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 ...

Today I had the pleasure of visiting XL Video’s very smart and comprehensive “LED LAB” in New York. The purpose of the operation is to show event and concert designers what technology is available to them in the world of creative video. In the showroom, which is high up in an office building in midtown New York is a huge variety of LED displays from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

James has just spent the night re-building a F-30 LED screen at the Goodwood Festival of Vintage following a power issue. The phone rang yesterday afternoon in the hunt for an LED/power technician to get to Goodwood to rebuild the screen while they day crew got some rest. James arrived on site to find the cause of the problem, one of XL’s ...