1,312 Dining Positions Projection-Mapped For Amway Celebration Dinner October 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip AV Magazine The multi-level marketing company Amway celebrated 60 years in business with a massive dinner for 1,300 in Las Vegas, using projection-mapping at each diner’s seating position. The private dinner at the Mandalay Bay was pulled together by event agency Wilson Dow, which contracted the projection mapping company Skullmapping, which has a background doing this …
Machine Hallucinating In NYC October 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes Experiential spaces seems to be an emerging new business, driven by lowered technology costs, easier tools and brilliant creative minds who are pushing the boundaries on digital creative. While in New York this week I had a free hour to run over to Chelsea Market to visit the converted boiler room that is now called …
Apollo 11 Moonshot Projection-Mapped On Washington Monument July 18, 2019 by Dave Haynes We are in the midst of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon – something I am old enough to remember following on an antenna-fed black and white TV in a Wisconsin campground. Technology has improved just a bit in five decades, and the amazing Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in …
Faux Fireworks On Digital Canvases Complement Real Kabooms On July 4th July 15, 2019 by Dave Haynes I’d way rather see the real thing, like here, but putting digital fireworks on giant canvases like projection and LED is still an interesting way to celebrate a national holiday. The LA-based design studio StandardVision has produced and published a pair of videos from earlier this month that show July 4th efforts in Los Angeles …
Spanish Football Club Celebrates Its Past With Projection-Filled Museum At Home Stadium June 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Spanish La Liga football team Athletic Bilbao celebrates more than a century of top-level competition in a museum on the grounds of San Mamés stadium, where it plays home games. The museum in Bilbao has been equipped with more than 30 Christie laser projectors, using short throw lenses, to tell the club’s story through the …
LED Mesh Screens Have Come A Long Way, But … April 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes There were numerous overseas vendors at ISE – and I expect to see more at Infocomm in a couple of months – showing mesh-screen LED displays. They have come a long way in a relatively short time, and when running, the pixel pitch of these things can be good enough to deliver crisp, rich and …
Cancun Party Hotel Adds Huge Projection Mapping Show March 20, 2019 by Dave Haynes Via Multimedia AV I’m sure there is a large percentage of 20+ and even 30+ people who would look at what happens at the Melody Maker resort hotel in Cancun, and conclude they must go there. Then there are people like me who would conclude they must avoid that place, or anywhere near it, at …
Video: Have A Look At The New, Digital Signage-Filled Canadian History Hall February 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s a preview video put together by Montreal digital signage solutions agency Telecine, who worked with a team on the signage for the the Canadian History Hall, the new signature gallery at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, just across the river from Ottawa. The hall has 80 digital signage players, 76 screens …
Projection Mapping Finds New Application On Event Dining Tables January 31, 2019 by Dave Haynes Projection mapping from above on to dining tables is a concept that’s been kicking around for a few years, as a novel twist for a restaurant. But it is not exactly something one sees all over. A new company called WeMapping is hoping to make that concept much more widespread – and is wisely, I …
New Hotel At ISE Venue To Be Projection-Mapped During Show January 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes The brand new nhow Amsterdam RAI hotel, which is adjacent to the site of next month’s Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) trade show, will be projection-mapped each day during the event. Specially-created content will be projected onto the 25-storey, 650-room nhow Amsterdam RAI from 3 to 8 pm each day throughout ISE week. The projection mapping …
