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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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For the past two days James has been in York at Stage One to build one part of the exciting launch for Thompson Reuters’ new ‘Eikon’ product. We’d love to show you some cool photos and tell you all about it, but you’re just going to have to ...

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This week saw James at Deeside College in Flintshire for their annual student awards show, produced as always by CSP Audio Visual. All equipment was provided by CSP, apart from our own Catalyst media server and Jands Vista lighting console. The lighting rig was designed by Steve from CSP and operated by James. The set backdrop was 11m x 4m of ...

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Tonight was the Fashion Kicks event in Lancashire County Cricket Club’s semi-permanent marquee, lit by Lightech Sound and Light. James was there to help with the build in the fashion show tent, sponsored by Selfridges, and later the conversion of this area to a nightclub for the guests after their dinner. Entertainment in the dinner marquee ...

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