Basic Monkey Limited » Vision Mill http://basicmonkey.net Basic Monkey Limited: Event Production, Lighting, Sound, Video Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:32:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Report from the Desert http://basicmonkey.net/2010/03/report-from-the-desert/ http://basicmonkey.net/2010/03/report-from-the-desert/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:01:55 +0000 James http://basicmonkey.net/?p=344 Well, it's warm and sandy.

The venue is an exhibition centre/festival site in the desert surrounding Riyadh, the route to the venue from the hotel varies every day and each has a huge number of new sights for a westerner like myself. Derelict amusement parks, go-kart tracks, vast camel trading areas and the Riyadh Aviation Club which consists of 4 tents by the side of the road.

We built the projection towers and had the projectors running on the first day with a very rough line up. The second evening I spent a few hours with Barco's Projector Toolset and some music to finish the job. Each night we have to cover the 4x Barco HD20s to shield them from the potential sandstorms at night.

Today I ventured with Jake Robertson, my assistant for the week, to the Kingdom Tower in the middle of Riyadh. After a short walk round the mall underneath, I headed up to the sky bridge to take a few photos. Quite a sight.

Some photos below, more to follow.

James

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The event involves large format projection using Barco FLM HD-20s onto a building, driven by Barco Encore.

New territory again for Basic Monkey!

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