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2013-01-23

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Klip first featured their projection mapping furniture as a part of the New Frontier program at Sundance back in 2007. Hard to believe that was 6 years ago. We were babies back then so of course we don’t have decent footage of this. We did troll the internet hard into the abyss of a pre-Instagram era and found the following images on Flickr.

The Klip exhibit included three coffee tables with a wide range of projection-mapped visuals from a couple lounging and sleeping, food cooking in a pan, and water flowing down a drain.

Included in the exhibit was a large canvas painting of a young woman on the telephone by our good friend Matt with a background of wallpaper-like projections, including a color-changing dress.

2013-01-09

How We Faked the NYE Video Wall with Projection Mapping

Making Time’s annual New Year’s Eve HYPER-RAGER at Union Transfer in Philadelphia went big for 2K13 with an enormous video wall. But this video wall was not a wall of LEDs or televisions. It was a projection-mapped wall of foam core.

Using projection mapping, the Klip team mapped out each rectangle to mimic the look and feel of a wall of TVs.

For the countdown, projection mapping gave greater flexibility in the layout of the clock and the build of content. Watch the video documentation of the epic countdown at BITBY.TV.

Big thanks to Making Time, Brown Jeff, BITBY and Tom at Union Transfer for making this happen and happen to be awesome!

HAPPY 2013 E’RYONE!!

2013-01-03

Countdown to Sundance: 2 WEEEKS!

Hard to believe that in just two weeks, Klip will be making its second appearance at Sundance. But this time we are going big, which means right now, we are working hard.

Before the holidays, the team shot our good friend John Luna on green screen. John is portraying the main character in the projection mapping piece titled, “What’s He Building in There?” See if you can guess from the photos below what on earth is going on.

Director Ricardo Rivera and John Luna

For more info about Sundance or this project, check out the film guide.

2012-12-18

Holy Holiday Party!

Klip’s annual holiday party was a raging (and we mean raging) success! To those who shared in the fun or made the fun happen, we owe you a big Thank You. Let’s make 2013 a bigger, better year to celebrate!

photos by Evan Robinson

2012-12-03

Featured Artist at 2013 Sundance Film Festival

Klip Collective has the honor of joining an all-star cast of artists at Sundance’s New Frontier exhibit bringing its projection mapping story-telling to the venue exterior. The piece titled “What’s He Building in There?” is an interactive parable inspired by the Tom Waits song.

This is the second time Klip has been featured in New Frontier. Klip first participated in 2007 showing projection mapping on a series of tables and a wall painting.

New Frontier is one of several out-of-competition sections of the Sundance Film Festival that showcases a variety of installations and performances. The Festival takes place January 17-27 in Park City, Utah. For more info, visit www.sundance.org.

2012-11-27

Photos from Leovative 2012 at Leo Burnett in Chicago

Thanks to everyone at Leo Burnett for making us a part of this event. It was wonderful to meet so many talented creative directors, producers and potential partners.

Klip staff had an awesome time creating a “Moonvertising” install as a spoof on many of the crazy asks that come our way. Turns out is might even be possible via an orbiting satellite, 28 billion lumen projector and very very deep pockets.

2012-11-26

Winner of 2012 Communication Arts Advertising Annual Competition

Klip has the honor of winning a spot in this year’s Communication Arts Advertising Annual. Winning in the Non-Traditional category, the Explosive Flight water projections of Carmello Anthony on the Hudson River is featured in the current issue.

We are even more stoked about this award since there was stiff competition. ”This year there was an avalanche of digital and non-traditional entries,” said juror Mark Hunter, chief creative officer, Deutsch LA. There were 142 winners out of 4,423 entries with 9 winners in Non-Traditional.

Klip shares this awesome recognition along with our friends at Wieden + Kennedy NY and Monogram!

2012-10-24

The Owl’s Photos of Video Lights

from the Sun Airway tour are awesome.

Check out the rest of the photos at The Owl.

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Meadow of Light and Close Encounters

Check out the documentation of Klip’s cinematic landscape of light and sound incorporating video projection and audio design exhibited during Data Garden’s annual Switched-On Garden on October 14, 2012. This first execution of “Meadow” is part of an ongoing vision of projections in nature.

“I had a vision of what this would look like. In my mind I could see the lights moving through the air in the field, hear the sounds and how they would blend together,” said Ricardo Rivera, Klip’s Creative Director and the mastermind behind Meadow 1.0.

Viewers were quickly drawn to the lulling light and sound in the field. Over time, people moved closer and closer into the tall grass, fully immersing themselves in the smoke, light forms and sound. At first, the audio and visual elements imitated the natural world; the sound began to oscillate and pulsate as the firefly-like elements in the video lined up in moving geometric patterns across the meadow. In an intensely choreographed audio-visual activity, the sound and visuals again began to mimic the natural world.

The Switched-On Garden 002 was an interactive exhibition held at North America’s oldest botanic garden, Bartram’s Garden in Philadelphia, in the fall of 2012 during the citywide festival, Design Philadelphia.