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Public Dreams Anniversary Fundraiser

Nathan — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:34:48 +0000

A couple weeks ago, we had the pleasure of helping out the Public Dreams Society with their 25th anniversary fundraiser.
We brought out a number of our LED panels and even some old school slide projectors. It’s always fun to look through all the binders of slides which not so long ago provided our livelihood. (It’s too bad we never get to use all the 16mm film we shot over the years!)
Here are some pictures of the event.

It was cool to be in the old Storeum space that is now W2. It shows great potential as a new event venue for Vancouver. Check them out for more info. (creativetechnology.org)

IMF 2010 Stage show Pacific Coliseum Vancouver

konstantinos — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:43:31 +0000

Last weekend we worked with Epic Lighting to create a amazing stage show with sound responsive visuals designed for the annual IMF show at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver. We combined pre produced visuals with pixel accurate sound responsive animations.

Using the Martin LC LED wall system, we had a 16m x 7m screen with nearly 50,000 LEDs. After a quick re alignment of the LED pixel map we were off. The early part of the evening consisted of combining information with generative animations that were programmed in advance. We gradually altered to look and feel of the stage as the show progressed through a record 10 hour performance. At its most complex, the show featured blends of pre produced visuals and real time animation.

Here are a few clips from the audience perspective shot by attendees, excuse the camera work, they must have been excited.

Benny Benassi and Armin van Buuren

Nathan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:54:35 +0000

Urban Visuals’ latest production at the Vancouver Convention Centre was a big hit. Blueprint Events brought Benny Benassi and Armin van Buuren for a double header DJ show, and we provided Stage Design and visual production for the event.

We were so busy with the show that we didn’t get a chance to document, but we found these clips from a happy attendee.

Armin van Buuren

Benny Benassi

A long shot of the show.

As the first concert to be hosted at the Convention Centre, we had to be sure everything went smoothly and according to plan. The ten video projectors were driven all driven by Modul8 on one Mac Pro and three Macbook Pros. On the LED side, we had 600 nodes of Colorkinetics iflex and 14 CK Colorblaze units all driven by Madrix.

Here are some more photos:

LED Panels for Caprice 7 year

Nathan — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:13:48 +0000

Blue Pencil Productions just uploaded this video that was shot during the 7 year anniversary party for the caprice nightclub in vancouver. It has some great shots of our most recent LED panels, that we rented to the Caprice for their event. The panels are 12 inches by 75 inches with 100 LEDs at 3 inch spacing. They are bendable, flexible and lightweight and can be mounted in any orientation. For this installation we installed the panels as three columns that extended up behind the DJ booth. The six panels are mapped and driven by our Madrix control system.

Check out a spec sheet for the LED panels:

Inkhouse 2010

Nathan — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:02:43 +0000

During the 2010 Winter Olympics, we VJed and installed an LED wall for the Inkhouse Venue. Acts during the the 19 shows included Armin Van Buuren, Chrystal Castles, MSTRKRFT, Steve Aoki, Deadmau5, LMFAO, and Benny Benassi.

Scroll down for videos.

And videos

Stage Design for MSTRKRFT and Steve Aoki

Nathan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:16:55 +0000

In September 2009, we installed an LED canopy and custom screen setup for the Blueprint 12th Anniversary Party at the Commodore Ballroom. The event featured acts Steve Aoki and MSTRKRFT and was sponsored by Red Bull. The show was a blast, and while we didn’t get to document it much, I did find these fantastic photos from David Lang’s site. The LED Canopy is built of 16 panels each 20″ by 96″. Each of the panels can be hung individually or combined in any orientation.

The video screens are custom built 40″ squares that create two 10′ x 10′ screens. It’s always fun to work with irregular screen shapes and especially screens that are made of a selection of smaller screens.

Some short clips are below the photos.

Check out the full post with more picture on David Lang’s site.

Here’s some video clips we shot of the event.

Venue LED Screen – Update

Nathan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:51:30 +0000

The LED screen that we installed at Venue in Vancouver has been receiving plenty of great comments. In the month or so since we installed the wall, we’ve been busy programming it and tweaking it to make it look even better.

Check out the photos we’ve found from a variety of blogs and websites.

Circlesquare Live – MIDI driven stage show

konstantinos — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:22:11 +0000

Urban visuals has developed a stage show for the circlesquare live shows that is run by the music being played live. Both the visuals and the lighting are triggered by the music, a midi note sent by the drummer will trigger a specific video to play which in turn controls the colour and animation of the stage lighting. This live show has been performed and several notable festivals including Sonar 2005 and Mutek Mexico 2007.