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 ...

For the past few days, James has been at Global Gathering in Stratford-upon-Avon working for XL Video who are providing video kit and support across the site. XL provided a variety of screens and projection across the site; F-30 for main stage, Bedrock and Random arenas, Martin LC for Global Arena and 4x Barco R22+ projectors for the Godskitchen tent. James was ...

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 ...

Well, it’s warm and sandy. The venue is an exhibition centre/festival site in the desert surrounding Riyadh, the route to the venue from the hotel varies every day and each has a huge number of new sights for a westerner like myself. Derelict amusement parks, go-kart tracks, vast camel trading areas and the Riyadh Aviation Club which consists of 4 tents by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...