This week James has been at the NEC in Birmingham for the Gadget Show Live with our own Catalyst and Jands Vista combination. XL Video are providing two Chromatek 6mm screens which are integrated into the wings of the set, into which will be fed a combination of live video, directed by Kevin Watts, and VT playback originating from Catalyst. In ...

Jonathan Bond of Vision Mill has invited James through XL Video to act as projectionist for an event at The King Abdullah University of Science & Technology in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The event involves large format projection using Barco FLM HD-20s onto a building, driven by Barco Encore. New territory again for Basic ...

This week James has been at Celtic Manor for HSL to implement and operate lighting and Robe DigiSpot 7000s for Volvo’s Dealer Kick-off. The event was produced by Patrick from CWA, with lighting designed by Phil Wiffen. Phil specified the 6x DigiSpots to project custom and stock content onto the cycs down the side of the room. Used in both 3 way merge and ...

Tonight marked a new high for Basic Monkey and for James at the Fira Barcelona. Using a huge amount of technology and an even bigger amount of time, effort and late nights, Jack Morton Worldwide have put on a truly immersive and spectacular launch for Samsung’s new phone, the ‘Wave’. The vision from the team Jack Morton Worldwide was to create a 360 ...

Today I’m in Barcelona at the Fira Gran Via, meeting with the team from Jack Morton Worldwide and Cheil (Samsung’s marketing agency) to discuss plans for the grand unveiling of their new phone here in February. I can’t divulge too much as the details of the phone and launch are highly confidential, but it’s safe to say that this event will ...

Based on the success of the Catalyst and Barco iLite 12 combination at Paul Hogarth’s birthday party, James was asked by CSP to reproduce the spaced screen effect for Unilever’s Christmas party in a marquee at Chester Rugby Club. The event had a strong Hollywood/Oscars theme with lighting designed and implemented by James to enhance ...

Basic Monkey has been asked to provide Barco iLite12 screens and a Catalyst media server for Unilever’s Christmas party. Steven Williams from CSP saw the photos from Paul Hogarth’s birthday party and suggested to Unilever that they use the same system. A few design ideas were put forward but they’ve decided to go for the same layout of 5 columns of ...

Basic Monkey’s first venture outside of Europe has just come to an end, a very exciting 11 days in Seoul, Korea leading to a very successful event. Following on from the Milan Fashion Week Launch, Jack Morton Worldwide were asked to travel to Seoul with the same team that created the holographic experience in Milan. Lighting, sound, set, staging and side screen ...

Following on from the Samsung ‘Corby’ launch in Milan, Jack Morton Worldwide and the team are invited by Samsung to repeat the show in Seoul, Korea. XL Video will be providing projection, video control and Catalyst along with James as Catalyst operator. Unfortunately Jonathan Bond isn’t available for the event however with a week on site before ...

This week James was in Milan to operate Catalyst for Samsung’s new touch screen phone’s European launch. The phone, named “Corby” in Europe and “Genio Touch” in the UK is being pitched with the line “What colour is your life?”. Jack Morton Worldwide produced the show with XL Video providing projection, Barco Encore, ...