So, just arrived in New York to prepare for the USA leg of the Tompson Reuters Eikon launch. In NYC there will be two venues for the teaser campaign, these will be revealed very soon… can’t give the game away can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following on from the success in Edinburgh, The Doves asked Basic Monkey to provide a Catalyst media server for their show at The Green Man Festival in South Wales. Arriving on site to find ‘video world’ in a pop-up tent by stage was a humorous start to the day although a little nerve racking when the rains hit hard! The character of ...

Tonight saw James in Edinburgh at very late notice to provide the Doves with our Catalyst media server for their show. Mark Wynne-Edwards is the Doves lighting designer, using his own Jands Vista T2 console which works easily with Catalyst. Once the content was uploaded to our server, it was simply a case of testing a few cues in Mark’s pre ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to your first glimpse of the world’s largest ‘Etch-a-sketch’! Tonight we were blessed with the large stage of the Wolverhampton Civic so all of the back screen went up and all of the riser video strips went out. A perfect chance to get a few photos for you. From the beginning it was planned that ‘Pilot’ would ...

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 ...