‘Projection mapping’ has become an industry buzz word in the last couple of years and the iconic ‘Blackpool illuminations’ – among the world’s most historic festivals of light is home to the first permanent projection mapped show in the UK, scheduled to run for the full two months / 66 day ‘Illuminations’ period each year from now on. LightPool is a collaboration between London-based Ross … [Read more...]
XL Video Creates Live Mapped Projection for Shangri-La Heaven at Glastonbury 2015
Following a successful event at last year’s festival, XL Video, working with Technical Producer, Nick Diacre, has once again produced a significant achievement in 180˚ live mapping for Shangri-La’s Heaven Stage at the Glastonbury festival 2015. The Heaven structure was built organically by Andrew Cross and his team, onsite at the festival, only a few days before the event, and the … [Read more...]
XL Video Creates New ‘Centre of Excellence’ Team for Media Servers
XL Video is excited to announce the creation of a new ‘Centre of Excellence’ for Media Servers and Control Systems. The team, whose expertise will be available to clients of XL Video worldwide, will be led by Christian Dickens, Media Server and Control Systems Manager at XL Video UK. Christian, who has recently joined XL Video, has almost 20 years experience in audio-visual technology. For … [Read more...]
Maria Rud & Ross Ashton Present “Dark Matter” – The World’s First AniMotion Video Mapping Artwork
Projection and digital art specialist Ross Ashton collaborated with Russian artist Maria Rud to present ‘Dark Matter’ a dynamic ‘AniMotion’ live performance painting projected in giant format on to the Institute of Astronomy library in Cambridge UK. The event embraced painting, music and projection mapping … all in one truly magical live experience. It was the world-wide launch of this … [Read more...]
