HIPA 2015: photo through visual performances.

Dubai continues to direct its energy into the development and the Dubai 2015 Strategy is a roadmap that charts this sustained effort.

With this in mind H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum established the prestigious ‘Hamdan International Photography Award’. This demonstrates the commitment of Dubai to encouraging and supporting art, culture and innovation. The Award appeals to all talented photographers across the globe, and also nurtures national talent, which will in turn attract international art and cultural attention. The Award highlights how Dubai is fast developing into one of the most artistically conscious and established cities in the world.







These two visual performances demonstrate the creative approach to the deeply artistic process of taking photos. It’s a great vision of mastery demonstrated with the help of video master’s skills. Enjoy!

Safe white light disinfects hospitals around the clock.

Vital Vio disinfectant lighting reduces harmful micro-organisms in bacteria-sensitive environments such as hospitals and kitchens.

In certain workplaces, especially hospitals and restaurant kitchens, regular levels of bacteria are unsafe. In the past, UV lighting and chemicals have been used to disinfect fragile areas, but both of these options are unsafe for continuous use. Offering a new solution, Vital Vio is a disinfectant lighting which can reduce harmful micro-organisms by up to 99.9 percent, using harmless white light from specialized overhead light fixtures.

Vital Vio’s disinfectant lighting can be installed in thirty minutes anywhere there is a light fixture. Once in place, the system can remain on around-the-clock, providing continuous protection from bacteria such as MRSA, E.Coli and Salmonella for patients and staff. The system uses precision control of LEDs, and integrates the invisible cleansing into white light. Vital Vio can even work with customers to create modified protection — adjusting the color temperature to best suit their environment. Vital Vio offers 90 percent disinfection after just one and a half hours rising to 99.9 percent after 16 hours.

While the primary applications for Vital Vio are healthcare and catering environments, the company also suggest implementing it in hotels, gyms and public restrooms — anywhere that bacteria can easily thrive and spread. Where else could the technology be implemented?

Unity Festival 2015

Unity Festival 2015 - stage video mapping.

Short preview from this weekend @ Unity festival Israel.

Seeks crowdfunding to launch the world's first E Ink shoe.

Dragon Innovation launched a new crowdfunding campaign with an aim to raise $50,000 for the world's first E Ink shoe, the Volvorii Timeless. The high-heeled shoe has an embedded flexible E Ink display and a Bluetooth LE module (with battery wireless charging).



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Harrods Egg Installation - Fabergé

Harrods Installation - Faberge from Projection Artworks on Vimeo.

Perfume Live from "SXSW 2015"

LET’S GET RIGHT down to it: This SXSW performance by Japanese pop trio Perfume is the most amazing thing I’ve seen in a long time. It’s lightyears beyond straightforward projection mapping. It’s lightyears beyond any sort of audiovisual spectacle I can think of, really. This thing is an ecstatic vision beamed back from a future in which the physical and digital have converged to the point of being utterly indistinguishable. It’s a fever dream of atoms and pixels and photons. It’s unbelievable. I’ve watched it about a hundred times and I still have no idea what’s going on.

Here’s what I do know. Mikiko, of the dance group Elevenplay, was responsible for the the stage show, visuals, and and choreography. The performance was produced by Kaoru Sugano, the famed creative director of the Japanese ad company Dentsu. The technical bits were overseen by Daito Manabe of the bleeding edge design crew Rhizomatiks. The whole thing demanded a small army of designers, engineers, and artists. The clip above was filmed in real time. None of it was done in post-production.

A peek behind the scenes.Click to Open Overlay Gallery A peek behind the scenes. Courtesy Daito Manabe The video involves several “tricks,” as Manabe puts it. The illusion began with preproduction, including an elaborate 3-D scan of the Austin venue and another of Perfume running through their performance. The real magic, however, happened on the fly. During the performance, a dynamic projection mapping system cast visuals onto the semi-translucent screens in front of the singers; motion capture allowed the position of the projections to be calibrated automatically moment by moment. The cameras filming the performance were also watched by a motion capture system, each outfitted with a marker allowing the system to track the camera’s position and orientation in space. This, Manabe says, was key for morphing seamlessly between perspectives, an effect conjured by Rhizomatiks computer vision wizard Yuya Hanai. The final video moves seamlessly between the live footage and the 3D model captured ahead of time.

Do I understand precisely how all that results in what I’m seeing here? Not really! But I don’t understand exactly how the Chartes Cathedral was built either, and that doesn’t make it any less tremendous.

Solutions for trade events in North & Southwest England.

National tourism agency VisitBritain recently held two distinct trade events in North and Southwest England, both aimed at helping local businesses develop international tourism. The agency turned to event production supplier White Light to provide lighting and projection mapping for both events, using cutting edge technology to complement two unique historic venues in Plymouth and Yorkshire.

Ahead of its Southwest showcase, VisitBritain chose the historic Royal William Yard in Plymouth as the canvas for a lighting and projection display.  The event, held the next day at Bovey Castle, hosted over 100 suppliers from the region matching them with visiting international buyers. White Light was responsible for lighting and AV for the display.

Led by project manager, Phil Gladman, the team created an 18m projection element on the exterior of the Grade I listed building. To achieve the projection, they used an ArKaos Pro Stadium media server equipped with the latest release of ArKaos MediaMaster Pro software.

“The software is very intuitive,” said Gladman. “It’s always very quick and easy to set up ArKaos on-site and the system has the flexibility that we need for events like this.”

For lighting, White Light supplied a mix of Vari-lite VLX, Clay Paky Sharpy, and SGM G-Spot units to integrate the entire building with the projection visuals. The show was controlled by a Grand MA console.

VisitBritain took their next project to Northern England, selecting a Yorkshire venue – Castle Howard – to showcase the best of the region. The castle was illuminated in the lead up to VisitBritain’s international tourism seminar in York. White Light delivered unifying visuals and VisitBritain branding with a 30m projection element on the Castle.

Digital Signage Expo 2015 (DSE)

Thanks to the rapidly evolving world of digital signage, the sky … is the limit.

Sharp boosts colour management in Signage.

Sharp brings high-tech colour management approaches to display panels for signage applications.

Holograms get real-time boost.

Rendered schematic of holographic pixels in operation showing switching states | Credit: Calum Williams

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Three-dimensional holographic displays could soon be possible thanks to a new type of pixel element developed by University of Cambridge Researchers. The research team demonstrated the element that delivers greater control over displays at the level of individual pixels which will open up a new host of possibilities for holograms. The results were recently published in the journal Physica Status Solidi.

Researchers explain that holograms are created when light bounces off a sheet of material with grooves placed in such a way that will project the image away from the surface to deliver the visual impression that an object is directly in front of them.

Development is currently limited by technology that can allow the control of all the properties of light at the level of individual pixels. 

Calum Williams, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering, says: “In a typical liquid crystal on silicon display, the pixels’ electronics or backplane, provides little optical functionality other than reflecting light. This means that a large amount of surface area is being underutilised, which could be used to store information.” 

The new technique developed by Williams and his team uses plasmonics (the study of how light interacts with metals on a nanoscale) to deliver a greater level of control over holograms. 

Devices which use plasmonic optical antennas are usually passive and their optical properties cannot be switched post-fabrication. Through interaction with liquid crystals the researchers were able to actively switch which hologram is exited and therefore which output image is selected.

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