in The Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal, New York. After a year of planning and preparation the event went with true style and noticeably impressed the clients and potential clients present. The core feature of the event was the innovative video concept by Jack Morton ...

This morning the “LED Room” part of the Thomson Reuters Eikon campaign went live at Grand Central Terminal, New York. The room is part of the three stage campaign for their new financial services product which was introduced with the “Digital Forest” outside the New York Stock Exchange and it’s opening precedes the live launch ...

After a huge amount of design, planning, pre-builds and testing, the “LED Room” part of Thomson Reuter’s Eikon launch campaign has gone live at Canary Wharf. The campaign has been designed by Jack Morton Worldwide to launch the product in three stages. The first was the “Digital Forest” which was to create intrigue, the second was ...

This morning, after a year of preparation and a successful launch in London, the Thomson Reuters Digital Forest campaign goes live in New York outside the famous stock exchange building. Backed by a huge Thomson Reuters banner, replacing the usual stars and stripes, the ‘trees’ (which are in a different formation to London) continue the brand’s ...

Today I had the pleasure of visiting XL Video’s very smart and comprehensive “LED LAB” in New York. The purpose of the operation is to show event and concert designers what technology is available to them in the world of creative video. In the showroom, which is high up in an office building in midtown New York is a huge variety of LED displays from ...

Today is the start of the new teaser campaign for Thomson Reuters’ new Eikon financial product. This ‘digital forest’ which has been in planning for over a year now is the precursor to more in depth promotion to come. In a prominent position, at the entrance to Canary Wharf underground station and at the foot of the iconic ...

For the past two days, James has been down at Cofton Park in Longbridge to rig LED screens for the Papal visit this weekend. With some serious stage work, a huge crowd area and lots of LED screen from XL Video, this looks to be a major event. The crowd space had 20x PA towers and 6x screens to cater for it! The screens consist of 3x Mitsubishi ...

The last of the festivals this summer for Basic Monkey and it turned out to be a tough one for all involved. XL Video had a lot of LED at Creamfields. Even by Steve G’s (Project Manager) own admission, he’d never seen or heard of so many LED techs on site! James was principally based with Chris Isaacson in the Chibuku/Swedish House ...