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For the posh 10,000-square-foot Set, the visual technology was used to enhance, highlight and compliment the unique and glamorous visual décor. Interior designer Francois Frossard worked with in-house techs on the system, which includes projectors, plasmas and Plexiglas screens, plus an Edirol V4 mixer, Numark and Philco DVD players, and a pair of Pioneer DVJ-1000 DVD decks. "I wanted something that was not in your face," says Frossard. "The video behind the DJ booth becomes part of the leopard frame, almost a picture within a frame. It's a discreet installation that when video is not on, simply disappears into the architecture of the room." -CM |
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"They didn't really understand what they were getting until they put their foot on the gas," says past Club World Award-winner John Lyons of the Jet operators' initial understanding of the video system he and partner Richard Worboys designed. What the Light Group-owned property received, however, is a powerful machine equipped with a hallucinatory array of strangely subtle components, including six High End DL1 digital lights. The crown jewel is a main room ceiling composed of 120 Traxon LED tiles: Looking at it is like taking a magic carpet ride far away from the neon-blazed Strip. That this central design element came from a unique restriction-Jet's ceiling is unusually low-is further testament to Lyons and Worboys' innovative techniques and aesthetics. -KC |
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Like the overall approach at Circa, the video system is more a work of art than technology. "The great thing about what we do at klip is that the technology is just a vehicle," says klip principal Ricardo Rivera. "It's not really the type of projector that we use, it's all about our process, it's about the art, it's about the content. We use installation more as an art form than an A/V company." At Circa, the devices take a backseat to the creative, which includes mermaids swimming up massive escalators, ants marching across tables and matrix-style streaming logos mimicking clubbers' images as they pose, dance and walk by. The latter is part of a series of custom-coded video mirrors created by collaborator Cristobal Mendoza. -CM
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For all the capabilities of these high-end video systems in today's clubs, one thing's usually missing: the patron. Montreal's Realisations provide the missing link with their pioneering design for Eyecandy Sound Lounge & Bar, Mandalay Bay's upscale version of the lobby bar. Four Jetsons-style "pods" - each suitable for a six-deep bottle service posse - contain "touch-tables," which allow users to write messages with their fingers, snap self-portraits, and record low-res video, and then send it over to the neighboring pod for some seriously high-tech flirting. Even dancers can trigger images by sashaying on 50 color-changing dancefloor tiles, while VJs throw yet another layer of high-def video down on them from a video projector above. -JH |
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VJs looking for a suitably reverent atmosphere for their art couldn't do better than BoMA, which hosts the largest high-def video projection screen in Ohio - 20-feet diagonal - and enough software, video monitors and distribution to canvas the club with imagery. VJs can play off of DVDs, or use their own video libraries and go to town with the latest software by Arkaos and Edirol, and then send it anywhere in the house by pushing a Vity touchscreen. And just in case things need to be toned down for a private function, the system can straightforwardly screen films as well. -JH |
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What else did NYC's best big venue need to make it even better? A top-of-the-line video system installed by VJs Chris Biggins and Cagan Yuksel of United Vision (last year's "Best Resident VJ" winners for Crobar). The system features 10 plasma monitors, five video projectors, several video cameras, and electric rolling screens placed around the club's central atrium. A custom-built video console up on the mezzanine houses Edirol mixers, Numark monitors, Pioneer DVJ-1000 decks, and also leaves desk space for each VJ to add his own laptop. In 2007, the team created custom graphics and animations for Pacha regulars Danny Tenaglia, Erick Morillo, and Victor Calderone. -PM |
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