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 ...

Basic Monkey will be providing James and our new updated Catalyst system to XL Video for this years Wella ITVA Awards in Paris in November. The show has previously been done using Encore and playback systems, however this year the 5 projection screen setup (including one 2 way edge blended screen) lends itself to Catalyst. The show will be run on 3x XL Video systems ...

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 ...

Today, James is in Hanover for CSP AV to rig and light an exhibition stand as part of the big commercial vehicle show at the Hanover Messe. Due to the limited availability of rigging points, truss bridles were used to get the grid as wide as possible over the stand area. Since the rig will be in place for 4 weeks, budgets are tight and as such ...

One of Maria Mallaband Care Group’s homes, Birch Heath Lodge, is having an open afternoon today and Basic Monkey are providing canvas cover for the occasion. Following concerns of inclement weather, we were asked to provide a marquee to fit within the confines of the care home car park. This was achieved using ‘Chinese hat’ pagodas which were lined ...

During the summer, Sky (with the cooperation of local councils of course) have been closing off parts of city centres on Sundays to allow residents to cycle the streets without fear of collision with other road users. As part of this event, they have been touring their ‘Rainforest Dome’ which is a white structure, internally projected with a rainforest ...

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 ...

So, we still can’t give too much away at this stage, but for the past 2 days James has been in York again to build part 2 of the Eikon launch. This will be a feat of engineering on Stage One’s part and a tidy bit of video work from XL Video! Basic Monkey are providing the Catalyst system and control gear for this pre build. Promise to give you more when ...