Troon wisseling.

Troon wisseling via grote LED schermen op de Dam in Amsterdam.
30 April 2013

 

 

China’s digital out-of-home media was surging toward 40 percent annual growth in the third quarter of 2012,

With its hundreds of thousands of screens, China is on pace to surpass U.S. as world’s largest DOOH market in 2013.

China’s digital out-of-home media (DOOH) industry was surging toward 40 percent annual growth in the third quarter of 2012, and the country’s blistering expansion pace may drive it past the U.S. as the world’s largest market in 2013, according to our research at PQ Media.
Driving Global Industry Growth Revenues generated by China’s DOOH network and billboard operators were pacing for 40 percent year-over-year growth in the third quarter of 2012, which would push the Chinese market past the $2 billion mark for the year, trailing only the U.S. and gaining fast. An accelerated 2012 performance would follow a 39 percent expansion in 2011, when China became only the second market besides the U.S. to exceed $1 billion in annual DOOH revenues, according to preliminary data released from the "PQ Media Global Digital Out-of-Home Media Forecast 2013-2017." In real dollars, the Chinese market expanded by more than $400 million in 2011, nearly doubling in size compared with 2009.

World's Largest DOOH Companies

China is home to some of the largest and fastest-growing DOOH companies in the world, including Focus Media, AirMedia and VisionChina, as well as divisions of Phoenix Satellite TV and Beijing Bashi Media. China’s DOOH industry has, by far, the most digital screens of any global market, with Focus Media operating more than 200,000 screens in the corporate & healthcare office vertical alone. VisionChina reportedly operates more than 100,000 digital screens throughout this market’s vast transit system.

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Morphees -schermen met vormgeheugen.

Bron; www.nu.nl

Computerwetenschappers van Bristol University presenteren maandagochtend hun prototype van een nieuw flexibel scherm op ACM SIGCHI, een groot congres over interactie tussen mens en computer.
Dit soort nieuwe flexibele schermen kan mogelijk tot een generatie van vormveranderende smartphones leiden.

De zogenaamde 'Morphees' zijn schermen met vormgeheugen. Via geheugenmetaal en elektrische polymeermoleculen kunnen deze uit zichzelf in een bepaalde vorm springen De onderzoekers zien veel toepassingen in een volgende generatie smartphones. Zo zou bij het intypen van een wachtwoord de bovenste helft van het scherm om kunnen klappen om de privacy te beschermen. Een andere mogelijkheid is dat de zijkanten van het scherm omvouwen, zodat er een goed in de hand liggende gameconsole ontstaat voor de vele telefoonspelletjes. Een bolvorm zou volgens de Britten zelfs als stressbal kunnen dienen. Uniek is dat de telefoon zelf weet, bijvoorbeeld via een signaal dat in een app is ingebouwd, dat hij een andere vorm aan moet nemen.

Hoewel het nog ver van de markt afstaat, is dit wellicht een goed begin van zichzelf aanpassende telefoons.

LG meldde eerder dat zij eind 2013 een smartpgone op de markt brengen met een flexibel scherm.  Ook concurrent Samsung werkt aan een flexibel scherm voor in smartphones en toonde deze in januari al.

Campagne Oz the Great and Powerful.

Het promoten van een nieuwe film kan zeer impactvol met de schermen van Ngage Media. In opdracht van Posterscope heeft Ngage Media grote digitale schermen ingezet voor de promotie van de nieuwe film OZ the Great and Powerful.

Campagne Oz the Great and Powerful from Ngage Media on Vimeo.

baby&me

The new evian film.
Dancing with my baby-me. evian Live young
Funny !!

DisplayLED Pixel Depot.

Bron; www.avinteractive.com

displayLED’s has given any potential customers a chance to see inside its new showroom in Surrey called The Pixel Depot, which has been designed as a collection of LED video displays from a range of manufacturers.

The showroom provides LED products across market needs, providing a resource for AV rental companies, systems integrators, TV studios & broadcast media, digital advertising, shopping malls, sports and events venues, architectural applications and building design, galleries, theatres and conference and exhibition markets, as well as unique and creative applications.

The Pixel Depot showroom is also available for rental companies and designers to demonstrate options to potential clients, and as an educational resource and training facility.

“The Pixel Depot is a real help to designers and specifiers because it allows direct comparisons between displays of different resolution and construction; and it also has the space to show many imaginative, not to say wacky, variations on the LED theme, from video floors to bendy screens,” said Robert Simpson, founder director, Electrosonic. “The Pixel Depot is a great facility where a wide range of different LED products can be seen and compared in a relaxed and informal environment” added Dave Crump, CT UK.

you're always watching.

Bron; USPTO

While head-mounted displays are nothing new, LG has patented a novel method for utilizing them that might grab your attention. The patent states that when you're staring at content on a device like a tablet, the HMD is inactive. But turn your head or the device away and that same content will automatically fade into view right in front of your bespectacled eyes. According to the filing, the noggin-strapped contraption is set to buzz as it switches displays and there'll be a slight transitional pause when viewing video. While we're betting virtual reality goggles and Google-branded headgear might prove to be a touch more popular, this is at least a lot cooler than passive 3D clip-ons.

Vogel's Professional Connect-it line.

Vogel's Professional has expanded its popular Connect-it line with floor stands and trolley display solutions. That means you now can use Connect-it to create virtually any ceiling and floor solution imaginable.

Sony Unveils Five New Business Projectors Coming Soon

Sony unveiled today a new collection of business projectors that will be releasing next month in Japan. The collection includes the VPL-EW246, VPL-EW276, VPL-EX246, VPL-EX276, and theVPL-SW536C. All of these projectors come with either a native XGA (1024 x 768) or a WXGA (1280 x 800) resolution. They range in brightness 3100 and 3700 ANSI lumens. The big feature though for these projectors is the wireless technology. This allows the projectors to receive content from a PC or laptop without having to run wires between the two devices. The VPL-SW536C is the only short throw model in the group and also has interactive capabilities and comes with two light pens. The VPL-SW536C will release in June, while the others will release in May. Retail prices were not made available yet.

Oranje boven.

De schermen van het Narrowcasting bedrijf Centraal Station NL kleuren volgende week ( bij de kroning ) allemaal oranje.

E-reader - Kobo Aura HD.

De e-readers worden steeds mooier en professioneler. De fabrikanten moeten ook wel, want met de tablets hebben de e-book readers een geduchte concurrent gekregen. Een belangrijk nadeel van de e-readers is hun kleine formaat. Kobo neemt dat nadeel weg met jun Kobo Aura HD. Deze heeft een 6.8 inch scherm, zodat deze e-book reader zich kan meten met tablets. Dit scherm heeft een resolutie van niet minder dan 1.440 bij 1.080 pixels. Hierdoor komen de teksten haarscherp op het scherm te staan. Alsof de letters gedrukt zijn!

Dankzij een 4G opslagcapaciteit en een microSD geheugenkaartlezer is er volop ruimte om boeken mee te nemen. En als je toch om leesvoer verlegen zit kun je via WiFi boeken, kranten en tijdschriften downloaden.
Een 1GHz Freescale i.MX507-processor zorgt er voor dat alles soepel werkt op deze e-reader van hoge kwaliteit.




De Kobo Aura HD is vanaf mei 2013 in Nederland te koop. Wie niet kan wachten kan hem al via internet in Amerika bestellen. Hij kost daar 169 dollar.

Digital Billboards Spring to Action to Warn Bostonians.

Bostonians still shaken by Monday's Boston Marathon terror attack awoke this morning to gunshots, explosions and a plethora of emergency messages. With one of the terrorists, identified as Chechen Tamerlan Tsarnaev, killed in a gunfight with police officers early Friday morning, warnings went out that a massive manhunt was underway for the second terrorist, his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was considered armed and extremely dangerous.



The digital billboards in the area that had been called into action when the bombings occurred were instantly updated this morning with new messaging. According to Jason King, VP, corporate communications for New York-based Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) public safety alerts are being displayed on all seven CCO billboards in Greater Boston, located on I-93 in Medford and Stoneham, and Route 495 in Lawrence.



"Clear Channel Outdoor first established this relationship by reaching out to MEMA to offer assistance during the early February blizzard, which dumped more than two feet of snow in Massachusetts and resulted in a state of emergency being declared," King told us in an email.

"The digital technology allows MEMA to adapt its messages in real-time to changing situations, providing a significant boost to its public safety effort and providing people, especially those with loved ones in the vicinity, with critical information."



Besides making the digital signs available to MEMA at no cost, CCO "is partnering with MEMA to provide access as needed for the duration of this emergency situation," said King.

In addition, Clear Channel also has a relationship with the FBI. According to Ken Klein, vice president of OAAA, the Washington, D.C.-based association representing the out-of-home advertising industry, the industry's relationship with the FBI began in 2007 as an experiment in Philadelphia. After two out of a rotation of nine fugitives were apprehended from Clear Channel digital billboard notices, the FBI realized "they had an idea worth nationalizing," Klein said, adding,  "Since then, 51 fugitives have been apprehended from information generated by digital billboards."

Other partnerships with federal and state agencies, such as a memorandum of understanding with FEMA in 2012, have subsequently taken place and, according to Klein, formed the underpinnings for the spontaneous emergency messaging that we've seen this week in Boston.

"The flexibility and adaptive nature of the digital billboards in Boston for emergency messaging is an outgrowth of partnerships in other situations," said Klein.

Koninklijk dubbelportret in Rotterdam.

Rotterdam verwelkomt het nieuwe staatshoofd, Koning Willem-Alexander, met een levensgroot dubbelportret van Beatrix en Willem-Alexander op de gevel van het 151 meter hoge Nationale-Nederlandengebouw aan het Weena.

Bron;www.sign.nl



Het kunstwerk, een initiatief van Rotterdams LEF en verzekeraar Nationale-Nederlanden, is een geschenk aan het nieuwe staatshoofd. Tegelijkertijd vormt het dubbelportret, dat op grote hoogte boven Rotterdam prijkt, een eerbetoon aan Koningin Beatrix.

Fluorescerend

Kunstenaars Gijs van Bon en Thijs Kelder ontwierpen de opvallende lijntekening van 30 meter breed en ruim 36 meter hoog. Dankzij de felle oranje kleur is het kunstwerk goed zichtbaar boven de stad. Maar ook ’s avonds hebben stad en regio zicht op het grootste Koninklijke dubbelportret ooit gemaakt. In het donker wordt de oranje fluorescerende folie door middel van een animatie spectaculair aangelicht, waardoor je Beatrix langzaam ziet vervagen.
Deze week is door LSB Media vanuit de glazenwassersgondel gestart met de bestickering van het kantoorgebouw om op 30 april een imposante eyecatcher te vormen.

Dual-GPU Video Wall Player Supports 6K Resolution on Six Displays.

NEXCOM's high-end video wall player, NDiS B862, is designed to drive multiple displays for digital-out-of-home (DOOH) applications. The video wall player provides superior graphic performance to display immersive visuals at 6K x 2K resolution on tiled displays. Equipped with six HDMI display outputs, NDiS B862 can seamlessly stretch the image and video across six displays. NDiS B862 also has the durability, the functionality and the right interfaces to ensure long-term operation.

NDiS B862 is based on the dual/quad-core AMD Embedded R-Series APU platform and a dedicated AMD Radeon™ E6760 GPU. Featuring the dual-GPU design, NDiS B862 has dedicated GDDR5 graphics memory, dual-video decoder and DirectX^® 11 support. The video wall player offers accelerated streaming of HD and 3D Blu-ray videos and enables massive display resolution of up to 5760 x 2160 across six displays using AMD Eyefinity technology.

The six displays can be configured in vertical, horizontal orientations and flexible multi-monitor placement to meet video wall setups. To keep installation simple, the NDiS B862 comes with uniform HDMI display output interface and advanced display configuration utility to give engineers a fast and easy way to configure the display matrix. Therefore, NDiS B862 is ideal for graphic-intensive DOOH applications in retail, gaming and entertainment sectors, and mission-critical control rooms requiring real time accuracy and high visibility. NDiS B842, a model with four HDMI display outputs, is also available.

In addition to superb graphics, NDiS B862 is designed for long-term operation. Inside the chassis, a vibration-proof mount is used to house a hard drive and protect it from shock and impact. On each side of the chassis wall, a removable fan module is placed to keep the internals cool and allow easy fan replacement. The fan speed can be automatically adjusted to match the internal temperature, increasing fan life and improving reliability.

NDiS B862, enclosed in a compact, stylish exterior, provides a vast range of interfaces to support LAN/WLAN/WWAN connectivity, television program and audio outputs. The player also provides USB 3.0, USB 2.0 and RS-232 ports for peripheral devices. NDiS B862 has the performance, the functionality and the right interfaces to enrich DOOH applications by large scale displays.

Interacting with a Flexible Screen.

We continue to see people push the boundaries of integrating the digital and physical world. Here’s another example, and very cool. The screen is a flexible silicone surface with projection that responds to touch and depth.



I wonder if they could make the silicone transparent in any way so that the projection comes from beneath, so it won’t interfere with the hands? Regardless, this is just cool to look at.
Found at Creative Applications. Here is the designer’s page.

sony-glass.

Bron: www.fan.tv
Sony komt mogelijk met zijn eigen variant op de Google Glass bril. Dat kunnen we opmaken uit de patentaanvraag van de Japanners.

Het grote verschil tussen beide digitale brillen is dat bij de bril van Sony beide brillenglazen dienst kunnen doen als informatiedisplay. Bij de Google Glass is dat maar bij één glas het geval.
Andere grote verschillen zijn dat de Sony bril is voorzien van oordopjes en van camera's. De aanwezigheid van deze camera's kan betekenen dat de Sony bril actief kan reageren op zijn omgeving.

Creative Outdoor Advertising.

This was in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida on the AutoNation building itself... Saturday night at around 11pm, February 2nd, 2013. It was on repeat too, just incase you caught a glimpse and caught your attention and wanted to see the whole video which lasted about 8mins.



t's the end of an era for South Florida, as the Maroone family name comes down from auto dealerships and the AutoNation corporate name goes up in its place. The country's largest auto retailer announced Thursday that it is rolling out its AutoNation name coast to coast on all stores in its domestic and import divisions, roughly 180 shops in 15 states.

SELFRIDGES USES KINECT TO ATTRACT ATTENTION.

Bron; www.inavateonthenet.net

Selfridges department store in London is well known for its innovative window displays to attract interest and lure customers in off the street. Over the summer of 2012, the store commissioned 8 interactive window displays from Dutch design and creative agency Staat, who use Microsoft’s Kinect sensor in a variety of ways to create some interesting pieces focused on a range of Nike sports wear.

Got Dirty Screens? WHOOSH! Wipes Digital Signage Clean.

WHOOSH! has announced the appointment of Stampede Presentation Products Inc. to serve as a North American distributor of its rapidly expanding commercial and consumer display cleaning product lines.

WHOOSH! Screen Shine is a powerful and natural cleaner that safely cleans, polishes and protects all screens, the company said. For the commercial, industrial and education markets, where digital signage is used, WHOOSH offers a 24-fluid-ounce bottle and a 5-gallon pail.

According to the company, the screen-cleaning product is made with biodegradable surfactants and its proprietary polymers provide a nano-thin invisible coating that provides resistance to fingerprints. WHOOSH! Inc. also sells W! microfiber towels designed for screens to clean, polish and protect display products. Moreover, WHOOSH! products do not contain alcohol, acids, ammonia, chlorine, solvents, petroleum distillates, phosphates or VOC's (Volatile Organic Compounds). WHOOSH! is also odorless, streak free, anti-static and water-based.

"Stampede's knowledge of the market, combined with their unsurpassed network of 11,000 dealers, is certain to help us achieve the sales objectives we have in every vertical market, including consumer electronics, corporate, K-12 and higher education," said Jason Greenspan, president of Toronto-based WHOOSH! "They have the unique ability to reach and quickly educate dealers about the unique performance benefits that make WHOOSH! the clear choice for dealers and end-users who are looking for a safe, non-toxic cleaning product to keep all their screens and displays clean and shining like new."

"WHOOSH! provides state-of-the-art, eco-friendly display cleaning solutions that are unlike any other product on the market," added Kevin Kelly, president & COO of Amherst, N.Y.-based Stampede. "Their cost-effective products allow customers to easily keep their displays looking great, as WHOOSH! products provide strong resistance to fingerprints… . By pairing this incredible product line with our extensive knowledge of the ProAV market, we can now make sure that the end-user is getting the best possible performing, environmentally-friendly cleaning solution for their screens and devices."

MYO - Wearable Gesture Control uit Thalmic Labs.

Via je handen,met een armband om, je computer besturen.

Tweet-powered Video-mapping Show for 'IF' Campaign.

Projection Advertising helped Save the Children, Oxfam, Comic Relief and over a hundred other charities launch their 'If' campaign at Somerset House with a unique Twitter-driven video-mapping spectacular. Using a unique, specially-developed framework, Projection Advertising was able to select live tweets with the #IF hashtag and incorporate them seamlessly into the projection.

The campaign, which featured appearances from Bill Gates, Bill Nighy and Lauren Laverne, reached over 85,000 Twitter accounts within 24 hours of the video-mapping show going live and was covered by the Daily Mirror, Metro, Evening Standard, AOL.com and numerous others.

Barco Debuts 8 Millimeter LED

Barco LiveDots (a Barco company) has added a new C-series LED display, dubbed the C8. It has a pixel pitch of 8.33 millimeters and is spec'd at 5,000 nits brightness. It's an outdoor LED display that Barco says has been specifically designed for use in the rental and staging industry or for fixed installations.

Because the C8’s mechanical accessories -- such as the truss beams, feet and stacking frame -- as well as the image processors, are common to the other C-series LED displays, rental companies can use their current inventory and make it work in cross-rental applications. Like the rest of the C-Series from LiveDots, it's hermetically sealed and fan-less.

Here are all the specs:

ACCESS.

ACCESS is an an interactive installation that lets web users track anonymous individuals in public places, by pursuing them with a robotic spotlight and acoustic beam system.

Access Website: http://www.accessproject.net/

Acer onthult 3D-projectoren.

De nieuwe H-serie bestaat uit vier projectoren die uitgerust zijn met de meest recente 3D-technologieën, zoals 3D Blu-ray, DLP 3D en Nvidia 3DTV Play.

bron; www.elektrozine.be

Binnen de reeks vinden we op dit moment vier projectoren die vanuit zowat elke bron 3D-beelden kunnen weergeven. Denk daarbij aan Blu-ray spelers, consoles, pc’s, enzovoort. Daarnaast kan je met de H-serie elke video, foto of game omzetten naar 3D. Beschik je dus niet over echte 3D-content, kan je die nog altijd in 3D bekijken.

Deze projectoren bieden een ingebouwde HD Ready- en Full HD-resolutie, HDMI-compatibiliteit en ondersteunen de MHL-techniek waarmee je kleine schermen (zoals dat van je smartphone) op een groot scherm kan bekijken, in dit geval via het geprojecteerde beeld. De True 24p-functie moet dan weer garant staan voor beelden van filmkwaliteit.

De H-serie is verkrijgbaar vanaf april en biedt toestellen in elke prijscategorie. Onderstaande prijzen zijn adviesprijzen.

H5370BD < € 699
H6510BD < € 899
H7532BD < € 999
H9501BD < € 1699

Flexible CST-01 ePaper Watch Screen From E Ink.

E Ink is of the companies that provide ePaper screens for Amazon Kindle and B&N NOOK. The company invests time and money to create flexible ePaper displays to be used in gadgets like watches or smartphones. Researchers try to create color e-ink based screen and until now they succeed tested color displays with 4096 colors. These screens couldn’t reproduce vivid colors and images looks dull and muted.

Back to CES the company presents one of the latest E Ink products – a watch with a flexible screen. CST-01 comes with a very thin design and is presented as a bracelet around the wrist. The watch has a standard e-ink display with 63 individual components. Because the display could be powered with a very low power, the battery is also very thin and small with a lower capacity compared with others batteries. For example with 10 minutes of battery charging the watch can be used for an entire month. Even is just a watch, in future the gadget could be enhanced with new features to became a small smartphone.

The price for CST-01 is ranges between $99 and $129 or more.

Flexible CST-01 ePaper Watch Screen

Bron; www.jcdecaux.nl

Alsof je hem zelf in je hand hebt. Alsof je zelf de neus van de Nike Free 5.0 achteroverduwt om de extreme flexibiliteit te ervaren. Dankzij de eerste holografische 3-D toepassing in buitenreclame in Nederland laten Nike en JCDecaux actieve 20-ers in Amsterdam op innovatieve wijze kennismaken met de nieuwste natural motion propositie van Nike. De holografische animaties zijn te zien op het Leidseplein, Rembrandtplein en het Damrak (tegenover de Bijenkorf). De zogenaamde holocubes zijn transparant en dus van beide zijden van de posterkast zichtbaar.

Originele invulling 
“Om leading te zijn in natural running staat de overall (media) aanpak in het teken van demonstreren van flexibiliteit. Kernwoorden voor de kanaalkeuze zijn innovatie, premium en, indien mogelijk, interactief” aldus Dirk de Gooyer van Mindshare. “In samenwerking met Kinetic en JCDecaux hebben we voor OOH een originele invulling gevonden”.

“De holo-Abri’s trokken al op de eerste campagnedag veel bekijks”, vult Marc van Amerongen, Marketing Manager van JCDecaux, aan. “Van zowel het product als het merk Nike gaat een sterke aantrekkingskracht uit, de techniek die gebruikt wordt is niet eerder vertoond en op locaties als het Leidseplein hebben mensen vaak ook de tijd om echt even van de ervaring te genieten.” 

Van statisch naar dynamisch
Volgens Van Amerongen staat de primeur van Nike en JCDecaux niet op zich. “Door de voortschrijdende technische ontwikkelingen is buitenreclame niet alleen sterk als statisch massamedium, maar ook als dynamisch en interactief medium waarbij de consument intensief contact maakt met de uiting. De holografische schoen van Nike is hier een prachtig voorbeeld van. Ik verwacht dat we deze techniek de komende jaren vaker gaan terugzien in buitenreclamecampagnes van innovatieve merken.”

Deze Spectacular is mogelijk gemaakt door Nike, Mindshare & Kinetic, reclamebureau Jung von Matt/Neckar en JCDecaux Innovate 

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Proyecto LED horloge.

Het Proyecto LED horloge is niet alleen beschikbaar voor personen als James Bond.
Proyecto schijnt de tijd op uw hand.

foto shot april

Disney knows who’s touching what.

Regular touch interfaces don’t discriminate, treating all fleshy finger contact alike. They generally detect a single change in electrical current, or light / sound waves regardless of who is swiping or pinching. However, that could be about to change thanks to new work by a team at Disney Research, which involves identifying touch users through unique properties of the individual.

Everyone is different down to bone density, muscular mass, blood volume and water content. The device, which forms part of the ongoing Touché research project, sends a variety of harmless electrical currents through the body. This resists them depending on the various physiological properties of the individual. The Touché system measures the unique capacitive signature to identify individuals.
The top later is made of transparent Indium Tin Oxide. It acts as an electrode transmitting an electric current into the user’s fingertips.
The sensor board layer injects tiny currents into the ITO layer. When a user touches the screen, current flows from the sensor board, through the ITO and into the body of the user. The sensor then measures the impedance of the person to a variety of frequencies.
Disney’s latest prototype takes around a second to calibrate for a new user, but it can recognise an existing user in around 500 milliseconds.
The bottom layer is a standard LCD which provides the GUI.

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• Disney Research

Virtual Train Windows In Madrid Bar.

   

This is brilliant.
Jeff Wismer of Cineplex Digital tweeted about a coffee shop/bar in Madrid, Spain that has taken on the look of a passenger rail cabin, all the way down to a set of digital cabin windows that show a virtual landscape rolling by.
The Passenger bar was put together by art designer Parolio, and is located in the trendy Malasaña/Triball neighborhood.

The new space, says Parolio’s website, occupies a long and narrow architectural structure which inspired Parolio to create the concept of  “A train constantly on the move, right in the center of the city”.
The main area is designed to look and feel like a train cabin. To create the illusion of movement, three huge solid screens play the role of windows. They are constantly projected with synchronized and programmed videos that flow, from one screen to the next, just like in real life. The images have been recorded from train windows all over the world, presenting urban and nature landscapes that transport the clients into the fantastic experience of travel and leisure, pulling them away from the reality of the city around them.

The whole interior has been covered with great work on dark wood, brown leather with brass finishes. On the main hall photos of some of the greatest stars of classic rock, inside trains and train stations, welcome the clients.